National Book Award for Nonfiction 1999

Nominations

Winner	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II	John W. Dower
	Woman: An Intimate Geography	Natalie Angier
	Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War	Mark Bowden
	Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation	John Phillip Santos
	Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette	Judith Thurman