Nominations for the 12th Virginia Literary Awards held in 2009
Fiction | Non-Fiction | Poetry
Fiction:
Nominations: 40
John Alspaugh. The Lost Parade. Flower Street Press.
Donna Andrews. Six Geese A-Slaying. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur.
John Atkinson. Timekeeper. Fisher King Press.
David Baldacci. Divine Justice. Grand Central Publishing.
David Baldacci. The Whole Truth. Grand Central Publishing.
Kanan Bhatt. The Corporate Coup. CorporateDramas.com
Matt Bondurant. The Wettest County in the World. Scribner.
Greg Bottoms. Fight Scenes. Counterpoint.
Walt D. Brinkley. Not All Trails Lead to Paradise. iUniverse, Inc.
Edward M. Brittingham. Terrorism in the United States. ASW Press.
Geraldine Brooks. People of the Book. Viking.
Rita Mae Brown. The Purrfect Murder: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery. Bantam Books.
Rita Mae Brown. The Sand Castle. Grove Press.
Rita Mae Brown. Santa Clawed. Bantam Books.
Mary Burton. Dead Ringer. Kensington Publishing Corporation.
Robert Campbell. Alangalang. PublishAmerica.
Martin Clark. The Legal Limit. Alfred A. Knopf.
Bob Cohen. Hammond’s Choice: A Marty Fenton Mystery Novel. Brandylane Publishers, Inc.
Ellen Crosby. The Bordeaux Betrayal: A Wine Country Mystery Book. Scribner.
Jenny Gardiner. Sleeping with Ward Cleaver. Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
Katie Gates. The Somebody Who. Channel Press.
John Grisham. The Appeal. Doubleday.
Roy Habib. A Dream on the Lake. PublishAmerica.
Roy Habib. Lessons in Time of War and Peace. PublishAmerica.
Lenore Hart. Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher. St. Martin’s Press.
Linda Hudson Hoagland. An Awfully Lonely Place. PublishAmerica.
Tosca Lee. Havah: The Story of Eve. NavPress.
Anne Mullen. Greene County Killer: A Jesse Watson Mystery. Afton Ridge Publishing.
Katherine Neville. The Fire. Ballantine.
Jayne Pupek. Tomato Girl. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Domnica Radulescu. Train to Trieste. Alfred A. Knopf.
Kathleen Reid. A Page Out of Life. Berkley Books.
Sheri Reynolds. The Sweet In-Between. Shaye Areheart Books.
David L. Robbins. The Betrayal Game. Bantam Books.
Kathleen Gilles Seidel. Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige. St. Martin’s Press.
Mary Montague Sikes. Secrets by the Sea. Oak Tree Press.
Peter Skinner. The Bells of Moses Henry. Birch Brook Press.
Michael J. Sullivan. The Crown Conspiracy. Aspirations Media Inc.
David A. Taylor. Success: Stories. Washington Writers’ Publishing House.
Jason F. Wright. Recovering Charles. Shadow Mountain.
Nonfiction:
Nominations: 85
Paul Aron. “We Hold These Truths …”: And Other Words That Made America. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., in Association with Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
L. Diane Barnes. Artisan Workers in the Upper South: Petersburg, Virginia 1820–1865. Louisiana State University Press.
Susan Wise Bauer. The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin & Public Confession in America. Princeton University Press.
Rex Bowman. Blue Ridge Chronicles: A Decade of Dispatches from Southwest Virginia. The History Press.
Seth C. Bruggeman. Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument. The University of Georgia Press.
Louella Bryant. While in Darkness There Is Light: Idealism and Tragedy on an Australian Commune. Black Lawrence Press.
Stephen Budiansky. The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War. Viking.
Scott E. Casper. Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine. Hill and Wang.
Casey Clabough. The Art of the Magic Striptease: The Literary Layers of George Garrett. University Press of Florida.
Darrell L. Collins. Major General Robert E. Rodes of the Army of Northern Virginia. Savas Beatie.
Helene Cooper. The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood. Simon & Schuster.
Peter Cozzens. Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign. The University of North Carolina Press.
Alan Pell Crawford. Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson. Random House.
James E. Dalmas. WDBJ Radio: Roanoke’s Premier Station, 1924–1969. Historical Society of Western Virginia.
Chris Dickon. The Enduring Journey of the USS Chesapeake: Navigating the Common History of Three Nations. The History Press.
Earle Dunford and George Bryson. Under the Clock: The Story of Miller & Rhoads. The History Press.
Peggy Earle. Legacy: Walter Chrysler Jr. and the Untold Story of Norfolk’s Chrysler Museum of Art. University of Virginia Press.
Deborah Clark Ebel. The Forgotten Future: Adolescents in Crisis. Outskirts Press, Inc.
Gary Ecelbarger. Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester. University of Oklahoma Press.
Camelia McNeil Elliott. Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Infinity Publishing.com.
Joe Evans with Christopher Brooks. Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues. University of Illinois Press.
Macel Falwell. Jerry Falwell: His Life and Legacy. Howard Books.
Drew Gilpin Faust. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Alfred A. Knopf.
Anita Clair Fellman. Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Impact on American Culture. University of Missouri Press.
Gary W. Gallagher. Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shaped What We Know About the Civil War. The University of North Carolina Press.
Margaret Gibson. The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood. University of Missouri Press.
Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith. The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown. Henry Holt and Company.
Robert M. Goldman. One Man Out: Curt Flood versus Baseball. University Press of Kansas.
Annette Gordon-Reed. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. W. W. Norton & Company.
A. Wilson Greene. The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign: Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion. The University of Tennessee Press.
Lawrence D. Griffith. Flowers and Herbs of Early America. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Association with Yale University Press.
John B. Harris with Theresa A. Hammond. The Harris Chronicle: Reflections of a Full Life. The Dietz Press.
Clyde A. Haulman. Virginia and the Panic of 1819. Pickering & Chatto.
Kevin J. Hayes. The Mind of a Patriot: Patrick Henry and the World of Ideas. University of Virginia Press.
Kevin J. Hayes. The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson. Oxford University Press.
Mary J. Henold. Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement. The University of North Carolina Press.
Eleanor Herman. Mistress of the Vatican. William Morrow.
George C. Herring. From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776. Oxford University Press.
John R. Hildebrand. The Life and Times of John Brown Baldwin, 1820–1873: A Chronicle of Virginia’s Struggle with Slavery, Secession, Civil War, and Reconstruction. Lot’s Wife Publishing.
Michael F. Holt. By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876. University Press of Kansas.
Linwood Holton. Opportunity Time. University of Virginia Press.
Tony Horwitz. A Voyage Long and Strange. Henry Holt and Company.
Nancy Ross Hugo and Jeff Kirwan. Remarkable Trees of Virginia. Albemarle Books.
Charles F. Irons. The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia. The University of North Carolina Press.
Joe Jackson. The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire. Viking.
Caroline E. Janney. Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause. The University of North Carolina Press.
Clint Johnson. Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution & Surprising Release of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Kensington Publishing Corporation.
Virginia C. Johnson and Barbara Crookshanks. Virginia Horseracing: Triumphs of the Turf. The History Press.
Charles Jones. Red, White, or Yellow?: The Media and the Military at War in Iraq. Stackpole Books.
Monty Joynes. Journey for the One: The Biography of Jeanne White Eagle and John Pehrson. One Journey Publications.
Harry Kollatz Jr. Richmond in Ragtime: Socialists, Suffragists, Sex & Murder. The History Press.
Lauranett L. Lee. Making the American Dream Work: A Cultural History of African Americans in Hopewell, Virginia. SPS Press Publishing.
Janet Lembke. Because the Cat Purrs. Skyhorse Publishing.
Edward G. Lengel. To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918. Henry Holt and Company.
Paul A. Lombardo. Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell. The John Hopkins University Press.
Chris Manning. One Team, One Dream. Blu Phi’er Publishing, LLC.
Ann Smart Martin. Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia. The John Hopkins University Press.
David Lozell Martin. Losing Everything. Simon & Schuster.
Stephen Miller. The Peculiar Life of Sundays. Harvard University Press.
Barbara Burlison Mooney. Prodigy Houses of Virginia. University of Virginia Press.
Roger Mudd. The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News. PublicAffairs.
Robert O’Neil. Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University. Harvard University Press.
Deborah Painter. Hollywood’s Top Dogs: The Dog Hero in Film. Midnight Marquee Press Inc.
Blaine Pardoe. Terror of the Autumn Skies. Skyhorse Publishing.
James A. Percoco. Summers with Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments. Fordham University Press.
Margaret T. Peters. Conserving the Commonwealth: The Early Years of the Environmental Movement in Virginia. University of Virginia Press.
Nani Power. Feed the Hungry. Free Press.
Tim Reid and Tom Dreesen with Ron Rapoport. Tim & Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White. The University of Chicago Press.
Suzanne Rhodes. Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic. Arcadia Publishing.
Lisle A. Rose. Explorer: The Life of Richard E. Byrd. University of Missouri Press.
Natalie S. Robertson. The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA: Spirit of Our Ancestors. Praeger.
Steven Salaita. The Uncultured Wars: Arabs, Muslims, and the Poverty of Liberal Thought– New Essays. Zed Books.
Garrett Ward Sheldon and C. William Hill Jr. The Liberal Republicanism of John Taylor of Caroline. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall. Journey to the West: The Alabama & Coushatta Indians. University of Oklahoma Press.
Eliezer Sobel. The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist’s Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics, and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments. Santa Monica Press LLC.
Jewel L. Spangler. Virginians Reborn: Anglican Monopoly, Evangelical Dissent, and the Rise of the Baptists in the Late Eighteenth Century. University of Virginia Press.
William Styron. Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays. Random House.
Michael Ayers Trotti. The Body in the Reservoir: Murder & Sensationalism in the South. The University of North Carolina Press.
Stan Ulanski. The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic. The University of North Carolina Press.
Rick Van Noy. A Natural Sense of Wonder. The University of Georgia Press.
Ritchie Devon Watson Jr. Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War. Louisiana State University Press.
Jim Webb. A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America. Broadway Books.
Jeffry D. Wert. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart. Simon & Schuster.
John W. Whitehead. The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America. Sourcebooks, Inc.
Rosemary Clark Whitlock. The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia: The Drums of Life. The University of Alabama Press.
Poetry:
Nominations: 36
Jennifer Atkinson. Drift Ice. Etruscan Press.
Aaron Baker. Mission Work. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Audrey M. I. Bautz. The Silent Speaker. PublishAmerica.
Sandra Beasley. Theories of Falling. New Issues.
Brian Brodeur. Other Latitudes. The University of Akron Press.
Jennifer Chang. The History of Anonymity. The University of Georgia Press.
Deborah Leigh Easter. Love Everlasting. Vantage Press.
Roselyn Elliott. At the Center. Finishing Line Press.
Claudia Emerson. Figure Studies: Poems. Louisiana State University Press.
Ted Genoways. Anna, Washing. The University of Georgia Press.
David Huddle. Glory River: Poems. Louisiana State University Press.
Sarah Jefferis. Forgetting the Salt. FootHills Publishing.
Julia Campbell Johnson. The Tea of the Unforeseen Berry. Finishing Line Press.
Sarah Kennedy. A Witch’s Dictionary. Elixir Press.
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda. River Country. San Francisco Bay Press.
Erin Lambert. Resolution. Finishing Line Press.
Tim Lewis. The Virginiad. The PWI Press.
Lenny Lianne. A Wilderness of Riches: Voices of the Virginia Colony. ScriptWorks Press.
Lyn Lifshin. Lost in the Fog. Finishing Line Press.
Lyn Lifshin. Nutley Pond. Goose River Press.
Judy Longley. A Woman Divided: Poems Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe. Xlibris Corporation
Kevin McFadden. Hardscrabble. The University of Georgia Press.
Jim Minick. Burning Heaven. Wind Publications.
Jim Minick. Her Secret Song. Motes Books.
Valzhyna Mort. Factory of Tears. Copper Canyon Press.
Douglas Nordfors. Auras. Plain View Press.
Eric Pankey. The Pear as One Example: New & Selected Poems, 1984–2008. Ausable Press.
Jon Pineda. The Translator’s Diary. New Issues Poetry & Prose.
Steven P. Pody. The Panoptikon. AuthorHouse.
Anne Rouse. The Upshot: New & Selected Poems. Bloodaxe Books.
Mattie Quesenberry Smith. Mother Chaos: Under Electric Light. Finishing Line Press.
Lisa Russ Spaar. Satin Cash. Persea Books.
Ruth Stone. What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems. Copper Canyon Press.
Dan Stryk. Dimming Radiance: Poems and Prose Parables. Wind Publications.
Patricia Flower Vermillion. Lady’s Maid. Live Wire Press.
Susan Settlemyre Williams. Ashes in Midair. Many Mountains Moving Press.
