Rakha, Gwartney, and Dickman Among Authors Shortlisted for PNBA's 2010 Book Awards

PNBA has announced the shortlist for their 2010 Book Awards, with the winners determined at a committee meeting in December and formally announced in January.  Here are your finalists:

• All In A Day (Abrams) by Cynthia Rylant, Illustrated by Nikki McClure
• The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire that Saved America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Timothy Egan
• Boneshaker (Macmillan) by Cherie Priest
• The Crying Tree (Broadway Books) by Naseem Rakha
• Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (Hachette) by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
• The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest (Sasquatch) by Jack Nisbet
• Double Take: A Memoir (Harper Studio) by Kevin Michael Connolly
• The End of the West (Copper Canyon Press) by Michael Dickman
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet: A Novel (Ballantine) by Jamie Ford
• Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Debra Gwartney
• The Man From Kinvara: Selected Stories (Graywolf Press) by Tess Gallagher

Of course Gwartney’s Live Through This was also a finalist in this year Oregon Book Awards, and Dickman may have the chance to compare trophies with his twin brother Matthew whose All-American Poems won this years Oregon Book Award for poetry.  Rakha looks to be a favorite to take home an award, as The Crying Tree has received glowing reviews since its release.

Congratulations to all of these wonderful Northwest authors!  They are a proud testament to the depth of talent that calls our neck of the woods home.