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The other nominees for nonfiction, announced Wednesday, are the following:
- “No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes” (Metropolitan), by Anand Gopal, a foreign correspondent and a fellow at the New America Foundation.
- “Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh” (Norton), by John Lahr, a former drama critic for The New Yorker and a Tony Award winner.
- “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China” (FSG), by Evan Osnos, a staff writer for The New Yorker and former Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune.
- “The Meaning of Human Existence” (Liveright), by E.O. Wilson, the biologist who has won two Pulitzer Prizes.
The nonfiction judges are editor Robert Atwan, writer Gretel Ehrlich, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Tom Reiss, former president of Brown University Ruth J. Simmons and two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian Alan Taylor. They considered 495 submissions.
At a ceremony in New York on Nov. 19, $10,000 will be awarded to the winner in each category: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People’s Literature. The finalists will receive $1,000 each.
"Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" is Chast's account of caring for her aging parents.
Chast’s cartoons have been published in many magazines, including The New Yorker, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review, Redbook, and Mother Jones.
She is the author of "Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons of Roz Chast, 1978-2006," a compilation of her favorite cartoons. She also illustrated "The Alphabet from A to Y, with Bonus Letter, Z," a best-selling children's book by Steve Martin.
Her awards and honors include honorary doctorates from Dartmouth College, Lesley University/Art Institute of Boston, and Pratt Institute. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. For more on Chast, visit her website.
The National Book Foundation's mission is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America. To see the full list of nominees or for more information, visit its website.
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