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L'American Book Award a été fondé en 1978 par la Before Columbus Foundation (en) . Il cherche à distinguer des auteurs américains contemporains tous genres confondus. Il a été lancé pour concurrencer des prix plus restrictifs comme le National Book Award . Son objectif est de promouvoir la qualité et la diversité de la littérature américaine .
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Asake Bomani, Belvie Rooks pour Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris
Christopher Mogil , Peter Woodrow pour We Gave Away a Fortune
Cornel West pour Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times
Denise Giardina pour Unquiet Earth
Diane Glancy pour Claiming Breath
Eugene B. Redmond pour The Eye in the Ceiling
Francisco X. Alarcón pour Snake Poems
Gerald Graff pour Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education
Jack Beatty pour The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley
Leroy V. Quintana pour The History of Home
Katherine Peter pour Neets'aii Gwiindaii: Living in the Chandalar Country
Nelson George pour Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball
Ninotchka Rosca pour Twice Blessed , a novel
1994
1995
Abraham Rodriguez pour Spidertown , a novel
Herb Boyd , Robert L. Allen pour Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology
Denise Chavez pour Face of an Angel
John Egerton pour Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
John Ross pour Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas
Thomas Avena pour Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS
Linda Raymond pour Rocking the Babies , a novel
Li-Young Lee pour The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick pour Crossing Ocean Parkway
Marnie Mueller pour Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest
Peter Quinn pour Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York
Sandra Martz pour I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted
Gordon Henry Jr. pour The Light People
Tricia Rose pour Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
1996
1997
Alurista pour Et Tu ... Raza
Derrick Bell pour Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home
Dorothy Barresi pour The Post-Rapture Diner
Guillermo Gomez-Pena pour The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
Louis Owens pour Nightland
Martin Espada pour Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
Montserrat Fontes pour Dreams of the Centaur , a novel
Noel Ignatiev pour Race Traitor
Shirley Geok-lin Lim pour Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
Sunaina Maira pour Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America
Thulani Davis pour Maker of Saints
Tom De Haven pour Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies , a novel
William M. Banks pour Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life
Brenda Knight pour Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
1998
1999
Alice McDermott pour Charming Billy
Anna Linzer pour Ghost Dancing
Brian Ward pour Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
Chiori Santiago pour Home to Medicine Mountain
E. Donald Two-Rivers pour Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories
Edwidge Danticat pour The Farming of Bones
Judith Roche , Meg McHutchison pour First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim
Gioia Timpanelli pour Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily
Gloria Naylor pour The Men of Brewster Place , a novel
James D. Houston pour The Last Paradise
Jerry Lipka, Gerald V. Mohatt, Ciulistet Group for Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup¡k Eskimo Examples
Trey Ellis pour Right Here, Right Now
Josip Novakovich pour Salvation and Other Disasters
Lauro Flores pour The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature
Luís Alberto Urrea pour Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
Nelson George pour Hip Hop America: Hip Hop and the Molding of Black Generation X
Speer Morgan pour The Freshour Cylinders
Gary Gach pour What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
Prix du livre pour enfants : Chiori Santiago, auteur, et Judith Lowry , illustrateur, Home to Medicine Mountain [ 1]
2000
Prix du rédacteur en chef/éditeur : Ronald Sukenick[ 1]
Journalisme : Jack E. White[ 1]
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Frank Chin[ 1]
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Robert Creeley[ 1]
2001
Prix du rédacteur en chef/éditeur : Malcolm Margolin[ 1]
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Ted Joans[ 1]
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Tillie Olsen[ 1]
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Philip Whalen[ 1]
2002[ 2]
Aaron A. Abeyta, Colcha
Susanne Antonetta , The Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
Rilla Askew , Fire in Beulah
Tananarive Due , The Living Blood
Gloria Frym , Homeless at Home
Dana Gioia , Interrogations at Noon
LeAnne Howe , Shell Shaker
Alex Kuo , Lipstick and Other Stories
Michael N. Nagler , Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future
Donald Phelps, Reading the Funnies : Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout the First Half of the 20th Century
Al Young , The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems, 1990–2000
Livre pour enfants : Jessel Miller , Angels in the Vineyards
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Lerone Bennett
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Jack Hirschman
2003[ 2]
Kevin Baker , Paradise Alley
Debra Magpie Earling , Perma Red
Daniel Ellsberg , Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Rick Heide, ed., Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California
Igor Krupnik, Willis Walunga, Vera Metcalf, and Lars Krutak, eds., Akuzilleput Igaqullghet, Our Words Put to Paper: Sourcebook in St. Lawrence Island Yupik Heritage and History
Alejandro Murguía , This War Called Love: Nine Stories
Jack Newfield , The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania
Joseph Papaleo , Italian Stories
Eric Porter , What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
Jewell Parker Rhodes , Douglass' Women , a novel
Rachel Simon , Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
Velma Wallis , Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
Editor: Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review (www.qbr.com)
2004[ 2]
Diana Abu-Jaber , Crescent , a novel
David Cole , Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism
Charisse Jones et Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Kristin Hunter Lattany , Breaking Away
A. Robert Lee , Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions
Diane Sher Lutovich , What I Stole
Ruth Ozeki , All Over Creation
Renato Rosaldo , Prayer to Spider Woman / Rezo a la Mujer Arana
Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
Michael Walsh , And All the Saints
2005[ 2]
Bernard W. Bell , The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches
Cecelie Berry , Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
Jeff Chang , Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Julie Chibbaro , Redemption
Richard A. Clarke , Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
Alisha S. Drabek et Karen R. Adams, The Red Cedar of Afognak, A Driftwood Journey
Ralph M. Flores , The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family
Hiroshi Kashiwagi , Swimming in the American: A Memoir And Selected Writings
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. , Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
Don Lee , Country of Origin , a novel
Lamont B. Steptoe , A Long Movie of Shadows
Don West , No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems , eds. Jeff Biggers et George Brosi
Journalism: Bill Berkowitz
2006[ 2]
MacKenzie Bezos , The Testing of Luther Albright , a novel
Matt Briggs , Shoot the Buffalo
David P. Diaz, The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second-Generation Mexican-American
Darryl Dickson-Carr , The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction
Thomas Ferraro , Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America
Tim Z. Hernandez , Skin Tax
Josh Kun , Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America
P. Lewis , Nate
Peter Metcalfe, Gumboot Determination: The Story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium
Kevin J. Mullen , The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco
Doris Seale et Beverly Slapin, eds., A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
Matthew Shenoda , Somewhere Else
Carlton T. Spiller , Scalding Heart
Editor: Chris Hamilton-Emery, Salt Publishing Ltd.
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Jay Wright
2007
Daniel Cassidy , How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
Michael Eric Dyson , Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
Rigoberto Gonzalez , Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Reyna Grande , Across a Hundred Mountains , a novel
Ernestine Hayes , Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir
Patricia Klindienst , The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
Gary Panter , Jimbo's Inferno
Jeffrey F. L. Partridge , Beyond Literary Chinatown
Judith Roche , Wisdom of the Body
Kali Vanbaale , The Space Between
2008[ 1]
Moustafa Bayoumi , How Does It Feel to Be a Problem Being Young and Arab in America
Douglas A. Blackmon , Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Jonathan Curiel , Al’ America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots
Nora Marks Dauenhauer , Richard Dauenhauer , Lydia T. Black , et Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká , Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804
Maria Mazziotti Gillan , All That Lies Between Us
Nikki Giovanni , The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998
C. S. Giscombe , Prairie Style
Angela Jackson , Where I Must Go , a novel
L. Luis Lopez , Each Month I Sing
Tom Lutz , Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
Fae Myenne Ng , Steer Toward Rock
Yuko Taniguchi , The Ocean in the Closet
Lorenzo Thomas , Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition , ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Frank B. Wilderson III , Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : J. J. Phillips , Author of Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale
2009
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 , eds. Mimi R. Gladstein et 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 , ed. Peter Gizzi et Kevin Killian
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Miguel Algarín
2010[ 1]
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 , The Big Machine
François Mandeville, This Is What They Say , traduit par Ron Scollon du Chipewyan
Bich Minh Nguyen , Short Girls
Franklin Rosemont et Robin D. G. Kelley , eds., Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora
Jerome Rothenberg et Jeffrey C. Robinson, eds., Poems for the Millennium: Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry
Kathryn Waddell Takara , Pacific Raven: Hawai`i Poems
Pamela Uschuk , Crazy Love: New Poems
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Katha Pollitt
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Quincy Troupe
2011[ 3]
Keith Gilyard , John Oliver Killens
Akbar Ahmed , Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam
Camille Dungy , Suck on the Marrow
Karen Tei Yamashita , I Hotel
William W. Cook et James Tatum , African American Writers and Classical Tradition
Gerald Vizenor , Shrouds of White Earth
Eric Gansworth, Extra Indians
Ivan Argüelles , The Death of Stalin
Geoffrey Alan Argent, ed., The Complete Plays of Jean Racine : Volume 1: The Fratricides , traduit du français par Argent
Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country
Sasha Pimentel Chacón , Insides She Swallowed
Miriam Jiménez Román et Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States
Carmen Giménez Smith , Bring Down the Little Birds
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Luis Valdez
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : John A. Williams
2012
Les 32e American Book Awards sont officiellement annoncés le 16 octobre 2012 à l'université de Californie à Berkeley [ 3] .
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Eugene B. Redmond
Annia Ciezadlo , Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
Arlene Kim , What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?
Ed Bok Lee , Whorled
Adilifu Nama , Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
Rob Nixon , Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Shann Ray , American Masculine
Alice Rearden , translator; Ann Fienup-Riordan , ed., Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput: Our Nelson Island Stories
Touré , Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now
Amy Waldman , Un concours de circonstances (The Submission )
Mary Winegarden , The Translator’s Sister
Kevin Young , Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
2019