Winners of the 45th Annual American Book Award

September 5, 2024 The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Forty-Fifth Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS Ceremonies, Sunday, October 27, 2024, 1:00 p.m. Oakland, CA—The 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. Reception to follow. This event is open to the public. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity; the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories, groups, or “special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers. 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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September 5, 2024 The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Forty-Fifth Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS Ceremonies, Sunday, October 27, 2024, 1:00 p.m. Oakland, CA—The 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. Reception to follow. This event is open to the public. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity; the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories, groups, or “special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers. 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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September 5, 2024 The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Forty-Fifth Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS Ceremonies, Sunday, October 27, 2024, 1:00 p.m. Oakland, CA—The 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. Reception to follow. This event is open to the public. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity; the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories, groups, or “special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers. 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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