Massachusetts Book Award Winners for the Year 2002
Honoring books published in 2001.
Celebrated at the Worcester Public Library, October 3, 2002
First Annual Massachusetts Book Medal
Stanley Kunitz
A Life Well-Lived in Poetry
Fiction Award
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
(William Morrow / Harper Collins)
Fiction Honors
The Bostons by Carolyn Cooke
(Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey
(Picador Books/St. Martin’s)
Yellow by Don Lee
(W. W. Norton)
Nonfiction Award
The Imprisoned Guest by Elisabeth Gitter
(Picador Books / St. Martin’s)
Nonfiction Honors
Gracefully Insane by Alex Beam
(Public Affairs / Perseus)
Uphill Walkers by Madeleine Blais
(Grove / Atlantic )
Poetry Award
Poems Seven by Alan Dugan
(Seven Stories Press)
Poetry Honors
Memoir of the Hawk by James Tate
(Ecco Press / HarperCollins)
Oubliette by Peter Richards
(Verse Press )
The Seven Ages by Louise Glück
(Ecco Press / HarperCollins)
Children’s / Young Adult Literature Award
Moonpie and Ivy by Barbara O’Connor
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Frances Foster Books)
Children’s / Young Adult Honors
Mountain Pose by Nancy Hope Wilson
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Rocks in His Head by Carol Otis Hurst
(Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins )