Press Release: Presenting the 2013 National Book Award Finalists

Fiction
Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers, Scribner/Simon & Schuster
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
James McBride, The Good Lord Bird, Riverhead Books/Penguin Group (USA)
Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, The Penguin Press/Penguin Group (USA)
George Saunders, Tenth of December, Random House

Nonfiction
Jill Lepore, The Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
Wendy Lower, Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, W.W. Norton & Company
Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House

Poetry
Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Lucie Brock-Broido, Stay, Illusion, Alfred A. Knopf
Adrian Matejka, The Big Smoke, Penguin Poets/Penguin Group USA
Matt Rasmussen, Black Aperture, Louisiana State University Press
Mary Szybist, Incarnadine: Poems, Graywolf Press

Young People's Literature
Kathi Appelt, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster
Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck, Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster
Tom McNeal, Far Far Away, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone, G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Group (USA)
Gene Luen Yang, Boxers & Saints, First Second/Macmillan

For more information about the Finalists for the 2013 National Book Awards, our Lifetime Achievement Award Winners, and details about the Awards ceremony, please visit the National Book Foundation.