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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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