— are announced. The 650-member organization honors “works that are more scholarly, literary and often just more maverick than those recognized by the mainstream Pulitzer Prizes.” – Dallas Morning News 03/14/00
- ALL CACHET/NO CASH: “It’s not about us as book critics. We want to deliver the books that are best to our audience and that’s what we did.” The winners: “Jonathan Lethem for “Motherless Brooklyn,” Henry Wiencek for “The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White,” Jonathan Weiner for “Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior,” Jorge Luis Borges for “Selected Non-Fictions,” and Ruth Stone for “Ordinary Words.” – Washington Post
- Awards like a North Beach coffee house, circa 1962. – San Francisco Chronicle