PEN New England Award

The PEN New England Award (previously L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award and Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award) is awarded annually by PEN New England (today PEN America Boston)^[1] to honor a New England author or book with a New England setting or subject.^[2][3] The award was established in 1975 by The Boston Globe in conjunction with PEN to honor the veteran Boston Globe editor Laurence L. Winship.

Since 2005, the award has been presented in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and poetry with each winner receiving $1,000.^[2] For one year in 2012, the award was called the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award in honor of father and son, Thomas Winship, both long-time Boston Globe editors. It was renamed to simply PEN New England Award starting with the 2013 award.

The award presentation is sponsored in part by the JFK Presidential Library.^[4] The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Winners

1975-2004

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award winners

Year	Author	Title	Ref.
1975	Andre Dubus	Separate Flights
1976	Claude-Anne Lopez	The Private Franklin: The Man and His Family
1977	E. B. White	Letters of E. B. White
1978	Martha Saxton	Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography
1979	Abbott Lowell Cummings	The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
1980	Millicent Bell	Marquand: An American Life
1981	Estelle Jussim	Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day, Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete
1982	William Sargent	Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay
1983	?
1984	Bernd Heinrich	In a Patch of Fireweed: A Biologist's Life in the Field
1985	Susan Cheever	Home Before Dark
1986	Diana Korzenik	Drawn to Art: A Nineteenth Century American Dream
1987	Claudia Koonz	Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics
1988	Susan Quinn	A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney
1989	Jill Ker Conway	The Road from Coorain
1990	Tracy Kidder	Among Schoolchildren
1991	Mary Oliver	House of Light
1992	Nicholas Fox Weber	Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928-1943
1993	Jack Beatty	The Rascal King: Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
1994	?
1995	?
1996	Jane Brox	Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family
1997	Jan Swafford	Charles Ives: A Life With Music
1998	Anita Shreve	The Weight of Water
1999	Donald Hall	Without: Poems
2000	John W. Dower	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
2001	Jay Wright	Transfigurations: Collected Poems	[5]
2002	Elizabeth McCracken	Niagara Falls All Over Again	[6]
2003	Adam Haslett	You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories	[7]
2004	Joan Leegant	An Hour in Paradise
	Carlo Rotella	Cut Time: An Education at the Fights

2005-present

PEN New England Award winners^[8]

Year	Category	Author	Title	Ref.
2005	Fiction	Jennifer Haigh	Baker Towers	[9]
	Non-fiction	Swanee Hunt	This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace	[9]
	Poetry	Kevin Goodan	In the Ghost-House Acquainted	[9]
2006	Fiction	Edward J. Delaney	Warp & Weft	[10]
	Non-fiction	Leo Damrosch	Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius	[10]
	Poetry	Stanley Kunitz	The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in The Garden	[10]
2007	Fiction	K. C. Frederick	Inland	[11]
	Non-fiction	Sebastian Junger	A Death in Belmont	[11]
	Poetry	Louise Glück	Averno: Poems	[11]
2008	Fiction	Rishi Reddi	Karma and Other Stories	[12]
	Non-fiction	Kristen Laine	American Band: Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland	[12]
	Poetry	Ann Killough	Beloved Idea	[12]
2009	Fiction	Margot Livesey	The House on Fortune Street	[13]
	Non-fiction	Patrick Tracey	Stalking Irish Madness	[13]
	Poetry	Nancy K. Pearson	Two Minutes of Light	[13]
2010	Fiction	Anne Sanow	Triple Time	[14]
	Non-fiction	Elyssa East	Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town	[14]
	Poetry	Meg Kearney	Home, Now	[14]
2011	Fiction	Kermit Moyer	The Chester Chronicles	[15]
	Non-fiction	Jerald Walker	Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption	[15]
	Poetry	Charles Douthat	Blue for Oceans	[15]
2012	Fiction	Yannick Murphy	The Call	[16]
	Non-fiction	Mitchell Zuckoff	Lost In Shangri-La	[16]
	Poetry	Elizabeth Willis	Address	[16]
2013	Fiction	Heidi Julavits	The Vanishers	[17]
	Non-fiction	Bernd Heinrich	Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death	[17]
	Poetry	David Huddle	Blacksnake at the Family Reunion	[17]
2014	Fiction	Jennifer Haigh	News from Heaven	[18]
	Non-fiction	Doug Bauer	What Happens Next?: Matters of Life and Death	[18]
	Poetry	Karen Skolfield	Frost in the Low Areas	[18]
2015	Fiction	Carolyn Chute	Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves	[19]
	Non-fiction	Kevin Birmingham	The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysees	[19]
	Poetry	Wesley McNair	The Lost Child	[19]
2016	Fiction	Jim Shepard	The Book of Aron
	Non-fiction	Rinker Buck	The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
	Poetry	Reginald Dwayne Betts	Bastards of the Reagan Era
2017	Fiction	Robin MacArthur	Half Wild
	Non-fiction	Matthew Desmond	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
	Poetry	David Rivard	Standoff
2018	No award