The Library of Virginia and JRW Are Proud to Announce the 2007 Winners of the People's Choice Award:

Fiction: Adriana Trigiani – Home to Big Stone Gap
Nonfiction: William M. Kelso – Jamestown, the Buried Truth

Each year the People's Choice Awards are given for the best fiction and nonfiction books by Virginia authors published in the past year, as decided by a vote of Virginia readers.

Finalists (below) were selected by an independent panel of judges from the books nominated for the annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Between May 14 and July 6, 2007, readers voted on the finalists. The winners were announced at the 10th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards Celebration on October 20, 2007. For more information about the Library, please go to the Library of Virginia Web site.

Non-fiction

• David L. Holmes – The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
• William M. Kelso – Jamestown, the Buried Truth
• Donna Lucey – Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age
• Scott Reynolds Nelson – Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of an American Legend
• Caroline Weber – Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Fiction

• David Baldacci – The Collectors
• Howard Owen – Rock of Ages
• Caroline Preston – Gatsby's Girl
• Lee Smith – On Agate Hill
• Adriana Trigiani – Home to Big Stone Gap

2006 People's Choice Award Winners
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