Heartland Prize
Annual literary prize for fiction and nonfiction books about heartland American
The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize is a literary prize created in 1988 by the newspaper The Chicago Tribune Fiction and Nonfiction . These prizes are awarded to books that "reinforce and perpetuate the values of heartland America."[ 1]
2019: Rebecca Makkai for The Great Believers [ 2]
2018: George Saunders , for Lincoln in the Bardo [ 3]
2017: Colson Whitehead , for The Underground Railroad [ 4]
2016: Jane Smiley , for Golden Age [ 5]
2015: Chang-rae Lee , for On Such a Full Sea
2014: Daniel Woodrell , for The Maid's Version [ 6]
2013: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , for Americanah
2012: Richard Ford , for Canada
2011: Jonathan Franzen , for Freedom
2010: E. O. Wilson , for Anthill [ 7]
2009: Jayne Anne Phillips , for Lark and Termite [ 8]
2008: Aleksandar Hemon , for The Lazarus Project [ 9]
2007: Robert Olmstead , for Coal Black Horse
2006: Louise Erdrich , for The Painted Drum [ 10]
2005: Marilynne Robinson , for Gilead
2004: Ward Just , for An Unfinished Season
2003: Scott Turow , for Reversible Errors
2002: Alice Sebold , for The Lovely Bones
2001: Mona Simpson , for Off Keck Road [ 11]
2000: Jeffery Renard Allen , for Rails Under My Back
1999: Elizabeth Strout , for Amy and Isabelle
1998: Jane Hamilton , for The Short History of a Prince
1997: Charles Frazier , for Cold Mountain
1996: Antonya Nelson , for Talking in Bed
1995: William Maxwell , for All The Days and Nights
1994: Maxine Clair , for Rattlebone
1993: Annie Proulx , for The Shipping News
1992: Jane Smiley , for A Thousand Acres
1991: Kaye Gibbons , for A Cure For Dreams
1990: Tim O'Brien , for The Things They Carried
1989: Ward Just , for Jack Gance
1988: Eric Larsen, for An American Memory
2019: Sarah Smarsh , for Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth [ 12]
2018: Caroline Fraser , for Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder [ 3]
2017: Matthew Desmond , for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City [ 4]
2016: Margo Jefferson , for Negroland: A Memoir [ 13]
2015: Danielle Allen , for Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
2014: Jesmyn Ward , for Men We Reaped [ 14]
2013: Thomas Dyja , for The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream [ 15]
2012: Paul Hendrickson , for Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
2011: Isabel Wilkerson , for The Warmth of Other Suns [ 16]
2010: Rebecca Skloot for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks [ 17]
2009: Nick Reding , for Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town [ 8]
2008: Garry Wills , for Head and Heart: American Christianities 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 & 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
1999: Jay Parini for Robert Frost: A Life
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
1996: Jonathan Harr , for A Civil Action
1995: Richard Stern , for A Sistermony
1994: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , for Colored People: A Memoir
1993: Norman Maclean , for Young Men and Fire
1992: Melissa Fay Greene , for Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Non-Fiction
1991: William Cronon , for Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
1990: Michael Dorris , for The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
1989: Joseph Epstein , for Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives
1988: Don Katz , for The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears
References
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