Authors

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Finalists for the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS

  • Gigi Amateau
  • David G. Coleman
  • Robert Goolrick
  • Joe Jackson
  • Jon Meacham
  • Lydia Netzer
  • Michael L. Nicholls
  • Kevin Powers
  • Sissy Spacek
  • Adriana Trigiani
Come August
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Gigi Amateau
Author of: Come August, Come Freedom
Award Nomination: People's Choice Award for FICTION

 

 

Fourteenth Day
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David G. Coleman
Author of: The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Award Nomination: People's Choice Award for NONFICTION

 

 

Heading Out to Wonderful
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Robert Goolrick
Author of: Heading Out to Wonderful
Award Nomination: People's Choice Award for FICTION

 

 

Atlantic Fever
 
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Joe Jackson
Author of: Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic
Award Nomination: People's Choice Award for NONFICTION

 

 

Thomas Jefferson
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Jon Meacham
Author of: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Award Nomination: People's Choice Award for NONFICTION

 

 

Shine Shine Shine
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Lydia Netzer
Author of: Shine Shine Shine
Award Nomination: People's Choice Award for FICTION

 

 

Whispers of Rebellion
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Michael L. Nicholls
Author of: Whispers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy
Award Nomination: People's Choice Award for NONFICTION

 

 

The Yellow Birds
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Kevin Powers
Author of: The Yellow Birds
Award Nomination: People's Choice Award for FICTION

 

 

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life
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Sissy Spacek
Author of: My Extraordinary Ordinary Life
Award Nomination: People's Choice Award for NONFICTION

 

 

The Shoemaker’s Wife
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Adriana Trigiani
Author of: The Shoemaker’s Wife
Award Nomination: People's Choice Award for FICTION

 

 

2012 Finalists for NONFICTION

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Finalists for the 2013 Fiction Award
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2012 Finalists for NONFICTION

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Finalists for the 2013 Non-Fiction Award
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2012 Finalists for POETRY

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Finalists for the 2013 Poetry Award
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2012 Award Winners:
Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award for Fiction

David Huddle
Nothing Can Make Me Do This

Nonfiction

Maurie D. McInnis
Slaves Waiting for Sale:
Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

Poetry

David Wojahn
World Tree

People’s Choice Award: Fiction

David Baldacci
The Sixth Man

People’s Choice Award: Nonfiction

Terri Fisher and
Kirsten Sparenborg
Lost Communities of Virginia

Whitney and Scott Cardozo Award for Children’s Literature Jodi Moore
Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry Kelly Cherry  
Literary Lifetime Achievement Award Tom Robbins