2008 Literary Honors for Ransom Center Authors
Honors for writers whose papers are housed at the Ransom Center
National Book Award
Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country
Shortlist for Man Booker Prize
Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture
Costa Book of the Year
Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture
Costa Prize for fiction
Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture
Finalist for Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture
The National Endowment for the Arts added Tim O'Brien's novel The Things They Carried to The Big Read library.
The New York Times's 10 Best Books of the Year
Julian Barnes's Nothing to Be Frightened Of
The Economist's Best Fiction and Memoirs
Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture
Washington Post Best Books of 2008
Julian Barnes's Nothing to Be Frightened Of
NPR: Alan Cheuse's Top Fiction Picks for 2008
Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country
Los Angeles Times's Favorite Fiction and Poetry
Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country
The Telegraph's Best Biographies
Julian Barnes's Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Sunday Times Best Memoirs
Simon Gray's Coda
Amazon Customers' Best Books of 2008
Alan Furst's Spies of Warsaw
Honors for books that used Ransom Center materials
Los Angeles Times's Best Nonfiction
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (Edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton)
Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 2008
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (Edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton)
Washington Post Best Books of 2008
Andrew Lycett's The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
The Spectator's Books of the Year
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (Edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton)
