Heartland Prize
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The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize is a literary prize created in 1988 by the newspaper The Chicago Tribune. It is awarded yearly in two categories: Fiction and Non-Fiction. These prizes are awarded to books that "reinforce and perpetuate the values of heartland America."[1]
Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize — Fiction
- 2013: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for "Americanah"
- 2012: Richard Ford, for Canada
- 2011: Jonathan Franzen, for Freedom
- 2010: E. O. Wilson, for Anthill[2]
- 2009: Jayne Anne Phillips, for Lark and Termite[3]
- 2008: Aleksandar Hemon, for The Lazarus Project[4]
- 2007: Robert Olmstead, for Coal Black Horse
- 2006: Louise Erdrich, for The Painted Drum[5]
- 2005: Marilynne Robinson, for Gilead
- 2004: Ward Just, for An Unfinished Season
- 2003: Scott Turow, for Reversible Errors
- 2002: Alice Sebold, for The Lovely Bones
- 2001: Mona Simpson, for Off Keck Road[6]
- 2000: Jeffrey Renard Allen, for Rails Under My Back
- 1998: Jane Hamilton, for The Short History of a Prince
- 1997: Charles Frazier, for Cold Mountain
- 1994: Maxine Clair, for Rattlebone
- 1993: Annie Proulx, for The Shipping News
- 1991: Jane Smiley, for A Thousand Acres
- 1990: Tim O'Brien, for The Things They Carried
- 1989: Kaye Gibbons, for Ellen Foster
- 1988: Eric Larsen, for An American Memory
Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize — Non-Fiction
- 2012: Paul Hendrickson, for Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
- 2011: Isabel Wilkerson, for The Warmth of Other Suns[7]
- 2010: Rebecca Skloot for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks[8]
- 2009: Nick Reding, for Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town[9]
- 2008: Garry Wills, for Head and Heart: American Christianities and What the Gospels Meant[10]
- 2007: Orville Vernon Burton, for The Age of Lincoln
- 2006: Taylor Branch, for At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968[11]
- 2005: Kevin Boyle, for Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
- 2004: Ann Patchett, for Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
- 2003: Paul Hendrickson, for Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
- 2002: Studs Terkel, for Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
- 2001: Louis Menand, for The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America[12]
- 2000: Zachary Karabell, for The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
- 1999: Jay Parini for Robert Frost: A Life
- 1998: Alex Kotlowitz, for The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, A Death, and America's Dilemma
- 1997: Thomas Lynch, for The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
- 1995: Richard Stern, for A Sistermony
- 1994: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., for Colored People: A Memoir
- 1992: William Cronon, for Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
- 1991: Melissa Fay Greene, for Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Non-Fiction
- 1990: Michael Dorris, for The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- 1989:
- 1988:
- 1987: Don Katz, The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears
References
- ↑ "Heartland Prize", Chicago Tribune
- ↑ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/2010-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx#
- ↑ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/2009-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx
- ↑ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/en/Genres/Literature/2008-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx
- ↑ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/en/Genres/Literature/Heartland-Prize-2006-Erdrich-Branch.aspx
- ↑ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/Heartland-Algren-2001-Menand-Simpson-Raboteau.aspx
- ↑ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/2011f-2011-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx
- ↑ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/2010-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx#
- ↑ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/2009-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx
- ↑ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/en/Genres/Literature/2008-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx
- ↑ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/en/Genres/Literature/Heartland-Prize-2006-Erdrich-Branch.aspx
- ↑ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/Heartland-Algren-2001-Menand-Simpson-Raboteau.aspx
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