2017 WINNERS
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart, Lenny / Random House
Biography
Laura Dassow Walls, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, University Of Chicago Press
The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Winner
Benjamin Taylor, The Huế and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered, Penguin Books
Current Interest
Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, Viking
Fiction
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Riverhead Books
Graphic Novel / Comics
Leslie Stein, Present, Drawn and Quarterly
History
Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, W. W. Norton & Company
Mystery / Thriller
Joyce Carol Oates, A Book of American Martyrs, Ecco
Poetry
Patricia Smith, Incendiary Art: Poems, TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Science & Technology
Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Penguin Press
Young Adult Literature
Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down, Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books