Today’s National Book Award announcements continue with the nonfiction longlist. None of the selected authors have been recognized by the National Book Foundation before, but among the candidates are Pulitzer winner Steve Coll, and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Carol Anderson. The full list:
Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Colin G. Calloway, The Indian World of George Washington (Oxford University Press)
Steve Coll, Directorate S (Penguin Press)
Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple, Brothers of the Gun (One World)
Victoria Johnson, American Eden (Liveright)
David Quammen, The Tangled Tree (Simon & Schuster)
Sarah Smarsh, Heartland (Scribner)
Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names (Haymarket Books)
Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro (Oxford University Press)
Adam Winkler, We the Corporations (Liveright)