Heartland Prize

Heartland Prize

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

Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize — Non-Fiction

  • 2010: Rebecca Skloot for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks[7]
  • 2009: Nick Reding, for Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town[8]
  • 2008: Garry Wills, for Head and Heart: American Christianities and What the Gospels Meant[9]
  • 2007: Orville Vernon Burton, for The Age of Lincoln
  • 2006: Taylor Branch, for At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968[10]
  • 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[11]
  • 2000: Zachary Karabell, for The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
  • 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

  1. ^ "Heartland Prize", Chicago Tribune
  2. ^ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/2010-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx#
  3. ^ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/2009-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx
  4. ^ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/en/Genres/Literature/2008-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx
  5. ^ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/en/Genres/Literature/Heartland-Prize-2006-Erdrich-Branch.aspx
  6. ^ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/Heartland-Algren-2001-Menand-Simpson-Raboteau.aspx
  7. ^ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/2010-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx#
  8. ^ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/2009-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx
  9. ^ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/en/Genres/Literature/2008-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx
  10. ^ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/en/Genres/Literature/Heartland-Prize-2006-Erdrich-Branch.aspx
  11. ^ http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/Heartland-Algren-2001-Menand-Simpson-Raboteau.aspx

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