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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 Before Columbus Foundation, which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980, recognizing a list of eight 1979 publications.[citation needed] Almost every Award recognizes a particular work by an American author[citation needed] without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre. In 2000 there were two Lifetime Achievement awards, one Editor award, and one Journalism award. There have been several subsequent awards for lifetime achievement and a few to editors.[2]

The 32nd annual American Book Awards were formally announced October 16, 2011, at University of California, Berkeley, Alumni House.[3]

Other ABA

For seven years 1980 to 1986, there were two distinct sets of American Book Awards. The other is now officially one stage of the National Book Awards (NBA) history.

The National Book Foundation is responsible for the National Book Awards (U.S.) from 1989 and officially recognizes a continuous NBA history from 1949/1950. Part of that history is those so-called American Book Awards that formally replaced the National Book Awards after their 1979/1980 cycle, were revamped for 1984, and were renamed "National" in 1987.[4]

The American Book Award is also unrelated to the American Booksellers Association (ABA), although that organization maintains a complete list of award winners that is readily available.[2] Since the 1970s that trade group is also unrelated to the National Book Awards, which it established in 1936 and jointly re-established them as book industry awards in 1950.

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
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 Gomez-Pena for The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
  • Louis Owens for Nightland
  • Martin 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
1999
Children' s Book Award: Chiori Santiago (writer) and Judith Lowry (illustrator), Home to Medicine Mountain[2]
  • 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

2000 to 2009

2000
Lifetime Achievement Award: Frank Chin[2]
Lifetime Achievement Award: Robert Creeley[2]
Journalism Award: Jack E. White[2]
Editor/Publisher Award: Ronald Sukenick[2]
2001
Lifetime Achievement: Ted Joans[2]
Lifetime Achievement: Tillie Olsen[2]
Lifetime Achievement: Philip Whalen[2]
Editor/Publisher Award: Malcolm Margolin[2]
2002
Lifetime Achievement: Lerone Bennett, Jr.[2]
Lifetime Achievement: Jack Hirschman[2]
Children's Literature: Jessel Miller, Angels in the Vineyards[2]
2003
Editor Award: Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review (www.qbr.com)[2]
  • Alejandro Murguía for This War Called Love
  • Daniel Ellsberg for Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
  • Debra Magpie Earling for Perma Red
  • Eric Porter for What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
  • Igor Krupnik for Akuzilleput Igaqullghet Our Words Put to Paper Sourcebook in St. Lawrence Island Yupik Heritage and History
  • Jack Newfield for The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania
  • Jewell Parker Rhodes for Douglass' Women : A Novel
  • Joseph Papaleo for Italian Stories
  • Kevin Baker for Paradise Alley
  • Rachel Simon for Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
  • Rick Heide for Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California
  • Velma Wallis for Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
2004
2005
  • Alisha S. Drabek for The Red Cedar of Afognak, A Driftwood Journey
  • Bernard W. Bell for The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches
  • Don Lee for Country of Origin: A Novel
  • Don West, Jeff Biggers, George Brosi for No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems
  • Hiroshi Kashiwagi for Swimming in the American: A Memoir And Selected Writings
  • Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc for Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
  • Julie Chibbaro for Redemption
  • Lamont B. Steptoe for A Long Movie of Shadows
  • Ralph M. Flores for The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family
  • Richard A. Clarke for Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
  • Cecelie Berry for Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
2006
Lifetime Achievement Award: Jay Wright[2]
Editor Award: Chris Hamilton-Emery, Salt Publishing Ltd.[2]
  • Carlton T. Spiller for Scalding Heart
  • Darryl Dickson-Carr for The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction
  • David P. Diaz for The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second -Generation Mexican - American
  • Doris Seale for A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
    • Jay Wright for Transfigurations: Collected Poems
  • Josh Kun for Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America
  • Kevin J. Mullen for The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco
  • Mackenzie Bezos for The Testing of Luther Albright: A Novel
  • Matt Briggs for Shoot the Buffalo
  • Matthew Shenoda for Somewhere Else
  • P. Lewis for Nate
  • Peter Metcalfe for Gumboot Determination: The Story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium
  • Thomas Ferraro for Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America
  • Tim Z. Hernandez for Skin Tax
2007
2008
Lifetime Achievement: J.J. Phillips, Author of Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale
2009
Lifetime Achievement: Miguel Algarín

2010 to date

2010
Lifetime Achievement: Katha Politt, Antarctic Traveller
Lifetime Achievement: Quincy Troupe, The Architecture of Language
2011
Lifetime Achievement: John A. Williams
Lifetime Achievement: Luis Valdez
  • Keith Gilyard, John Oliver Killens
  • Akbar Ahmed, Journey Into America
  • Camille Dungy, Suck on the Marrow
  • Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
  • William W. Cook, James H. Tatum, African American Writers & Classical Tradition
  • Gerald Vizenor, Shrouds of White Earth
  • Eric Gansworth, Extra Indians
  • Ivan Arguelles, The Death of Stalin
  • Geoffrey Alan Argent, The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: The Fratricides
  • Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country
  • Sasha Pimentel Chacon, Insides She Swallowed
  • Miriam Jimenez Roman, Juan Flores, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States
  • Carmen Giménez Smith, Bring Down the Little Birds

Sources

References

  1. ^ "For Immediate Release:" (August 5, 2010). Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation". American Booksellers Association. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
    The Booksellers presentation begins with unattributed quotation from the Awards press release, a primary source used here.
  3. ^ "American Book Awards". Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
    (The announcement is now the home page, which must be a temporary location.)
  4. ^ "History Of The National Book Awards". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-17.

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