Friends of American Writers AwardAdult Literature

Given by Friends of American Writers

Other Names: Friends of American Writers Chicago Adult Literature Award, Friends of American Writers Juvenile Book Merit Award
168 Works 0 Books
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All, First Place (108), Second First (60), No Stage (120)
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First Place 108

WorkYear
The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast by Kirk Wallace Johnson2023
Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe2023
Bone Broth by Lyndsey Ellis2022
Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff2022
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel2021
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore2021
The Municipalists: A Novel by Seth Fried2020
The Altruists by Andrew Ridker2020
Severance by Ling Ma2019
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah2018
The Hearts of Men: A Novel by Nickolas Butler2018
Carry On: A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family by Lisa Fenn2017
The Nix by Nathan Hill2017
The Monster's Daughter by Michelle Pretorius2017
Bettyville: A Memoir by George Hodgman2016
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng2015
The Last Animal by Abby Geni2014
The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories by Ethan Rutherford2014
The Boiling Season: A Novel by Christopher Hebert2013
Merit badges by Kevin Fenton2012
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach2012
Elegies for the Brokenhearted by Christie Hodgen2011
You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness by Heather Sellers2011
Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen2010
Methland by Nick Reding2010
Conception: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon2009
The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles2009
The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman2008
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen2007
Please Don't Come Back from the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos2006
Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse by Steve Bogira2006
Hidden by Paul Jaskunas2005
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson2005
Haunted Ground by Erin Hart2004
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps by Ted Kooser2003
The Rich Part of Life by Jim Kokoris2002
Phoenix: A Brother's Life by J.D. Dolan2001
Glass Hearts by Terri Paul2000
The Witness of Combines by Kent Meyers1999
The Tree of Red Stars by Tessa Bridal1998
Middle Son by Deborah Iida1997
Somebody Else's Mama (Harvest Book) by David Haynes1996
Rattlebone by Maxine Clair1995
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson1994
Salaryman by Meg Pei1993
Orwell: The Authorized Biography by Michael Shelden1992
The Wild Colonial Boy by James Hynes1991
The Earth is Enough by Harry Middleton1990
Mamaw by Susan Dodd1989
Automotive History of Lucky Kellerman, T by Steve Heller1988
Carlyle Simpson by Karen Lee Osborne1987
Crows by Charles Dickinson1986
Fragments by Jack Fuller1985
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase1984
The Glad River by Will D. Campbell1983
At Paradise Gate by Jane Smiley1982
Elkhorn Tavern by Douglas C. Jones1981
An Accomplished Woman by Nancy J. Price1980
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage by Bette Howland1979
Staggerford by Jon Hassler1978
City dogs: A novel by William Brashler1977
Unquiet soul: a biography of Charlotte Brontë by Margot Peters1976
The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry1975
A thorn for the flesh by Robert Boston1974
Confessions of a Child of the Century by Thomas Rogers1973
Not without the Americans;: A personal history by Keyes Beech1972
A Nation in Torment: The Great American Depression 1929-1939 by Edward Robb Ellis1971
The Coming of Rain by Richard Marius1970
Perceval Merewether 1 by Ellis K. Meacham1969
Rulers of darkness by Frederick J. Lipp1967
Shadow of a Star by Jamie Lee Cooper1966
The Duponts Of Delaware: A Fantastic Dynasty by William H. A. Carr1965
The Odyssey of Kostas Volakis by Harry Mark Petrakis1964
The Bones of Plenty by Lois Phillips Hudson1963
Fiddle Hill by James McCague1961
Parton's Island by Paul Darcy Boles1959
The Landlooker by William F. Steuber1958
So Fell the Angels: The Story of Chase, Lincoln's Ambitious Chief Justice, His Bold Designing Daughter, and the Husband Who Could Finance Her Plans by Thomas Graham Belden1957
The Headland by Carol Ryrie Brink1956
The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow1955
The White Lady by Leonard Dubkin1953
The Teahouse of the August Moon by Vern Sneider1952
Welcome, darkness by Leon Statham1951
The hours and the ages;: A sequence of Americans by Edward Nicholas1950
The Big Sky by Jr. A. B. Guthrie1948
Land of Promise: New York Pioneer's and their Fight for Freedom by Walter Havighurst1947
Final Score by Warren Beck1945
Retreat from Rostov by Paul Hughes1944
West of midnight by Paul Engle1942
Delilah by Marcus Goodrich1941
Ararat by Elgin Groseclose1940
Wind without rain by Herbert Krause1939
They Came like Swallows by William Maxwell1938
Old Historic Churches of America: Their Romantic History and Their Traditions by Edward Francis RINES1937
Landscape with Figures: Poems by Lionel Wiggam1937
Inside Europe by John Gunther1936
The Song of the Messiah by John Gneisenau Neihardt1936
Singing in the wilderness; a salute to John James Audubon by Donald Culross Peattie1936
Long Remember by MacKinlay Kantor1935
Personal History by Vincent Sheean1935
Chicago by Tanya Lloyd Kyi1934
The Invasion by Janet Lewis1934
Chicago,: A portrait, by Henry Justin Smith1934
The life of Robert Burns by Franklyn B. Snyder1934
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (2 vol. set) by Carl Sandburg1933
Wings against the moon by Lew R. Sarett1933
Boy in the Wind by George Dillon1931
Josslyn by Henry Justin Smith1931

Second First 60

WorkYear
The Wonder That Was Ours by Alice Hatcher2019
I Was a Revolutionary: Stories by Andrew Malan Milward2016
A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell2016
The Mathematician's Shiva: A Novel by Stuart Rojstaczer2015
Last Night at the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert2015
Y by Marjorie Celona2013
It Takes You Over (Many Voices Project) by Nick Healy2013
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn2007
Long for This World: A Novel by Michael Byers2004
The Dead Survivors: A Mars Bahr Mystery by Kj Erickson2003
These Granite Islands by Sarah Stonich2002
Articles of faith by Elizabeth Oness2001
Women of the Dawn by Bunny McBride2000
Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger1999
Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse: The World of an Indian Orphanage by Manny Skolnick1998
English Lessons and Other Stories by Shauna Singh Baldwin1997
Apricots from Chernobyl by Josip Novakovich1996
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay1995
Replacing Dad by Shelley Fraser Mickle1994
Under the 82nd Airborne: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg1993
The Tomcat's Wife and Other Stories by Carol Bly1992
Chrysanthemum in the Snow by James Hickey1991
A Gravestone Made of Wheat by Will Weaver1990
Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon by John Hildebrand1989
Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson1988
Bop by Maxine Chernoff1987
The Bus of Dreams by Mary Morris1986
Deadlock by Sara Paretsky1985
Blue Rise by Rebecca Hill1984
Where the Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie by John Madson1983
Winter Count by Barry Lopez1982
Hardcastle by John Yount1981
Testimony and Demeanor by John Casey1980
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison1978
Going Blind by Jonathan Penner1978
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer by Douglas C. Jones1977
Beyond the Bedroom Wall: A Family Album by Larry Woiwode1976
Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West by Ann Zwinger1976
The wonder jungle; a novel by Fran Podulka1975
A still and woven blue by Richard Stookey1975
A faraway drummer;: A novel by Robert O'Neil Bristow1974
Fitzgo: The Wild Dog of Central Park by Paul Wilkes1974
First Blood by David Morrell1973
spots of time by Marcel Weinberg1973
Grendel by John Gardner1972
Riverman. With pen and ink sketches by the author. by Jack Knox1972
The White Land by William Dieter1971
My Dear Cousin by Peggy Hoffman1971
The Inland Ground: An Evocation of the American Middle West: Revised Edition by Richard Rhodes1971
Three Ships and Three Kings by Georgia Sallaska1970
Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford1969
The Pursuit of Happiness by Thomas Rogers1969
The Past and Present of Solomon Sorge by Judith Barnard1968
Drums of Khartoum by Chloe Gartner1968
Rafe by Weldon Hill1967
The barrios of Manta; a personal account of the Peace Corps in Ecuador by Rhoda (Smith) Brooks1966
A Pennant for the Kremlin by Paul Molloy1965
The Tall Woman by Wilma Dykeman1963
These Ruins Are Inhabited by Muriel Beadle1962
THE ARDENT YEARS by J. Stevenson1961

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