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Annual literary prize for fiction and nonfiction books about heartland American
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
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"Heartland Prize" , Chicago Tribune .
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"Book awards: Heartland Prize" . LibraryThing . Retrieved 10 September 2018 .
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Golden Age
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" 'The Maid's Version' wins 2014 Heartland Prize for Fiction" . Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 25 April 2015 .
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^ Day, Jennifer (October 28, 2019).
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"Margo Jefferson memoir 'Negroland' a resonant Heartland Prize winner" .
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" 'Men We Reaped' wins 2014 Heartland Prize for Fiction" . Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 25 April 2015 .
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