2002 National Book Awards
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
The 53rd Annual National Book Awards were presented November 20, 2002, at New York City's Marriott Marquis Hotel.
Fiction: | Three Junes, Julia Glass (Pantheon Books) |
Nonfiction: | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro (Alfred A. Knopf) |
Poetry: | In the Next Galaxy, Ruth Stone (Copper Canyon Press) |
Young People's Literature: | The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer (A Richard Jackson Book/ Atheneum Books for Young Readers) |
Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Literature: | Philip Roth |
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