The Ohioana Book Awards for 2006 are presented to the following persons in the following categories:

Fiction. Michael Cunningham for Specimen Days

Nonfiction. Anne Wright and Saundra Rose Maley editors of A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright

Poetry. Elton Glaser for Here and Hereafter: Poems

Juvenile Literature. James Cross Giblin for Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth

About Ohio or an Ohioan. Melanie Rehak for Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her