The National Book Foundation has nominated several PEN members for the 2009 National Book Awards. The winners will be announced in New York on Wednesday, November 18 at Cipriani Wall Street. Satirist, comedian and actor, Andy Borowitz will emcee the event.

Fiction

Bonnie Jo Campbell's American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)

Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin (Random House)

Jayne Anne Philips' Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry

Ann Lauterbach Or to Begin (Viking Penguin)

Carl Phillips' Speak Low (Farrar Straus and Giroux)

Keith Waldrop's Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press)

Young People's Literature

Deborah Heiligman's Charles and Emma: The Darwin's Leap of Faith (Henry Holt)

David Small's Stitches (W.W. Norton & Co.)

Rita Williams-Garcia's Jumped (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)

Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community

Dave Eggers

For more information about the Finalists as well as National Book Awards Week events, visit www.nationalbook.org