Anna Auguscik at 10:05, 10 December 2007

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*the institutional sponsor of the National Book Awards: [http://www.nationalbook.org/index.html National Book Foundation Homepage]
*first launched on March 16, 1950 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City as an award given to writers by writers
*"the National Book Awards continues to recognize the best of American literature, raising the cultural appreciation of great writing in the country while advancing the careers of both established and emerging writers like Richard Powers, Jonathan Franzen, and Lily Tuck"
==2007==
*[http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2007_finalists_pr.pdf Finalist Press Release]
*[http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2007finalists_poster.PDF Finalists Poster]
===Fiction Winner===
*Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - [http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2007_f_johnson_interv.html Interview]
===Fiction Shortlist===
*Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - [http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2007_f_berlinski_interv.html Interview]
*Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - [http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2007_f_davis_interv.html Interview]
*Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown & Company) - [http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2007_f_ferris_interv.html Interview]
*Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway (Alfred A. Knopf) - [http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2007_f_shepard_interv.html Interview]
===Fiction judges===
*Francine Prose (chair), Andrew Sean Greer,Walter Kirn, David Means, and Joy Williams.

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Anna Auguscik at 10:05, 10 December 2007