2008 Winners & Finalists
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Dan Veach
TARAN FAMILY MEMORIAL AWARD
Stephen Bluestone, The Flagrant Dead
BIOGRAPHY
Jennifer Evans. What the Locust Had Eaten: The Nikki O’Baire Story
CHILDREN’S MID-READER
Shelia Moses, Sallie Gal and the Wall-a-kee Man
CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK
Grady Thrasher, Tim and Sally’s Vegetable Garden
ESSAY
Melody Moezzi, War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims
FICTION
Terry Kay, The Book of Marie
FIRST NOVEL
Man Martin, Days of Endless Corvette
HISTORY
Timothy Crimmins and Anne Farrisee, Democracy Restored
MEMOIR
Doug Crandell, The All-American Industrial Motel
POETRY
Turner Cassity, Devils & Islands: Poems
SPECIALTY BOOK
James McGregor, Washington from the Ground Up
YOUNG ADULT
Pamela Bauer Mueller, An Angry Drum Echoed