October 16, 2007

GUGGENHEIM FELLOWS - 2007 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTS

Congratulations to these Guggenheim Fellows who are among the 2007 National Book Award finalists:

Fiction:
Lydia Davis '97, Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Denis Johnson '86, Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Jim Shepard '05, Like You'd Understand, Anyway (Alfred A. Knopf)

Nonfiction:
Arnold Rampersad '87, Ralph Ellison: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry:
Linda Gregerson '00, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin Company)
Robert Hass '79, Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins)
David Kirby '03, The House on Boulevard St. (Louisiana State University Press)
Stanley Plumly '73, Old Heart (W.W. Norton & Company)
Ellen Bryant Voigt '78, Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 (W.W. Norton & Company)

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