Oct 22, 2007
Nora Roberts (pictured) won in the Romance category and Book of the Year for her novel "Angels Fall" at the 2007 Quill Awards.
Cormac McCarthy won in General Fiction for "The Road", Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" won in History/Current Affairs/Politics, while Debut Author went to Diane Setterfield for "The Thirteenth Tale".
Sissy Spacek's reading of "To Kill A Mockingbird" won Best Audio Book.
| Quill Awards - Book of the Year | |
| Nora Roberts (Angels Fall) |    |
| Quill Awards - General Fiction | |
| Cormac McCarthy (The Road) |  |
| Other Nominees: Da Chen (Brothers); Phil LaMarche (American Youth); Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics); Matthew Sharpe (Jamestown) | |
| Quill Awards - Mystery/Suspense | |
| Laura Lippman (What the Dead Know) | |
| Other Nominees: Matt Beynon Rees (The Collaborator of Bethlehem); David Ignatius (Body of Lies); Michael Connelly (The Overlook); Michael Koryta (A Welcome Grave) | |
| Quill Awards - Romance | |
| Nora Roberts (Angels Fall) | |
| Other Nominees: Mary Balogh (Simply Magic); Pam Jenoff (The Kommandant's Girl); Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Natural Born Charmer); Luanne Rice (The Edge of Winter) | |
| Quill Awards - Biography/Memoir | |
| Walter Isaacson (Einstein: His Life and Universe) |  |
| Other Nominees: Tom Bissell (The Father Of All Things); Ishmael Beah (A Long Way Gone); Hermione Lee (Edith Wharton); Robert D Richardson (William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism) | |
| Quill Awards - History/Current Affairs/Politics | |
| Al Gore (The Assault On Reason) |  |
| Other Nominees: Robert Dallek (Nixon and Kissinger); Daniel Mendelsohn (The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million); William Langewiesche (The Atomic Bazaar); Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Infidel) | |
| Quill Awards - Business | |
| Robert I Sutton (The No Asshole Rule) | |
| Other Nominees: Seth Godin (Small Is the New Big); Suze Orman (Women & Money); David Shipley & Will Schwalbe (Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home); Jonathan M Tisch (Chocolates on the Pillow Aren't Enough) | |
| Quill Awards - Cooking | |
| Irma S Rombauer (Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition) | |
| Marion Rombauer Becker; Ethan Becker | |
| Other Nominees: Stephane Reynaud (Pork & Sons); Claudia Roden (Arabesque); Matt & Ted Lee (The Lee Bros Southern Cookbook); Dorie Greenspan (Baking: From My Home To Yours) | |
| Quill Awards - Health/Self Improvement | |
| Jerome Groopman (How Doctors Think) | |
| Other Nominees: Pat Wingert (Is It Hot In Here? Or Is It Me?); Michael F Roizen (You On A Diet); Gina Kolata (Rethinking Thin); Jane Isay (Walking On Eggshells) | |
| Quill Awards - Humor | |
| Amy Sedaris (I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence) | |
| Other Nominees: Judy Gold (25 Questions for a Jewish Mother); Kurt Anderson & Graydon Carter (Spy: The Funny Years); Bob Newhart (I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!); David Minkoff (Oy!: The Ultimate Book of Jewish Jokes) | |
| Quill Awards - Poetry | |
| Kevin Young (For the Confederate Dead) | |
| Other Nominees: Alice Notley (Grave Of Light); CD Wright (One Big Self); Henri Cole (Blackbird and Wolf); Donald Revell (A Thief of Strings) | |
| Quill Awards - Religion/Spirituality | |
| Stephen Prothero (Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs To Know - And Doesn't) | |
| Other Nominees: Paul M Barrett (American Islam); Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein (Gonzo Judaism); Francis S Collins (The Language Of God); Philip Yancey (Prayer: Does It Make A Difference?) | |
| Quill Awards - Graphic Novel | |
| Scott McCloud (Making Comics) | |
| Other Nominees: Osamu Tezuka (Ode To Kirihito); Bryan Talbot (Alice In Sunderland); Rutu Modan (Exit Wounds); Marguerite Abouet (Aya) | |
| Quill Awards - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | |
| Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind) | |
| Other Nominees: Jo Walton (Farthing); David Marusek (Getting To Know You); Ian McDonald (Brasyl); Ken MacLeod (The Execution Channel) | |
| Quill Awards - Sports | |
| Michael Weinreb (The Kings of New York) | |
| Other Nominees: Tom Stanton (Ty and The Babe); Cait Murphy (Crazy '08); Jeff Hull (Streams of Consciousness); Joshua Prager (The Echoing Green) | |
| Quill Awards - Audio Book | |
| Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird) | |
| read by Sissy Spacek | |
| Other Nominees: Fannie Flagg (Can't Wait To Get To Heaven); Amy Sedaris (I Like You); Kevin Sessums (Mississippi Sissy); Charles Frazier (Thirteen Moons) | |
| Quill Awards - Debut Author | |
| Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale) |  |
| Other Nominees: Ishmael Beah (A Long Way Gone); Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You); Daniel J Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music); Rob Sheffield (Love Is A Mix Tape) | |
| Quill Awards - Children's Chapter Books | |
| Brian Selznick (The Invention of Hugo Cabret) | |
| Other Nominees: Sara Pennypacker (Clementine); Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid); Jeremy Leslie & David Roberts (Pick Me Up); Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse) | |
| Quill Awards - Children's Picture Books | |
| David Wiesner (Flotsam) | |
| Other Nominees: Mini Grey (The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon); Jan O'Connor (Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy); Emily Gravett (Orange Pear Apple Bear); Isabella and Craig Hatkoff (Owen & Mzee) | |
| Quill Awards - Young Adult/Teen | |
| Patricia McCormick (Sold) | |
| Other Nominees: Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese); Ellen Klages (The Green Glass Sea); Alice Hoffman (Incantation); Susan Beth Pfeffer (Life As We Knew It) | |
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