Helen Thomas for Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times Janisse Ray for Ecology of a Cracker Childhood John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford for Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English Leroy TeCube for Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story Lois-Ann Yamanaka for Heads By Harry Michael Lally for It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose Michael Patrick MacDonald for All Souls: A Family Story from Southie Rahna Reiko Rizzuto for Why She Left Us, a novel Robert Creeley for The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005 Editor/Publisher: Ronald Sukenick[1] Jack E. White,[3] Journalism Frank Chin,[3] Lifetime Achievement Robert Creeley,[3] Lifetime Achievement