9/11 report nominated for book award
(CNN) -- The 9/11 Commission Report is one of the finalists for the prestigious National Book Awards, a rare appearance for a government report.
The finalists, announced Wednesday, were posted on the National Book Awards Web site.
The "Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States," as it is formally known, was published by W.W. Norton in an authorized edition. The book, which has sold in excess of 1 million copies, is one of the five nonfiction finalists.
The bipartisan panel, established in November 2002, reviewed the "facts and circumstances surrounding the [September 11, 2001] attacks," according to the blurb on the back of the book. Its report came out in July.
The winners in each of four categories -- young people's literature, nonfiction, poetry and fiction -- will be named next month.
Other nonfiction nominees are: Kevin Boyle, "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age"; David Hackett Fischer, "Washington's Crossing"; Jennifer Gonnerman, "Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett"; and Stephen Greenblatt, "Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare."
Fiction nominees: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, "Madeleine is Sleeping"; Christine Schutt, "Florida"; Joan Silber, "Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories"; Lily Tuck, "The News from Paraguay"; and Kate Walbert, "Our Kind: A Novel in Stories."
Young people's literature nominees: Deb Caletti, "Honey, Baby, Sweetheart"; Pete Hautman, "Godless"; Laban Carrick Hill, "Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance"; Shelia P. Moses, "The Legend of Buddy Bush"; and Julie Anne Peters, "Luna: A Novel."
Poetry nominees: William Heyen, "Shoah Train"; Donald Justice, "Collected Poems"; Carl Phillips, "The Rest of Love"; Cole Swensen, "Goest"; and Jean Valentine, "Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003."
Author Judy Blume will receive the medal for distinguished contribution to American letters from the National Book Foundation. She is the first author of young-adult works to receive the award.
The National Book Awards will be presented in New York on November 17.
