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The sixteenth Annual Awards will be presented May 30, 2012 at 11a.m. in Conference Room A, the McKim Building (downstairs) of the Boston Public Library. Boston Authors Club gives annual prizes of $1,000 each for two books (one for young readers). A light lunch will be served at 12:30

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 2012 (final deadline January 15, 2013) 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 16th Annual awards.

THE BOSTON AUTHOR'S CLUB 16th ANNUAL AWARDS -- 2012

Winner:

Finalists:

Common as Air

Edith Pearlman
Binocular Vision
(Lookout/U.N. Carolina
at Wilmington)

Fields Across which No Birds Fly

Andrew Krivak,
The Sojourn
(Bellevue Literary Press)

Whiteheat

Steven Pinker,
Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
(Viking)

Sherry Turkle,
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Basic Books)

Winner:

Finalists:

Climbint the Stairs

Kimberly Marcus
Exposed
(Random House)

photo Dead End

Jack Gantos
Dead End in Norvelt
(Farrar Straus Giroux)

Shelley Sommer,
'Hammerin Hank' Greenberg
(Boyds Mills)

photo islands end

Padma Venkatraman
Island's End
(Putnam/Penquin)

Julia Ward Howe:

Missing Lucile

Brooke Lindy Blower
Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics between World Wars
(Oxford U. Press)

Spider Silk

Edward J. Delaney
Broken Irish
(Turtle Point Press)

The Cookbook Collector

Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Language of Flowers
(Ballantine)

The Whjites of Their Eyes

Daniel Rasmussen
American Uprising: The Untold Story of Americas's Largest slave Revolt
(HarperCollins)

FOR YOUNG READERS
Jacqueline Davies, Lemonade Crime (Houghton Mifflin)	Erin Dionne , Notes from an Accidental Band Geek (Dial)	Patricia MacLachlan , Waiting for the Magic (Simon & Schuster)

For Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing to David McCullough
and this year's "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris" (Simon & Schuster)

2011:    JWH Award: Lewis Hyde Common as Air (Farrar, Strauss Giroux
             Young Readers: Francisco X. Stork The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
             (Arthur A. Levine)

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)