Thomas Pynchon and Jhumpa Lahiri are among the National Book Award finalists

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FILE - This April 23, 2013 file photo shows writer George Saunders at the TIME 100 Gala celebrating the "100 Most Influential People in the World" in New York. Saunders, Thomas Pynchon, and Jhumpa Lahiri were among the finalists Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, for the National Book Awards. A month after releasing long-lists of 10 in each of the four competitive categories, the National Book Foundation announced the five remaining writers for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people\'s literature. Winners receive 0,000 and will be announced at a dinner ceremony in Manhattan on Nov. 20. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Thomas Pynchon, Jhumpa Lahiri and George Saunders are among the finalists for the National Book Awards.

A month after releasing long-lists of 10 in each of the four competitive categories, the National Book Foundation on Wednesday announced the five remaining writers for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. Finalists for nonfiction include three New Yorker staff writers: Lawrence Wright, George Packer and Jill Lepore.

Winners will be announced Nov. 20 at a dinner ceremony in Manhattan. Each winner will receive $10,000.

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