American Book Awards

Riconoscimento destinato alle sole opere che abbiano conseguito un "eccezionale risultato letterario"
Assegnato da| Before Columbus Foundation
Paese|  Stati Uniti
Anno inizio| 1980
Sito web| www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com
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L'American Book Award è un premio letterario statunitense assegnato annualmente dall'organizzazione no profit Before Columbus Foundation[1].

Destinato all'eccellenza letteraria appartenente alla variegata comunità di artisti ed intellettuali statunitensi[2], il riconoscimento non si divide in categorie e si considera un attestato assegnato a scrittori da parte di altri scrittori[3].

Istituito nel 1976 dal poeta Ishmael Reed[4], la sua prima edizione ha avuto luogo nel 1980[5].

Dal 1980 al 1983 anche il National Book Award ha assunto la denominazione American Book Awards, ma l'anno successivo è tornato al nome originario per evitare confusioni tra i due premi[6].

## Albo d'oro

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### Dal 1980 al 1989

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1980

* Douglas Woolf, Future preconditional: A collection
* Ed Dorn, Hello, La Jolla
* Jayne Cortez, Mouth on Paper
* Leslie Marmon Silko, Cerimonia (Ceremony)
* Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Random Possession
* Milton Murayama, All I Asking for Is My Body
* Quincy Troupe, Snake Back Solos
* Rudolfo Anaya, Tortuga

1981

* Alta, Shameless Hussy
* Alan Chong Lau, Songs for Jadina
* Bienvenido N. Santos, Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories
* Helen Adam, Turn Again to Me & Other Poems
* Lionel Mitchell, Traveling Light
* Miguel Algarín, On Call
* Nicholasa Mohr, Felita
* Peter Blue Cloud, Back Then Tomorrow
* Robert Kelly, The Time of Voice: Poems 1994–1996
* Rose Drachler, The Choice
* Susan Howe, The Liberties
* Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters

1982

* Al Young, Bodies and Soul
* Duane Niatum, Songs for the Harvester of Dreams: Poems
* E. L. Mayo, Collected Poems E L Mayo
* Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman e The Year of the Dragon
* Hilton Obenzinger, This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem
* Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim e Judy Yung, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910–1940
* Jerome Rothenberg, Pre-Faces and Other Writings
* Joyce Carol Thomas, Marked by Fire
* Leroy Quintana, Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets
* Lorna Dee Cervantes, Emplumada
* Ronald Phillip Tanaka, The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry
* Russell Banks, Book of Jamaica
* Tato Laviera, Enclave

1983

* Barbara Christian, Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976
* Cecilia Liang, Chinese Folk Poetry
* Evangelina Vigil-Piñón, Thirty: An' Seen a Lot
* Harriet Rohmer, Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento
* James D. Houston, Californians: Searching for the Golden State
* Jessica Hagedorn, Pet food & tropical apparitions
* John A. Williams, Click Song
* Joy Kogawa, Obasan
* Judy Grahn, The Queen of Wands: Poetry
* Nash Candelaria, Not by the Sword
* Peter Guralnick, Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
* Seán Ó Tuama, An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed

1984

* Cecil Brown, Days Without Weather
* Gary Snyder, Axe Handles: Poems
* Howard Schwartz e Mark Podwal, The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Reb Nachman
* Amiri Baraka, Anthology of African American Women: Confirmation Men
* Jesús Colón, A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
* Joseph Bruchac, Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets
* Maurice Kenny, The Mama Poems
* Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, The heat bird
* Miné Okubo, Citizen 13660
* Paule Marshall, Danza per una vedova (Praisesong for the Widow)
* Ruthanne Lum McCunn, You-shan Tang e Ellen Lai-shan Yeung, Pie-Biter
* Thomas McGrath, Echoes inside the labyrinth
* Venkatesh Kulkarni, Naked in Deccan
* William Kennedy, O Albany!

1985

* Angela Jackson, Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E
* Arnold Genthe e John Kuo Wei Tchen, Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
* Colleen J. McElroy, Queen of the Ebony Isles
* Gary Soto, Living Up The Street
* Peter H. Irons, Justice at War
* Keiho Soga, Taisanboku Mori, Sojin Takei e Muin Ozaki, Poets Behind Barbed Wire
* Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
* Maureen Owen, Amelia Earhart
* May Sarton, At Seventy: A Journal
* Robert Duncan, Ground Work: Before the War
* Ron Jones, Say Ray
* Sandra Cisneros, La casa in Mango Street (The House on Mango Street)
* Sonia Sanchez, Homegirls and Handgrenades
* Julia Vinograd, The Book of Jerusalem
* William Oandasan, Round Valley Songs

1986

* Anna Lee Walters, The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories
* Cherríe Moraga e Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
* Helen Barolini, The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women
* Jeff Hannusch, I Hear You Knockin: The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
* Linda Hogan, Seeing Through the Sun
* Miguel Algarín, Time's Now/Ya Es Tiempo
* Natasha Borovsky, A Daughter of the Nobility
* Raymond Federman, Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts
* Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson
* Terence Winch, Irish Musicians/American Friends
* Toshio Mori, Yokohama, California

1987

* Ai, SIN
* Ana Castillo, The Mixquiahuala Letters
* Cyn Zarco, Circumnavigations
* Daniel McGuire, Portrait of Little Boy in darkness
* Dorothy Bryant, Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow
* Etheridge Knight, The Essential Etheridge Knight
* Gary Giddins, Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker
* Harvey Pekar, The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland
* James Welch, La luna delle foglie cadenti (Fools Crow)
* John Wieners, Selected Poems: 1958–1984
* Juan Felipe Herrera, Face Games
* Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, Liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy
* Michael Mayo, Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry
* Septima Poinsette Clark e Cynthia Stokes Brown, Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative
* Terry McMillan, Mama

1988

* Allison Blakely, Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought
* Charles Olson, The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems
* Daisy Bates, The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
* David Halberstam, The Reckoning
* Edward Sanders, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961–1985
* Gerald Vizenor, Griever: An American Monkey King in China
* Jimmy Santiago Baca, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley
* Kesho Y. Scott, Cherry Muhanji e Egyirba High, Tight Spaces
* Marlon K. Hom, Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
* Benjamin Hoff, The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
* Ronald Sukenick, Down and in: Life in the Underground
* Salvatore La Puma, The Boys of Bensonhurst
* Toni Morrison, Amatissima (Beloved)
* Wing Tek Lum e Tek Lum Lum, Expounding the Doubtful Points

1989

* Alma Luz Villanueva, The Ultraviolet Sky
* Askia M. Touré, From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance!
* Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light
* Carolyn Lei-Lanilau, Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking
* Emory Elliott, Columbia Literary History of the United States
* Eduardo Galeano, Le origini (Genesis)
* Frank Chin, The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
* Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
* Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
* J. California Cooper, Homemade Love
* Jennifer Stone, Stone's Throw
* Josephine Gattuso Hendin, The Right Thing to Do
* Leslie Scalapino, Way
* Shuntarō Tanikawa, Floating the River in Melancholy
* Charles Fanning, The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction
* William Hohri, Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress

### Dal 1990 al 1999

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1990

* Adrienne Kennedy, People Who Led to My Plays
* Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Italian Days
* Daniela Gioseffi, Women on War (Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age)
* Elizabeth Woody, Hand into Stone: Poems
* Hualing Nieh Engle, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China
* Itabari Njeri, Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone
* James M. Freeman, Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives
* John C. Walter e J. Raymond Jones, The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920–1970
* John Norton, Light at the End of the Bog
* José Emilio González, Vivar a Hostos
* Sergei Kan, Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century
* Lloyd A. Thompson, Romans and Blacks
* Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization
* Michelle T. Clinton e Sesshu Foster, Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry
* Miles Davis e Quincy Troupe, Miles: l'autobiografia di un mito del jazz (Miles: The Autobiography)
* Paula Gunn Allen, Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women
* Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa e Margarita Donnelly, The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology

1991

* Alejandro Murguía, Southern Front
* bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
* Bruce M. Wright, Black Robes, White Justice: Why Our Legal System Doesn't Work for Blacks
* Charley Trujillo, Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam
* D. H. Melhem, Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions & Interviews
* Deborah Keenan, Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile
* Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters
* John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
* Joy Harjo, In Mad Love and War
* Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
* Lucia Berlin, Homesick: New and Selected Stories
* Mary Brave Bird, Lakota Woman
* Meridel Le Sueur, Harvest Song: Collected Essays and Stories
* Mill Hunk Herald Collective, Overtime: Punchin' Out With the Mill Hunk Herald Magazine
* Nora Marks Dauenhauer e Richard Dauenhauer, Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory
* R. Baxter Miller, The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes
* Thomas Centolella, Terra Firma

1992

* A'Lelia Bundles, Madam C.J. Walker
* Art Spiegelman, Maus (The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale)
* Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Calendar of Dust
* Donna Haraway, Manifesto cyborg: donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo (Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature)
* Fritjof Capra, L'universo come dimora: conversazioni tra scienza e spiritualità (Belonging to the universe: Explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality)
* José Antonio Burciaga, Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado: A Personal Anthology of Poetry
* Keith Gilyard, Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence
* Lucy Thompson, To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman
* Norma Field, In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
* Peter Bacho, Cebu
* Peter Kalifornsky, Dena'ina Legacy: K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky
* Raymond Andrews, Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire
* Sandra Scofield, Beyond Deserving
* Sheila Hamanaka, Journey
* Stephen Fox, The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II
* Steven R. Carter, Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity
* Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Last Fine Time
* William B. Branch, Amiri Baraka e August Wilson, Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama

1993

* Asake Bomani e Belvie Rooks, Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris
* Christopher Mogil e Peter Woodrow, We Gave Away a Fortune
* Cornel West, Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times
* Denise Giardina, Unquiet Earth
* Diane Glancy, Claiming Breath
* Eugene B. Redmond, The Eye in the Ceiling
* Francisco X. Alarcón, Snake Poems
* Gerald Graff, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education
* Jack Beatty, The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley
* Leroy V. Quintana, The History of Home
* Katherine Peter, Neets'aii Gwiindaii: Living in the Chandalar Country
* Nelson George, Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball
* Ninotchka Rosca, Twice Blessed

1994

* Giose Rimanelli, Benedetta in Guysterland
* Eric Drooker, Flood!: una storia di immagini (Flood!: A Novel in Pictures)
* Graciela Limón, In Search of Bernabe
* Gregory J. Reed, Economic Empowerment Through the Church
* Janet Campbell Hale, Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter
* Jill Nelson, Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
* Lawson Fusao Inada, Legends from Camp
* Nicole Blackman, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
* Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
* Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
* Rose L. Glickman, Daughters of Feminists
* Tino Villanueva, Scene from the Movie GIANT
* Virginia L. Kroll, Wood-Hoopoe Willie

1995

* Abraham Rodriguez, Spidertown
* Herb Boyd e Robert L. Allen, Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America-An Anthology
* Denise Chávez, Face of an Angel
* John Egerton, Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
* John Ross, Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas
* Thomas Avena, Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS
* Linda Raymond, Rocking the Babies
* Li-Young Lee, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
* Marianna De Marco Torgovnick, Crossing Ocean Parkway
* Marnie Mueller, Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest
* Peter Quinn, Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York
* Sandra Martz, I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted
* Gordon Henry Jr., The Light People
* Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

1996

* Agate Nesaule, A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile
* Arthur Sze, Archipelago
* Chang-rae Lee, Infiltrato (Native Speaker)
* Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Matrimonio combinato (Arranged Marriage)
* E.J. Miller Laino, Girl Hurt
* Glenn Loury, One by One from the Inside Out: Race and Responsibility in America
* James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
* Joe Sacco e Edward Said, Palestina. Una nazione occupata (Palestine)
* Kimiko Hahn, The Unbearable Heart
* Maria Espinosa, Longing
* Robert Viscusi, Astoria
* Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues
* Ron Sakolsky e Fred Ho, Sounding Off!: Music as Resistance/Rebellion/Revolution
* Stephanie Cowell, The Physician of London: The Second Part of the Seventeenth-Century Trilogy of Nicholas Cooke
* William H. Gass, The Tunnel

1997

* Alurista, Et Tu...Raza
* Derrick Bell, Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home
* Dorothy Barresi, The Post-Rapture Diner
* Guillermo Gómez-Peña, The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
* Louis Owens, Nightland
* Martín Espada, Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
* Montserrat Fontes, Dreams of the Centaur
* Noel Ignatiev, Race Traitor
* Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
* Sunaina Maira, Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America
* Thulani Davis, Maker of Saints
* Tom De Haven, Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies
* William M. Banks, Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life
* Brenda Knight, Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

1998

* Allison Hedge Coke, Dog Road Woman
* Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
* Brenda Marie Osbey, All Saints: New and Selected Poems
* Don DeLillo, Underworld
* Jim Barnes, On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions
* John A. Williams, Safari West: Poems
* Nancy Rawles, Love Like Gumbo
* Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman
* Sandra Benitez, Bitter Grounds
* Scott DeVeaux, The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
* Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

1999

* Alice McDermott, Il nostro caro Billy (Charming Billy)
* Anna Linzer, Ghost Dancing
* Brian Ward, Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
* Chiori Santiago, Home to Medicine Mountain
* E. Donald Two-Rivers, Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories
* Edwidge Danticat, La fattoria delle ossa (The Farming of Bones)
* Judith Roche e Meg McHutchison, First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim
* Gioia Timpanelli, Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily
* Gloria Naylor, The Men of Brewster Place
* James D. Houston, The Last Paradise
* Jerry Lipka, Gerald V. Mohatt e Ciulistet Group, Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup¡k Eskimo Examples
* Trey Ellis, Right Here, Right Now
* Josip Novakovich, Salvation and Other Disasters
* Lauro Flores, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature
* Luis Alberto Urrea, Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
* Nelson George, Hip Hop America: Hip Hop and the Molding of Black Generation X
* Speer Morgan, The Freshour Cylinders
* Gary Gach, What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
* Chiori Santiago e Judith Lowry, Home to Medicine Mountain

### Dal 2000 al 2009

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2000

* Esther G. Belin, From the Belly of My Beauty
* Allan J. Ryan, The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art
* Andrés Montoya, The Ice Worker Sings and Other Poems
* Camille Peri e Kate Moses, Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood
* David A. J. Richards, Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
* David Toop, Exotica
* Elva Trevino Hart, Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
* Emil Guillermo, Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective
* Frank Chin, The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
* Helen Thomas, Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times
* Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
* John R. Rickford e Russell J. Rickford, Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
* Leroy TeCube, Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story
* Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Heads By Harry
* Michael Lally, It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose
* Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
* Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Why She Left Us
* Robert Creeley, The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005
* Ronald Sukenick: editoria
* Jack E. White: giornalismo
* Frank Chin e Robert Creeley: alla carriera

2001

* Amanda J. Cobb, Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949
* Andrea Dworkin, Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation
* Carolyne Wright, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire
* Chalmers Johnson, Gli ultimi giorni dell'impero americano (Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire)
* Cheri Register, Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
* Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
* Diana Garcia, When Living Was a Labor Camp
* Elizabeth Nunez, Bruised Hibiscus
* Janet McAdams, Island of Lost Luggage
* Philip Whalen, Overtime: Selected Poems
* Russell Leong, Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
* Sandra Gilbert, Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969–1999
* Ted Joans, Teducation
* Tillie Olsen, Silences
* William S. Penn, Killing Time With Strangers
* Malcolm Margolin: editoria
* Ted Joans, Tillie Olsen e Philip Whalen: alla carriera

2002

* 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
* Alexander 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
* Jessel Miller, Angels in the Vineyards
* Lerone Bennett Jr. e Jack Hirschman: alla carriera

2003

* Kevin Baker, Paradise Alley
* Debra Magpie Earling, Perma Red
* Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
* Rick Heide, Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California
* Igor Krupnik, Willis Walunga, Vera Metcalf e Lars Krutak, 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
* 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
* Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review

2004

* Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent
* David D. Cole, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism
* Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
* Kristin Hunter, 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

* 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 e 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, La luna lontana e il profumo del te (Country of Origin)
* Lamont B. Steptoe, A Long Movie of Shadows
* Don West, No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems
* Bill Berkowitz: giornalismo

2006

* MacKenzie Bezos, The Testing of Luther Albright
* 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
* Phil Henderson, 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 e Beverly Slapin A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
* Matthew Shenoda, Somewhere Else
* Carlton T. Spiller, Scalding Heart
* Chris Emery: editoria
* Jay Wright: alla carriera

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 González, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
* Reyna Grande, Across a Hundred Mountains
* 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

* 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 e 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
* 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
* Frank B. Wilderson III, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
* J. J. Phillips: alla carriera

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
* 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
* Miguel Algarín: alla carriera

### Dal 2010 al 2019

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2010

* 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[7], 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
* Bich Minh Nguyen, Short Girls
* Franklin Rosemont e Robin Kelley, Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora
* Jerome Rothenberg e Jeffrey C. Robinson, 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
* Katha Politt e Quincy Troupe: alla carriera

2011

* 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 e 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, The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: The Fratricides
* Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country
* Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Insides She Swallowed
* Miriam Jiménez Román e Juan Flores, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States
* Carmen Giménez Smith, Bring Down the Little Birds
* Luis Valdez e John A. Williams: alla carriera

2012

* 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 e Ann Fienup-Riordan, Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput: Our Nelson Island Stories
* Touré, Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now
* Amy Waldman, The Submission
* Mary Winegarden, The Translator's Sister
* Kevin Young, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
* Eugene B. Redmond: alla carriera

2013

* Will Alexander, Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture
* Jacob M. Appel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
* Philip Choy, San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide To Its History & Architecture
* Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist
* Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was An Aztec
* Louise Erdrich, La casa tonda (The Round House)
* Alan Gilbert, Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
* Judy Grahn, A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet
* Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave: A Memoir
* Demetria Martinez, The Block Captain's Daughter
* Daniel Moore, Blood Songs
* D. G. Nanouk Okpik, Corpse Whale
* Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War On Student Radical and Reagan's Rise to Power
* Christopher B. Teuton, Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liar's Club
* Lew Welch, Ring of Bone: Collected Poems
* Ivan Argüelles, Greil Marcus e Floyd Salas: alla carriera

2014

* Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country
* Joshua Bloom e Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Black Against Empire; The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
* Juan Delgado e Thomas McGovern, Vital Signs
* Alex Espinoza, The Five Acts of Diego León
* Jonathan Holloway, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940
* Joan Kane, Hyperboreal
* Jamaica Kincaid, Vieni adesso allora (See Now Then)
* Tanya Olson, Boyishly
* Sterling D. Plumpp, Home/Bass
* Emily Raboteau, Searching For Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
* Jerome Rothenberg e Heriberto Yepez, Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader
* Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
* Margaret Wrinkle, Wash
* Koon Woon, Water Chasing Water
* Armond White: Anti-Censorship Award
* Michael Parenti: alla carriera

2015

* Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
* Arlene Biala, Her beckoning hands
* Arthur Dong, Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970
* Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People's History of the United States
* Peter J. Harris, The Black Man of Happiness
* Marlon James, Breve storia di sette omicidi (A Brief History of Seven Killings)
* Naomi Klein[8], Una rivoluzione ci salverà. Perché il capitalismo non è sostenibile (This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate)
* Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account
* Manuel Luis Martinez, Los Duros
* Craig Santos Perez, From unincorporated territory [guma’]
* Carlos Santana, Ashley Kahn e Hal Miller, Suono universale: la mia vita (The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light)
* Ira Sukrungruang, Southside Buddhist
* Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
* Anne Waldman: alla carriera

2016

* Laura Da', Tributaries
* Susan Muaddi Darraj, Curious Land: Stories from Home
* Deepa Iyer, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multicultural Future
* Mat Johnson, Loving Day
* John Keene, Counternarratives
* William J. Maxwell, F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
* Lauret Savoy, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
* Ned Sublette e Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
* Jesús Salvador Treviño, Return to Arroyo Grande
* Nick Turse, Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa
* Ray Young Bear, Manifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear
* Louise Meriwether: alla carriera
* Lyra Monteiro e Nancy Isenberg: Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
* Chiitaanibah Johnson: Andrew Hope Award

2017

* Rabia Chaudry, Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
* Flores A. Forbes, Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration
* Yaa Gyasi, Non dimenticare chi sei (Homegoing)
* Holly Hughes, Passings
* Randa Jarrar, Io, lui e Muhammad Ali (Him, Me, Muhammad Ali)
* Bernice L. McFadden, The Book of Harlan
* Brian D. McInnes, Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow
* Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
* Vaughn Rasberry, Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
* Marc Anthony Richardson, Year of the Rat
* Shawna Yang Ryan, Green Island
* Ruth Sergel, See You in the Streets: Art, Action, and Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
* Solmaz Sharif, Look
* Adam Soldofsky, Memory Foam
* Alfredo Véa Jr., The Mexican Flyboy
* Dean Wong, Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown
* Nancy Mercado: alla carriera
* Ammiel Alcalay: Editor/Publisher Award

2018

* Thi Bui, The Best That We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
* Rachelle Cruz, God's Will for Monsters
* Tommy Curry, The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
* Tongo Eisen-Martin, Heaven Is All Goodbyes
* Dana Naone Hall, Life of the Land: Articulations of a Native Writer
* Kelly Lytle Hernández, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
* Victor LaValle, Favola di New York (The Changeling: A Novel)
* Bojan Louis, Currents
* Valeria Luiselli, Dimmi come va a finire (Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions)
* Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson e B. V. Olguín, Altermundos Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
* Tiya Alicia Miles, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
* Tommy Pico, Nature Poem
* Rena Priest, Patriarchy Blues
* Joseph Rios, Shadowboxing: poems & impersonations
* Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
* Sequoyah Guess: alla carriera
* Kellie Jones, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s: Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
* Charles F. Harris: Editor/Publisher Award
* Rob Rogers: Anti-Censorship Award
* Heroes Are Gang Leaders: Oral Literature Award

2019

* Frank Abe, Greg Robinson e Floyd Cheung, John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy
* May-lee Chai[9], Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories
* Louise DeSalvo, The House of Early Sorrows: A Memoir in Essays
* Heid E. Erdrich, New Poets of Native Nations
* Ángel García, Teeth Never Sleep: Poems
* Tommy Orange[10], Non qui, non altrove (There There: A Novel)
* Halifu Osumare, Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir
* Christopher Patton, Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book
* Mark Sarvas, Memento Park: A Novel
* Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
* William T. Vollmann, Carbon Ideologies: Volume I, No Immediate Danger, Volume II, No Good Alternative
* G. Willow Wilson e Nico Leon, Ms. Marvel Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland
* Nathan Hare: alla carriera
* UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center: Editor/Publisher Award
* Moor Mother: Oral Literature Award

### Dal 2020 al 2029

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2020

* Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
* Sara Borjas, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff
* Neeli Cherkovski, Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
* Staceyann Chin, Crossfire: A Litany for Survival
* Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina (Sabrina & Corina: Stories)
* Tara Fickle, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
* Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
* Yōko Ogawa, L'isola dei senza memoria (The Memory Police)
* Jake Skeets, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
* George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott e Harmony Becker, They Called Us Enemy
* Ocean Vuong, Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)
* De'Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Mills
* Albert Woodfox con Leslie George, Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope
* Eleanor W. Traylor: alla carriera
* Editor Award: The Panopticon Review, Kofi Natambu, editor
* Publisher Award: Commune Editions, Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover e Juliana Spahr
* Oral Literature Award: Amalia Leticia Ortiz
* Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy di Anthony Harkins e Meredith McCarroll

2021[11]

* Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies: A Novel
* Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family
* Anthony Cody, Borderland Apocrypha
* Ben Ehrenreich, Taccuini del deserto: istruzioni per la fine dei tempi (Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time)
* Johanna Fernández, The Young Lords: A Radical History
* Carolyn Forché, In the Lateness of the World: Poems
* John Giorno, Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment
* Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
* Randall Horton, {#289-128}: Poems
* Gerald Horne, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
* Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
* Judy Juanita, Manhattan my ass, you’re in Oakland
* William Melvin Kelley con Aiki Kelley, Dunfords Travels Everywheres
* Maryemma Graham: alla carriera
* Anti-Censorship Award: Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, di Jacob Soboroff
* Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson di Shana Redmond

2022[12]

* Spencer Ackerman, Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
* Esther G. Belin, Jeff Burgland, Connie A. Jacobs, Anthony K. Webster, The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature
* Emma Brodie, Songs in Ursa Major
* Daphne Brooks, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
* Myriam J. A. Chancy, What Storm, What Thunder
* Francisco Goldman, Monkey Boy
* Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl: A Novel
* Fatima Shaik, Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
* Edwin Torres, Quanundrum: [i will be your many angled thing]
* Truong Tran, Book of the Other: Small in Comparison
* Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain
* Phillip B. Williams, Mutiny
* Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
* Lifetime Achievement: Gayl Jones
* Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Sound Recording Technology and American Literature di Jessica E. Teague
* Anti-Censorship Award: Jeffrey St. Clair
* Editor/Publisher Award: Wave Books, Charlie Wright e Joshua Beckman

## Note

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1. ^ (EN) American Book Award, su web.stanford.edu.
2. ^ Life Stories: A Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries, p. 609, p. 609.
3. ^ (EN) The American Book Awards, su minlib.net. URL consultato il 26 marzo 2020 (archiviato dall'url originale il 15 febbraio 2020).
4. ^ (EN) American Book Awards honor cultural diversity, su seattletimes.com, 13 agosto 2018. URL consultato il 26 marzo 2020.
5. ^ (EN) Elenco dei premiati, su web.mnstate.edu.
6. ^ The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes, p. 194, p. 194.
7. ^ (EN) Liz Arnold, Baraka, Eggers win 31st Annual American Book Awards, su wnyc.org, 13 agosto 2010. URL consultato il 26 marzo 2020.
8. ^ (EN) Becky Robertson, Naomi Klein wins 2015 American Book Award, su quillandquire.com, 21 luglio 2015. URL consultato il 26 marzo 2020.
9. ^ (EN) Professor Chai's 'Useful Phrases for Immigrants' Wins American Book Award, su lca.sfsu.edu, 11 settembre 2019. URL consultato il 26 marzo 2020 (archiviato dall'url originale il 3 dicembre 2019).
10. ^ (EN) Oakland Novelist Tommy Orange Among Winners of American Book Award, su kqed.org, 19 agosto 2019. URL consultato il 26 marzo 2020.
11. ^ (EN) Akhtar, Ehrenreich among winners of American Book Awards, su latimes.com, 24 agosto 2021. URL consultato il 25 agosto 2021.
12. ^ (EN) Michelle Zauner, Gayl Jones receive American Book Awards, su seattletimes.com, 8 settembre 2022. URL consultato il 2 ottobre 2022.

## Collegamenti esterni

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*   * (EN) Sito ufficiale, su beforecolumbusfoundation.com.

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*[EN]: inglese
*[url originale]: https://lca.sfsu.edu/lcanews/2019/09/11/819308-professor-chais-useful-phrases-immigrants-wins-american-book-award