Nonfiction Awards by Last Name
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Elizabeth Kolbert
2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Elizabeth Kolbert’s first book, The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit (Bloomsbury, 2004), profiles a range of New Yorkers from politicians to policemen to bureaucrats. For her second book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2006), Kolbert traveled from Alaska to Greenland, and visited top scientists, to get to the heart of the debate over global warming. Growing out of a groundbreaking three-part series in The New Yorker, her book brings the environment into the consciousness of the American people and asks what, if anything, can be done, and how we can save our planet. Kolbert has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999 and has written dozens of pieces for the magazine, including profiles of Senator Hillary Clinton, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Her stories have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Mother Jones, and have been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Political Writing. She is a graduate of Yale University. In 2006, she was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship.
Elizabeth Kolbert Bio and Cross Links
...HideJonathan Kozol
1994 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Jonathan Kozol’s books have set the agenda for social change for three decades, covering issues such as illiteracy, homelessness, racial segregation, and poverty in America. His publications include Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, and Ordinary Resurrections. For his book, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, Kozol visited 60 schools in 11 states over a five-year period and finds, despite the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, many schools serving black and Hispanic children are spiraling backward to the pre-Brown era. His most recent book, Letters to a Young Teacher, is a guide into “the joys and challenges and passionate rewards of a beautiful profession.”
Jonathan Kozol Bio and Cross Links
...HideBarry Lopez
1990 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Mr. Lopez’s books include the nonfiction works Arctic Dreams, which won the National Book Award, Of Wolves and Men, and Crossing Open Ground; and the fiction collections Winter Count, Desert Notes, and Field Notes.
Asked to consider the role of the writer, Mr. Lopez has said, “I like to use the word isumatug. It’s of eastern Arctic Eskimo dialect and refers to the storyteller, meaning ‘the person who creates the atmosphere in which wisdom reveals itself.’ I think that’s the writer’s job. It’s not to be brilliant, or to be the person who always knows, but… to be the one who recognizes the patterns that remind us of our obligations and our dreams.”
The recipient of a Lannan Literary Award in Nonfiction, the American Book Award, and the John Burroughs Medal, among other honors, Mr. Lopez lives in rural Oregon. His residency lasted from August 20 to September 10, 1999.
Barry Lopez Bio and Cross Links
...HideCharles C. Mann
2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Charles C. Mann is a correspondent for Science and The Atlantic Monthly, and his most recent book is 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Knopf, 2005). In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus. Mann has co-written four books including Noah’s Choice: The Future of Endangered Species (Knopf, 1995) and The Second Creation (Macmillan, 1986). A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has won awards from the American Bar Association, the Margaret Sanger Foundation, the American Institute of Physics, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, among others. His writing was selected for The Best American Science Writing 2003 and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003.
Charles C. Mann Bio and Cross Links
...HideRubén Martínez
2002 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Rubén Martínez is an award-winning journalist, author and performer. He is the author of four books: Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City (with Joseph Rodriguez, Powerhouse Books, 2006), The New Americans (The New Press, 2004), Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail (Picador, 2002), Eastside Stories (with Joseph Rodriguez, Powerhouse Books, 1998), and The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City and Beyond (Vintage, 1993). His essays, opinions and reportage have appeared widely in such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Village Voice, The Nation, Spin, Sojourners, and Mother Jones. His numerous awards include a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He is Professor, Fletcher Jones Chair in Literature & Writing at Loyola Marymount University, and is currently at work on a book about race, class, and representation in the American Southwest.
Rubén Martínez Bio and Cross Links
...HideChet Raymo
1998 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Chet Raymo is a writer, teacher, and naturalist, whose twelve books include Natural Prayers; Skeptics and True Believers; and The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage.
Of Mr. Raymo’s writing, Stephen Jay Gould said, “These confessions of a wise religious humanist who also loves, practices, understands, and lives by the ideals and findings of science show us how to heal the false and unnecessary rifts in our intellectual cultures, and to bridge the gap between knowledge and morality.”
Mr. Raymo, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1998, teaches physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts and writes a science column for the Boston Globe.
Chet Raymo Bio and Cross Links
...HideScott Russell Sanders
1995 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Scott Russell Sanders is the author of the nonfiction books The Force of Spirit, The Country of Language, Hunting for Hope, Writing from the Center, and Staying Put.
His fiction works include The Invisible Company, The Engineer of Beasts, Bad Man Ballad, and Terrarium.
Mr. Sanders, who teaches at Indiana University, in Bloomington, received the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1995.
Scott Russell Sanders Bio and Cross Links
...HideJeremy Scahill
2007 Lannan Literary Fellowship
Jeremy Scahill is an international journalist who has reported from post-invasion Iraq, from the former Yugoslavia where he covered the 1999 NATO bombing, and from post-Katrina Louisiana where he exposed the presence of Blackwater mercenaries. His reporting sparked a Congressional inquiry and an internal Department of Homeland Security investigation. He is a correspondent for the national radio and television show Democracy Now! and a frequent contributor to The Nation magazine. He is currently a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (2007) is his first book.
Jeremy Scahill Bio and Cross Links
...HideRebecca Solnit
2003 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist. Her books include A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland(1997), Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism (2000), As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art (2001), and most recently River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (2003). She is a columnist for Orion, and a regular contributor to the Nation Institute’s Tomdispatch daily newsgram. Her next book will be Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities.
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...HideLuís Alberto Urrea
2004 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Luís Alberto Urrea, poet, fiction, and nonfiction writer, was born in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1955 and grew up in San Diego. Steeped in personal knowledge of US/Mexico border culture, he is best known for his numerous books and essays where he writes “with a tragic and beautiful intimacy that has no equal.”(Boston Globe) His autobiographical Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life won an American Book Award in 1999, and Across the Wire was a New York Times notable book of the year in 1993.
The son of an Anglo-American mother and a Mexican father, he says, “Home isn’t just a place, it is also a language.”
Luís Alberto Urrea Bio and Cross Links
...HideLawrence Weschler
1998 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland and A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers. His most recent work is Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences . Weschler, awarded a Lannan Award for Nonfiction in 1999, is currently director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.
Lawrence Weschler Bio and Cross Links
...HideTerry Tempest Williams
1993 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classics, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; Leap; Red – Patience and Passion in the Desert; and The Open Space of Democracy. Her new book, Mosaic: Finding Beauty in a Broken World, will be published in 2008.
Terry Tempest Williams Bio and Cross Links
...HideHoward Zinn
1998 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Howard Zinn, a professor emeritus of political science at Boston University, is the author of twenty books, including You Can’t Remain Neutral on a Moving Train, a powerful memoir of his life and political activism, and A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present, a history written from the standpoint of those who have been marginalized politically and economically and whose struggles have been largely omitted from most histories.
Howard Zinn Bio and Cross Links
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