Prize-winners at the Livingston Lord Library*

Agricultural History Society
Saloutos and Wallace Awards
The Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award is given for the best book on agricultural history in the United States.

The Henry A. Wallace Award is given for the best book on any aspect (broadly interpreted) of agricultural history outside the United States.

American Association for the History of Medicine
William H. Welch Medal
The William H. Welch Medal is awarded "one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during the five calendar years preceding the award."

American Book Award
" . . . a book award that would, for the first time, respect and honor excellence in American literature without restriction or bias with regard to race, sex, creed, cultural origin, size of press or ad budget, or even genre. There would be no requirements, restrictions, limitations, or second places. There would be no categories (i.e., no “best” novel or only one “best” of anything). The winners would not selected by any set quota for diversity (nor would “mainstream white anglo male” authors be excluded), because diversity happens naturally. Finally, there would be no losers, only winners. The only criteria would be outstanding contribution to American literature in the opinion of the judges."

American Educational Studies Association
Critics' Choice Awards
Each year, a committee of AESA members selects a number of titles it regards as outstanding books that may be of interest to those in educational studies. These books are designated as AESA Critics' Choice Award winners and are displayed prominently at the annual meeting.

The Critics' Choice Award serves to recognize and increase awareness of recent scholarship deemed to be outstanding in its field and of potential interest to members of the Association.

American Ethnological Society
The Sharon Stephens Book Prize
The Sharon Stephens Prize is awarded bi-annually for a junior scholar’s first book. The prize goes to a work that speaks to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the discipline and beyond the academy.

The Senior Book Prize
The Senior Book Prize is awarded bi-annually for a book by a senior scholar. The prize goes to a work that speaks to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the discipline and beyond the academy.

American Historical Association
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize is given annually for a distinguished book by an American author in the field of European history. Together with the Leo Gershoy Award, the Adams Prize is the most important distinction bestowed by the profession in the field of European history and thus has considerable prestige.
George Louis Beer Prize
The George Louis Beer Prize is offered in recognition of outstanding historical writing on any phase of European international history since 1895.
Jerry Bentley Prize
Honors Bentley’s tireless efforts to promote the field of world history, and his signal contributions to it. A professor at the University of Hawaii, Bentley was one of the leading figures in the world history movement and the founding editor of the Journal of World History. The Bentley prize is awarded annually to the best book in each calendar year in the field of world history.
Albert J. Beveridge Award
The Beveridge Award is given annually for the best book in English on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada from 1492 to the present.
Paul Birdsall Prize in European Military and Strategic History
The Birdsall Prize is currently awarded biennially for the most important work on European military or strategic history since 1870 by a citizen of the United States or Canada.
James Henry Breasted Prize
The James Henry Breasted Prize is awarded for the best book in English on any field of history prior to the year 1000 A.D.
Albert B. Corey Prize in Canadian-American Relations
The Corey Prize is sponsored jointly by the American Historical Association and the Canadian Historical Association. This biennial prize is awarded in even numbered years for the best book on Canadian-American relations or on the history of both countries.
John H. Dunning Prize for U.S. history
The prize is offered for the best book on any subject pertaining to the history of the United States.
John E. Fagg Prize for the best publication in the history of Spain and Latin America
This prize will be conferred annually for the best publication in the history of Spain and Latin America from 2001 to 2010. The prize is now dormant.
John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History
The Fairbank Prize is awarded for the best work on the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan since the year 1800.
The Herbert Feis Award
This prize is offered annually to recognize distinguished contributions to public history during the previous ten years. The prize was originally given for books produced by historians working outside of academe. In 2006, the scope of the award was changed to emphasize significant contributions in the field of public history.
The Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history
The Morris D. Forkosch Prize is offered biennially in odd years in recognition of the best book in English in the field of British, British Imperial, or British Commonwealth history. It replaces the Robert Livingston Schuyler Prize covering the same fields.
The Leo Gershoy Award for 17th- and 18th-century West European history
This prize is awarded to the author of the most outstanding work published in English on any aspect of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European history.
The Clarence H. Haring Prize for Latin American history by a Latin American
The Haring Prize is a quinquennial prize awarded to the Latin American author who has published the most outstanding book on Latin American history during the five years preceding the year of the award.
The Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean history
Honors Friedrich Katz, an Austrian-born specialist in Latin American history, whose nearly 50-year career inspired dozens of students and colleagues in the field.
The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History
This prize is awarded annually for the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly (1928-1982).
The Martin A. Klein Prize in African History
The Klein Prize recognizes the most distinguished work of scholarship on African history published in English during the previous year.
The Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society
This prize is awarded for the best book in any subject on the history of American law and society.
The J. Russell Major Prize on the history of France
The prize is awarded annually for the best work in English on any aspect of French history.
The Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian or Italian-U. S. history
The prize is awarded annually for the best work on Italian history in any epoch, in Italian cultural history, or in Italian American relations.
The George L. Mosse Prize for European intellectual and cultural history since the Renaissance
The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction, creativity, and originality in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since the Renaissance.
The Premio del Rey for early Spanish history
The prize is awarded biennially for the best book written on the medieval periods in Spain's history and culture 500-1516 A.D.
The James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History
This prize is given for historical writing that explores the integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century.
John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History
The John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History recognizes the most distinguished work of scholarship on South Asian history published in English during the previous calendar year.
The Dorothy Rosenberg Prize for the history of the Jewish diaspora
This award recognizes the most distinguished work of scholarship on the history of the Jewish diaspora published in English during the previous calendar year.
The Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History
This award is sponsored jointly by the AHA and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University. This nonresidential prize is awarded annually to honor and support work on an innovative and freely available new media project, and in particular for work that reflects thoughtful, critical, and rigorous engagement with technology and the practice of history.
The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history
This prize is awarded for an outstanding book on some aspect of the history of the dispersion, settlement, and adjustment, and the return of peoples originally from Africa.

American Philosophical Association
Book Prize
The Book Prize is awarded in odd years for the best, published book that was written by a younger scholar during the previous two years
Cook Award
The Joyce Mitchell Cook Award is a biennial award in honor of Joyce Mitchell Cook, the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in philosophy in the United States, recognizing a book written by a trailblazing black woman philosopher.
Sanders Book Prize
The Sanders Book Prize is awarded to the best book in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or epistemology that engages the analytic tradition published in English in the previous five-year period.

American Political Science Association
Ralph J. Bunche Award
The Ralph J. Bunche Award is given each year for the best scholarly work in political science published in the previous calendar year which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.
Gladys M. Kammerer Award
The Gladys M. Kammerer award is given each year for the best political science publication in the previous calendar year in the field of U.S. national policy.
APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award
This award is for the author of a first book in any field of political science that shows promise of having a substantive impact on the discipline, regardless of method, specific focus of inquiry, or approach to subject.
Benjamin E. Lippincott Award
The Benjamin E. Lippincott Award is given every other year for a work of exceptional quality by a living political theorist that is still considered significant after a time span of at least 15 years since the original publication.
Victoria Schuck Award
The Victoria Schuck award is given each year for the best book published the previous year on women and politics.
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award is given annually by the American Political Science Association for the best book published in the U.S. on government, politics or international affairs.

American Society for Environmental History
George Perkins Marsh Prize
The ASEH aspires to advance a greater understanding of the history of human interaction with the rest of the natural world, to foster dialogue between humanistic scholarship, environmental science, and other disciplines, and to support global environmental history efforts that benefit the public as well as the general scholarly community.

American Society of Criminology
Michael J. Hindelang Award
The Michael J. Hindelang Award is given annually for a book, published within three calendar years preceding the year in which the award is made, that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology.

The American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures. For over 80 years, the distinguished books earning Anisfield-Wolf prizes have opened and challenged our minds.

Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book prizes in 1935, in honor of her father, John Anisfield, and husband, Eugene Wolf, to reflect her family’s passion for issues of social justice. Today it remains the only American book prize focusing on works that address racism and diversity. Past winners have presented the extraordinary art and culture of peoples around the world, explored human-rights violations, exposed the effects of racism on children, reflected on growing up biracial, and illuminated the dignity of people as they search for justice.

Anthropology and Environment Society
Julian Steward Award
The Anthropology and the Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) awards the Julian Steward Award for the best monograph in environmental/ecological anthropology.

Arab American Book Awards
The Arab American Book Awards is a literary program created to honor books written by and about Arab Americans. The program generates greater awareness of Arab American scholarship and writing through an annual award competition and educational outreach.

Archaeological Institute of America
Felicia A. Holton Book Award
Given annually to a writer who, through a major work of non-fiction, represented the importance and excitement of archaeology to the general public.
James R. Wiseman Book Award
Presented to the academic work on an archaeological topic deemed most worthy of recognition.

Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Award for Literature
The goal of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature is to honor and recognize individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit.

Association for Asian American Studies Book Award
The AAAS recognizes books of outstanding achievement.

Association for Queer Anthropology
The Ruth Benedict Prize
The Ruth Benedict Prize acknowledges excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered topic. The Ruth Benedict Prize is awarded in each of two separate categories: one for a single-authored monograph and another for an edited volume.

Association for Recorded Sound Collections
Through publications, grants and awards, conferences, and the work of its committees, the Association provides a forum for the development and dissemination of discographic information in all fields and periods of recording and in all sound media. In addition, ARSC works to encourage the preservation of historical recordings, to promote the exchange and dissemination of research and information about them, and to foster an increased awareness of the importance of recorded sound as part of any cultural heritage.

Association of Africanist Anthropology
Elliott P. Skinner Book Award
The prize is awarded to the book that best furthers both the global community of Africanist scholars and the wider interests of the African continent as exemplified in the work of Elliott P. Skinner.

Association of American Colleges and Universities
Frederic W. Ness Book Award
The Ness Award recognizes the book that best contributes to the understanding and improvement of liberal education.

Association of American Geographers
AAG Meridian Book Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography
Awarded to a book that makes an unusually important contribution to advancing the science and art of geography.
Globe Book Award
Awarded to those books that document the ways the nominated work conveys the nature and importance of geography to the non-academic world.
John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize
Established to encourage and reward American geographers who write books about the United States which convey the insights of professional geography in language that is interesting and attractive to a lay audience.

Association of American Publishers
The PROSE awards
The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in over 40 categories. Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PROSE Awards are extraordinary for their breadth and depth.

Association of Black Women Historians
Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize
The Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize is awarded annually by the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) for the best book or anthology about African American women's history.

Association of Earth Science Editors
AESE Award for Outstanding Publication
Awarded for the first time in 1993, this award recognizes a recently published earth science publication - book, map, journal, or other individual publication - that demonstrates outstanding editing, design, illustration, writing, effectiveness of production cost, and overall effectiveness in achieving its publication goal. "Recently published" is defined as no more than three years prior to the award year; e.g., for the 2015 awards year, published on or after January 1, 2012.

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (formerly, the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, which succeeded the NCR Book Award) is the richest non fiction prize in the UK, worth £30,000 to the winner.

The Baillie Gifford Prize aims to reward the best of non-fiction and is open to authors of any nationality. It covers all non-fiction in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts.

In 2016 Baillie Gifford, the Edinburgh-based investment management partnership, signed a five-year minimum agreement to become sponsor of The Samuel Johnson Prize. Under the terms of its sponsorship, the prize was renamed "The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction" and the prize organisers aim to build it over the next five years into the pre-eminent non-fiction book award in the world.

The Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University in the City of New York. Under the terms of the will of the late Fredric Bancroft, provision is made for two annual prizes of equal rank to be awarded to the authors of distinguished works in either or both of the following categories: American History (including biography) and Diplomacy.

The Berkshire Conference First Book Prize
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians formed in the early decades of the 20th century in response to women academics' sense of professional isolation.  The Berkshire Conference First Book Prize is a prize for a first book in any field of history written by a woman who is normally resident in North America.

Berry-AMA Book Prize for the Best Book in Marketing
The Berry-AMA Book Prize for the Best Book in Marketing recognizes books whose innovative ideas have had significant impact on marketing and related fields. Created by distinguished author and professor Leonard L. Berry and his wife Nancy F. Berry through generous contributions to the American Marketing Association Foundation (AMAF), the prize was awarded for the first time in Fall 2002. Berry, founder of Texas A&M’s Center for Retailing Studies, and a Visiting Scientist at Mayo Clinic studying healthcare service, has been identified as the most frequent contributor to the services marketing literature in the United States.

Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association
W. W. Howells Prize
The prize is awarded by the Biological Anthropology Section of the AAA to honor a book in the area of biological anthropology.

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association serves as an advocate for the development, promotion, and improvement of library services and resources to the nation's African American community; and provides leadership for the recruitment and professional development of African American librarians.  The Fiction Award recognizes depictions of sensitive and authentic personal experience either within the framework of contemporary literary standards and themes or which explore innovative literary formats; the Nonfiction Award honors cultural, historical, political, or social criticism or academic and/or professional research which significantly advances the body of knowledge currently associated with the people and the legacy of the Black Diaspora.

The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are Britain’s oldest literary awards.

Two prizes, each of £10,000, are awarded annually by the University for the best work of fiction and the best biography published in the previous year.

They are the only awards of their kind to be presented by a university and have acquired an international reputation for recognising excellence in biography and fiction that continues today.

Canadian Historical Society-Societe Historique du Canada
The CHA represents the interests of historians and the heritage community to government, archives, granting and other agencies; organizes conferences; publishes the best of Canadian historical scholarship; and awards a range of prizes to historians who have produced exceptional work.

The Caroline Bancroft History Prize
The Western History and Genealogy Department of the Denver Public Library awards the Caroline Bancroft Prize annually. According to the terms of the will of the late Caroline Bancroft, provision is made for an annual prize "to be awarded to the author of the best book on Colorado or Western American History published during the current year, to be known as the Caroline Bancroft History Prize."

The Charles C. Eldredge Prize
The Charles C. Eldredge Prize is awarded annually by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for outstanding scholarship in the field of American art that provides new insight into works of art, the artists who made them, or aspects of history and theory that enrich our understanding of America's artistic heritage.

Coalition for Western Women's History
Armitage-Jameson Prize for Western Women's History
The CWWH awards the Armitage-Jameson Prize annually for the most outstanding monograph or edited volume published in western women's, gender, and sexuality history. The Prize is named in honor of Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson for their pioneering work in the field of western women's history.

The Costa Book Awards (formerly, The Whitbread Awards)

The Cundill History Prize
The Cundill History Prize recognizes and rewards the best history writing in English. Administered by McGill University in Montreal and awarded by a distinguished jury, the Cundill History Prize honours the abiding passion for history of its founder, F. Peter Cundill, by encouraging informed public debate through the wider dissemination of history writing to new audiences around the world.

The Euler Prize
The Euler Book Prize is awarded annually to an author or authors of an outstanding book about mathematics. The Prize is intended to recognize authors of exceptionally well written books with a positive impact on the public's view of mathematics and to encourage the writing of such books. Eligible books include mathematical monographs at the undergraduate level, histories, biographies, works of fiction, poetry; collections of essays, and works on mathematics as it is related to other areas of arts and sciences.

Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year
The winner of the £30,000 prize will go to the book that is judged to have provided the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, with £10,000 awarded to each runner-up.

Forest History Society
Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award
This award rewards superior scholarship in forest and conservation history.

Frederick Douglass Book Prize
In partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History awards a $25,000 prize for an outstanding book published on the subject of slavery or abolition.

George Washington Book Prize
The George Washington Prize is an award co-sponsored by Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and George Washington's Mount Vernon. Founded in 2005, the prize recognizes the year’s best works on the nation’s founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of American history.

Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History
The Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History at the New-York Historical Society is a prize administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the New-York Historical Society. Each year the award recognizes the best book on military history in the English-speaking world distinguished by its scholarship, its contribution to the literature, and its appeal to both a general and an academic audience.

Goldsmith Book Prize
The Goldsmith Book Prize is awarded to the trade and academic book published in the United States in the last 24 months that best fulfills the objective of improving democratic governance through an examination of the intersection between the media, politics and public policy.

The Governor General's Literary Awards
The Governor General's Literary Awards are given annually to the best English-language and the best French-language book in each of the seven categories of Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature (text), Children's Literature (illustration) and Translation (from French to English).  Books must be first foreign or first Canadian edition trade books that have been written, translated or illustrated by Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada.
From the early years into the modern era
From the October crisis to the present

Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
The Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize was created to emphasize the interdisciplinary importance of the Great Plains in today’s publishing and educational market.

Guardian First Book Award
The Guardian first book award was established in 1999 to reward the finest new literary talent.  Unique among book awards, it is open to writing across all genres and judged by both a celebrity panel and members of the public who participate through reading groups run by Waterstone's stores. The awards ceased in 2016; read why here.

Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
The mission of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award was "(T)o discover, assess, promote and distribute usable information that increases understanding of intolerance and bigotry, and, most importantly, that inspires and informs strategies and actions that have led, and can lead, to greater equity in a pluralist society. The Gustavus Myers Center for the study of bigotry and human rights, sponsor of these awards, was disbanded in 2009.

The Hawthornden Prize
The oldest of the major British literary prizes was founded in 1919 by Miss Alice Warrender. It is awarded annually to an English writer for "the best work of imaginative literature," which is liberally interpreted and thus may include biography, travel, art history, etc, as well as fiction and drama. There is no competition; books do not have to be, and in fact cannot be, submitted. A panel of judges decides the winner.

Herbert Hoover Book Prize
The Herbert Hoover Book Award honors the best scholarly book on any aspect of American history during President Hoover's long and momentous public life. As of January 2011, it appears that the book award has been discontinued.

High Plains Book Award
The Parmly Billings Library Board has established the High Plains Book Awards to recognize regional authors and/or literary works which examine and reflect life on the High Plains including the states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.

History of Science Society
The Pfizer Award is awarded in recognition of an outstanding book dealing with the history of science.
The Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize honors books in the history of science directed to a wide public (including undergraduate instruction).  They should be introductory in assuming no previous knowledge of the subject and in being directed to audiences of beginning students and general readers. They should introduce an entire field, a chronological period, a national tradition, or the work of a noteworthy individual.
The Suzanne J. Levinson Prize is awarded biennially for a book in the history of the life sciences and natural history.

The Hugo Awards
The Hugo Awards, first presented in 1953 and presented annually since 1955, are science fiction's most prestigious award. The Hugo Awards are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention ("Worldcon"), which is also responsible for administering them.

The Hugo Awards are trademarked by the World Science Fiction Society ("WSFS"), an unincorporated literary society which sponsors the annual World Science Fiction Convention ("Worldcon") and the Hugo Awards.

Immigration and Ethnic History Society
First Book Award
A prize to recognize the work of early career scholars in the field of U.S. immigration and ethnic history. The award will be presented to the book judged best on any aspect of the immigration and ethnic history of the United States and/or North America.
Theodore Saloutos Book Award
A prize to recognize the book judged best on any aspect of the immigration history of the United States. "Immigration history" is defined as the movement of peoples from other countries to the United States, of the repatriation movements of immigrants, and of the consequences of these migrations, both for the United States and the countries of origin.

International Dublin Literary Award
The International Dublin Literary Award (formerly International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award) is the largest and most international prize of its kind.  Books are nominated by libraries from all corners of the globe, and the competition is open to books written in any language.

J. I. Staley Prize
The School of American Research (SAR) presents the J. I. Staley Prize to a living author for a book that exemplifies outstanding scholarship and writing in anthropology. The award recognizes innovative works that go beyond traditional frontiers and dominant schools of thought in anthropology and add new dimensions to our understanding of the human species. It honors books that cross subdisciplinary boundaries within anthropology and reach out in new and expanded interdisciplinary directions.

The Jamestown Prize
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture offers a biennial, $3,000 cash prize to an exceptional book-length scholarly manuscript pertaining to the histories and cultures of North America from circa 1450 to1820, including related developments in the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Africa —in short, any subject encompassing the Atlantic world in this period. This prize is no longer (as of 2 November 2018) being awarded.

The K-K Awards
The And/Or Book Awards (formerly the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards) have been made annually since 1985, and have alternated yearly between books on photography and books on the moving image.  The winning books have been those which make original and lasting educational, professional, historical, technical, scientific, social, literary or cultural contributions to the field.

The Katharine Briggs Folklore Award
The Katharine Briggs Folklore Award is an annual book prize established by the Folklore Society to encourage the study of folklore, to help improve the standard of folklore publications in Britain and Ireland, to establish the Folklore Society as an arbiter of excellence, and to commemorate the life and work of the distinguished scholar Katharine Mary Briggs (1898-1980; Society president 1969-1972).

The Kiriyama Prize
The Kiriyama Prize was established in 1996 to recognize outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that encourage greater mutual understanding of and among the peoples and nations of this vast and culturally diverse region.  This prize has been suspended as of 14 September 2008.

The Kurt Weill Book Prize
The Kurt Weill Book Prize is awarded biennially for distinguished scholarship on twentieth-century musical theater.

Lambda Literary Award
The Lambda Literary Awards identify and celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books of the year and affirm that LGBTQ stories are part of the literature of the world. The Lammys, which receive national and international media attention, bring together 600 attendees—including nominees, celebrities, sponsors, and publishing executives—to celebrate excellence in LGBTQ publishing. It is the most prestigious and glamorous LGBTQ literary event in the world. Winning a Lammy can literally launch a writer's career.

The Lillian Smith Book Award
Each year, the Southern Regional Council hosts the Lillian Smith Book Awards in honor of the most liberal and outspoken of white mid-twentieth century Southern writers. In works such as Strange Fruit (1944) and Killers of the Dream (1949), Lillian Smith wrote boldly on issues of social and racial justice, calling persistently for an end to segregation. The Smith Awards honor authors today who, through their writing, carry on Smith's legacy of illuminating the condition of racial and social inequity and proposing a vision of justice and human understanding.

The Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College
The Prize, supervised and awarded by the five trustees of the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute, is intended chiefly to encourage outstanding new scholarship, but a lifetime contribution to the study of Lincoln, or the American Civil War soldier, may qualify for the award.

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of book prizes annually since 1980.

The Man Booker Prize
This literary prize is sponsored by Man Group and administered by the National Book League in the United Kingdom. It is awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan or South Africa.

Midwest Sociological Society Distinguished Book Award
The Midwest Sociological Society Distinguished Book Award is presented to a book, published by a member of the Society in the previous three years, which makes an exemplary, original, and substantive contribution to sociological understanding. The award carries a cash prize of $250. The award helps to fulfill the scholarly Mission of the Society of "advancing sociological knowledge."

Minnesota Book Awards

Modern Language Association prize for independent scholars
Awarded for a distinguished scholarly book published in 2006 in the field of English or another modern language or literature to recognize and further encourage the achievements and contributions of independent scholars. From 1983 to 2010, the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars was offered annually. It is now a biennial prize, with competitions in even-numbered years.

Mountains & Plains Independent Book Sellers Association
Reading the West Book Award
Reading the West is a program sponsored by Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association that assists publishers, authors, and booksellers in promoting and building sales for exceptional books and authors in the Mountains & Plains region. These adult and children’s titles exemplify the best in writing and/or illustrations whose subject matter is set in the region or invokes the spirit of the region: Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

National Book Award
Through the National Book Awards -- the nation's preeminent literary prize -- the National Book Foundation recognizes books of exceptional merit written by Americans.
Arts and Letters
Children's/Young People's Literature
Contemporary Affairs
Fiction
History and Biography
Nonfiction
Poetry
Science/Philosophy/Religion

National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of nearly 700 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns.

National Communication Association
The NCA is the oldest and largest national organization serving the academic discipline of Communication. Through its services, scholarly publications, resources, conferences and conventions, NCA works with its members to strengthen the profession and contribute to the greater good of the educational enterprise and society. Research and instruction in the discipline focus on the study of how messages in various media are produced, used, and interpreted within and across different contexts, channels, and cultures.

National Council of Teachers of English
ELATE Richard Meade Award
To recognize published research-based work that promotes English language arts teacher development at any educational level and in any scope and setting. The award was established in 1988 in honor of the late Richard Meade of the University of Virginia for his contributions to research in the teaching of composition and in teacher preparation.

The National Jewish Book Awards
The National Jewish Book Awards is the longest running awards program of its kind in the field of Jewish literature and is recognized as the most prestigious. The awards, presented by category, are designed to give recognition to outstanding books, to stimulate writers to further literary creativity and to encourage the reading of worthwhile titles.

National Outdoor Book Awards
The National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA) is the outdoor world's largest and most prestigious book award program. It is a non-profit, educational program, sponsored by the National Outdoor Book Awards Foundation, Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education, and Idaho State University. The purpose of the awards is to recognize and encourage outstanding writing and publishing.

National Women's Studies Association
Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize
The prize includes $1,000 and recognition for groundbreaking monographs in women's studies that makes significant multicultural feminist contributions to women of color/transnational scholarship. The prize honors Gloria Anzaldúa, a valued and long-active member of the National Women's Studies Association.
Sara A. Whaley Book Prize
This prize honors Sara Whaley, who owned Rush Publishing and was the editor of Women's Studies Abstracts. Each year NWSA will award up to 2 book awards for monographs that address women and labor.
NWSA-University of Illinois Press First Book Prize
This prize is for the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a single author in the field of women's and gender studies. Applicants must be National Women's Studies Association members.

The New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards
Formed in 1935 in reaction to dissatisfaction with Pulitzer Prizes in drama.

New-York Historical Society
Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
Awarded for a non-fiction book on American history or biography that is distinguished by its scholarship, its literary style and its appeal to a general as well as an academic audience.

The Nobel Prize in literature

North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Outstanding Book Award
This award is presented to the author of the most outstanding book published in the current and previous two calendar years.  The North American Society for the Sociology of Sport is organized exclusively for educational purposes to promote, stimulate, and encourage the sociological study of play, games, and sport, to support and cooperate with local, national and international organizations having the same purposes, and to organize and arrange meetings and issue publications concerning the purpose of the Society.

The Obie Awards
The Village Voice OBIE Awards were created soon after the inception of the publication in 1955 to publicly acknowledge and encourage the growing Off Broadway theater movement. The VOICE OBIES were purposely structured with informal categories, to recognize those persons and productions worthy of distinction each theater season. The OBIE Awards are an important part of the VOICE's long history of championing Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions.

The Organization of American Historians
Ray Allen Billington Prize
The Ray Allen Billington Prize is given biennially by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American frontier history, defined broadly so as to include the pioneer periods of all geographical areas and comparisons between American frontiers and others.
Avery O. Craven Award
The Avery O. Craven Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history.
Merle Curti Award
The Merle Curti Award is given annually for the best book in social, intellectual, and/or cultural history. The committee may decide to give the award to two books, one in social history and one in intellectual history.
Ellis W. Hawley Prize
The Ellis W. Hawley Prize is awarded annually for the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present.
Darlene Clark Hine Award
The Darlene Clark Hine Award is given annually by the Organization of American Historians to the author of the best book in African American women's and gender history.
Richard W. Leopold Prize
The Richard W. Leopold Prize was designed to improve contacts and interrelationships within the historical profession where an increasing number of history-trained scholars hold distinguished positions in governmental agencies. This prize recognizes the significant historical work being done by historians outside academe. The Leopold Prize is given by the Organization of American Historians every two years for the best book written by a historian connected with federal, state or municipal government. Areas of study include: foreign policy, military affairs broadly construed, the activities of the federal government or biography in one of the foregoing areas.
Lawrence W. Levine Award
The Lawrence W. Levine Award is given annually by the Organization of American Historians to the author of the best book in American cultural history.
Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
Inspired by OAH President Darlene Clark Hine's call in her 2002 OAH presidential address for more research on the origins of the civil rights movement in the period before 1954, the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award is given for the best book on any historical aspect of the struggle for civil rights in the United States from the nation's founding to the present.
David Montgomery Award
The David Montgomery Award is given annually by the OAH with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) for the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history.
Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize
The Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize is given for "the most original" book in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History. The OAH defines "the most original" book as one that is a path breaking work or challenges and/or changes widely accepted scholarly interpretations in the field. If no book submitted for the prize meets this criterion, the award shall be given for "the best" book in U.S. women's and/or gender history. "The best" book recognizes the ideas and originality of the significant historical scholarship being done by historians of U.S. Women's and/or Gender History and makes a significant contribution to the understanding of U.S. Women's and/or Gender History.
James A. Rawley Prize
The James A. Rawley Prize, given for the first time in 1990, is awarded annually for a book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States.
Frederick Jackson Turner Award
The Frederick Jackson Turner Award, first given in 1959 as the Prize Studies Award of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, has been given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on some significant phase of American history and also to the press that submits and publishes it.

Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards
The Christian Gauss Award is offered for books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism. The prize was established by the Phi Beta Kappa Senate in 1950 to honor the late Christian Gauss, the distinguished Princeton University scholar, teacher and dean who also served as President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. To be eligible, a literary biography must have a predominantly critical emphasis.
The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science is offered for outstanding contributions by scientists to the literature of science. It was first offered in 1959. The intent of the award is to encourage literate and scholarly interpretations of the physical and biological sciences and mathematics. Monographs and compendiums are not eligible. To be eligible, biographies of scientists must have a substantial critical emphasis on their scientific research.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award is offered for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity. Established in 1960, this award may recognize work in the fields of history, philosophy and religion. These fields are conceived in sufficiently broad terms to permit the inclusion of appropriate work in related fields such as anthropology and the social sciences. Biographies of public figures may be eligible if their primary critical emphasis is on the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Susan Koppelman Award
The Susan Koppelman Award is for a multi-authored or edited book that is a feminist study of popular or American culture materials, phenomena, artifacts, etc. or a collection of such materials.

Pulitzer Prizes
Biography or Autobiography
For a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author
Drama
For a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life
Fiction
For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life
General non-fiction
For a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category
History
For a distinguished book upon the history of the United States
Music
For distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year
Poetry
For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author

RBC Taylor Prize
The mandate of the Charles Taylor Prize is to enhance public appreciation for the genre known as literary non-fiction.

Robert Motherwell Book Award
The Robert Motherwell Book Award is given annually and carries a prize of $20,000 awarded to the author of an outstanding publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts—including the visual arts, literature, music and the performing arts. Nominations are normally made by publishers and the winner is chosen by a panel of distinguished scholars and writers.

Royal Historical Society
The Gladstone History Book Prize
The Royal Historical Society offers an annual award of £1,000 for a history book published in Britain on any topic that is not primarily British history. To be eligible for the prize the book must be its author's first solely written book on a historical subject which is not primarily related to British history. The book must also be an original and scholarly work or historical research and have been published in English during the calendar year by a scholar normally resident in the United Kingdom.
The Whitfield Book Prize
The Royal Historical Society annually offers the Whitfield prize (value £1,000) for a new book on British or Irish history. To be eligible for consideration the book must be on a subject within a field of British or Irish history and have been published in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland during the calendar year. It must also be its author's first solely written book and be an original and scholarly work of historical research.

Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books celebrates the very best in popular science writing.

Sierra Book Prize
The Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize is awarded for the best monograph in the field of history published by a current member of the Western Association of Women Historians.

Society for American Archaeology Book Award
The Society for American Archaeology annually awards two prizes to honor recently published books. One prize is for a book that has had, or is expected to have, a major impact on the direction and character of archaeological research. The other prize is for a book that is written for the general public and presents the results of archaeological research to a broader audience.

Society for Cinema and Media Studies
The Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award
Founded in 1959, SCMS is a professional organization of college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image.  The award honors outstanding scholarship in film and media studies.

Society for East Asian Anthropology
The Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize
The prize is given to the English-language book judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field. The prize is named for the late Francis L.K. Hsu (1909-2000), renowned cross-cultural anthropologist and former President (1977-78) of the American Anthropological Association.

Society for History in the Federal Government
Henry Adams Prize
This annual award is given for an outstanding major publication on the federal government's history. Entries may be narrative histories, edited collections of articles or essays, or any other published historical work of comparable scope. The Adams Prize is given to an individual or to principal collaborators. Entries are judged for value in furthering the understanding and history of the federal government; quality and thoroughness of research; style and appropriateness of presentation; suitability and rigor of methodology; and use of original and primary materials.
George Pendleton Prize
This annual award is given for an outstanding major publication, on the federal government's history produced by or for a federal history program. The Pendleton Prize is given to an individual author or to principal collaborators. The type of work eligible and the criteria that judges will apply for quality are identical to those for the Adams Prize. The Pendleton Prize has the additional requirement that the publication nominated must have been produced by a federal historian(s) or for a federal history program, including history offices in the federal agencies and history-related programs in other federal entities. As of late 2018, this prize appears to be dormant.
Thomas Jefferson Prize (for documentary editions and research tools)
The award for a documentary edition will recognize the editor(s) of a documentary history project publishing either a single volume or one or more volumes in a project that contributes significantly to our understanding of the history of the federal government.  The award for research tools will recognize the creator(s) of an outstanding research aid (e.g., an inventory, an index, a finding aid, a biographical directory, or a bibliography) that facilitates the work of those doing research in the history of the federal government. As of late 2018, this prize appears to be dormant.

The Society for Medical Anthropology
Eileen Basker Memorial Prize
This prize is awarded annually for a significant contribution to anthropological scholarship on gender and health by a scholar (or scholars) from any discipline or nation for a specific book, article, film, or exceptional PhD thesis produced within the preceding three years. The Prize is awarded to the work judged to be the most courageous, significant, and potentially influential contribution to this area of scholarship.

The Society for Military History
The Distinguished Book Awards recognize the best book-length publications in English on military history, whether monograph, bibliography, guide, or other project copyrighted in the previous three calendar years. Awards are given out at the Society's annual meeting the spring following the competition.

Society for Research on Adolescence Book Award
Nominated books exemplified research on adolescence with implications for social policy.

Society for the Anthropology of North America
The Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North America
This prize is awarded to a single or multiple authored book (not edited collections) that deals with an important social issue within the discipline of anthropology; has broader implications for social change or justice; and is accessible beyond the discipline of anthropology.

Society for the Anthropology of Work
The Diana Forsythe Prize
The Diana Forsythe Prize was created in 1999 to celebrate the best book or series of publications in the spirit of Diana Forsythe’s feminist anthropological research on work, science, and/or technology, including biomedicine.
The Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize
The Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize is awarded to single or co-authored monographs or edited collections published within the past three years. The criteria are the significance of the research, relevance for the anthropology of work, clarity and effectiveness of the presentation, and appeal to a wider audience in anthropology and beyond. Preference will be given to books based on fieldwork and which have not received another award or prize.

Society for the History of Technology
The Sally Hacker Prize was established in 1999 to honor exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy to toward a broad audience.
The Sidney Edelstein Prize (previously known as the Dexter Prize) is awarded to the author of an outstanding scholarly book in the history of technology published during the preceding three years.

Society for the Study of Social Problems
C. Wright Mills Award
Consistent with Mills' dedication to a search for a sophisticated understanding of the individual and society, this award is given for that book that most effectively (1) critically addresses an issue of contemporary public importance, (2) brings to the topic a fresh, imaginative perspective, (3) advances social scientific understanding of the topic, (4) displays a theoretically informed view and empirical orientation, (5) evinces quality in style of writing, and (6) explicitly or implicitly contains implications for courses of action.

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Charles Horton Cooley Award
The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction is an international social science professional organization of scholars interested in qualitative, especially interactionist, research.  This award is given annually to a scholar for the publication of a book that represents an important contribution in the field of symbolic interaction.

Society of American Historians
Francis Parkman Prize
The Francis Parkman Prize is awarded annually for the best nonfiction book on an American theme published the previous year.
Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction (formerly, James Fenimore Cooper Prize)
The Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction is awarded biennially in odd-numbered years for a book of historical fiction on an American subject which makes a significant contribution to historical understanding, portrays authentically the people and events of the historical past, and displays skills in narrative construction and prose style.

The Spur Award (Western Writers of America)
The Spur Awards, given annually for distinguished writing about the American West, are among the oldest and most prestigious in American literature. In 1953, when the awards were established by WWA, western fiction was a staple of American publishing. At the time awards were given to the best western novel, best historical novel, best juvenile, and best short story.

Since then the awards have been broadened to include other types of writing about the West. Today, Spurs are offered for the best western novel (short novel), best novel of the west (long novel), best original paperback novel, best short story, best short nonfiction. Also, best contemporary nonfiction, best biography, best history, best juvenile fiction and nonfiction, best TV or motion picture drama, best TV or motion picture documentary, and best first novel (called The Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award).

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Named after the first director of the University of Pittsburgh Press, the prize carries a cash award of $5,000 and publication by the Press in the Pitt Poetry Series under its standard royalty contract.

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, established in 1978, is given annually to recognize women who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre. The Prize is administered in Houston, London and New York by a board of directors who choose six Judges each year, three from each side of the Atlantic.

Stonewall Book Award
The first and most enduring award for GLBT books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table. Since Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971, many other books have been honored for exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience.

Theatre Library Association
George Freedley Memorial Award
The George Freedley Memorial Award was established in 1968 in honor of the first Curator of the New York Public Library’s Theatre Collection and first President of Theatre Library Association. The Award is presented annually to an English-language book of exceptional scholarship published or distributed in the United States during the previous calendar year that examines some aspect of live theatre or performance. The jurors may also designate an additional title for a Special Jury Prize.

The Tony Awards®
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The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards® got their start in 1947 when the Wing established an awards program to celebrate excellence in the theatre.

Named for Antoinette Perry, an actress, director, producer, and the dynamic wartime leader of the American Theatre Wing who had recently passed away, the Tony Awards made their official debut at a dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1947.

University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education
The purpose of this award is to stimulate the dissemination, public scrutiny and implementation of ideas that have potential to bring about significant improvement in educational practice and advances in educational attainment. The award is intended not only to reward the individuals responsible, but also to draw attention to their ideas, proposals or achievements. The award is designed to recognize a specific recent achievement rather than a lifetime of accomplishment.

University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music
This award is presented in recognition of outstanding achievement by a living composer in a large musical genre: choral, orchestral, chamber, electronic, song-cycle, dance, opera, musical theater, extended solo work and more.

University of San Diego Department of Leadership Studies Outstanding Leadership Book Award
In recognition of leadership as a valued practice and the fact that people can be effective agents of change in whatever position they hold, the Department of Leadership Studies has established this annual award to honor thought leaders.

Walt Whitman Award
The Walt Whitman Award brings first-book publication, a cash prize of $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center to an American who has never before published a book of poetry. The winning manuscript, chosen by an eminent poet, is published by Louisiana State University Press. The Academy purchases copies of the book for distribution to its members.

The award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet's first book.

Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Honouring the achievements of the founding father of the historical novel, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world. With a total value of £30,000 (~$75,000 in early 2017), it is unique for rewarding writing of exceptional quality which is set in the past.

Sponsored by Sir Walter Scott's distant kinsmen the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Prize celebrates quality, innovation and longevity of writing in the English language, and is open to books first published in the previous year in the UK, Ireland or the Commonwealth. Reflecting the subtitle "Sixty Years Since" of Scott’s most famous work Waverley, the majority of the storyline must have taken place at least 60 years ago.

Western Heritage Awards
First presented in 1961, the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Awards were established to honor and encourage the legacy of those whose works in literature, music, film, and television reflect the significant stories of the American West. Only the awards for literature are noted here.

Western History Association
Robert G. Athearn Award
A biennial award for the best book on the twentieth-century West
Caughey Western History Association Prize
Awarded to the best book of the year in Western History
John C. Ewers Award
A biennial award for the best book on the topic of North American Indian ethnohistory
Donald L. Fixico Award
An annual award that recognizes innovative work in the field of American Indian and Canadian First Nations History
W. Turrentine Jackson Award
A biennial award for a first published book on the American West
Joan Paterson Kerr Award
A biennial award for the best illustrated book on the American West
Sally and Ken Owens Award
An annual award for the best book on the history of the Pacific West, including Alaska, Hawaii, Western Canada, and the U.S. Pacific Territories
Hal K. Rothman Book Award
A biennial award for the best book in western environmental history
Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award
A biennial award for a bibliographic or research work
Robert M. Utley Award
An annual award for the best book on military history of the frontier and western North America
David J. Weber-Clements Prize
A prize given annually for the best non-fiction book on Southwestern America.

Western Literature Association
Thomas J. Lyon Book Award
To qualify for this award, books must be an outstanding, single-author, book-length study on the literature and culture of the American West.

Western States Book Awards
The Western States Book Awards were given by the Western States Arts Federation in poetry, fiction, translation and creative nonfiction for books written by authors living in the West and published the previous year by presses that have their principal offices in the region.  These awards appear to be dormant.

Wildlife Publication Awards
Sponsored by the Wildlife Society, the Wildlife Publication Awards recognize excellence in scientific literature of wildlife biology and management issued within the last three years. The publications selected are characterized by originality of research or thought and a high scholastic standard in the manner of presentation. Fishery publications are excluded since these are the prerogative of the American Fisheries Society.

The Willa Award
The Willa Literary Award honors the best in literature featuring stories about a woman/girl or women set in the American West published each year, and is sponsored by Women Writing the West, a non-profit association of writers and other professionals writing and promoting the Women's West.

William James Book Award
The William James Award is intended to honor and publicize a recent book published within the last 5 years that best serves to further the goals of the society by providing an outstanding example of an effort to bring together diverse subfields of psychology and related disciplines. This work must provide a coherent framework that stands as a creative synthesis of theory and fact from disparate areas and demonstrates an essential underlying set of themes that serve to unify or integrate the field.

William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
The Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation jointly award the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, a biennial competition for newly-published books. The prize commemorates the life, legacy and intentions of William Saroyan - author, artist, dramatist, composer - and is intended to encourage new or emerging writers, rather than to recognize established literary figures.

The BAILEY'S Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly The Orange Prize for Fiction)
One of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, the BAILEY'S Women's Prize for Fiction – known as the Orange Prize for Fiction from 1996-2012 – celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world.

World War I Historical Association
The Norman B. Thompson, Jr., Prize
Awarded for the best work in English on World War I.

The Writers' Trust of Canada

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