The National Book Foundation has announced the 2013 National Book Award Longlist for Nonfiction, following previous announcements this week of longlists for Young People's Literature and Poetry. The longlist for Fiction will be released on September 19. NBF will announce the finalists on October 16, and the winners on November 20.
The 2013 Longlist for Nonfiction:
T.D. Allman, Finding Florida: The True Story of the Sunshine State, Atlantic Monthly Press
Gretel Ehrlich, Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami, Pantheon Books/Random House
Scott C. Johnson, The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA, W.W. Norton & Company
Jill Lepore, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
Wendy Lower, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
James Oakes, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, W.W. Norton & Company
George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, W.W. Norton & Company
Terry Teachout, Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, Gotham Books/Penguin Group USA
Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
