Here are the women who were nominated for the National Book Awards. Winners will be announced on November 18,

Fiction
Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)

Non-Fiction
Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy (Princeton University Press)

Poetry
Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan University Press)
Ann Lauterbach, Or to Begin Again (Viking Penguin)
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Open Interval (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Young People’s Literature
Deborah Heiligman, Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
(Henry Holt)
Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
Rita Williams-Garcia, Jumped (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)

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