The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize is a literary prize created in 1988 by the newspaper The Chicago Tribune. It is awarded yearly in two categories: Fiction and Nonfiction. These prizes are awarded to books that "reinforce and perpetuate the values of heartland America."[1]
Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize — Fiction
- 2019: Rebecca Makkai for The Great Believers[2]
- 2018: George Saunders, for Lincoln in the Bardo[3]
- 2017: Colson Whitehead, for The Underground Railroad[4]
- 2016: Jane Smiley, for Golden Age[5]
- 2015: Chang-rae Lee, for On Such a Full Sea
- 2014: Daniel Woodrell, for The Maid's Version[6]
- 2013: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for Americanah
- 2012: Richard Ford, for Canada
- 2011: Jonathan Franzen, for Freedom
- 2010: E. O. Wilson, for Anthill[7]
- 2009: Jayne Anne Phillips, for Lark and Termite[8]
- 2008: Aleksandar Hemon, for The Lazarus Project[9]
- 2007: Robert Olmstead, for Coal Black Horse
- 2006: Louise Erdrich, for The Painted Drum[10]
- 2005: Marilynne Robinson, for Gilead
- 2004: Ward Just, for An Unfinished Season
- 2003: Scott Turow, for Reversible Errors
- 2002: Alice Sebold, for The Lovely Bones
- 2001: Mona Simpson, for Off Keck Road[11]
- 2000: Jeffery Renard Allen, for Rails Under My Back
- 1999: Elizabeth Strout, for Amy and Isabelle
- 1998: Jane Hamilton, for The Short History of a Prince
- 1997: Charles Frazier, for Cold Mountain
- 1996: Antonya Nelson, for Talking in Bed
- 1995: William Maxwell, for All The Days and Nights
- 1994: Maxine Clair, for Rattlebone
- 1993: Annie Proulx, for The Shipping News
- 1992: Jane Smiley, for A Thousand Acres
- 1991: Kaye Gibbons, for A Cure For Dreams
- 1990: Tim O'Brien, for The Things They Carried
- 1989: Ward Just, for Jack Gance
- 1988: Eric Larsen, for An American Memory
Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize — Nonfiction
- 2019: Sarah Smarsh, for Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth[12]
- 2018: Caroline Fraser, for Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder[3]
- 2017: Matthew Desmond, for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City[4]
- 2016: Margo Jefferson, for Negroland: A Memoir [13]
- 2015: Danielle Allen, for Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
- 2014: Jesmyn Ward, for Men We Reaped[14]
- 2013: Thomas Dyja, for The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream[15]
- 2012: Paul Hendrickson, for Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
- 2011: Isabel Wilkerson, for The Warmth of Other Suns[16]
- 2010: Rebecca Skloot for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks[17]
- 2009: Nick Reding, for Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town[8]
- 2008: Garry Wills, for Head and Heart: American Christianities and What the Gospels Meant[9]
- 2007: Orville Vernon Burton, for The Age of Lincoln
- 2006: Taylor Branch, for At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968[10]
- 2005: Kevin Boyle, for Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
- 2004: Ann Patchett, for Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
- 2003: Paul Hendrickson, for Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
- 2002: Studs Terkel, for Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
- 2001: Louis Menand, for The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America[11]
- 2000: Zachary Karabell, for The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
- 1999: Jay Parini for Robert Frost: A Life
- 1998: Alex Kotlowitz, for The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, A Death, and America's Dilemma
- 1997: Thomas Lynch, for The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
- 1996: Jonathan Harr, for A Civil Action
- 1995: Richard Stern, for A Sistermony
- 1994: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., for Colored People: A Memoir
- 1993: Norman Maclean, for Young Men and Fire
- 1992: Melissa Fay Greene, for Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Non-Fiction
- 1991: William Cronon, for Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
- 1990: Michael Dorris, for The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- 1989: Joseph Epstein, for Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives
- 1988: Don Katz, for The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears
References
- ↑ "Heartland Prize", Chicago Tribune.
- ↑ Taylor, Elizabeth (October 11, 2019). "Rebecca Makkai's 'The Great Believers': An empathic novel worthy of the Heartland Prize". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- 1 2 Johnson, Christen A. (August 23, 2018). "Ron Chernow, George Saunders and Caroline Fraser win 2018 Tribune literary prizes". Chicago Tribune.
- 1 2 "Book awards: Heartland Prize". LibraryThing. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ Golden Age
- ↑ Taylor, Elizabeth (24 October 2014). "'The Maid's Version' wins 2014 Heartland Prize for Fiction". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
- ↑ "2010 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize-Winners: E.O. Wilson and Rebecca Skloot | Chicago Humanities Festival". Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
- 1 2 "Chicago Humanities Festival | 2009 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Winners". www.chicagohumanities.org. Archived from the original on 2011-05-05.
- 1 2 "Chicago Humanities Festival | Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Winners 2008". www.chicagohumanities.org. Archived from the original on 2011-09-08.
- 1 2 "Chicago Humanities Festival | Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2006: Taylor Branch and Louise Erdrich". www.chicagohumanities.org. Archived from the original on 2011-09-14.
- 1 2 "Chicago Humanities Festival | Menand, Simpson, and Raboteau | 2001 Chicago Tribune Heartland and Nelson Algren Prizes". www.chicagohumanities.org. Archived from the original on 2011-10-08.
- ↑ Day, Jennifer (October 28, 2019). "Authors Rebecca Makkai, Sarah Smarsh accept 2019 Heartland Prizes". Chicago Tribune.
- ↑ "Margo Jefferson memoir 'Negroland' a resonant Heartland Prize winner". Chicago Tribune.
- ↑ Taylor, Elizabeth (23 October 2014). "'Men We Reaped' wins 2014 Heartland Prize for Fiction". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
- ↑ "Thomas Dyja's 'The Third Coast' awarded nonfiction Heartland Prize - Chicago Tribune". articles.chicagotribune.com. Archived from the original on 2013-11-05.
- ↑ "Chicago Humanities Festival | 2011 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Winners | Jonathan Franzen | Isabel Wilkerson". www.chicagohumanities.org. Archived from the original on 2012-01-03.
- ↑ "E. O. Wilson and Rebecca Skloot: 2010 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prizes". chicagohumanities.org. 2011. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
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