2008 Marfield Prize
2008 Co-winners
Michael Sragow, Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master (Pantheon)
and
Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Anchor Books)
2008 Finalists
Jonathan Lopez, The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Leonard Todd, Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave
(W.W. Norton & Company)
2008 Judges
David Kipen, author and critic
Linda Pastan, poet
Reynolds Price, novelist