Finalist: Mr. Ives' Christmas , by Oscar Hijuelos (HarperCollins )
The Jury
The Jury
Gail Caldwell(chair )*
chief book critic
David Gates
novelist, book critic
Lorrie Moore
writer, editor and professor of English
Winners in Fiction
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.