Finalist: The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature , by Steven Pinker (Viking )
The Jury
The Jury
Richard Bernstein(chair )
book critic
Diane Ackerman
author and visiting scholar
Patricia Limerick
professor of history and environmental studies, chair of the board and faculty director Center for the American West
Winners in General Nonfiction
2003 Prize Winners
Diana K. Sugg
For her absorbing, often poignant stories that illuminated complex medical issues through the lives of people.
Photography Staff
For its powerful, imaginative coverage of Colorado's raging forest fires.
Staff
For its detailed, well-crafted stories on the accidental drowning of four boys in the Merrimack River.