Nominations for the 2006 Virginia Literary Awards
Fiction | Non-Fiction | Poetry
Mike Albo with Virginia Heffernan, The Underminer, or, the Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. Bloomsbury.
Donna Andrews, Owls Well That Ends Well. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur.
David Baldacci, The Camel Club. Warner Books.
Chris Bell, Lt. Williams on the Color Front: A Novel. PublishAmerica.
Geraldine Brooks, March: A Novel. Viking.
Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown, Cat's Eyewitness. Bantam Books.
Rita Mae Brown, The Hunt Ball: A Novel. Ballantine Books.
Mary Louise Clifford, Lonesome Road. PublishAmerica.
Edward Cline, Sparrowhawk Book Five: Revolution. MacAdam/Cage.
Susann Cokal, Breath and Bones. Unbridled Books.
Colleen Curran, Whores on the Hill. Vintage Books.
Kurtis Davidson, What the Shadow Told Me: A Novel. Eastern Washington University Press.
Tom De Haven, It’s Superman! A Novel. Chronicle Books.
Edward Falco, In the Park of Culture. University of Notre Dame Press.
Edward Falco, Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories. Unbridled Books.
Edward Falco, Wolf Point. Unbridled Books.
Tim Farrington, Lizzie's War: A Novel. HarperSanFrancisco.
Stephen Frey, The Chairman: A Novel. Ballantine Books.
David A. Green, Tonya Baldwin. PublishAmerica.
Lenore Hart, Ordinary Springs. Berkley Books.
William Hoffman, Lies. River City Publishing.
Emyl Jenkins, Stealing with Style: A Novel. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Michael Kilian, Antietam Assassins. Severn House.
D. S. Lliteras, The Silence of John: A Novel. Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.
Stephen Hawley Martin and David Nathan Martin, The Color of Demons: A Martin Brothers Thriller. The Oaklea Press.
Wanda Roark Matthews, Stories From the Christmas Tree: A Novel. Johnson Printing.
Sharyn McCrumb, St. Dale. Kensington Books.
Paul N. McMahon, The K-7 Directive. Infinity Publishing.
Ann Mullen, A Crying Shame: A Jesse Watson Mystery. Afton Ridge Publishing.
Kim Murphy, Glory & Promise. Coachlight Press.
Owen Parry, Rebels of Babylon. William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
T. R. Pearson, Glad News of the Natural World. Simon and Schuster.
Jim Peterson, Paper Crown: A Novel. Red Hen Press.
David Poyer, That Anvil of Our Souls: A Novel of The Monitor and The Merrimack. Simon and Schuster.
Kurt Rheinheimer, Little Criminals: Short Stories. Eastern Washington University Press.
Emilie Richards, Endless Chain. Mira Books.
Maureen Robb, Patterns in Silicon. Drake Valley Press.
Nickell John Romjue, Merry Town, Missouri 1945—1948: A Novel. Xlibris Corporation.
Ren� Steinke, Holy Skirts. William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Robert Sydney, The Bright Spot. Bantam Books.
E. Scott Tapscott, Brushed by the Butterfly's Wings. Author House.
Adriana Trigiani, Rococo: A Novel. Random House.
Linda J. White, Bloody Point: A Novel. River Oak, an Imprint of Cook Communications Ministries.
Andrew Wingfield, Hear Him Roar: A Novel. Utah State University Press.
Christina Adams, A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention, and Recovery. Berkley Books.
Leonard M. Adkins, Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains. Menasha Ridge Press.
Edward L. Ayers, What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History. W. W. Norton & Company.
Nancy Wright Beasley, Izzy's Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust. Brunswick Publishing.
Joseph Blotner, An Unexpected Life. Louisiana State University Press.
Patricia Brady, Martha Washington: An American Life. Viking.
Captain Edward M. Brittingham, Sr., USN, Ret., The Iranian Deception. ASW Press.
Kent Masterson Brown, Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign. The University of North Carolina Press.
Andrew Burstein, Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello. Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group.
Rebecca Barbour Calcutt, Richmond’s Wartime Hospitals. Pelican Publishing Company.
Peter S. Carmichael, The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion. The University of North Carolina Press.
Douglas B. Chambers, Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia. University Press of Mississippi.
Kelly Cherry, History, Passion, Freedom, Death, and Hope: Prose about Poetry. University of Tampa Press.
John M. Coski, The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Kevin Dougherty with J. Michael Moore, The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis. University Press of Mississippi.
Davison M. Douglas, Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle Over Northern School Segregation, 1865—1954. Cambridge University Press.
A. Roger Ekirch, At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past. W. W. Norton & Company.
Alan Farrell, High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans: Purple Prose from a Black Room. Hypocritepress.com.
Herman "Dick" Flora, Miz Suzie’s Boy. Xlibris Corporation.
Laurie Gunst, Off ~ White: A Memoir. Soho Press, Incorporated.
Sharon Hatfield, Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell. University of Illinois Press.
Susan Tyler Hitchcock, Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London. W. W. Norton & Company.
Evans D. Hopkins, Life After Life: A Story of Rage and Redemption. Free Press.
James Horn, A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America. Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group.
Joe Jackson, A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen. Viking.
Robert Jackson, Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation. Louisiana State University Press.
Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750—1850. Alfred A. Knopf.
Kathleen E. Jenkins, Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ. Rutgers University Press.
Edward Larkin, Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution. Cambridge University Press.
John Leland, Aliens in the Backyard: Plant and Animal Imports into America. University of South Carolina Press.
Edward G. Lengel, General George Washington: A Military Life. Random House.
Andrew Levy, The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves. Random House.
Nathan Lott, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Richmond Including Williamsburg, Fredericksburg, and Charlottesville. Menasha Ridge Press.
George Loveland, Under the Workers’ Caps: From Champion Mill to Blue Ridge Paper. The University of Tennessee Press.
Malcolm MacPherson, Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan. Delacorte Press.
Jeff Mann, Loving Mountains, Loving Men. Ohio University Press.
Peter Manseau, Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and their Son. Free Press.
Maurie D. McInnis, The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston. The University of North Carolina Press.
George Mentore, Of Passionate Curves and Desirable Cadences: Themes on Waiwai Social Being. University of Nebraska Press.
Jim Minick, Finding a Clear Path. Vandalia Press.
Margaret E. Mohrmann, Attending Children: A Doctor's Education. Georgetown University Press.
Jeffry H. Morrison, John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic. University of Notre Dame Press.
Robert O’Harrow, Jr., No Place to Hide. Free Press.
Josephine F. Pacheco, The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac. The University of North Carolina Press.
John O. Peters, Blandford Cemetery: Death and Life at Petersburg, Virginia. The Historic Blandford Cemetery Foundation, Inc.
Jeffrey J. Rossman, Worker Resistance Under Stalin: Class and Revolution on the Shop Floor. Harvard University Press.
Helen C. Rountree, Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. University of Virginia Press.
Margaret L. Schwartz, The Pumpkin Patch: A Single Woman's International Adoption Journey. Chicago Spectrum Press.
Anne Thomas Soffee, N�rd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A. Chicago Review Press.
Allen St. John, Clapton’s Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument. Free Press.
Elko von Krogh Stillfried, Leaves in the Wind: Thirty Years Spanning the Continents. Vantage Press.
Connie Pendleton Stuntz, A View of Falls Church, Virginia: Including Its Western Neighbors Thru the 1881—1889 Diaries of Edmund Flagg, Esq. Higher Education Publications, Inc.
Benjamin H. Trask, Fearful Ravages: Yellow Fever in New Orleans, 1796—1905. Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Jim B. Tucker, M.D., Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives. St. Martin's Press.
Mark A. Weitz, More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army. University of Nebraska Press.
Emily Marjorie Cella, I Used to Wear My Hair in Pigtails: Collected Poems and Stories of Emily Marjorie Cella. The Van Doren Company.
Claudia Emerson, Late Wife: Poems. Louisiana State University Press.
Lilah Hegnauer, Dark Under Kiganda Stars. Ausable Press.
Luisa A. Igloria, Trill & Mordent. WordTech Editions.
David A. Lewis, Forever Moments. PublishAmerica.
Edward W. Lull, Where Giants Walked: Poems. Infinity Publishing.
Judith McCombs, The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected & New. The Word Works.
Sandra Miller, Oriflamme. Ahsahta Press.
Michael Mott, The World of Richard Dadd: Hampstead, 1931—1939. Margie, Inc./IntuiT House Poetry Series.
Leah Nielsen, No Magic. Word Press.
Margy Ohring, Cat-House Sonnets: 100 Poems Celebrating Cats. Jorlan Publishing.
Gregory Orr, Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved. Copper Canyon Press.
Eric Pankey, Reliquaries. Ausable Press.
Margo Solod, Some Very Soft Days: Poems. Mayapple Press.
Dabney Stuart, Family Preserve: Poems. University of Virginia Press.
Tom Williams, Bombing the House of God. All Nations Press.
Charles Wright, The Wrong End of the Rainbow: Poems. Sarabande Books.
