Nominations for the 2008 Virginia Literary Awards
Fiction | Non-Fiction | Poetry
Donna Andrews. The Penguin Who Knew Too Much. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur.
Robert E. Bailey. Dead Bang: An Art Hardin Mystery. M. Evans.
David Baldacci. Simple Genius. Warner Books.
David Baldacci. Stone Cold. Grand Central Publishing.
Carrie Brown. The Rope Walk. Pantheon Books.
Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. Puss ’n Cahoots: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery. Bantam Books.
Alan Cheuse. The Fires. Santa Fe Writers Project.
Ellen Crosby. The Chardonnay Charade: A Wine Country Mystery. Scribner.
B. A. Goodjohn. Sticklebacks and Snow Globes. The Permanent Press.
Helon Habila. Measuring Time. Penguin Books.
Dallas Hudgens. Season of Gene: A Novel. Scribner.
Jan Karon. Home to Holly Springs: The Father Tim Series. Viking.
Jean C. Keating. Beguiling Bundle: Death Takes Best of Breed. Astra Publishers.
S. Paul Klein. Accidents of Time and Place. PublishAmerica.
Daniel R. Kneip. The Final Exam. PublishAmerica.
D. S. Lliteras. The Master of Secrets: A Novel. Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.
Rose MacMurray. Afternoons with Emily: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company.
Mary Claire Mahaney. Osaka Heat: A Novel. AuthorHouse.
David Lozell Martin. Our American King. Simon and Schuster.
Donald McCaig. Canaan: A Novel. W. W. Norton & Company.
Donald McCaig. Rhett Butler’s People. St. Martin’s Press.
Sharyn McCrumb. Once Around the Track. Kensington Books.
Billie Montgomery/Cook. Georgiana Scott: A Free Child of Portsmouth. P-Town Books.
Ann Mullen. Middle River Murders: A Jesse Watson Mystery. Afton Ridge Publishing.
Kim Murphy. Whispers from the Grave. Coachlight Press.
I. J. Parker. Island of Exiles: A Mystery of Early Japan. Penguin Books.
Janet Peery. What the Thunder Said. St. Martin’s Press.
James Pendleton. Drinkwater’s Folly. Ivy House Books.
Mary Montague Sikes. Eagle Rising. Oak Tree Press.
Linda Thomas. Out From Egyptland. The “Light” Designs Book Publishers/Kingdom Publishing Group.
Francis Eugene Wood. The Christmas Letter. Tip-of-the-Moon Publishing Company.
Jennifer Ackerman. Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body.Houghton Mifflin Company.
Paul Alkebulan. Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party. The University of Alabama Press.
Lisa Alther. Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree, The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors. Arcade Publishing.
Alan Axelrod. Blooding at Great Meadows: Young George Washington and the Battle That Shaped the Man. Running Press.
Susan Wise Bauer. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome. W. W. Norton & Company.
Kevin L. Borg. Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
J. K. Brandau. Murder at Green Springs: The True Story of the Hall Case, Firestorm of Prejudices. Morgan James Publishing, LLC.
Libby Brown. Making Waves. Crossroads Press.
James M. Campbell. Slavery on Trial: Race, Class, and Criminal Justice in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia. University Press of Florida.
Burrus M. Carnahan. Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War. The University Press of Kentucky.
Larry S. Chowning. Deadrise and Cross-Planked. Tidewater Publishers.
Leila Christenbury. Retracing the Journey: Teaching and Learning in an American High School. Teachers College Press.
David Ciepley. Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism. Harvard University Press.
Casey Clabough. The Warrior’s Path: Reflections along an Ancient Route. The University of Tennessee Press.
Linwood “Little Bear” Custalow and Angela L. Daniel “Silver Star.” The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History, From the Sacred History of the Mattaponi Reservation People. Fulcrum Publishing.
Ann Davis. No More Indians: Or, No Book on Earth Has Lied More Sincerely Than My Ol’ Virginia Text. Morgan James Publishing.
Bob Deans. The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Kieran Doherty. Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of the First English Colony in the New World. St. Martin’s Press.
Rand Dotson. Roanoke, Virginia, 1882–1912: Magic City of the New South. The University of Tennessee Press.
Richard R. Duncan. Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861–1865. Louisiana State University Press.
Susan Dunn. Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia. Basic Books/Perseus Books Group.
Mark Edmundson. The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days. Bloomsbury.
Evelyn Edson. The World Map, 1300–1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Christopher J. Einolf. George Thomas: Virginian for the Union. University of Oklahoma Press.
Jason Emerson. The Madness of Mary Lincoln. Southern Illinois University Press.
Andrew Ferguson. Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America. Atlantic Monthly Press.
William W. Freehling. The Road to Disunion: Volume II, Secessionists Triumphant, 1854–1861. Oxford University Press.
Lisa Guernsey. Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age Five. Basic Books/Perseus Books Group.
Mark Harris. Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial. Scribner.
Byron Hawk. A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity. University of Pittsburgh Press.
Ronald L. Heinemann, John G. Kolp, Anthony S. Parent Jr., and William G. Shade. Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia, 1607–2007. University of Virginia Press.
Susan Tyler Hitchcock. Frankenstein: A Cultural History. W. W. Norton & Company.
Wesley C. Hogan. Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America. The University of North Carolina Press.
Barbara Holland. The Joy of Drinking. Bloomsbury.
Woody Holton. Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution. Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Sanford D. Horwitt. Feingold: A New Democratic Party. Simon & Schuster.
Christopher Howard. The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy. Princeton University Press.
Matthew G. Hyland. Montpelier and the Madisons: House, Home, and American Heritage. The History Press.
Sara James and Ginger Mauney. The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship. William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers.
Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. HarperCollins Publishers.
Pamela K. Kinney. Haunted Richmond, Virginia. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Michael J. Klarman. Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History. Oxford University Press.
Harry Kollatz Jr. True Richmond Stories: Historic Tales from Virginia’s Capital. The History Press.
Harry Kraus, M.D. Breathing Grace: What You Need More Than Your Next Breath. Crossway Books.
Robert K. Krick. Civil War Weather in Virginia. The University of Alabama Press.
Jon Kukla. Mr. Jefferson’s Women. Alfred A. Knopf.
Karen Ordahl Kupperman. The Jamestown Project. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Nelson D. Lankford. Cry Havoc!: The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861. Viking.
Melvyn P. Leffler. For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt. Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Penny Loeb. Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal. The University Press of Kentucky.
Chandra Manning. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War. Alfred A. Knopf.
Ray McAllister. Wrightsville Beach: The Luminous Island. John F. Blair Publisher.
Donald McCaig. A Useful Dog. University of Virginia Press.
Michael A. McDonnell. The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia. The University of North Carolina Press.
Michael J. Mortlock. The Landings at Suvla Bay, 1915: An Analysis of British Failure During the Gallipoli Campaign. McFarland & Company, Inc.
Scott Reynolds Nelson and Carol Sheriff. A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War, 1854–1877. Oxford University Press.
Jennifer Niesslein. Practically Perfect in Every Way: My Misadventures Through the World of Self-Help—and Back. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Scott C. Patchan. Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign. University of Nebraska Press.
Elizabeth Brown Pryor. Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters. Viking.
Helen C. Rountree, Wayne E. Clark, and Kent Mountford. John Smith’s Chesapeake Voyages, 1607–1609. University of Virginia Press.
Larry J. Sabato. A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country. Walker & Company.
Mary Lee Settle. Learning to Fly: A Writer’s Memoir. Edited by Anne Hobson Freeman. W. W. Norton & Company.
Susan Richards Shreve. Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR’s Polio Haven. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Peter N. Stearns. Revolutions in Sorrow: The American Experience of Death in Global Perspective. Paradigm Publishers.
David O. Stewart. The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution. Simon & Schuster.
Earl Swift. The Tangierman’s Lament and Other Tales of Virginia. University of Virginia Press.
James K. Swisher. The Revolutionary War in the Southern Back Country. Pelican Publishing Company.
L. B. Taylor Jr. The Ghosts of Virginia, Volume XII. L. B. Taylor Jr.
Joe Tennis. Beach to Bluegrass: Places to Brake on Virginia’s Longest Road. The Overmountain Press.
Mary Miley Theobald. Hirschler Fleischer: The History of a Law Firm. Hirschler Fleischer.
Clarence Thomas. My Grandfather’s Son: A Memoir. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers.
Marie Tyler-McGraw. An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia. The University of North Carolina Press.
Peter Wallenstein. Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History. University Press of Kansas.
Logan Ward. See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America. BenBella Books, Inc.
Francis Eugene Wood. Tackle Box Memories. Tip-of-the-Moon Publishing Company.
Benjamin Woolley. Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America. HarperCollins Publishers.
Amy Waters Yarsinske. The Elizabeth River. History Press.
Hoda M. Zaki. Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute: The Legacy of Alonzo G. Moron. University of Illinois Press.
Kwame Alexander. Crush: Love Poems. Word of Mouth Books.
M. Lee Alexander. Observatory: Poems. Finishing Line Press.
Melanie Almeder. On Dream Street: Poems. Tupelo Press.
Robert P. Arthur. Vija’s War and Other Poems. San Francisco Bay Press.
Patsy Anne Bickerstaff. Mrs. Noah’s Journal. San Francisco Bay Press.
Remica L. Bingham. Conversion: Poems. Lotus Press.
Kelly Cherry. Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems. Louisiana State University Press.
Michael Chitwood. From Whence: Poems. Louisiana State University Press.
Michael Chitwood. Spill: Poems. Tupelo Press.
Donna Lee Davis. Sheer Poetry Revisited. Book Surge.
Heather Davis. The Lost Tribe of Us: Poems. Main Street Rag Publishing Company.
Nikki Giovanni. Acolytes. William Morrow/Harper Collins Publishers.
Henry Hart. Background Radiation. Salt Publishing.
Brian Henry. The Stripping Point. Counterpath Press.
Bob Hicok. This Clumsy Living. University of Pittsburgh Press.
Sheema Kalbasi. Echoes in Exile. PRA Publishing.
Suzanne Keen. Milk Glass Mermaid. Lewis-Clark Press.
Laurie Kutchins. Slope of the Child Everlasting. BOA Editions, Ltd.
Edward W. Lull. The Sailors: Birth of a Navy. Infinity Publishing.
Constance Merritt. Blessings and Inclemencies: Poems. Louisiana State University Press.
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan. Without a Philosophy: Poems. Louisiana State University Press.
Rita Sims Quillen. Her Secret Dream. Wind Publications.
Mebane Robertson. Signal from Draco: New and Selected Poems. Black Widow Press.
R. T. Smith. Outlaw Style: Poems. The University of Arkansas Press.
Ron Smith. Moon Road: Poems, 1986–2005. Louisiana State University Press.
Lesley Wheeler. Scholarship Girl: Poems. Finishing Line Press.
Charles Wright. Littlefoot. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Katherine E. Young. Gentling the Bones: Poems. Finishing Line Press.
