2013 Winners
FICTION WINNER
Richard Ford
Canada
(Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
Ford sets his riveting Canada in motion with this striking opening sentence: “First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.” It is a haunting tale of an improbable marriage; ludicrous, criminal, and doomed schemes to make money; exile in a harsh if beautiful land; and epic endurance. Told in the precise and searching voice of Dell Parsons, a man looking back on his fractured, harrowing youth in Great Falls, Montana, during the 1950s, Ford’s novel is a tour de force of psychological and social acuity.
NONFICTION WINNER
Timothy Egan
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Popular historian Egan turns the life and work of master photographer Edward Curtis into a gripping and heroic story of one man’s commitment to the three-decade project that ultimately resulted in The North American Indian, a 20-volume collection of words and pictures documenting the Native American peoples of the American West.
SHORTLIST
FICTION FINALISTS
Junot Díaz
This Is How You Lose Her
(Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.)
Louise Erdrich
The Round House
(Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
Richard Ford
Canada
(Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
NONFICTION FINALISTS
Timothy Egan
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Jill Lepore
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
(Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.)
LONGLIST
Fiction:
Chabon, Michael. Telegraph Avenue. (Harper)
Díaz, Junot. This Is How You Lose Her. (Riverhead)
Doig, Ivan. The Bartender’s Tale. (Riverhead)
Donoghue, Emma. Astray. (Little, Brown)
Edugyan, Esi. Half-Blood Blues. (Picador)
Eggers, Dave. A Hologram for the King. (McSweeney’s)
Erdrich, Louise. The Round House. (Harper)
Ford, Richard. Canada. (Harper/Ecco)
Fountain, Ben. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. (Harper/Ecco) Groff,
Lauren. Arcadia. (Hyperion/Voice)
Heller, Peter. The Dog Stars. (Knopf)
Irving, John. In One Person. (Simon & Schuster)
Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master’s Son. (Random House)
Joyce, Rachel. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. (Random House)
Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behavior. (Harper)
Lam, Vincent. The Headmaster’s Wager. (Random/Hogarth)
Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. (Holt)
McEwan, Ian. Sweet Tooth. (Random/Nan A. Talese)
Morrison, Toni. Home. (Knopf)
Munro, Alice. Dear Life. (Knopf)
Rash, Ron. The Cove. (Harper/Ecco)
Theroux, Paul. The Lower River. (Houghton)
Tóibín, Colm. The Testament of Mary. (Scribner)
Tropper, Jonathan. One Last Thing before I Go. (Dutton)
Tyler, Anne. The Beginner’s Goodbye. (Knopf)
Walter, Jess. Beautiful Ruins. (Harper)
Watkins, Claire Vaye. Battleborn. (Riverhead)
Nonfiction:
Boo, Katherine. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. (Random House)
Bowker, Gordon. James Joyce: A New Biography. (Farrar Straus Giroux)
Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. (Crown)
Caro, Robert A. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. (Knopf)
Colby, Tanner. Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America. (Viking)
Dyson, George. Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. (Pantheon)
Egan, Timothy. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Holt, Jim. Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story. (Norton/Liveright)Ingrassia, Paul. Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars. (Simon & Schuster)
Iversen, Kristen. Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats. (Crown)King, Ross. Leonardo and the Last Supper. (Walker)
Kozol, Jonathan. Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years among the Poorest Children in America. (Crown)
Lepore, Jill. The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death. (Knopf)
Maraniss, David. Barack Obama: The Story. (Simon & Schuster) Meacham, Jon. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. (Random House)
Murphy, Paul Thomas. Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy. (Pegasus)
Nasaw, David. The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy. (Penguin)
Quammen, David. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. (Norton)
Roberts, Callum. Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea. (Viking) Rushdie, Salman. Joseph Anton: A Memoir. (Random House)
Toobin, Jeffrey. The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court. (Doubleday)
Wilson, Edward O. The Social Conquest of Earth. (Norton/Liveright) Winterson, Jeanette. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Grove/Atlantic)
