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Author Awards

The following are awarded in recognition of a person's entire body of work. For book-specific awards, please browse award-winning books. For the best in children's novels and illustrated books, browse award-winning young readers' books.

2012 Award Winners

Pulitzer Prize for History
Malcolm X
Manning Marable
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography

National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

American History Book Prize, New York Historical Society
George F. Kennan
John Lewis Gaddis
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Nobel Prize in Literature
Red Sorghum
Mo Yan
Howard Goldblatt
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Indies Choice Award for Book of the Year, Young Adult
Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys
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Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Albumrd Album
If You Ask Me
Betty White
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Printz Honor
The Returning
Christine Hinwood
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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction
The Wealth Cure
Hill Harper
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Edgar Award for Best First Novel
Bent Road
Lori Roy
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PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction
You Know When the Men Are Gone
Siobhan Fallon
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Anthony Award for Best Nonfiction

Macavity Award for Best Mystery Related Nonfiction
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion
Charlaine Harris
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Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction
Mr. Fox
Helen Oyeyemi
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American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Literature
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Tony Judt
Timothy Snyder
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J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
The Invisible Line
Daniel J. Sharfstein
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Nautilus Gold Award in the Conscious Media, Journalism, and Investigative Reporting
Plastic Ocean
Capt. Charles Moore
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Gold Medal, Illustrators 54
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Jane Smiley
Jillian Tamaki
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New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
Retirement Heist
Ellen E. Schultz
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800-CEO-READ Business Book Award, General Business
The Quest
Daniel Yergin
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Goldman Sachs Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
Private Empire
Steve Coll
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NAIBA Book of the Year
Rules of Civility
Amor Towles
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Audie Award, Humor
Shatner Rules
William Shatner
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Schneider Family Book Award
Close to Famous
Joan Bauer
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Best Book of the Year, COVR
The Prosperous Heart
Julia Cameron
Emma Lively
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Books for a Better Life Award, Wellness
The Longevity Project
Howard S. Friedman, Ph.D.
Leslie R. Martin, Ph.D.
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Books for a Better Life Award, Personal Finance
Clark Howard's Living Large in Lean Times
Clark Howard
Mark Meltzer
Theo Thimou
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Books for a Better Life Award, Spiritual
Holy Ghost Girl
Donna M. Johnson
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New York Book Show Award, 1st Place Picture Book Nonfiction
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
Matt de la Pena
Kadir Nelson
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New York Book Show Award, 1st Place Novelty
Spin
Ido Vaginsky
Hardcover
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New York Book Show Award, 3rd Place Picture Book Fiction
Being Wendy
Fran Drescher
Amy Blay
Hardcover
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New York Book Show Award, 3rd Place Fiction
The Winter Ghosts
Kate Mosse
Paperback
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The Seventh Month
An eSpecial from Dutton

Lisa Gardner

In Lisa Gardner's first-ever short story following thirteen bestselling novels, The 7th Month takes readers between the books and into a day in the life of Boston Detective D. D. Warren. Catch Lisa Gardner on tour.