id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-611 American Book Awards - Wikipedia .html text/html 6635 541 68 The Award is administered by the multi-cultural focused nonprofit Before Columbus Foundation, which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980.[2][3] The Award honors excellence in American literature without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre.[4] Previous winners include novelists, social scientists, poets, and historians such as Toni Morrison, Edward Said, Isabel Allende, bell hooks, Don DeLillo, Derrick Bell, Robin D. Kellie Jones South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (Duke University Press): Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award "The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2013]". ^ "Winners of the 2011 American Book Awards" Archived May 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. "For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Fortieth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the winners of the Forty-first Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS" (PDF). Categories: American Book Awards ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-611.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-611.txt