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[link]

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[link]

1980 to 1989[link]

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
• 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
• Opal Whiteley for The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
• 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[link]

1990

• Adrienne Kennedy for People Who Led to My Plays
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison for Italian Days
• 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
• 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
• Daniela Gioseffi for Women on War (Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age)

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 Saenz 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
• Jose 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 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

• 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

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[link]

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]

• 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

2001

Lifetime Achievement: Ted Joans^[2]

Lifetime Achievement: Tillie Olsen^[2]

Lifetime Achievement: Philip Whalen^[2]

Editor/Publisher Award: Malcolm Margolin^[2]

• 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

2002

Lifetime Achievement: Lerone Bennett, Jr.^[2]

Lifetime Achievement: Jack Hirschman^[2]

Children's Literature: Jessel Miller, Angels in the Vineyards^[2]

• Aaron Abeyta for Colcha
• Al Young for The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems, 1990-2000
• Alex Kuo for Lipstick and Other Stories
• Dana Gioia for Interrogations at Noon
• Donald Phelps for Reading the Funnies : Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout the First Half of the 20th Century
• Gloria Frym for Homeless at Home
• Jack Hirschman for Front Lines
• Jessel Miller for Angels in the Vineyards
• LeAnne Howe for Shell Shaker
• Lerone Bennett for Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream
• Michael N. Nagler for Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future
• Rilla Askew for Fire in Beulah
• Susanne Antonetta for Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
• Tananarive Due for The Living Blood

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

• A. Robert Lee for Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions
• Charisse Jones, Kumea Shorter-Gooden for Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
• David Cole for Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism
• Diana Abu-Jaber for Crescent: A Novel
• Diane Sher Lutovich for What I Stole
• Kristin Hunter Lattany for Breaking Away
• Michael Walsh for And All the Saints
• Renato Rosaldo for Prayer to Spider Woman / Rezo a la Mujer Araa
• Ruth L. Ozeki for All Over Creation
• Scott Saul for Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties

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

• Daniel Cassidy for How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
• Ernestine Hayes for Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir
• Gary Panter for Jimbo's Inferno
• Jeffrey F. L. Partridge for Beyond Literary Chinatown
• Judith Roche for Wisdom of the Body
• Kali Vanbaale for The Space Between
• Michael Eric Dyson for Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
• Patricia Klindienst for The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic America
• Reyna Grande for Across a Hundred Mountains: A Novel
• Rigoberto Gonzalez for Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa

2008

Lifetime Achievement: J.J. Phillips, Author of Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale

• Moustafa Bayoumi for How Does It Feel to Be a Problem Being Young and Arab in America
• Douglas A. Blackmon for Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
• Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Lydia T. Black, and Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804
• Maria Mazziotti Gillan for All That Lies Between Us
• Nikki Giovanni for The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998
• C. S. Giscombe for Prairie Style
• Angela Jackson for Where I Must Go: A Novel
• L. Luis Lopez for Each Month I Sing
• Tom Lutz for Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
• Fae Myenne Ng for Steer Toward Rock
• Yuko Taniguchi for The Ocean in the Closet
• Lorenzo Thomas, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, editor for Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
• Frank B. Wilderson III for Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
• Jonathan Curiel for Al’ America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots

2009

Lifetime Achievement: Miguel Algarín

• 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, edited by 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, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian

2010 to date[link]

2010

Lifetime Achievement: Katha Politt, Antarctic Traveller

Lifetime Achievement: Quincy Troupe, The Architecture of Language

• 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, Big Machine
• François Mandeville, This Is What They Say (translated from the Chipewyan by Ron Scollon)
• Bich Minh Nguyen, Short Girls
• Robin D.G. Kelley, Franklin Rosemont, Black,Brown & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora
• Jerome Rothenberg, Jeffrey C. Robinson, Poems for the Millennium
• Kathryn Waddell Takara, Pacific Raven: Hawai`i Poems
• Pamela Uschuk, Crazy Love: New Poems

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[link]

• List of Past Winners
• American Book Awards at lovethebook

References[link]

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.

A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, eg. the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish) and the Camões Prize (Portuguese). Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony.

Some of the most notable literary prizes include the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Man Booker Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Whitbread Awards, the Neustadt Prize and the Hugo Awards.

In recent years, some media corporations have sponsored new literary prizes, including the Quill Awards, which were first awarded in 2005 and The Ireland Funds AWB Vincent Literary Award in 2000.

There are also spoof awards, such as The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award, the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, and the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction and Lyttle Lytton Contests, which are both given to deliberately bad sentences.

See also[link]

• List of literary awards
• List of poetry awards
• List of the world's richest literary prizes
• Literary festival

External links[link]

• Book Prize Information: database of literary awards
• Author Ranking by Literary Awards: ranked lists of authors that received prominent literary award honors
• Best books of: 2008, 2009, 2000-2009, 2010, Year-end "Best Books" lists aggregated at Largehearted Boy.
• "The Art of Prize-Fighting", by Tom Chatfield in Prospect Magazine, January 2009. Essay on the history and merit of modern literary prizes.
• "75 Notes For An Unwritten Essay on Literary Prizes", by Matthew Hunte, at "The Busy Signal" November 27 2010. Essay-notes on the history of literary prizes.

Daniel Herman (born 28 April 1963) is a Czech government official and former Catholic priest. He has been spokesman of the Czech Bishops' Conference. In 2010, he was appointed Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes by the Czech government.

He was born in České Budějovice, and began studying theology in Litoměřice in 1984. In 1989, he was ordained as a priest. He then became secretary to Miloslav Vlk. He was spokesman of the Czech Bishops' Conference 1996–2005. In 2007, he applied for laicization. He has since worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Culture. On 12 August 2010, he was selected as the new Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.^[1]

References[link]

Elmore Leonard
Born	(1925-10-11) October 11, 1925 (age 86) New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Occupation	Author, screenwriter
Genres	Pulp fiction, Westerns, crime fiction
Influences Ernest Hemingway[1]
Influenced Quentin Tarantino[2]

Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925), better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.

Among his best-known works are Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk and Rum Punch, which was filmed as Jackie Brown. Leonard's short stories include ones that became the films 3:10 to Yuma and The Tall T, as well as the current TV series on FX, Justified.

Biography[link]

Leonard was born in New Orleans, but because his father worked as a site locator for General Motors, the family moved frequently for several years. In 1934, the family finally settled in Detroit. Leonard has made the Detroit area his home ever since.

In the 1930s, two major events occurred that would influence many of his works. Gangsters such as Bonnie and Clyde were making national headlines, as were the Detroit Tigers baseball team. From about 1931 until they were killed in May, 1934, Bonnie and Clyde were on a rampage. The Tigers made it to the World Series in 1934 while winning it in 1935. Leonard developed lifelong fascinations with both sports and guns.

He graduated from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School in 1943, and immediately joined the Navy, where he served with the Seabees for three years in the south Pacific (gaining the nickname 'Dutch', after pitcher Dutch Leonard ^[3]). Enrolling at the University of Detroit in 1946, he pursued writing more seriously, entering his work in short story contests and sending it off to magazines. He graduated in 1950 with a degree in English and Philosophy. A year before he graduated, he got a job as a copy writer with Campbell-Ewald Advertising agency, a position he kept for several years and wrote on the side.

Leonard had his first success in 1951 when Argosy published the short story "Trail of the Apaches".^[4] During the 1950s and early 1960s, he continued writing westerns, publishing over 30 short stories. He wrote his first novel, The Bounty Hunters, in 1953 and followed this with four other novels. Two of his stories were turned into movies at this time: The Tall T and 3:10 to Yuma.

Leonard—or "Dutch," as he is sometimes called—got his first break in the fiction market during the 1950s, regularly publishing pulp western novels. He has since forayed into mystery, crime, and more topical genres, as well as screenwriting.

Leonard now lives with his family in Oakland County, Michigan.

Writing style[link]

Commended by critics for his gritty realism and strong dialogue, Leonard sometimes takes liberties with grammar in the interest of speeding along the story. In his essay "Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing" he says: "My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." He also hints: "Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip."^[5]

Elmore Leonard has been called "the Dickens of Detroit" because of his intimate portraits of people from that city; however, Leonard has said, "If I lived in Buffalo, I'd write about Buffalo." ^[6] His ear for dialogue has been praised by writers such as Saul Bellow, Martin Amis, and Stephen King. "Your prose makes Raymond Chandler look clumsy," Amis told Leonard at a Writers Guild event in Beverly Hills in 1998.^[7] Stephen King has called him "the great American writer."^[8]

Adaptations[link]

Many of Leonard's novels and short stories have been adapted into successful motion pictures or TV movies.

Film[link]

Aside from the short stories already noted, a number of Leonard's novels have been adapted as films, including Out of Sight in 1998, Get Shorty in 1995, and Rum Punch (as the 1997 film Jackie Brown). 52 Pick-Up was first adapted very loosely into the 1984 film The Ambassador, starring Robert Mitchum and two years later, under its original title, starring Roy Scheider. He has also written several screenplays based on his novels, plus original ones such as Joe Kidd.

The 1967 film Hombre starring Paul Newman was an adaptation of Leonard's novel of the same name.

His short story "Three-Ten to Yuma" and novels The Big Bounce and 52 Pick-Up have each been filmed twice.

A 2001 comedy film, Bandits, was originally meant to be an adaptation of Leonard's novel by that name, to which Bruce Willis owns the film rights. However, the producers brought in writer Harley Peyton to write a new script from scratch that bears little or no resemblance to Leonard's book.

Other novels filmed include:

• Mr. Majestyk (with Charles Bronson)
• Valdez Is Coming (with Burt Lancaster)
• 52 Pick-Up (with Roy Scheider)
• Stick (with Burt Reynolds)
• The Moonshine War (with Alan Alda)
• Last Stand at Saber River (with Tom Selleck)
• Gold Coast (with David Caruso)
• Glitz (with Jimmy Smits)
• Cat Chaser (with Peter Weller)
• Touch (with Christopher Walken)
• Pronto (with Peter Falk)
• Be Cool (with John Travolta)
• Killshot (Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke).

Freaky Deaky is scheduled to be filmed in 2011.

Television[link]

The short-lived 1998 TV series Maximum Bob was based on Leonard's novel of the same name. It aired on ABC for 7 episodes and starred Beau Bridges.

The TV series Karen Sisco (2003–04) starring Carla Gugino was based on the character from the film Out of Sight played by Jennifer Lopez.

The 2010 FX series Justified is based around the popular Leonard character U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens from the novels Pronto and Riding the Rap and the short story "Fire in the Hole."

Leonard was referenced in the television show Leverage in episode 105 "The Bank Shot Job" when Aldis Hodge as Alec Hardison and Beth Riesgraf as Parker introduced themselves to police officers as FBI agents Leonard and Elmore.

Leonard was referenced in the television show Homicide: Life on the Street in the first episode "Gone for Goode" when Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch tells a lying suspect that his false story had an "Elmore Leonard quality."^[9]

Works[link]

Novels[link]

Screenplays[link]

Stories[link]

Also wrote a short story in the anthology Murderers' Row edited by Otto Penzler (2001) (back story for Tishomingo Blues)

Audiobooks[link]

All but three of Elmore Leonard’s novels have been performed as audiobooks (the exceptions being Escape From Five Shadows, Hombre, and La Brava) Many Leonard works (including The Big Bounce, Be Cool, and The Tonto Woman) have been recorded more than once resulting in over 70 English-language audiobook versions of Elmore Leonard novels. Many of these were abridgements, the last of which was Pagan Babies (2000) read by Steve Buscemi. Certain narrators have dominated the Elmore Leonard oeuvre, notably Frank Muller (11 audiobooks) Grover Gardner aka Alexander Adams (7) George Guidall (5), Mark Hammer (5), and Joe Mantegna (5). Other notable Leonard narrators include Liev Schreiber, Neil Patrick Harris, Tom Wopat, Arliss Howard, Joe Morton, Taye Diggs, Brian Dennehy, Bruce Boxleitner, Tom Skeritt, Robert Forster, Dylan Baker, Paul Rudd, Keith Carradine, Ed Asner, Henry Rollins, and Barbara Rosenblatt, the only female narrator of an Elmore Leonard work (the story, When the Women Come Out to Dance).^[10]

Nonfiction[link]

• 10 Rules of Writing (2007)
• Foreword to Walter Mirisch's book I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History

Awards[link]

In 1992 Leonard received a Grand Master Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America ^[11]

Leonard was the recipient of the 2006 Louisiana Writer Award.^{[citation needed]}

In October 2008 Leonard received the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Award for outstanding achievement in American literature during the 13th Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference held at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, United States.

In May 2011, Leonard received the Peabody Award at the Waldorf Astoria for FX's "Justified."

Notes[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Elmore Leonard

• Official website
• Elmore Leonard at the Internet Movie Database
• Elmore Leonard at the Open Directory Project

Julie Moran (born Julie Bryan on January 10, 1962, in Thomasville, Georgia),^[1] America's Junior Miss 1980,^[2] was a correspondent on the entertainment news show Entertainment Tonight from 1994–2001. Before joining ET, she co-hosted NBA Inside Stuff with Ahmad Rashad and later replaced Frank Gifford as host of ABC's Wide World of Sports.^[3] While at ABC Sports, she covered such events as the Super Bowl, figure skating, horse racing including the Triple Crown, and the Goodwill Games.^[4]

She left her 50-hour-a-week job with Entertainment Tonight to raise her two daughters with her husband, actor Rob Moran.^[5] She currently hosts The Insider's List With Julie Moran on the Fine Living TV channel, and appears in infomercials for products such as the Slim in 6 fitness program^[6] and Timeless Secret beauty products.

In 1994, she was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People."^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Julie Moran at the Internet Movie Database

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