2009 OREGON BOOK AWARDS WINNERS & FINALISTS

KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION
Judge: Robert Olmstead

WINNER

Jon Raymond of Portland
Livability: Stories
(Bloomsbury)

FINALISTS

Miriam Gershow of Eugene, The Local News (Spiegel & Grau)

Gina Ochsner of Keizer, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight (Portobello Books)

Barbara Pope of Eugene, Cezanne’s Quarry (Pegasus Books)

Leslie What of Eugene, Crazy Love: Stories (Wordcraft of Oregon)

STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY
Judge: Matthea Harvey

WINNER

Matthew Dickman of Portland
All-American Poem
(American Poetry Review)

FINALISTS

Alicia Cohen of Portland, Debts and Obligations(O Books)

Endi Bogue Hartigan of Portland, One Sun Storm ((Center for Literary Publishing)

Andrew Michael Roberts of Portland, something has to happen next (University of Iowa Press)

Crystal Williams of Portland, Troubled Tongues(Lotus Press)

FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
Judge: Luis Urrea

WINNER

Tracy Daugherty of Corvallis
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
(St.Martin’s Press)

FINALISTS

Bonnie Henderson of Eugene, Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris (OSU Press)

John Laursen and Terry Toedtemeier of Portland, Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957 (The Northwest Photography Archive/OSU Press)

Donna Matrazzo of Portland, Wild Things: Adventures of a Grassroots Environmentalist (IUniverse)

Jeffrey St. Clair of Oregon City, Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth (AK Press)

SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION
Judge: Ted Conover

WINNER

John Kroger of Salem
Convictions: A Prosecutor’s Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves
(Farrar, Strauss, Giroux)

FINALISTS

Bibi Gaston of The Dalles, The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter’s Search for Home(William Morrow)

Debra Gwartney of Finn Rock, Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Floyd Skloot of Portland, The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer’s Life University of Nebraska Press)

ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Judge: Sarah Weeks

WINNER

Deborah Hopkinson of West Linn,
Keep On!The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-discoverer of the North Pole
(Peach Tree)

LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Judge:Sarah Weeks

WINNER

Roland Smith of Wilsonville
I.Q. Book One: Independence Hall
(Sleeping Bear Press)

FINALISTS

Carmen Bernier-Grand of Portland, Diego: Bigger Than Life (Marshall Cavendish)

David Greenberg of Portland, A Tugging String (Dutton)

Graham Salisbury of Lake Oswego, Calvin Coconut, Trouble Magnet(Wendy Lamb Books)

Virginia Euwer Wolff of Oregon City, This Full House (Harper Teen)

SPECIAL AWARDS

THE STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
Matt Love of Newport

THE WALT MOREY YOUNG READERS LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
The Dove Lewis Animal Assisted Therapy Program: Read to the Dogs Program of Portland

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