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THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS
Award Winners
Winners from Prior Years
2009 Awards for Books Published in 2008
judges
Adult Fiction
Winner:
Aleksandar Hemon -
The Lazarus Project
- Riverhead
Finalists:
Jeffery Renard Allen -
Holding Pattern: Stories
- Graywolf Press
Tony Romano -
If You Eat, You Never Die: Chicago Tales
- Harper Perennial
Adult Nonfiction
Winner:
Neil Shubin -
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
- Pantheon
Finalists:
Eric Dregni - In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream - University of Minnesota Press
Daniel L. Everett -
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
- Pantheon
Biography
Winner:
John E. Hallwas -
Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers
- University of Illinois Press
Finalists:
Curtiss Anderson -
Blueberry Summers: Growing Up at the Lake
- Borealis Books
Thrity Umrigar -
First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood
- Harper Perennial
Children's fiction
Winner:
Louise Erdrich -
The Porcupine Year
- HarperCollins
Finalist:
Gary D. Schmidt -
Trouble
- Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Children's Nonfiction
Winner:
Candace Fleming -
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
- Schwartz and Wade/RandomHouse
Poetry
Winner:
Ron Wallace -
For a Limited Time Only
- University of Pittsburgh Press
James Friend Memorial Award for Criticism
Winner:
Teresa Budasi
Distinguished Service Award
Stella Pevsner
Winners from Prior Years
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