National Book Awards nonfiction longlist announced
The National Book Foundation announced its Longlist for the 2014 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Finalists will be revealed on October 15.
The Nonfiction Longlist includes the first cartoonist, Roz Chast, to be honored by the National Book Awards in the adult categories, a Pulitzer Prize Winner, and a number of distinguished historians.
Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Bloomsbury
John Demos, The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House
Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt and Company
Nigel Hamilton, The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941 – 1942
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Simon & Schuster
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
W.W. Norton & Company
Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Ronald C. Rosbottom, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
Little, Brown and Company/ Hachette Book Group
Matthew Stewart, Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
W.W. Norton & Company
Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence
Liveright Publishing Corporation/ W.W. Norton & Company
