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BEFORE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION announces the Winners of the Forty-Fifth Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS. The 2024 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized on Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 1:00 p.m., at the SF Jazz Center, 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA.The 2024 American Book Award Winners
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Independence: A Novel (William Morrow)
Debra Magpie Earling
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel (Milkweed Editions)
Paul S. Flores
We Still Be: Poems and Performances (El Martillo Press)
Aisha Abdel Gawad
Between Two Moons: A Novel (Doubleday)
Gregg Hecimovich
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative (Ecco)
C.L.R. James adapted and illustrated by Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History (Verso)
R. F. Kuang
Yellowface (William Morrow)
Felipe Luciano
Flesh & Spirit: Confessions of a Young Lord (Empire State Editions)
Fae Myenne Ng
Orphan Bachelors (Grove Press)
Roger Reeves
Dark Days: Fugitive Essays (Graywolf)
John N. Roberts
Changing the Commons: Stories About Place Making (ORO Editions)
Barbara D. Savage
Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar (Yale University Press)
Rachel L. Swarns
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church (Random House)
Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards
Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music (Knopf)
Valerie Wilson Wesley
A Shimmer of Red (An Odessa Jones Mystery) (Kensington)
Rosanna Xia
California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline (Heyday)
John Yau
Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art (Black Sparrow Press)
Monica Youn
From From (Graywolf)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Jessica Hagedorn
Editor/Publisher Award
Jeff Deutsch, publisher, and Parneshia Jones, editor (for Divine Days, by Leon Forrest, Seminary Co-op Offsets)
Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun Magazine
Anti-Censorship Award
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Asna Tabassum, Valedictorian, Class of 2024, University of Southern California
Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters, Lynnée Denise (University of Texas Press)
“Book Review: Erasure by Percival Everett, The Basis for the Film American Fiction”
Brenda M. Greene, Our Time Press
Mehdi Hasan, Zeteo
“Behind F1’s Velvet Curtain” Kate Wagner, Escape Collective
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Joe Henderson Lab at Sf Jazz Center, 201 Franklin Street,San Francisco,CA,United States
