
BIOGRAPHY
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore (Doubleday)
CURRENT INTEREST
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger (Simon & Schuster)
FICTION
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (Pantheon Books)
HISTORY
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male
World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey (Basic Books)
MYSTERY/THRILLER
[Award added in 2000]
POETRY
The Angel of History by Carolyn Forché (HarperCollins)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
(Alfred A. Knopf)
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
[Award added in 1998]
THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
The Year of the Frog by Martin M. Šimecka (Louisiana State University
Press)
THE ROBERT KIRSCH AWARD
Brian Moore