Fiction nominees range from the 81-year-old Peter Matthiessen for a book the AP calls “an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s” to debut novels from Rachel Kushner and Salvatore Scibona. The winners will be named November 19: FictionAleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead)Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba (Scribner)Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library)Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)Salvatore Scibona, The End (Graywolf Press) NonfictionDrew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf)Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton & Company)Jane Mayer, The […]
