The National Book Award finalists have been announced, and there’s more than a few familiar names on the list:
Yusef Komunyakaa — The Chameleon Couch — FSG
Carl Phillips — Double Shadow — FSG
Adrienne Rich — Tonight No Poetry Will Serve — W.W. Norton & Company
Deborah Baker — The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism — Graywolf Press
Manning Marable — Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention — Viking
Téa Obreht — The Tiger’s Wife — Random House
Edith Pearlman — Binocular Vision —Lookout
Jesmyn Ward —Salvage the Bones — Bloomsbury USA
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For the full list of finalists click here.
