Athenaeum Literary Award
Athenaeum Literary Award is an American literary award hosted by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, a special collections library. It is award to authors who are "bona fide residents of Philadelphia or Pennsylvania living within a radius of 30 miles of City Hall".[1] Eligible works are of general fiction or non-fiction; technical, scientific, and juvenile books are not included.[1] The award was established in 1950 by Charles Wharton Stork (1881-1971), who was a board member of the Athenaeum from 1919 until 1968.[1]
Prior winners
The award has been given since 1949.[2]
- 2010 Robin Black, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Stories
- 2009 Richard Beeman, Plain, Honest Men: The Making of The American Constitution
- 2008 Walter A. McDougall, Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877
- 2007 Jon Clinch, Finn: A Novel
- 2006 David Traxel, Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920
- 2005 Kermit Roosevelt, In the Shadow of the Law
- 2004 Roger W. Moss, Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia
- 2003 Jack Repcheck, The Man Who Found Time
- 2002 Jane Golden, Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell
- 2002 Charlene Mires, Independence Hall in American Memory
- 2001 No award.
- 2000 Susan Sidlauskas, Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting
- 1999 J. Welles Henderson & Rodney P. Carlisle, Jack Tar: A Sailor's Life, 1750-1910
- 1998 James J. O'Donnell, Avatars of the Word
- 1997 A.C. Elias, Jr., Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington
- 1996 Peter Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
- 1995 Thomas Childers, Wings of Morning
- 1994 Paul Fussell, The Anti-Egotist
- 1993 Seymour I. Toll, A Judge Uncommon
- 1992 Arthur Power Dudden, The America Pacific
- 1991 Art Carey, The United States of Incompetence
- 1990 Matthews Masayuki Hamabata, Crested Kimono
For the complete list see List of prior winners (1949-present)
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