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JULIA WARD HOWE BOOK AWARDS

Boston Authors Club gives annual prizes of $1,000 each for two books (one for young readers). The books must be published the year prior to the award, that is, in 2008 for 2009. The authors must live, have lived or attended college within 100 miles of Boston. Works of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and biography are eligible; picture books, text books and self-published works are not. Two copies of the book, which will not be returned, should be submitted. There is no submission fee. Winners, finalists and recommended authors also receive one year complimentary membership in the Club.

Winners have included: James Carroll, Linda Davis, Anita Diamant, Moying Li-Marcus, Igor Lukes, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Charles Mann, Thomas O'Connor, Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, Nicholas Tawa, Brenda Wineapple and Gordon S. Wood. 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, Liza Ketchum, Gordon Morrison, Deborah Savage, Brian Selznick, Carole Vogel, Ellen Wittlinger and Meg Rosoff.

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 should submit two copies of books published in 2008 (final deadline January 15, 2009) to: Boston Authors Club, 33 Brayton Rd, Brighton 02135 . For more information, contact Alan Lawson, 617-552-8457, lawson@bc.edu.

The Twelfth Annual Awards will be presented May 14, 2009 at the Boston Public Library.


THE BOSTON AUTHOR'S CLUB 11th ANNUAL AWARDS -- 2008
THE JULIA WARD HOWE PRIZE
Winner: Finalists:


Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep (Riverhead)

Helen Marie Casey, Inconsiderate Madness (Black Lawrence Press)

Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (Simon & Schuster)

Robert Kuttner, The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity (Alfred A. Knopf)
YOUNG READER AWARDS
Winner: Finalists:


Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures (Scholastic)

Elizabeth Alexander & Marilyn Nelson, Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color (Wordsong/Boyds Mill)

Mark Peter Hughes, Lemonade Mouth (Delacorte)
A RECOGNITION FOR SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT


Jerome Kagan, What Is Emotion? History, Measures, and Meanings (Yale University Press)

  
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED


Andrea Barrett, The Air We Breathe (Norton)		 breaking the spell

Adria Bernardi, Openwork (Southern Methodist U. Press)		 The End of Iraq

Charles Capper, Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life--The Public Years (Oxford U. Press)		 The Echo Maker

Eve LaPlante, Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall (HarperOne)
Reading Like a Writer

Cullen Murphy, Are We Rome? The Fall of An Empire and the Fate of America (Houghton Mifflin)		 What Terrorosts Want

Stephen Puleo, The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day (Beacon)

FOR YOUNG READERS :


Loree Griffin Burns, Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Houghton Mifflin)

Ralph Fletcher, The One O’Clock Chop (Holt)

Jack Gantos, I Am Not Joey Pigza (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)


Peter Johnson, What Happened (Front Street)

Mitali Perkins, Rickshaw Girl (Charlesbridge)

Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris, The Rogues (Philomel)

Past Prize Winners

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)