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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 2009 for 2010. 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, Meg Rosoff and Padma Venkatraman.

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 2009 (final deadline January 15, 2010) to: Boston Authors Club, 33 Brayton Rd, Brighton 02135 . For more information, contact Alan Lawson, 617-552-8457, lawson@bc.edu.

The Thirteenth Annual Awards will be presented May 6, 2010 at the Boston Public Library

And the winners now posted were for the 12th Annual awards.

 

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THE BOSTON AUTHOR'S CLUB 12th ANNUAL AWARDS -- 2009
THE JULIA WARD HOWE PRIZE
Winner: Finalists:

The Forever War

Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
 (Knopf)

 This Republic of Suffering

Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering. Death and the American Civil War (Knopf )		 Whiteheat

Brenda Wineapple, White Heat.  The Friendship of Emily Dickenson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Knopf)		 Dear Darkness

Kevin Young,Dear Darkness (Random House)
YOUNG READER AWARDS
Winner: Finalists:
Climbint the Stairs

Padma Venkatraman, Climbing the Stairs (G.P. Putnam)

Brendan Halpin, Forever Changes (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux)

Francis O'Roark Dowell, Shooting the Moon (Atheneum)
 


 
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED


John Stauffer, Giants.  The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (New York: Twelve. Hatchett Book Group)		 breaking the spell

Eleanor Bluestein, Tea and Other Ayama Na Tales (Kansas City, Mo.: BkMk Press) 		The End of Iraq

Donald Worster, A Passion For Nature.  The Life of John Muir (Oxford)		 The Echo Maker

Dennis Lehane, The Given Day (William Morrow. Harper Collins)
The Exchange Artist

Jane Kamensky, The Exchange Artist:  A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse (Viking)

FOR YOUNG READERS


Kathleen Benner Duble, Quest.  A World of Discovery.  One Fateful Voyage
(Simon and Schuster)

Elise Broach, Masterpiece(Henry Holt)

Norman H. Finkelstein, Three Across.  The Great Transatlantic Air Race (Calkins Creek)



AnitaSanchez, The Invasion of Sandy Bay (Honesdale, Pa.: Calkins Creek)
The Exchange Artist

Nancy Werlin, Impossible (Dial Books/Penquin)

Past Prize Winners

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)