Nolan wins 1997 National Book Award
Staff -- School Library Journal, 12/1/1997
Han Nolan (right), winner of the 1997 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, speaks to a TV reporter at the awards ceremony in Manhattan. |
A finalist for the second time in two years, author Han Nolan won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for her book
Dancing on the Edge (Harcourt, 1997) last month in New York City. The story of a young girl teetering on the edge of insanity,
Dancing on the Edge is "a tale of chilling reality," according to NBA's panel of judges, chaired by Katherine Paterson. Nolan's book faced competition from four other finalists: Brock Cole's
The Facts Speak for Themselves (Front Street, 1997), Adele Griffin's
Sons of Liberty (Hyperion, 1997), Mary Ann McGuigan's
Where You Belong (Antheneum, 1997) and Tor Seidler's
Mean Margaret (HarperCollins, 1997). Nolan's book
Send Me Down a Miracle (Harcourt, 1996) had been a finalist last year, the first time the award had been given since 1983. Authors Michael Cart, Julius Lester, Robert Lipsyte, and Lois Lowry joined Paterson on the judges' panel.
