Nominations for the 2007 Virginia Literary Awards
Fiction | Non-Fiction | Poetry
Stacy Hawkins Adams. Nothing but the Right Thing: A Novel. Revell.
Donna Andrews. No Nest for the Wicket. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur.
David Baldacci. The Collectors. Warner Books.
Richard Bausch. Thanksgiving Night: A Novel. HarperCollins Publishers.
Sonnie Beverly. Saved Folk in the House. Warner Books.
Kanan Bhatt. A Kaleidoscope of the Corporate World: “The Power of Weakness.” CorporateDramas.com.
Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown. Sour Puss. Bantam Books.
Ellen Byerrum. Raiders of the Lost Corset: A Crime of Fashion Mystery. A Signet Book.
Ellen Crosby. The Merlot Murders: A Wine Country Mystery. Scribner.
Katharine Davis. Capturing Paris. St. Martin's Griffin.
Chris Egghart. The Tannhauser Contingency. Riverdale Books.
Deborah Eisenberg. Twilight of the Superheroes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Griffin Garnett. Marcus. PublishAmerica.
Linda Hudson Hoagland. The Little Old Lady Next Door. PublishAmerica.
Cary Holladay. The Quick-Change Artist: Stories. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press.
Sarah Collins Honenberger. White Lies: A Tale of Babies, Vaccines, and Deception. Cedar Creek Publishing.
Ivor No�l Hume. Civilized Men: A James Towne Tragedy, A Novel. The Dietz Press.
Walkley Johnson. Song of the Mockingbirds. Thomas Johnson.
Matthew F. Jones. Boot Tracks. Europa Editions.
Rowan Lore. Fall On Me. Ferrell Tallman Publishing, Inc.
Jan Neuharth. The Chase: A Novel. Paper Chase Farms Publishing Group.
Howard Owen. Rock of Ages. The Permanent Press.
David Poyer. The Threat. St. Martin's Press.
Caroline Preston. Gatsby's Girl. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Sheri Reynolds. Firefly Cloak: A Novel. Shaye Areheart Books.
David L. Robbins. The Assassins Gallery. Bantam Dell.
Nickell John Romjue. The Black Box: Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud: Stories. Wheatmark.
Will Russell. Blue Margarita. Outskirts Press, Inc.
Terre J. Sadler. Tell Me That You Like It. Outskirts Press, Inc.
Maggie Sefton. A Deadly Yarn. Berkley Prime Crime.
Lee Smith. On Agate Hill: A Novel. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
R. T. Smith. Uke Rivers Delivers: Stories. Louisiana State University Press.
Asali Solomon. Get Down: Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
J. B. Stanley. A Supper Club Mystery: Carbs and Cadavers. Midnight Ink.
J. David Stevens. Mexico Is Missing: And Other Stories. The Ohio State University Press.
Kristy Tallman. The All-Soul’s Faire. Ferrell Tallman Publishing, Inc.
Robert Love Taylor. Blind Singer Joe's Blues: a Novel. Southern Methodist University Press.
James Tormey. John Rolfe of Virginia. The Beckham Publications Group, Inc.
Adriana Trigiani. Home to Big Stone Gap, A Novel. Random House.
Valerie Trueblood. Seven Loves: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company.
Karla Vernon. The Spy in Crinoline: Antonia Ford’s Civil War. Fireside Fiction.
Steve Watkins. My Chaos Theory: Stories. Southern Methodist University Press.
Francis Eugene Wood. The Teardrop Fiddle. Tip-of-the-Moon Publishing Company.
Francis Eugene Wood. Two Tales and a Pipe Dream. Tip-of-the-Moon Publishing Company.
Frank B. Atkinson. Virginia in the Vanguard: Political Leadership in the 400-Year-Old Cradle of American Democracy, 1981–2006. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
James Axtell. The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present. Princeton University Press.
Edwin C. Bearss. Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War. National Geographic Society Books.
Stefan Bechtel. Roar of the Heavens. Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Corp.
Jeff Broadwater. George Mason, Forgotten Founder. The University of North Carolina Press.
Laura Browder. Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America. The University of North Carolina Press.
Mary Randolph Carter. For the Love of Old: Living with Chipped, Frayed, Tarnished, Faded, Tattered, Worn, and Weathered Things That Bring Comfort, Character, and Joy to the Places We Call Home. Rizzoli.
Joan E. Cashin. First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Avery Chenoweth. Empires in the Forest: Jamestown and the Beginning of America. University of Virginia Press.
Francis D. Cogliano. Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy. University of Virginia Press.
Alon Confino. Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History. The University of North Carolina Press.
Edward P. Crapol. John Tyler: The Accidental President. The University of North Carolina Press.
Pamela J. Cressey and Margaret J. Anderson. Alexandria, Virginia. Oxford University Press.
Stephen Darwall. The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability. Harvard University Press.
George W. Dodge. Images of America: Arlington National Cemetery. Arcadia Publishing.
Pete Earley. Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Garrett Epps. Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post–Civil War America. A John Macrae Book/Henry Holt and Company.
Claudine L. Ferrell. The Abolitionist Movement. Greenwood Press.
Fred First. Slow Road Home: A Blue Ridge Book of Days. Goose Creek Press.
H. Michael Gelfand. Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval Academy, 1949–2000. The University of North Carolina Press.
Stephen Goodwin. Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
A. Wilson Greene. Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War. University of Virginia Press.
Earl Hamner. Generous Women: An Appreciation. Cumberland House.
Adam Harmon. Lonely Soldier: The Memoir of an American Soldier in the Israeli Army. Presidio Press/Ballantine Books.
Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler. "I Tremble for My Country": Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry. University Press of Florida.
Christopher E. Hendricks. The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia. The University of Tennessee Press.
Peter R. Henriques. Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington. University of Virginia Press.
E. D. Hirsch Jr. The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Pippa Holloway. Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920–1945. The University of North Carolina Press.
David L. Holmes. The Faiths of the Founding Fathers. Oxford University Press.
Charles Jones. Boys of ’67: From Vietnam to Iraq, The Extraordinary Story of a Few Good Men. Stackpole Books.
William M. Kelso. Jamestown: The Buried Truth. University of Virginia Press.
Bob Kunzinger. Prof: One Guy Talking. All Nations Press.
Richard Labunski. James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights. Oxford University Press.
Thomas P. Lowry. Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice. Louisiana State University Press.
Donna M. Lucey. Archie and Am�lie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age. Harmony Books.
David Mann. They Were Heard From—VMI Alumni in the Civil War. Mariner Publishing.
Daniel S. Margolies. Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization. The University Press of Kentucky.
Stephen Hawley Martin. A Witch in the Family: An Award-Winning Author Investigates His Ancestor's Trial and Execution. The Oaklea Press.
D. T. Max. The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery. Random House.
Ray McAllister. Topsail Island: Mayberry by the Sea. John F. Blair.
Charles F. McGovern. Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945. The University of North Carolina Press.
Jonathan D. Moreno. Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense. Dana Press.
Scott Reynolds Nelson. Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of an American Legend. Oxford University Press.
Shelly O'Foran. Little Zion: A Church Baptized by Fire. The University of North Carolina Press.
T. R. Pearson. Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting. Crown Publishers.
Glenn Eugene Porter Sr. The Glory of Gillfield & The Challenge of the Modern Church: A Study for Congregational Transformation. Good News Press.
David Ress. Governor Edward Coles and the Vote to Forbid Slavery in Illinois, 1823–1824. McFarland & Company, Inc.
Sallie (Berniece) Ligon Rich. An Overview of Early Black Education in Nottoway County, Virginia: From One, Two, Three Plus Rooms to Nottoway Training School, Volume 1. Farmville Printing.
Susan Schmidt. Landfall along the Chesapeake: In the Wake of Captain John Smith. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Lorraine Gates Schuyler. The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s. The University of North Carolina Press.
Brian G. Shellum. Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point. University of Nebraska Press.
Barbara Drucker Smith. Prose From the Old Century to the New: Vignettes, Petite Petites, Epistles, Points of View. Xlibris Corporation.
Ryan K. Smith. Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses: Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century. The University of North Carolina Press.
Artemis Stoll and Susan VanHecke. Colonial Place and Riverview: One Hundred Years of History. The Donning Company.
David A. Taylor. Ginseng, The Divine Root. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chris Tudda. The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Louisiana State University Press.
Mary Wiersema Vermeulen. YuLee. Lot's Wife Publishing.
John Sayle Watterson. The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Caroline Weber. Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution. Henry Holt and Company.
Richard G. Williams Jr. Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man’s Friend. Cumberland House.
Joe Wilson. A Guide to the Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail. John F. Blair.
Robert Wilson. The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax—Clarence King in the Old West. Scribner.
Eva Sheppard Wolf. Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion. Louisiana State University Press.
