Harold Aspiz – Agnieszka Salska, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Poetry of the Central Consciousness
Angela Ball – Raymond Carver, Where Water Comes Together with Other Water
Kathy Blake – Charles Willard, Whitman’s American Fame: The Growth of his Reputation in America After 1892
Jessica Chielli – Edwin Haviland Miller, The Artistic Legacy of Walt Whitman
Anthony Giacoppo – C. Carroll Hollis, Language and Style in Leaves of Grass
David Graham – Mary Fell, The Persistence of Memory
William R. Kanouse – Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life
Katherine Kinney – Daniel Aaron, The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War
William K. O’Brien – Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic
Hazel L. Redman – James E. Miller, Jr., The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction: Whitman’s Legacy in the Personal Epic
David S. Reynolds – David Cavitch, My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman
Geoffrey Sill – Florence Bernstein Freedman, William Douglas O’Connor: Walt Whitman’s Chosen Knight