American Book Awards

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]

American Book Awards
Date1978–present
CountryUnited States
Hosted byBefore Columbus Foundation
Websitebeforecolumbusfoundation.com

The Award is administered by the Before Columbus Foundation, which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980, recognizing a list of eight 1979 publications.[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, Robin D.G. Kelley, Joy Harjo.

National Book Awards

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

1980 to 1989
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989

1990 to 1999
1990
1991
1992
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
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
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
2002[7]
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
2008[6]
2009

2010 to present
2010[6]
2011[8]
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]
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 People's 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. Maxwell, F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature (Princeton University)
  • Lauret Savoy, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (Counterpoint)
  • Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Lawrence Hill Books)
  • Jesús Salvador Treviño, Return to Arroyo Grande (Arte Público)
  • Nick Turse, Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Haymarket Books)
  • Ray Young Bear, Manifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear (Open Road Integrated Media)
  • Louise Meriwether, Lifetime Achievement
  • Lyra Monteiro and Nancy Isenberg, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
  • Chiitaanibah Johnson, Andrew Hope Award

2017[13]

  • Rabia Chaudry Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial (St. Martin's Press)
  • Flores A. 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. Norton & Company)
  • Vaughn Rasberry Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination (Harvard University Press)
  • Marc Anthony Richardson Year of the Rat (Fiction Collective Two)
  • Shawna Yang Ryan Green Island (Knopf)
  • Ruth Sergel See You in the Streets: Art, Action, and Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (University of Iowa Press)
  • Solmaz Sharif Look (Graywolf Press)
  • Adam Soldofsky Memory Foam (Disorder Press)
  • Alfredo Véa The Mexican Flyboy (University of Oklahoma Press)
  • Dean Wong Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown (Chin Music Press)
  • Nancy Mercado Lifetime Achievement
  • Ammiel Alcalay Editor/Publisher Award: Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative

2018 [14]

2019 [15]

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  2. "Previous Winners of the American Book Award" (PDF). Before Columbus Foundation. 2002. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
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  11. "(For Immediate Release) ... Winners of the Thirty-Sixth Annual American Book Awards". Before Columbus Foundation. July 20, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
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  13. "For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Eighth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). August 4, 2017.
  14. "For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Ninth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). August 13, 2018.
  15. "For Immediate Release: The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Fortieth Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). August 19, 2019.
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