Winners from Prior Years
2011 Awards for Books Published in 2010
judges
Adult Fiction
Winner:
Benjamin Percy - The Wilding: A Novel - Graywolf Press
Finalists:
Keir Graff - The Price of Liberty - Severn House Publishers
Billy Lombardo - The Man with Two Arms: A Novel - The
Overlook Press
Adult Nonfiction
Winner:
Deborah Blum - The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth
of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York - Penguin Press
Finalists:
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik - Watching TV: Six
Decades of American Television, 2nd expanded
ed. - Syracuse University Press
Kevin Stein - Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age
- The University of Michigan Press and The University of Michigan
Library
Biography
Winner:
Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman - John Paul Stevens: An
Independent Life - Northern Illinois University Press
Finalist:
Bruce L. Mouser - For Labor, Race, and Liberty: George Edwin
Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making
of Independent Black Politics - The University of Wisconsin
Press
Children's fiction
Winner:
Rebecca Barnhouse - The Coming of the Dragon - Random
House Books for Young Readers
Finalists:
Stephanie Hemphill - Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch
Trials - Balzer and Bray
Clare Vanderpool - Moon Over Manifest - Delacorte Books
for Young Readers
Children's Nonfiction
Winner:
Mitchell, Don - Driven: A Photobiography of Henry Ford
- National Geographic Children's Books
Poetry
Winner:
Jehanne Dubrow - Stateside - TriQuarterly
James Friend Memorial Award for Literary
and Dramatic Criticism
Winner:
John Barron, publisher, Chicago Sun-Times, for his love
of books and his many fine book reviews
Winners from Prior Years
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