Kean To Stand Where the Shocked and Teary Stand

by Steven Zeitchik, PW NewsLine -- Publishers Weekly, 11/16/2004

With the National Book Awards two days away, Norton says it has resolved the question of who'll be getting up if the 9/11 Report takes the nonfiction medal.

Thomas Kean, who was chair of the 9/11 Commission, and commissioner Jamie Gorelick will both take the podium, with Kean speaking, according to Norton's Louise Brockett. (As for who actually gets that medal, Brockett said she suspects it will be Kean but said she has no final word on how any sharing might take place).

The house will bring six people officially connected to the report to the ceremony, including Philip Zelikow, the executive director who will also read at the annual Tuesday affair. The house is taking two tables, for 9/11 people as well as for its two other finalists, Stephen Greenblatt and Joan Silber.