Massachusetts Book Award Winners for the Year 2001
Honoring books published in 2000.
Celebrated at the Boston Public Library, 2 November 2001.
Fiction Award
MotherKind by Jayne Anne Phillips
(Alfred A. Knopf / Vintage)
Fiction Honors
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
(Pantheon Books)
The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve
(Alfred A. Knopf / Vintage)
Properties of Light by Rebecca Goldstein
(Houghton Mifflin)
The River King by Alice Hoffman
(Penguin Putnam)
Nonfiction Award
Reflections in Bullough’s Pond by Diana Muir
(University Press of New England)
Nonfiction Honors
Constant Turmoil by Mary Blewett
(University of Massachusetts Press)
Fire & Roses by Nancy Lusignan Schultz
(Free Press / Simon & Schuster (e-book) / Vintage)
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
(Viking Press)
Red Sox Century by Glenn Stout and Richard Johnson
(Houghton Mifflin)
Poetry Award
Breathing Room by Peter Davison
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Poetry Honors
Bewitched Playground by David Rivard
(Graywolf Press)
The Leaf and the Cloud by Mary Oliver
(DaCapo Press)
A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen by Martín Espada
(W.W. Norton)
Multitudes by Afaa Michael Weaver
(Sarabande Books)
Children’s / Young Adult Literature Award
What’s in a Name by Ellen Wittlinger
(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers )
Children’s / Young Adult Honors
The Janitor’s Boy by Andrew Clements
(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers )
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
(Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton Mifflin)
Learning to Swim by Ann Turner
(Scholastic)
Children's Picture Book Award
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson
(Houghton Mifflin)
Children's Picture Book Honors
The Disappearing Island by Corinne Demas
(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers )
Dory Story by Jerry Palotta
(Charlesbridge Publishing )
Zachary's Ball by Matt Tavares
(Candlewick Press)
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? by Jane Yolen
(Scholastic)