1998 NBCC Award Winners & Finalists
Fiction Winner Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (Knopf) Fiction Finalists Michael Cunningham, The Hours (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) David Gates, Preston Falls (Knopf) Lorrie Moore, Birds of
Fiction Winner Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (Knopf) Fiction Finalists Michael Cunningham, The Hours (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) David Gates, Preston Falls (Knopf) Lorrie Moore, Birds of
Fiction Winner Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower (Mariner/Houghton) Fiction Finalists Don DeLillo, Underworld (Scribner) Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (Grove) Andrei Makine, Dreams of My Russian Summers (Arcade) Philip Roth, American
Fiction Winner Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds (Counterpoint) Fiction Finalists Louis Begley, About Schmidt (Knopf) Andre Dubus, Dancing After Hours (Knopf) Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother (Farrar,
Fiction Winner Stanley Elkin, Mrs. Ted Bliss (Hyperion) Fiction Finalists Richard Ford, Independence Day (Knopf) Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Jane Smiley, Moo (Knopf) Paul West, The
Fiction Winner Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (Viking) Fiction Finalists Alan Isler, The Prince of West End Avenue (Bridge Works) Julius Lester, And All Our Wounds Forgiven (Arcade) William Gaddis,
Fiction Winner Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying (Knopf) Fiction Finalists E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News (Scribners) Bobbie Ann Mason, Feather Crowns (Harper) Frances Sherwood, Vindication (Farrar, Straus
Fiction Winner Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (Knopf) Fiction Finalists Randall Kenan, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water (Dutton) Richard Price,
Fiction Winner Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres (Knopf) Fiction Finalists Louis Begley, Wartime Lies (Knopf) Gish Jen, Typical American (Houghton Mifflin) Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations (Morrow) Norman Rush,
Fiction Winner John Updike, Rabbit at Rest (Knopf) Fiction Finalists Charles Johnson, Middle Passage (Atheneum) Sue Miller, Family Pictures (HarperCollins) Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (Seymour Lawrence/Houghton Mifflin) Wallace
Fiction Winner E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate (Random House) Fiction Finalists Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (Putnam) Oscar Hijeulos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)