Athenaeum Literary AwardWinner

Given by Athenaeum of Philadelphia

92 Works 25,672 Books 852 Reviews 4.1
Athenaeum Literary Award is an American literary award hosted by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, a special collections library. It is award to authors who are "bona fide residents of Philadelphia show more or Pennsylvania living within a radius of 30 miles of City Hall

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All, Winner (92), Finalist (6)
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All, 2022 (3), 2021 (2), 2020 (2), 2019 (2), 2018 (2), 2017 (2), 2016 (2), 2015 (2), 2014 (1), 2013 (2), 2012 (3), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (4), 1977 (2), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1969 (2), 1968 (2), 1967 (2), 1965 (1), 1964 (2), 1963 (1), 1962 (3), 1961 (1), 1960 (2), 1959 (1), 1958 (2), 1957 (1), 1956 (2), 1955 (1), 1954 (1), 1953 (1), 1952 (1), 1951 (1), 1950 (1), 1949 (1)
Announced:
February 1: Finalist2023 Recent

Winner 92

WorkYear
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics―and How to Fix It by Will Bunch2022
The Philadelphia school and the future of architecture by John Lobell2022
University City : history, race, and community in the era of the innovation district by Laura Wolf-Powers2022
My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes2021
Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction by Miles Orvell2021
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper2020
Salut!: France Meets Philadelphia by Lynn Miller2020
Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects by Edward Posnett2019
Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City by Witold Rybczynski2019
Circe by Madeline Miller2018
Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 by Patrick Spero2018
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar2017
The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adaptations and Innovations by Carol Eaton Soltis2017
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Gino Segré2016
Eye of the sixties : Richard Bellamy and the transformation of modern art by Judith E. Stein2016
American Zoo: A Sociological Safari by David Grazian2015
Houses for a New World" Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945–1965 by Barbara Miller Lane2015
Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia by Jessica C. Roney2014
The Houses of Louis Kahn by George H. Marcus2013
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime by Adrian Raine2013
Heft by Liz Moore2012
A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science by Robert McCracken Peck2012
A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States by Steven Ujifusa2012
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Stories by Robin Black2010
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman2009
Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 by Walter A. McDougall2008
Finn by Jon Clinch2007
Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920 by David Traxel2006
In the Shadow of the Law by Kermit Roosevelt2005
Historic Houses of Philadelphia : A Tour of the Region's Museum Homes by Roger W. Moss2004
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity by Jack Repcheck2003
Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell by Jane Golden2002
Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting by Susan Sidlauskas2000
Jack Tar: A Sailor's Life : 1750-1910 (Marine Art & Antiques) by J. Welles Henderson1999
Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace by James J. O'Donnell1998
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter Conn1996
Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down over Germany in World War II by Thomas Childers1995
The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters by Paul Fussell1994
A Judge Uncommon: A Life of John Biggs, Jr. by Seymour I. Toll1993
The American Pacific : from the old China trade to the present by Arthur P. Dudden1992
The United States of Incompetence by Art Carey1991
Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family by Matthews Masayuki Hamabata1990
The Grotto by Coral Lansbury1989
English Romanticism: The Human Context by Marilyn Gaull1988
Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945 by David Eisenhower1986
Chancing It: Why We Take Risks by Ralph Keyes1985
The Renaissance Hamlet : issues and responses in 1600 by Roland Mushat Frye1984
The Dentist and the Empress The Adventures of Dr. Tom Evans in Gas-lit Paris by Gerald Carson1983
George Washington's Chinaware by Susan Gray Detweiller1982
The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley1981
A Princess in Berlin by Arthur R. G. Solmssen1980
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia by E. Digby Baltzell1979
Nurse by Peggy Anderson1978
Being Seventy: The Measure of a Year by Elizabeth Gray Vining1978
Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution by Anthony F. C. Wallace1978
Woman of Quality by Jan Westcott1978
The moving pageant: A selection of essays by Seymour Adelman1977
Famous and curious cemeteries : a pictorial, historical, and anecdotal view of American and European cemeteries and the famous and infamous people who are buried there by John Francis Marion1977
City of independence: Views of Philadelphia before 1800 by Martin P. Snyder1975
Blue-Collar Journal: A College President's Sabbatical by John Royston Coleman1974
The glorious enterprise: the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 and H. J. Schwarzmann, architect-in-chief by John Maass1973
The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 by Jerre Mangione1972
The Night Country by Loren Eiseley1971
The Brandywine tradition by Henry Clarence Pitz1969
The Promise by Chaim Potok1969
Expatriates and patriots;: American artists, scholars, and writers in Europe by Ernest Penney Earnest1968
The art of Portugal, 1500-1800 by Robert Chester Smith1968
Design of Cities by Edmund N. Bacon1967
The Fox and the Hound by Daniel P. Mannix1967
The Long Fuse: An Interpretation of the Origins of World War I by Laurence Lafore1965
God bless the child by Kristin Hunter Lattany1964
Take heed of loving me by Elizabeth Gray Vining1964
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character by Samuel Noah Kramer1963
Maria by Curtis Bok1962
The Origin of Races by Carleton S. Coon1962
Puritans and Yankees the Winthrop Dynasty of New England by Richard S. Dunn1962
The Stakes of Power, 1845-1877 by Roy F. Nichols1961
Storm the Last Rampart by David Taylor1960
Rosenbach: A Biography by Edwin Wolf1960
Mainstreams of Modern Art by John Canaday1959
An Elephant for Aristotle by L. Sprague de Camp1958
Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It by Loren Eiseley1958
The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke by Catherine Drinker Bowen1957
The Village Beyond by Livingston Biddle Jr.1956
From the tablets of Sumer; twenty-five firsts in man's recorded history by Samuel Noah Kramer1956
Mr. Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth by Conyers Read1955
The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb1954
The Culmination, 1760-1763 by Lawrence Henry Gipson1953
The Philadelphia Story 1752-1952, The Philadelphia Contributionship by Nicholas B. Wainwright1952
The Literature of the American People: A Historical and Critical Survey by Arthur Hobson Quinn1951
The royal play of Macbeth; when, why, and how it was written by Shakespeare by Henry Neill Paul1950
World of the Middle Ages: A Reorientation of Medieval History by John L. Lamonte1949

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