Finalist: One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing , by Diane Ackerman (W.W. Norton & Company )
A resilient author's account of caring for a stricken husband, sharing fears and insights as she explores neurology and ponders the gift of words.
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in General Nonfiction in 2012:
Mara Hvistendahl
An evocative, deeply researched book probing the causes and effects of a global imbalance in the gender ratio.
The Jury
The Jury
Roy Peter Clark(Chair )
senior scholar
Deborah Blum*
science writer and professor of journalism
Andrew Ross
professor of social and cultural analysis
Winners in General Nonfiction
Siddhartha Mukherjee
An elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science.
David E. Hoffman
A well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind.
Douglas A. Blackmon
A precise and eloquent work that examines a deliberate system of racial suppression and that rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity.
2012 Prize Winners
No award
No award
Manning Marable
An exploration of the legendary life and provocative views of one of the most significant African-Americans in U.S. history, a work that separates fact from fiction and blends the heroic and tragic.
John Lewis Gaddis
An engaging portrait of a globetrotting diplomat whose complicated life was interwoven with the Cold War and America's emergence as the world's dominant power.
Tracy K. Smith
A collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain.