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The sixteenth Annual Awards will be presented May 17,
2-4 p.m.in the Boston Room of the Boston Public Library. Boston Authors Club gives annual prizes of $1,000 each for two books (one for young readers).
The honored books must be published the year prior to the award, that is, in 2011 for 2012. The authors must live, have lived or attended college within 100 miles of Boston and resided here at some time within the past five years. Works of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and biography were eligible; picture books, text books and self-published works are not. Winners, finalists and highly recommended authors also receive one year complimentary membership in the Club.
Winners have included: James Carroll, Linda Davis, Anita Diamant, Dexter Filkins, Moying Li-Marcus, Igor Lukes, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Charles Mann, Thomas O'Connor, Nancy Rappaport, Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, Nicholas Tawa, Brenda Wineapple, Gordon S. Wood, and Lewis Hyde. The prizes were renamed for Julia Ward Howe in 2002.
In 2000, a separate award for young readers was added. Winners have included: M.T. Anderson, Pat Lowery Collins, Jacqueline Davies, Liza Ketchum, Gordon Morrison, Deborah Savage, Brian Selznick, Carole Vogel, Ellen Wittlinger, Meg Rosoff, Padma Venkatraman and Francisco X. Stork.
Special recognition is occasionally given for books with a notable Boston connection or to authors for a body of work.
A category for "Recommended Books" was added in 2004.
Publishers (or writers) should submit two copies of books along with $25 per title published in 2011 (final deadline January 15, 2012) to: Boston Authors Club, 45 Pine Crest Road., Newton, MA 02459. For more information, contact Sarah Lamstein 617-244-0646, sml@sarahlamstein.com or Alan Lawson, 617-552-8457,
And the winners now posted were for the 15th Annual awards.
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Lewis HydeCommon as Air (Farrar, Strauss Giroux)
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Andrew Bacevich,
Washington Rules(Henry Holt)
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Mary O'Donoghue,
Before the House Burns
(Liliput Press, Dublin)
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Michael Rawson,
Eden on the Charles (Harvard) |
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Francisco X. Stork
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
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Sarah Smith,
The Other Side of Dark
(Atheneum) |
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Suzanne Berne
Missing Lucile
(Algonquin)
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Leslie Brunetta
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Catherine Craig
Spider Silk
(Yale)
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Allegra Goodman
The Cookbook Collector
(Dial Press)
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Jill Lepore
The Whites of Their Eyes
(Princeton)
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Neil Miller
Banned in Boston
(Beacon Press)
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Sy Montgomery
Birdology
(Simon and Schuster)
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Nathaniel Philbrick
The Last Stand
(Viking)
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Jeannine Atkins,
Borrowed Names
(Henry Holt) |
Noni Carter,
Good Fortune
(Simon and Schuster) |
Pat Lowery Collins,
Daughter of Winter
(Candlewickk Press) |
Susan Meyer,
Black Radishes (Delacorte) |
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Gregory Mone,
Fish
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For Lifetime Achievement to Robert Coles, author, child psychiatrist and professor. His outstanding 2010 book is Handing One Another Along: Literature and Social Reflection( Random House)
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2010: JWH Award: Nancy Rappaport, In Her Wake (Basic Books)
Young Readers: Jaqueline Davies, Lost (Marshall Cavendish)
2009: JWH Award: Dexter Filkins, The Forever War (Knopf)
Young Readers: Padma Venkatraman Climbing the Stairs (G.P. Putnam)
2008: JWH Award: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep
(Riverhead)
Young Readers: Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic)
Recognition for Sustained Achievement: Jerome Kagan, What Is Emotion?
History, Measures, and Meanings (Yale University Press)
2007: JWH Award: James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon & the Disastrous
Rise of American Power (Houghton Mifflin)
Young Readers: M.T.Anderson, Octavian Nothing: Volume I, The Pox Party (Candlewick)
Arthur Walworth Special Award: Robert D. Richardson , William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism (Houghton Mifflin)
2006: JWH Award: Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Alfred A. Knopf)
Young Readers: Liza Ketchum, Where the Great Hawk Flies (Clarion Books)
Special Award: Alan Lightman, The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science and A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit (both Pantheon Books)
2005: JWH Award: Gordon S. Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (Penguin Press)
Young Readers: Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now (Random House)
Special Award: Jeffrey S. Cramer (Editor) Walden—A Fully Annotated Edition (Yale U. Press); W. Barksdale Maynard, Walden Pond, a History (Oxford U. Press)
2004: JWH Award: Brenda Wineapple, Hawthorne: A Life (Alfred A. Knopf)
Young Readers: Pat Lowery Collins, The Fattening Hut (Houghton Mifflin)
Special Award: Karl Haglund, Inventing the Charles River (MIT Press); Nancy S. Seasholes, Gaining Ground (MIT Press)
2003: JWH Award: Moying Li-Marcus, Beacon Hill (Northeastern U. Press)
Young Readers: Gordon Morrison, The Pond (Houghton Mifflin)
Special Award: Edward O. Wilson, Pheidole in the New World (Harvard U. Press)
2002: JWH Award: Nicholas Tawa, From Psalm to Symphony (Northeastern U. Press)
Young Readers: Ellen Wittlinger, Razzle (Simon & Schuster)
2001: BAC Award: Thomas H. O’Connor, Boston A to Z (Harvard U. Press)
Young Readers: Carole G. Vogel. Nature’s Fury (Scholastic)
Special Award: Glenn Stout & Richard Johnson: The Red Sox Century (Houghton Mifflin)
2000: BAC Award: Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls (Beacon Press)
Young Readers: Deborah Savage, Summer Hawk (Houghton Mifflin)
1999: BAC Award: Linda H. Davis,Badge of Courage (Houghton Mifflin)
1998: BAC Award: Anita Diamant, The Red Tent (Houghton Mifflin)
1997: BAC Award: Igor Lukas, Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler (Oxford U. Press)
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