October 10, 2001 2001 National Book Award Finalists Announced The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2001 National Book Awards. The finalists include four titles that were previously Top Ten Book Sense 76 selections. The 2001 National Book Award winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 14, at an awards ceremony and dinner at the New York Marriott Marquis. Steve Martin will be master of ceremonies for the black-tie affair. The winners, selected by five-member, independent judging panels for each genre, will receive a $10,000 cash award and a crystal sculpture. Prior to announcement of the winners, Arthur Miller will be presented with the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Young People's Literature Kate DiCamillo, The Tiger Rising (Candlewick Press) (March/April 2001 Book Sense 76) Phillip Hoose, We Were There Too! Young People in U.S. History (Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) An Na, A Step from Heaven (Front Street) Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems (Front Street) Virginia Euwer Wolff, True Believer: A Novel in the Make Lemonade Trilogy (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) (Spring 2001 Kids' Pick of the Lists) Fiction Dan Chaon, Among the Missing (Ballantine Books) Jennifer Egan, Look at Me (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (HarperCollins Publishers) (May/June 2001 Book Sense 76) Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (September/October 2001 Book Sense 76) Susan Straight, Highwire Moon (Houghton Mifflin Company) Poetry Agha Shahid Ali, Rooms Are Never Finished (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.) Wanda Coleman, Mercurochrome (Black Sparrow Press) Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (Seven Stories Press) Cornelius Eady, Brutal Imagination (A Marian Wood Book/G.P. Putnam's Sons) Gail Mazur, They Can't Take That Away From Me (The University of Chicago Press) Nonfiction Marie Arana, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood (The Dial Press) Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care (Pantheon Books) David James Duncan, My Story as Told by Water (Sierra Club Books) Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (Princeton University Press) Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Scribner) (September/October 2001 Book Sense 76)   Topics: News - Books, Awards,