The National Book Awards announced their third longlist, of nonfiction candidates, on Wednesday morning. Norton led all publishers with three titles in contention. (The list also includes three New Yorker staff writers: Lepore, Packer and Wright.):
Finding Florida: The True Story of the Sunshine State, T.D. Allman (Grove/Atlantic)
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami, Gretel Ehrlich (Pantheon)
The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA, Scott C. Johnson (Norton)
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Jill Lepore (Knopf)
Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, Wendy Lower (HMH)
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, James Oakes (Norton)
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, George Packer (FSG)
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, Alan Taylor (Norton)
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, Terry Teachout (Gotham)
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief, Lawrence Wright (Knopf)