Julia Ward Howe Awards 2021

(for books published in 2020)


Fiction — Winners

  • Monogamy by Sue Miller (HarperCollins Publishers)

Fiction — Finalists

  • Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster)

  • The Bear by Andrew Krivak (Bellvue Literary Press)

Non-Fiction — Winner

  • Rule of Five by Richard Lazarus (Harvard University Press)

Non-Fiction — Finalists

  • Last Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman (Penguin Random House)

  • Tacky’s Revolt by Vincent Brown (Harvard University Press)

Poetry — Winner

  • Owed by Joshua Bennett (Penguin Random House)

Young Readers— Winner

  • This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell (Francis Lincoln Children’s Books)

Young Readers— Finalists

  • Trowbridge Road by Marcella Pixley (Candlewick)

  • Wherever I Go by Mary Wagley Copp (Simon & Schuster)

  • A Girl Named Rosita by Anika Aldamuy Denise (HarperCollins Publishers)

2021 Discovery Awards