2005 Winners and Finalists Fiction Winner The Laments by George Hagen Nonfiction Winner The King of California by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman Fiction Finalists Bloodvine by Aris Janigian The Calligrapher by Edward Docx How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer Nonfiction Finalists Chasing the Sea by Tom Bissell The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin