L'American Book Award a été fondé en 1978 par la Before Columbus Foundation (en) . Il cherche à distinguer des auteurs américains contemporains tous genres confondus. Il a été lancé pour concurrencer des prix plus restrictifs comme le National Book Award . Son objectif est de promouvoir la qualité et la diversité de la littérature américaine .
Cet article est une ébauche concernant les récompenses et distinctions et la littérature américaine.
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1980 à 1989
1980
Douglas Woolf pour Future preconditional: A collection
Edward Dorn pour Hello, La Jolla
Jayne Cortez pour Mouth on Paper
Leslie Marmon Silko pour Ceremony
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge pour Random Possession
Milton Murayama pour All I Asking for Is My Body
Quincy Troupe pour Snake Back Solos
Rudolfo Anaya pour Tortuga , a novel
1981
Alta pour Shameless Hussy
Alan Chong Lau pour Songs for Jadina
Bienvenido N. Santos pour Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories
Helen Adam pour Turn Again to Me & Other Poems
Lionel Mitchell pour Traveling Light
Miguel Algarín pour On Call
Nicholasa Mohr pour Felita
Peter Blue Cloud pour Back Then Tomorrow
Robert Kelly pour The Time of Voice: Poems 1994–1996
Rose Drachler pour The Choice
Susan Howe pour The Liberties
Toni Cade Bambara pour The Salt Eaters
1982
Al Young pour Bodies and Soul
Duane Niatum pour Songs for the Harvester of Dreams: Poems
E. L. Mayo pour Collected Poems E L Mayo
Frank Chin pour The Chickencoop Chinaman et The Year of the Dragon
Hilton Obenzinger pour This Passover or the next, I will never be in Jerusalem
Him Mark Lai , Genny Lim , Judy Yung pour Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910–1940
Jerome Rothenberg pour Pre-Faces and Other Writings
Joyce Carol Thomas pour Marked by Fire
Leroy Quintana pour Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets
Lorna Dee Cervantes pour Emplumada
Ronald Phillip Tanaka pour The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry
Russell Banks pour Le Livre de la Jamaïque (Book of Jamaica )
Tato Laviera pour Enclave
1983
Barbara Christian pour Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892–1976
Cecilia Liang pour Chinese Folk Poetry
David Lance Goines pour A Constructed Roman Alphabet
Evangelina Vigil-Piñón pour Thirty: An' Seen a Lot
Harriet Rohmer pour Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento
James D. Houston pour Californians: Searching for the Golden State
Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn pour Pet food & tropical apparitions
John A. Williams pour Click Song , a novel
Joy Kogawa pour Obasan
Judy Grahn pour The Queen of Wands: Poetry
Nash Candelaria pour Not by the Sword
Peter Guralnick pour Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
Seán Ó Tuama pour An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred: Poems of the Dispossessed
1984
Cecil Brown pour Days Without Weather
Gary Snyder pour Axe Handles: Poems
Howard Schwartz , Mark Podwal pour The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Reb Nachman
Imamu Amiri Baraka pour Anthology of African American Women: Confirmation Men
Jesús Colón pour A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
Joseph Bruchac pour Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets
Maurice Kenny pour The Mama Poems
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge pour The heat bird
Miné Okubo pour Citizen 13660
Paule Marshall pour Praisesong for the Widow
Ruthanne Lum McCunn , You-shan Tang, Ellen Lai-shan Yeung pour Pie-Biter
Thomas McGrath pour Echoes inside the labyrinth
Venkatesh Kulkarni pour Naked in Deccan
William J. Kennedy pour O Albany!
1985
Angela Jackson pour Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E
Arnold Genthe , John Kuo Wei Tchen pour Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
Colleen J. McElroy pour Queen of the Ebony Isles
Gary Soto pour Living Up The Street
Peter Irons pour Justice at War
Keiho Soga , Taisanboku Mori, Sojin Takei, Muin Ozaki pour Poets Behind Barbed Wire
Louise Erdrich pour Love Medicine , a novel
Maureen Owen pour Amelia Earhart
May Sarton pour At Seventy: A Journal
Robert Edward Duncan pour Ground Work: Before the War
Ron Jones pour Say Ray
Sandra Cisneros pour The House on Mango Street
Sonia Sanchez pour Homegirls and Handgrenades
William Oandasan pour Round Valley Songs
1986
1987
Ai pour SIN
Ana Castillo pour The Mixquiahuala Letters
Cyn Zarco pour Circumnavigations
Daniel McGuire pour Portrait of Little Boy in darkness
Dorothy Bryant pour Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow
Etheridge Knight pour The Essential Etheridge Knight
Gary Giddins pour Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker
Harvey Pekar pour The New American Splendor Anthology: From Off the Streets of Cleveland
James Welch pour Comme des ombres sur la terre (Fools Crow )
John Wieners pour Selected Poems: 1958–1984
Juan Felipe Herrera pour Face Games
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum pour liberazione della donna: feminism in Italy
Michael Mayo pour Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry
Septima Poinsette Clark , Cynthia Stokes Brown pour Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative
Terry McMillan pour Mama
1988
Allison Blakely pour Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought
Charles Olson pour The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems
Daisy Bates pour The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
David Halberstam pour The Reckoning
Edward Sanders pour Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961–1985
Gerald Vizenor pour Griever: An American Monkey King in China
Jimmy Santiago Baca Martin & Meditations on the South Valley
Kesho Y. Scott , Cherry Muhanji, Egyirba High pour Tight Spaces
Marlon K. Hom pour Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
Benjamin Hoff pour The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal Whiteley
Ronald Sukenick pour Down and in: Life in the Underground
Salvatore La Puma pour The Boys of Bensonhurst
Toni Morrison pour Beloved
Wing Tek Lum , Tek Lum Lum pour Expounding the Doubtful Points
1989
Alma Luz Villanueva pour The Ultraviolet Sky
Askia M. Touré pour From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance!
Audre Lorde pour A Burst of Light
Carolyn Lau pour Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking
Emory Elliott pour Columbia Literary History of the United States
Eduardo Galeano pour Genesis
Frank Chin pour The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
Henry Louis Gates pour The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
Isabel Allende pour Eva Luna
J. California Cooper pour Homemade Love
Jennifer Stone pour Stone's Throw
Josephine Gattuso Hendin pour The Right Thing to Do
Leslie Scalapino pour way
Shuntarō Tanikawa pour Floating the River in Melancholy
Charles Fanning (en) pour The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction
William Minoru Hohri pour Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese American Redress
1990 à 1999
1990
Adrienne Kennedy pour People Who Led to My Plays
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison pour Italian Days
Elizabeth Woody pour Hand into Stone: Poems
Hualing Nieh pour Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China
Itabari Njeri pour Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone
James M. Freeman pour Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives
John C. Walter , J. Raymond Jones pour The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920–1970
John Norton pour Light at the End of the Bog
José Emilio González pour Vivar a Hostos
Sergei Kan pour Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century
Lloyd A. Thompson pour Romans and Blacks
Martin Bernal pour Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization
Michelle T. Clinton , Sesshu Foster pour Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry
Miles Davis pour Miles
Paula Gunn Allen pour Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women
Shirley Geok-lin Lim , Mayumi Tsutakawa, Margarita Donnelly pour The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology
Daniela Gioseffi pour Women on War (Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age)
1991
Alejandro Murguía pour Southern Front
Bell hooks pour Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
Bruce Wright pour Black Robes, White Justice: Why Our Legal System Doesn't Work for Blacks
Charley Trujillo pour Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam
D. H. Melhem pour Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions & Interviews
Deborah Keenan pour Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile
Jessica Hagedorn pour Dogeaters
John Edgar Wideman pour L'Incendie de Philadelphie
Joy Harjo pour In Mad Love and War
Karen Tei Yamashita pour Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Lucia Berlin pour Homesick: New and Selected Stories
Mary Crow Dog pour Lakota Woman
Meridel Le Sueur pour Harvest Song: Collected Essays and Stories
Mill Hunk Herald Collective pour Overtime: Punchin' Out With the Mill Hunk Herald Magazine
Nora Marks Dauenhauer , Richard Dauenhauer pour Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory
R. Baxter Miller pour The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes
Thomas Centolella pour Terra Firma
1992
A'Lelia Perry Bundles pour Madam C.J. Walker
Art Spiegelman pour The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Benjamin Alire Sáenz pour Calendar of Dust
Donna Haraway pour Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
Fritjof Capra pour Belonging to the universe: Explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality
Jose Antonio Burciaga pour Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado: A Personal Anthology of Poetry
Keith Gilyard pour Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence
Lucy Thompson pour To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman
Norma Field pour In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
Peter Bacho pour Cebu
Peter Kalifornsky pour Dena'ina Legacy: K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky
Raymond Andrews pour Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire
Sandra Scofield pour Beyond Deserving
Sheila Hamanaka pour Journey
Stephen R. Fox pour The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II
Steven R. Carter pour Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity,
Verlyn Klinkenborg pour The Last Fine Time
William B. Branch , Amiri Baraka , August Wilson pour Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama
1993
Asake Bomani, Belvie Rooks pour Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris
Christopher Mogil , Peter Woodrow pour We Gave Away a Fortune
Cornel West pour Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times
Denise Giardina pour Unquiet Earth
Diane Glancy pour Claiming Breath
Eugene B. Redmond pour The Eye in the Ceiling
Francisco X. Alarcón pour Snake Poems
Gerald Graff pour Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education
Jack Beatty pour The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley
Leroy V. Quintana pour The History of Home
Katherine Peter pour Neets'aii Gwiindaii: Living in the Chandalar Country
Nelson George pour Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball
Ninotchka Rosca pour Twice Blessed , a novel
1994
Giose Rimanelli pour Benedetta in Guysterland
Eric Drooker pour Flood!: A Novel in Pictures
Graciela Limón pour In Search of Bernabe
Gregory J. Reed pour Economic Empowerment Through the Church
Janet Campbell Hale pour Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter
Jill Nelson pour Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
Lawson Fusao Inada pour Legends from Camp
Nicole Blackman pour Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Paul Gilroy pour The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
Ronald Takaki pour A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Rose L. Glickman pour Daughters of Feminists
Tino Villanueva pour Scene from the Movie GIANT
Virginia L. Kroll pour Wood-Hoopoe Willie
1995
Abraham Rodriguez pour Spidertown , a novel
Herb Boyd , Robert L. Allen pour Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America—An Anthology
Denise Chavez pour Face of an Angel
John Egerton pour Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
John Ross pour Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas
Thomas Avena pour Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS
Linda Raymond pour Rocking the Babies , a novel
Li-Young Lee pour The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick pour Crossing Ocean Parkway
Marnie Mueller pour Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest
Peter Quinn pour Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York
Sandra Martz pour I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted
Gordon Henry Jr. pour The Light People
Tricia Rose pour Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
1996
Agate Nesaule pour A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile
Arthur Sze pour Archipelago
Chang-Rae Lee pour Langue natale (Native Speaker )
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni pour Arranged Marriage
E.J. Miller Laino pour Girl Hurt
Glenn C. Loury pour One by One from the Inside Out: Race and Responsibility in America
James W. Loewen pour Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Joe Sacco , Edward Saïd pour Palestine
Kimiko Hahn pour The Unbearable Heart
Maria Espinosa pour Longing
Robert Viscusi pour Astoria
Sherman Alexie pour Indian blues
Ron Sakolsky , Fred Weihan Ho pour Sounding Off!: Music as Resistance / Rebellion / Revolution
Stephanie Cowell pour The Physician of London: The Second Part of the Seventeenth-Century Trilogy of Nicholas Cooke
William H. Gass pour The Tunnel
1997
Alurista pour Et Tu ... Raza
Derrick Bell pour Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home
Dorothy Barresi pour The Post-Rapture Diner
Guillermo Gomez-Pena pour The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
Louis Owens pour Nightland
Martin Espada pour Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
Montserrat Fontes pour Dreams of the Centaur , a novel
Noel Ignatiev pour Race Traitor
Shirley Geok-lin Lim pour Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
Sunaina Maira pour Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America
Thulani Davis pour Maker of Saints
Tom De Haven pour Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies , a novel
William M. Banks pour Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life
Brenda Knight pour Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
1998
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke pour Dog Road Woman
Angela Y. Davis pour Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Brenda Marie Osbey pour All Saints: New and Selected Poems
Don DeLillo pour Outremonde
Jim Barnes pour On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions
John A. Williams pour Safari West: Poems
Nancy Rawles pour Love Like Gumbo
Nora Okja Keller pour Compourt Woman
Sandra Benitez pour Bitter Grounds , a novel
Scott DeVeaux pour The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
Thomas Lynch pour The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
1999
Alice McDermott pour Charming Billy
Anna Linzer pour Ghost Dancing
Brian Ward pour Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
Chiori Santiago pour Home to Medicine Mountain
E. Donald Two-Rivers pour Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories
Edwidge Danticat pour The Farming of Bones
Judith Roche , Meg McHutchison pour First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim
Gioia Timpanelli pour Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily
Gloria Naylor pour The Men of Brewster Place , a novel
James D. Houston pour The Last Paradise
Jerry Lipka, Gerald V. Mohatt, Ciulistet Group for Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup¡k Eskimo Examples
Trey Ellis pour Right Here, Right Now
Josip Novakovich pour Salvation and Other Disasters
Lauro Flores pour The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature
Luís Alberto Urrea pour Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
Nelson George pour Hip Hop America: Hip Hop and the Molding of Black Generation X
Speer Morgan pour The Freshour Cylinders
Gary Gach pour What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
Prix du livre pour enfants : Chiori Santiago, auteur, et Judith Lowry , illustrateur, Home to Medicine Mountain [1]
2000 à 2009
2000
Allan J. Ryan pour The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art
Andrés Montoya pour The Ice Worker Sings and Other Poems
Camille Peri, Kate Moses pour Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood
David A. J. Richards pour Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
David Toop pour Exotica
Elva Trevino Hart pour Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
Emil Guillermo pour Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective; With an Introduction by Ishmael Reed
Frank Chin pour The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
Helen Thomas pour Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times
Janisse Ray pour Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
John Russell Rickford , Russell John Rickford pour Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
Leroy TeCube pour Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story
Lois-Ann Yamanaka pour Heads By Harry
Michael Lally pour It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose
Michael Patrick MacDonald pour All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto pour Why She Left Us , a novel
Robert Creeley pour The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005
Prix du rédacteur en chef/éditeur : Ronald Sukenick[1]
Journalisme : Jack E. White[1]
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Frank Chin[1]
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Robert Creeley[1]
2001
Amanda J. Cobb pour Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949
Andrea Dworkin pour Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation
Carolyne Wright pour Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire
Chalmers Johnson pour Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
Cheri Register pour Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
Chris Ware pour Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Diana García pour When Living Was a Labor Camp
Elizabeth Nunez pour Bruised Hibiscus
Janet McAdams pour Island of Lost Luggage
Philip Whalen pour Overtime: Selected Poems
Russell Leong pour Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
Sandra M. Gilbert pour Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969–1999
Ted Joans pour Teducation
Tillie Olsen pour Silences
William S. Penn pour Killing Time With Strangers
Prix du rédacteur en chef/éditeur : Malcolm Margolin[1]
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Ted Joans[1]
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Tillie Olsen[1]
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Philip Whalen[1]
2002[2]
Aaron A. Abeyta, Colcha
Susanne Antonetta , The Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
Rilla Askew , Fire in Beulah
Tananarive Due , The Living Blood
Gloria Frym , Homeless at Home
Dana Gioia , Interrogations at Noon
LeAnne Howe , Shell Shaker
Alex Kuo , Lipstick and Other Stories
Michael N. Nagler , Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future
Donald Phelps, Reading the Funnies : Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout the First Half of the 20th Century
Al Young , The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems, 1990–2000
Livre pour enfants : Jessel Miller , Angels in the Vineyards
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Lerone Bennett
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Jack Hirschman
2003[2]
Kevin Baker , Paradise Alley
Debra Magpie Earling , Perma Red
Daniel Ellsberg , Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Rick Heide, ed., Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California
Igor Krupnik, Willis Walunga, Vera Metcalf, and Lars Krutak, eds., Akuzilleput Igaqullghet, Our Words Put to Paper: Sourcebook in St. Lawrence Island Yupik Heritage and History
Alejandro Murguía , This War Called Love: Nine Stories
Jack Newfield , The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania
Joseph Papaleo , Italian Stories
Eric Porter , What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
Jewell Parker Rhodes , Douglass' Women , a novel
Rachel Simon , Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
Velma Wallis , Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
Editor: Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review (www.qbr.com)
2004[2]
Diana Abu-Jaber , Crescent , a novel
David Cole , Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism
Charisse Jones et Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Kristin Hunter Lattany , Breaking Away
A. Robert Lee , Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions
Diane Sher Lutovich , What I Stole
Ruth Ozeki , All Over Creation
Renato Rosaldo , Prayer to Spider Woman / Rezo a la Mujer Arana
Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
Michael Walsh , And All the Saints
2005[2]
Bernard W. Bell , The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches
Cecelie Berry , Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
Jeff Chang , Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Julie Chibbaro , Redemption
Richard A. Clarke , Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
Alisha S. Drabek et Karen R. Adams, The Red Cedar of Afognak, A Driftwood Journey
Ralph M. Flores , The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family
Hiroshi Kashiwagi , Swimming in the American: A Memoir And Selected Writings
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. , Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
Don Lee , Country of Origin , a novel
Lamont B. Steptoe , A Long Movie of Shadows
Don West , No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems , eds. Jeff Biggers et George Brosi
Journalism: Bill Berkowitz
2006[2]
MacKenzie Bezos , The Testing of Luther Albright , a novel
Matt Briggs , Shoot the Buffalo
David P. Diaz, The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second-Generation Mexican-American
Darryl Dickson-Carr , The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction
Thomas Ferraro , Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America
Tim Z. Hernandez , Skin Tax
Josh Kun , Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America
P. Lewis , Nate
Peter Metcalfe, Gumboot Determination: The Story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium
Kevin J. Mullen , The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco
Doris Seale et Beverly Slapin, eds., A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
Matthew Shenoda , Somewhere Else
Carlton T. Spiller , Scalding Heart
Editor: Chris Hamilton-Emery, Salt Publishing Ltd.
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Jay Wright
2007
Daniel Cassidy , How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
Michael Eric Dyson , Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
Rigoberto Gonzalez , Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Reyna Grande , Across a Hundred Mountains , a novel
Ernestine Hayes , Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir
Patricia Klindienst , The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
Gary Panter , Jimbo's Inferno
Jeffrey F. L. Partridge , Beyond Literary Chinatown
Judith Roche , Wisdom of the Body
Kali Vanbaale , The Space Between
2008[1]
Moustafa Bayoumi , How Does It Feel to Be a Problem Being Young and Arab in America
Douglas A. Blackmon , Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Jonathan Curiel , Al’ America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots
Nora Marks Dauenhauer , Richard Dauenhauer , Lydia T. Black , et Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká , Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804
Maria Mazziotti Gillan , All That Lies Between Us
Nikki Giovanni , The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998
C. S. Giscombe , Prairie Style
Angela Jackson , Where I Must Go , a novel
L. Luis Lopez , Each Month I Sing
Tom Lutz , Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
Fae Myenne Ng , Steer Toward Rock
Yuko Taniguchi , The Ocean in the Closet
Lorenzo Thomas , Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition , ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Frank B. Wilderson III , Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : J. J. Phillips , Author of Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale
2009
Houston A. Baker Jr. , Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era
Danit Brown , Ask for a Convertible
Jericho Brown , Please
José Antonio Burciaga , The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga , eds. Mimi R. Gladstein et Daniel Chacón
Claire Hope Cummings, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
Stella Pope Duarte , If I Die in Juarez
Linda Gregg , All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems
Suheir Hammad , Breaking Poems
Richard Holmes , The Age of Wonder
George E. Lewis , A Power Stronger than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and American Experimental Music
Patricia Santana , Ghosts of El Grullo
Jack Spicer , My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer , ed. Peter Gizzi et Kevin Killian
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Miguel Algarín
2010 à aujourd'hui
2010[1]
Amiri Baraka , Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
Sherwin Bitsui , Flood Song
Nancy Carnevale , A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890–1945
Dave Eggers , Zeitoun
Sesshu Foster , World Ball Notebook
Stephen D. Gutierrez , Live from Fresno y Los
Victor LaValle , The Big Machine
François Mandeville, This Is What They Say , traduit par Ron Scollon du Chipewyan
Bich Minh Nguyen , Short Girls
Franklin Rosemont et Robin D. G. Kelley , eds., Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora
Jerome Rothenberg et Jeffrey C. Robinson, eds., Poems for the Millennium: Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry
Kathryn Waddell Takara , Pacific Raven: Hawai`i Poems
Pamela Uschuk , Crazy Love: New Poems
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Katha Pollitt
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Quincy Troupe
2011[3]
Keith Gilyard , John Oliver Killens
Akbar Ahmed , Journey Into America: The Challenge of Islam
Camille Dungy , Suck on the Marrow
Karen Tei Yamashita , I Hotel
William W. Cook et James Tatum , African American Writers and Classical Tradition
Gerald Vizenor , Shrouds of White Earth
Eric Gansworth, Extra Indians
Ivan Argüelles , The Death of Stalin
Geoffrey Alan Argent, ed., The Complete Plays of Jean Racine : Volume 1: The Fratricides , traduit du français par Argent
Neela Vaswani, You Have Given Me a Country
Sasha Pimentel Chacón , Insides She Swallowed
Miriam Jiménez Román et Juan Flores, eds., The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History of Culture in the United States
Carmen Giménez Smith , Bring Down the Little Birds
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Luis Valdez
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : John A. Williams
2012
Les 32e American Book Awards sont officiellement annoncés le 16 octobre 2012 à l'université de Californie à Berkeley [3] .
Pour l'ensemble de son œuvre : Eugene B. Redmond
Annia Ciezadlo , Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
Arlene Kim , What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?
Ed Bok Lee , Whorled
Adilifu Nama , Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
Rob Nixon , Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Shann Ray , American Masculine
Alice Rearden , translator; Ann Fienup-Riordan , ed., Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput: Our Nelson Island Stories
Touré , Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now
Amy Waldman , Un concours de circonstances (The Submission )
Mary Winegarden , The Translator’s Sister
Kevin Young , Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
2019