Finalist: Chickamauga , by Charles Wright (Farrar Straus and Giroux )
The Jury
The Jury
Frank Bidart(chair )*
professor of English
Bonnie Costello
professor of English
John Wheatcroft
Homer Price Rainey Professor of English Emeritus and director
Winners in Poetry
1996 Prize Winners
Herb Caen
For his extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and conscience of his city.
Bob Keeler
For his detailed portrait of a progressive local Catholic parish and its parishioners.
E.R. Shipp
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.