American Book Awards - Wikipedia American Book Awards From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Literary award in the United States American Book Awards Date 1978–present Country United States Hosted by Before Columbus Foundation Website beforecolumbusfoundation.com The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "there are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers."[1] 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. G. Kelley, Joy Harjo and Tommy J. Curry. Contents 1 National Book Awards 2 Recipients 2.1 1980 to 1989 2.2 1990 to 1999 2.3 2000 to 2009 2.4 2010 to 2019 2.5 2020 to present 3 References National Book Awards[edit] In 1980, the unrelated National Book Awards was renamed American Book Awards. In 1987 it was renamed back to National Book Awards.[5] Other than having the same name during this seven-year period, the two awards have no relation. Recipients[edit] 1980 to 1989[edit] 1980 Douglas Woolf for Future preconditional: A collection Edward Dorn for Hello, La Jolla Jayne Cortez for Mouth on Paper Leslie Marmon Silko for Ceremony Mei-mei Berssenbrugge for Random Possession Milton Murayama for All I Asking for Is My Body Quincy Troupe for Snake Back Solos Rudolfo Anaya for Tortuga, a novel 1981 Alta for Shameless Hussy Alan Chong Lau for Songs for Jadina Bienvenido N. Santos for Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories Helen Adam for Turn Again to Me & Other Poems Lionel Mitchell for Traveling Light Miguel Algarín for On Call Nicholasa Mohr for Felita Peter Blue Cloud for Back Then Tomorrow Robert Kelly for The Time of Voice: Poems 1994–1996 Rose Drachler for The Choice Susan Howe for The Liberties Toni Cade Bambara for The Salt Eaters 1982 Al Young for Bodies and Soul Duane Niatum for Songs for the Harvester of Dreams: Poems E. L. Mayo for Collected Poems E L Mayo Frank Chin for The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon Hilton Obenzinger for This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, Judy Yung for Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910–1940 Jerome Rothenberg for Pre-Faces and Other Writings Joyce Carol Thomas for Marked by Fire Leroy Quintana for Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets Lorna Dee Cervantes for Emplumada Ronald Phillip Tanaka for The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry Russell Banks for Book of Jamaica Tato Laviera for Enclave 1983 Barbara Christian for Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976 Cecilia Liang for Chinese Folk Poetry Evangelina Vigil-Piñón for Thirty: An' Seen a Lot Harriet Rohmer for Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento James D. Houston for Californians: Searching for the Golden State Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn for Pet food & tropical apparitions John A. Williams for Click Song, a novel Joy Kogawa for Obasan Judy Grahn for The Queen of Wands: Poetry Nash Candelaria for Not by the Sword Peter Guralnick for Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians Seán Ó Tuama for An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed 1984 Cecil Brown for Days Without Weather Gary Snyder for Axe Handles: Poems Howard Schwartz, Mark Podwal for The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Reb Nachman Imamu Amiri Baraka for Anthology of African American Women: Confirmation Men Jesús Colón for A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches Joseph Bruchac for Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets Maurice Kenny for The Mama Poems Mei-mei Berssenbrugge for The heat bird Miné Okubo for Citizen 13660 Paule Marshall for Praisesong for the Widow Ruthanne Lum McCunn, You-shan Tang, Ellen Lai-shan Yeung for Pie-Biter Thomas McGrath for Echoes inside the labyrinth Venkatesh Kulkarni for Naked in Deccan William J. Kennedy for O Albany! 1985 Angela Jackson for Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen for Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown Colleen J. McElroy for Queen of the Ebony Isles Gary Soto for Living Up The Street Peter Irons for Justice at War Keiho Soga, Taisanboku Mori, Sojin Takei, Muin Ozaki for Poets Behind Barbed Wire Louise Erdrich for Love Medicine, a novel Maureen Owen for Amelia Earhart May Sarton for At Seventy: A Journal Robert Edward Duncan for Ground Work: Before the War Ron Jones for Say Ray Sandra Cisneros for The House on Mango Street Sonia Sanchez for Homegirls and Handgrenades Julia Vinograd for "The Book of Jerusalem" William Oandasan for Round Valley Songs 1986 Anna Lee Walters for The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa for This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color Helen Barolini for The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women Jeff Hannusch for I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues Linda Hogan for Seeing Through the Sun Miguel Algarín for Time's Now/Ya Es Tiempo Natasha Borovsky for A Daughter of the Nobility Raymond Federman for Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts Susan Howe for My Emily Dickinson Terence Winch for Irish Musicians/American Friends Toshio Mori for Yokohama, California 1987 Ai for SIN Ana Castillo for The Mixquiahuala Letters Cyn Zarco for Circumnavigations Daniel McGuire for Portrait of Little Boy in darkness Dorothy Bryant for Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow Etheridge Knight for The Essential Etheridge Knight Gary Giddins for Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker Harvey Pekar for The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland James Welch for Fools Crow John Wieners for Selected Poems: 1958–1984 Juan Felipe Herrera for Face Games Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum for liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy Michael Mayo for Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry Septima Poinsette Clark, Cynthia Stokes Brown for Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative Terry McMillan for Mama 1988 Allison Blakely for Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought Charles Olson for The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems Daisy Bates for The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir David Halberstam for The Reckoning Edward Sanders for Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961–1985 Gerald Vizenor for Griever: An American Monkey King in China Jimmy Santiago Baca for Martin & Meditations on the South Valley Kesho Y. Scott, Cherry Muhanji, Egyirba High for Tight Spaces Marlon K. Hom for Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown Benjamin Hoff for The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley[2] Ronald Sukenick for Down and in: Life in the Underground Salvatore La Puma for The Boys of Bensonhurst Toni Morrison for Beloved Wing Tek Lum, Tek Lum Lum for Expounding the Doubtful Points 1989 Alma Luz Villanueva for The Ultraviolet Sky Askia M. Touré for From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance! Audre Lorde for A Burst of Light Carolyn Lau for Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking Emory Elliott for Columbia Literary History of the United States Eduardo Galeano for Genesis Frank Chin for The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co. Henry Louis Gates for The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism Isabel Allende for Eva Luna J. California Cooper for Homemade Love Jennifer Stone for Stone's Throw Josephine Gattuso Hendin for The Right Thing to Do Leslie Scalapino for way Shuntaro Tanikawa for Floating the River in Melancholy Charles Fanning for The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction William Minoru Hohri for Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress 1990 to 1999[edit] 1990 Adrienne Kennedy for People Who Led to My Plays Barbara Grizzuti Harrison for Italian Days Daniela Gioseffi for Women on War (Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age) Elizabeth Woody for Hand into Stone: Poems Hualing Nieh for Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China Itabari Njeri for Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone James M. Freeman for Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives John C. Walter, J. Raymond Jones for The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920–1970 John Norton for Light at the End of the Bog José Emilio González for Vivar a Hostos Sergei Kan for Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century Lloyd A. Thompson for Romans and Blacks Martin Bernal for Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Michelle T. Clinton, Sesshu Foster for Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry Miles Davis for Miles: The Autobiography Paula Gunn Allen for Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, Margarita Donnelly for The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology 1991 Alejandro Murguía for Southern Front Bell Hooks for Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics Bruce Wright for Black Robes, White Justice: Why Our Legal System Doesn't Work for Blacks Charley Trujillo for Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam D. H. Melhem for Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions & Interviews Deborah Keenan for Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile Jessica Hagedorn for Dogeaters John Edgar Wideman for Philadelphia Fire, a novel Joy Harjo for In Mad Love and War Karen Tei Yamashita for Through the Arc of the Rain Forest Lucia Berlin for Homesick: New and Selected Stories Mary Crow Dog for Lakota Woman Meridel Le Sueur for Harvest Song: Collected Essays and Stories Mill Hunk Herald Collective for Overtime: Punchin' Out With the Mill Hunk Herald Magazine Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer for Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory R. Baxter Miller for The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes Thomas Centolella for Terra Firma 1992 A'Lelia Perry Bundles for Madam C.J. Walker Art Spiegelman for The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale Benjamin Alire Sáenz for Calendar of Dust Donna J. Haraway for Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature Fritjof Capra for Belonging to the universe: Explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality José Antonio Burciaga for Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado: A Personal Anthology of Poetry Keith Gilyard for Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence Lucy Thompson for To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman Norma Field for In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End Peter Bacho for Cebu Peter Kalifornsky for Dena'ina Legacy: K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky Raymond Andrews for Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire Sandra Scofield for Beyond Deserving Sheila Hamanaka for Journey Stephen R. Fox for The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II Steven R. Carter for Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity, Verlyn Klinkenborg for The Last Fine Time William B. Branch, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson for Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama 1993 Asake Bomani, Belvie Rooks for Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris Christopher Mogil, Peter Woodrow for We Gave Away a Fortune Cornel West for Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times Denise Giardina for Unquiet Earth Diane Glancy for Claiming Breath Eugene B. Redmond for The Eye in the Ceiling Francisco X. Alarcón for Snake Poems Gerald Graff for Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education Jack Beatty for The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley Leroy V. Quintana for The History of Home Katherine Peter for Neets'aii Gwiindaii: Living in the Chandalar Country Nelson George for Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball Ninotchka Rosca for Twice Blessed, a novel 1994 Giose Rimanelli for Benedetta in Guysterland Eric Drooker for Flood!: A Novel in Pictures Graciela Limón for In Search of Bernabe Gregory J. Reed for Economic Empowerment Through the Church Janet Campbell Hale for Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter Jill Nelson for Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience Lawson Fusao Inada for Legends from Camp Nicole Blackman for Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Paul Gilroy for The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness Ronald Takaki for A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America Rose L. Glickman for Daughters of Feminists Tino Villanueva for Scene from the Movie GIANT Virginia L. Kroll for Wood-Hoopoe Willie 1995 Abraham Rodriguez for Spidertown, a novel Herb Boyd, Robert L. Allen for Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology Denise Chavez for Face of an Angel John Egerton for Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South John Ross for Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas Thomas Avena for Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS Linda Raymond for Rocking the Babies, a novel Li-Young Lee for The Winged Seed: A Remembrance Marianna De Marco Torgovnick for Crossing Ocean Parkway Marnie Mueller for Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest Peter Quinn for Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York Sandra Martz for I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted Gordon Henry Jr. for The Light People Tricia Rose for Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America 1996 Agate Nesaule for A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile Arthur Sze for Archipelago Chang-Rae Lee for Native Speaker Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni for Arranged Marriage E.J. Miller Laino for Girl Hurt Glenn C. Loury for One by One from the Inside Out: Race and Responsibility in America James W. Loewen for Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Joe Sacco, Edward Said for Palestine Kimiko Hahn for The Unbearable Heart Maria Espinosa for Longing Robert Viscusi for Astoria Sherman Alexie for Reservation Blues Ron Sakolsky, Fred Weihan Ho for Sounding Off!: Music as Resistance / Rebellion / Revolution Stephanie Cowell for The Physician of London: The Second Part of the Seventeenth-Century Trilogy of Nicholas Cooke William H. Gass for The Tunnel 1997 Alurista for Et Tu ... Raza Derrick Bell for Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home Dorothy Barresi for The Post-Rapture Diner Guillermo Gómez-Peña for The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century Louis Owens for Nightland Martín Espada for Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems Montserrat Fontes for Dreams of the Centaur, a novel Noel Ignatiev for Race Traitor Shirley Geok-lin Lim for Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands Sunaina Maira for Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America Thulani Davis for Maker of Saints Tom De Haven for Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies, a novel William M. Banks for Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life Brenda Knight for Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution 1998 Allison Adelle Hedge Coke for Dog Road Woman Angela Y. Davis for Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday Brenda Marie Osbey for All Saints: New and Selected Poems Don DeLillo for Underworld Jim Barnes for On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions John A. Williams for Safari West: Poems Nancy Rawles for Love Like Gumbo Nora Okja Keller for Comfort Woman Sandra Benitez for Bitter Grounds, a novel Scott DeVeaux for The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History Thomas Lynch for The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade 1999 Alice McDermott for Charming Billy Anna Linzer for Ghost Dancing Brian Ward for Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations Chiori Santiago for Home to Medicine Mountain E. Donald Two-Rivers for Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories Edwidge Danticat for The Farming of Bones Judith Roche, Meg McHutchison for First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim Gioia Timpanelli for Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily Gloria Naylor for The Men of Brewster Place, a novel James D. Houston for The Last Paradise Jerry Lipka, Gerald V. Mohatt, Ciulistet Group for Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup¡k Eskimo Examples Trey Ellis for Right Here, Right Now Josip Novakovich for Salvation and Other Disasters Lauro Flores for The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature Luís Alberto Urrea for Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life Nelson George for Hip Hop America: Hip Hop and the Molding of Black Generation X Speer Morgan for The Freshour Cylinders Gary Gach for What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop Chiori Santiago, author, Judith Lowry, illustrator, Home to Medicine Mountain[6] 2000 to 2009[edit] 2000 Esther G. Belin for From the Belly of My Beauty Allan J. Ryan for The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art Andrés Montoya for The Ice Worker Sings and Other Poems Camille Peri, Kate Moses for Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood David A. J. Richards for Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity David Toop for Exotica Elva Trevino Hart for Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child Emil Guillermo for Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective; With an Introduction by Ishmael Reed Frank Chin for The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co. Helen Thomas for Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times Janisse Ray for Ecology of a Cracker Childhood John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford for Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English Leroy TeCube for Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story Lois-Ann Yamanaka for Heads By Harry Michael Lally for It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose Michael Patrick MacDonald for All Souls: A Family Story from Southie Rahna Reiko Rizzuto for Why She Left Us, a novel Robert Creeley for The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005 Editor/Publisher: Ronald Sukenick[6] Jack E. White,[6] Journalism Frank Chin,[6] Lifetime Achievement Robert Creeley,[6] Lifetime Achievement 2001 Amanda J. Cobb for Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949 Andrea Dworkin for Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation Carolyne Wright for Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire Chalmers Johnson for Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire Cheri Register for Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir Chris Ware for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth Diana Garcia for When Living Was a Labor Camp Elizabeth Nunez for Bruised Hibiscus Janet McAdams for Island of Lost Luggage Philip Whalen for Overtime: Selected Poems Russell Leong for Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories Sandra M. Gilbert for Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969–1999 Ted Joans for Teducation Tillie Olsen for Silences William S. Penn for Killing Time With Strangers Malcolm Margolin,[6] Editor Ted Joans,[6] Lifetime Achievement Tillie Olsen,[6] Lifetime Achievement Philip Whalen[6] Lifetime Achievement 2002[7] Aaron A. Abeyta, Colcha Susanne Antonetta, The Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir Rilla Askew, Fire in Beulah Tananarive Due, The Living Blood Gloria Frym, Homeless at Home Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon LeAnne Howe, Shell Shaker Alex Kuo, Lipstick and Other Stories Michael N. Nagler, Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future Donald Phelps, Reading the Funnies : Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout the First Half of the 20th Century Al Young, The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems, 1990–2000 Jessel Miller, Angels in the Vineyards Lerone Bennett, Lifetime Achievement Jack Hirschman, Lifetime Achievement 2003[7] Kevin Baker, Paradise Alley Debra Magpie Earling, Perma Red Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers Rick Heide, ed., Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California Igor Krupnik, Willis Walunga, Vera Metcalf, and Lars Krutak, eds, Akuzilleput Igaqullghet, Our Words Put to Paper: Sourcebook in St. Lawrence Island Yupik Heritage and History Alejandro Murguía, This War Called Love: Nine Stories Jack Newfield, The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania Joseph Papaleo, Italian Stories Eric Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists Jewell Parker Rhodes, Douglass' Women, a novel Rachel Simon, Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey Velma Wallis, Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review 2004[7] Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent, a novel David Cole, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America Kristin Hunter Lattany, Breaking Away A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions Diane Sher Lutovich, What I Stole Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation Renato Rosaldo, Prayer to Spider Woman / Rezo a la Mujer Arana Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties Michael Walsh, And All the Saints 2005[7] Bernard W. Bell, The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches Cecelie Berry, Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation Julie Chibbaro, Redemption Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror Alisha S. Drabek and Karen R. Adams, The Red Cedar of Afognak, A Driftwood Journey Ralph M. Flores, The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Swimming in the American: A Memoir And Selected Writings Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy Don Lee, Country of Origin, a novel Lamont B. Steptoe, A Long Movie of Shadows Don West, No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems, eds Jeff Biggers and George Brosi Journalism: Bill Berkowitz 2006[7] MacKenzie Bezos, The Testing of Luther Albright, a novel Matt Briggs, Shoot the Buffalo David P. Diaz, The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second-Generation Mexican-American Darryl Dickson-Carr, The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction Thomas Ferraro, Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America Tim Z. Hernandez, Skin Tax Josh Kun, Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America P. Lewis, Nate Peter Metcalfe, Gumboot Determination: The Story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Kevin J. Mullen, The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin, eds., A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children Matthew Shenoda, Somewhere Else Carlton T. Spiller, Scalding Heart Chris Hamilton-Emery, Editor Jay Wright, Lifetime Achievement 2007 Daniel Cassidy, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads Michael Eric Dyson, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster Rigoberto González, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa Reyna Grande, Across a Hundred Mountains, a novel Ernestine Hayes, Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans Gary Panter, Jimbo's Inferno Jeffrey F. L. Partridge, Beyond Literary Chinatown Judith Roche, Wisdom of the Body Kali Vanbaale, The Space Between 2008[6] Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem Being Young and Arab in America Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Jonathan Curiel, Al’ America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and Lydia T. Black. Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká. Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804 Maria Mazziotti Gillan, All That Lies Between Us Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998 C. S. Giscombe, Prairie Style Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go, a novel L. Luis Lopez, Each Month I Sing Tom Lutz, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America Fae Myenne Ng, Steer Toward Rock Yuko Taniguchi, The Ocean in the Closet Lorenzo Thomas, Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition, ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen Frank B. Wilderson III, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid J. J. Phillips, Lifetime Achievement 2009 Houston A. Baker, Jr., Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era Danit Brown, Ask for a Convertible Jericho Brown, Please José Antonio Burciaga, The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga, eds Mimi R. Gladstein and Daniel Chacón Claire Hope Cummings, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds Stella Pope Duarte, If I Die in Juarez Linda Gregg, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems Suheir Hammad, Breaking Poems Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder George E. Lewis, A Power Stronger than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and American Experimental Music Patricia Santana, Ghosts of El Grullo Jack Spicer, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, ed. Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian Miguel Algarín, Lifetime Achievement 2010 to 2019[edit] 2010[6] Amiri Baraka, Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music Sherwin Bitsui, Flood Song Nancy Carnevale, A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890–1945 Dave Eggers, Zeitoun Sesshu Foster, World Ball Notebook Stephen D. Gutierrez, Live from Fresno y Los Victor Lavalle, The Big Machine François Mandeville, This Is What They Say, translated by Ron Scollon from Chipewyan Bich Minh Nguyen, Short Girls Franklin Rosemont and Robin D. G. Kelley, eds., Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson, eds., Poems for the Millennium: Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry Kathryn Waddell Takara, Pacific Raven: Hawai`i Poems Pamela Uschuk, Crazy Love: New Poems Katha Politt, Lifetime Achievement Quincy Troupe, Lifetime Achievement 2011[8] Keith Gilyard, John Oliver Killens Akbar Ahmed, Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel William W. Cook and James Tatum, African American Writers and Classical Tradition Gerald Vizenor, Shrouds of White Earth Eric Gansworth, Extra Indians Ivan Argüelles, The Death of Stalin Geoffrey Alan Argent, ed., The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: The Fratricides, translated by Argent from French Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Insides She Swallowed Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States Carmen Giménez Smith, Bring Down the Little Birds Luis Valdez, Lifetime Achievement John A. Williams, Lifetime Achievement 2012[6] Annia Ciezadlo, Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War Arlene Kim, What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes? Ed Bok Lee, Whorled Adilifu Nama, Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor Shann Ray, American Masculine Alice Rearden, translator; Ann Fienup-Riordan, ed., Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput: Our Nelson Island Stories Touré, Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now Amy Waldman, The Submission Mary Winegarden, The Translator's Sister Kevin Young, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels Eugene B. Redmond, Lifetime Achievement 2013[9] Will Alexander, Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture, Essay Press Jacob M. Appel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up, Cargo Philip P. Choy, San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide To Its History & Architecture, City Lights Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist, Harper Collins Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was An Aztec, Copper Canyon Press Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Harper Collins Alan Gilbert (American academic), Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence, University of Chicago Judy Grahn, A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet, Aunt Lute Books Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave: A Memoir, W.W. Norton & Co. Demetria Martinez, The Block Captain's Daughter, University of Oklahoma Press Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, Blood Songs, The Ecstatic Exchange D. G. Nanouk Okpik, Corpse Whale, University of Arizona Press Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War On Student Radical and Reagan's Rise to Power, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Christopher B. Teuton, Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liar's Club, University of North Carolina Lew Welch, Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, City Lights Ivan Argüelles, Lifetime Achievement Greil Marcus, Lifetime Achievement Floyd Salas, Lifetime Achievement 2014[10] Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, Metropolitan Books Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Black Against Empire; The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, University of California Press Juan Delgado (poetry) and Thomas McGovern (photography), Vital Signs, Heyday Books Alex Espinoza, The Five Acts of Diego León, Random House Jonathan Scott Holloway, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940, University of North Carolina Press Joan Naviyuk Kane, Hyperboreal, University of Pittsburgh Press Jamaica Kincaid, See Now Then, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Tanya Olson, Boyishly, YesYes Books Sterling D. Plumpp, Home/Bass, Third World Press Emily Raboteau, Searching For Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, Atlantic Monthly Press Jerome Rothenberg with Heriberto Yepez, Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, Commonwealth Books Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, Metropolitan Books Margaret Wrinkle, Wash, Atlantic Monthly Press Koon Woon, Water Chasing Water, Kaya Press Armond White, Anti-Censorship Award Michael Parenti, Lifetime Achievement 2015[11] Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Vintage) Arlene Biala, her beckoning hands (Word Poetry) Arthur Dong, Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970 (DeepFocus Productions) Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Beacon Press) Peter J. Harris, The Black Man of Happiness (Black Man of Happiness Project) Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books) Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon & Schuster) Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account (Pantheon) Manuel Luis Martinez, Los Duros (Floricanto Press) Craig Santos Perez, from unincorporated territory [guma’] (Omnidawn) Carlos Santana with Ashley Kahn and Hal Miller, The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light (Little, Brown and Company) Ira Sukrungruang, Southside Buddhist (University of Tampa Press) Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age (Henry Holt) Anne Waldman, Lifetime Achievement 2016[12] Laura Da', Tributaries (University of Arizona) Susan Muaddi Darraj, Curious Land: Stories from Home (University of Massachusetts) Deepa Iyer, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multicultural Future (The New Press) Mat Johnson, Loving Day (Spiegel & Grau) John Keene, Counternarratives (New Directions) William J. 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Forbes Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration (Skyhorse Publishing) Yaa Gyasi Homegoing (Knopf) Holly Hughes Passings (Expedition Press) Randa Jarrar Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (Sarabande Books) Bernice L. McFadden The Book of Harlan (Akashic Books) Brian D. McInnes Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow (Michigan State University Press) Patrick Phillips Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (W. W. 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Abrams) Rachelle Cruz God's Will for Monsters (Inlandia Books) Tommy Curry The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press) Tongo Eisen-Martin Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights) Dana Naone Hall Life of the Land: Articulations of a Native Writer (University of Hawaii) Kelly Lytle Hernández City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 (University of North Carolina) Victor Lavalle The Changeling: A Novel (Spiegel & Grau) Bojan Louis Currents (BkMk Press) Valeria Luiselli Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (Coffee House Press) Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson and B. V. 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Vollmann Carbon Ideologies: Volume I, No Immediate Danger, Volume II, No Good Alternative (Viking Press|Viking) G. Willow Wilson and Nico Leon Ms. Marvel Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland (Marvel Comics) Nathan Hare Lifetime Achievement Award UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Editor/Publisher Award Moor Mother Oral Literature Award 2020 to present[edit] 2020[16] Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems (W.W. Norton) Sara Borjas, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff (Noemi Press) Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, Tate Swindell, editors, Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (City Lights) Staceyann Chin, Crossfire: A Litany for Survival (Haymarket) Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina: Stories (One World) Tara Fickle, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities (New York University Press) Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (Basic Books) Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police (Pantheon) Jake Skeets, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (Milkweed Editions) George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker, They Called Us Enemy (Top Shelf Productions) Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin) De'Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills (Bloomsbury Publishing) Albert Woodfox with Leslie George, Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope (Grove Press) Lifetime Achievement: Eleanor W. Traylor Editor Award: The Panopticon Review, Kofi Natambu, editor Publisher Award: Commune Editions, Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, and Juliana Spahr, editors Oral Literature Award: Amalia Leticia Ortiz Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll References[edit] ^ "For Immediate Release:" (August 5, 2010). Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2012. Archived July 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine ^ a b "Previous Winners of the American Book Award" (PDF). Before Columbus Foundation. 2002. Retrieved September 13, 2014. ^ "About". Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved September 13, 2014. ^ "American Book Awards". Before Columbus Foundation. Archived from the original on September 13, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2014. ^ "History Of The National Book Awards". National Book Foundation. 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