Julia Ward Howe Prize Winners
1997 to 2022
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Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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2022 | ||
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Fiction |
Libertie |
Kaitlyn Greenidge |
Algonquin |
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The Book for Form and Emptiness |
Ruth Ozeki |
Viking |
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Non-Fiction |
American Made |
Farah Stockman |
Random House |
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Poetry |
It Isn't a Ghost if it Lives in your Chest |
Joan Houlihan |
Four Way |
|
Young Reader |
Born Behind Bars |
Padma Venkatraman |
Nancy Paulson |
| 2021 | |||
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Fiction |
Monogamy |
Sue Miller |
Harper Collins |
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Non-Fiction |
Rule of Five |
Richard Lazarus |
Harvard University |
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Poetry |
Owed |
Joshua Bennett |
Penguin Random House |
|
Young Reader |
This Book is Anti-Racist |
Tiffany Jewell |
Francis Lincoln |
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2020 | ||
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Fiction |
The World that We Knew |
Alice Hoffman |
Simon and Schuster |
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Non-Fiction |
Floating Coast |
Bathsheba Demuth |
WW Norton |
|
Poetry |
Tap Out |
Edgar Kunz |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
|
Young Reader |
16 Words: William Carlos Williams and "The Red Wheelbarrow" |
Lisa Rogers |
Schwartz & Wade/ Penguin |
| 2019 | |||
|
Fiction |
Winter Loon |
Susan Bernhard |
Little A |
|
Non-Fiction |
The Perfectionists |
Simon Winchester |
Harper |
|
Young Reader |
My Real Name is Hanna |
Tara Lynn Masih |
Mandel Vilar |
| 2018 | |||
|
Fiction |
The Weigh of Ink |
Rachel Kadish |
Mariner |
|
Non-Fiction |
Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution |
Jonathan Losos |
Riverhead |
|
Poetry |
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 |
Frank Bidart |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
|
Young Reader |
The Youngest Marcher |
Cynthia Levenson |
Atheneum |
| 2017 | |||
|
General |
From Nothing |
Daniel Tobin |
Four Way |
|
Young Reader |
When the Sea Turned to Silver |
Grace Lin |
Little Brown |
| 2016 | |||
|
General |
The Marriage of Opposites |
Alice Hoffman |
Simon & Schuster |
|
Young Reader |
Symphony for the City of the Dead |
M.T.Anderson |
Candlewick |
| 2015 | |||
|
General |
Miss Anne in Harlem: the White Women in Black Renaissance |
Carla Kaplan |
Harper Perennial |
| 2013 | |||
|
General |
The Art Forger |
B.A.Shapiro |
Algonquin |
|
Young Reader |
The Good Braider |
Terry Farish |
Marshall Cavendish |
| 2012 | |||
|
General |
Binocular Vision |
Edith Pearlman |
Lookout |
|
Young Reader |
Exposed |
Kimberly Marcus |
Random House |
| 2011 | |||
|
General |
Common as Air |
Lewis Hyde |
Farrar, Strauss Giroux |
|
Young Reader |
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors |
Francisco X. Stork |
Arthur A. Levine |
| 2010 | |||
|
General |
In Her Wake |
Nancy Rappaport |
Basic Books |
|
Young Reader |
Lost |
Jaqueline Davies |
Marshall Cavendish |
| 2009 | |||
|
General |
The Forever War |
Dexter Filkins |
Knopf |
|
Young Reader |
Climbing the Stairs |
Padma Venkatraman |
G.P. Putnam |
| 2008 | |||
|
General |
When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep |
Sylvia Sellers-Garcia |
Riverhead |
|
Young Reader |
The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
Brian Selznick |
Scholastic |
| 2007 | |||
|
General |
House of War: The Pentagon & the Disastrous Rise of American Power |
James Carroll |
Houghton Mifflin |
|
Young Reader |
Octavian Nothing: Volume I, The Pox Party |
M.T.Anderson |
Candlewick |
| 2006 | |||
|
General |
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus |
Charles C. Mann |
Alfred A. Knopf |
|
Young Reader |
Where the Great Hawk Flies |
Liza Ketchum |
Clarion Books |
| 2005 | |||
|
General |
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin |
Gordon S. Wood |
Penguin |
|
Young Reader |
How I Live Now |
Meg Rosoff |
Random House |
| 2004 | |||
|
General |
Hawthorne: A Life |
Brenda Wineapple |
Alfred A. Knopf |
|
Young Reader |
The Fattening Hut |
Pat Lowery Collins |
Houghton Mifflin |
| 2003 | |||
|
General |
Beacon Hill |
Moying Li-Marcus |
Northeastern U. Press |
|
Young Reader |
The Pond |
Gordon Morrison |
Houghton Mifflin |
| 2002 | |||
|
General |
From Psalm to Symphony |
Nicholas Tawa |
Northeastern University |
|
Young Reader |
Razzle |
Ellen Wittlinger |
Simon & Schuster |
| 2001 | |||
|
General |
Boston A to Z |
Thomas H. O'Connor |
Harvard University |
|
Young Reader |
Nature's Fury |
Carole G. Vogel |
Scholastic |
| 2000 | |||
|
General |
All Souls |
Michael Patrick MacDonald |
Beacon |
|
Young Reader |
Summer Hawk |
Deborah Savage |
Houghton Mifflin |
| 1999 | |||
|
General |
Badge of Courage |
Linda H. Davis |
Houghton Mifflin |
| 1998 | |||
|
General |
The Red Tent |
Anita Diamant |
Houghton Mifflin |
| 1997 | |||
|
General |
Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler |
Igor Lukas |
Oxford University |