Athenaeum Literary Award

Given by Athenaeum of Philadelphia

98 Works 25,951 Books 866 Reviews 4.1
Athenaeum Literary Award is an American literary award hosted by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, a special collections library. It is award to authors who are "bona fide residents of Philadelphia vis mere or Pennsylvania living within a radius of 30 miles of City Hall

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Announced:
februar 1: Finalist2023 Nyeste

Winner 92

VærkÅr
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics―and How to Fix It af Will Bunch2022
The Philadelphia school and the future of architecture af John Lobell2022
University City : history, race, and community in the era of the innovation district af Laura Wolf-Powers2022
My Broken Language: A Memoir af Quiara Alegría Hudes2021
Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction af Miles Orvell2021
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir af Michele Harper2020
Salut!: France Meets Philadelphia af Lynn Miller2020
Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects af Edward Posnett2019
Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City af Witold Rybczynski2019
Circe af Madeline Miller2018
Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 af Patrick Spero2018
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge af Erica Armstrong Dunbar2017
The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adaptations and Innovations af Carol Eaton Soltis2017
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age af Gino Segré2016
Eye of the sixties : Richard Bellamy and the transformation of modern art af Judith E. Stein2016
American Zoo: A Sociological Safari af David Grazian2015
Houses for a New World" Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945–1965 af Barbara Miller Lane2015
Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia af Jessica C. Roney2014
The Houses of Louis Kahn af George H. Marcus2013
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime af Adrian Raine2013
Heft af Liz Moore2012
A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science af Robert McCracken Peck2012
A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States af Steven Ujifusa2012
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Stories af Robin Black2010
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution af Richard Beeman2009
Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 af Walter A. McDougall2008
Finn af Jon Clinch2007
Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920 af David Traxel2006
In the Shadow of the Law af Kermit Roosevelt2005
Historic Houses of Philadelphia : A Tour of the Region's Museum Homes af Roger W. Moss2004
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity af Jack Repcheck2003
Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell af Jane Golden2002
Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting af Susan Sidlauskas2000
Jack Tar: A Sailor's Life : 1750-1910 (Marine Art & Antiques) af J. Welles Henderson1999
Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace af James J. O'Donnell1998
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography af Peter Conn1996
Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down over Germany in World War II af Thomas Childers1995
The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters af Paul Fussell1994
A Judge Uncommon: A Life of John Biggs, Jr. af Seymour I. Toll1993
The American Pacific : from the old China trade to the present af Arthur P. Dudden1992
The United States of Incompetence af Art Carey1991
Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family af Matthews Masayuki Hamabata1990
The Grotto af Coral Lansbury1989
English Romanticism: The Human Context af Marilyn Gaull1988
Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945 af David Eisenhower1986
Chancing It: Why We Take Risks af Ralph Keyes1985
The Renaissance Hamlet : issues and responses in 1600 af Roland Mushat Frye1984
The Dentist and the Empress The Adventures of Dr. Tom Evans in Gas-lit Paris af Gerald Carson1983
George Washington's Chinaware af Susan Gray Detweiller1982
The Chaneysville Incident af David Bradley1981
A Princess in Berlin af Arthur R. G. Solmssen1980
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia af E. Digby Baltzell1979
Nurse af Peggy Anderson1978
Being Seventy: The Measure of a Year af Elizabeth Gray Vining1978
Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution af Anthony F. C. Wallace1978
Woman of Quality af Jan Westcott1978
The moving pageant: A selection of essays af Seymour Adelman1977
Famous and curious cemeteries : a pictorial, historical, and anecdotal view of American and European cemeteries and the famous and infamous people who are buried there af John Francis Marion1977
City of independence: Views of Philadelphia before 1800 af Martin P. Snyder1975
Blue-Collar Journal: A College President's Sabbatical af John Royston Coleman1974
The glorious enterprise: the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 and H. J. Schwarzmann, architect-in-chief af John Maass1973
The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 af Jerre Mangione1972
The Night Country af Loren Eiseley1971
The Brandywine tradition af Henry Clarence Pitz1969
The Promise af Chaim Potok1969
Expatriates and patriots;: American artists, scholars, and writers in Europe af Ernest Penney Earnest1968
The art of Portugal, 1500-1800 af Robert Chester Smith1968
Design of Cities af Edmund N. Bacon1967
The Fox and the Hound af Daniel P. Mannix1967
The Long Fuse: An Interpretation of the Origins of World War I af Laurence Lafore1965
God bless the child af Kristin Hunter Lattany1964
Take heed of loving me af Elizabeth Gray Vining1964
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character af Samuel Noah Kramer1963
Maria af Curtis Bok1962
The Origin of Races af Carleton S. Coon1962
Puritans and Yankees the Winthrop Dynasty of New England af Richard S. Dunn1962
The Stakes of Power, 1845-1877 af Roy F. Nichols1961
Storm the Last Rampart af David Taylor1960
Rosenbach: A Biography af Edwin Wolf1960
Mainstreams of Modern Art af John Canaday1959
An Elephant for Aristotle af L. Sprague de Camp1958
Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It af Loren Eiseley1958
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke af Catherine Drinker Bowen1957
The Village Beyond af Livingston Biddle Jr.1956
From the tablets of Sumer; twenty-five firsts in man's recorded history af Samuel Noah Kramer1956
Mr. Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth af Conyers Read1955
The Night of the Hunter af Davis Grubb1954
The Culmination, 1760-1763 af Lawrence Henry Gipson1953
The Philadelphia Story 1752-1952, The Philadelphia Contributionship af Nicholas B. Wainwright1952
The Literature of the American People: A Historical and Critical Survey af Arthur Hobson Quinn1951
The royal play of Macbeth; when, why, and how it was written by Shakespeare af Henry Neill Paul1950
World of the Middle Ages: A Reorientation of Medieval History af John L. Lamonte1949

Finalist 6

VærkÅr
Rug Man af David Amadio2023
Lazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed Science to Accommodate Immigrants and Prevent Epidemics af David S. Barnes2023
The Unsettled af Ayana Mathis2023
From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine af Ben Stanger2023
Sink: A Memoir af Joseph Earl Thomas2023
The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I af Steven Ujifusa2023

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