PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayFinalist

Given by PEN America

49 Works 23,465 Books 916 Reviews 4.1
Wikipedia info. There was no award 2005-2010.
Stages:
All, Winner (28), Finalist (49), Longlist (84)
Years:
All, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (4), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (4), 2014 (4), 2013 (2)

Finalist 49

WorkYear
A Left-Handed Woman: Essays by Judith Thurman2023
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri2023
Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin by Peter Orner2023
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris2023
The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home by Alison Townsend2023
Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South by Margaret Renkl2022
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib2022
Homo Irrealis: Essays by André Aciman2022
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures) by Teju Cole2022
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett2022
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich2021
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick2021
Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays by Robert Michael Pyle2021
Terroir: Love, Out of Place by Natasha Sajé2021
Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape by Deborah Fleming2020
I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz (New York Review Books Classics) by Eve Babitz2020
Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison2020
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum2020
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino2020
Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms by Michelle Tea2019
We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim2019
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee2019
Impossible Owls: Essays by Brian Phillips2019
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith2019
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin2018
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano2018
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin2018
Alpine Apprentice (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.) by Sarah Gorham2018
Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West by Robert Leonard Reid2018
The Girls in My Town: Essays (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize) by Angela Morales2017
The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood by Belle Boggs2017
Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole2017
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind by Siri Hustvedt2017
Becoming Earth by Eva Saulitis2017
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates2016
After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction by Renata Adler2016
The Quarry: Essays by Susan Howe2016
The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson2016
Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles by David L. Ulin2016
Moral imagination by David Bromwich2015
Loitering: New and Collected Essays by Charles D'Ambrosio2015
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison2015
Limber by Angela Pelster2015
Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs by James Wolcott2014
Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm2014
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris2014
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit2014
The Story of America: Essays on Origins by Jill Lepore2013
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture (New York Review Collections) by Daniel Mendelsohn2013

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