Award Winners

• Academic Association Awards
• Bancroft Prize
• Cookbook Awards
• International Awards and Prizes
• Library Awards
• Lincoln Prize
• Media Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• National Jewish Book Award
• Nobel Prize
• Other Awards and Honors
• PEN Prizes
• Poetry Awards
• Professional Association Awards
  • Academy Award in Literature
  • Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award
  • American Horticultural Society Book Award
  • American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award
  • American Medical Writers Association Book Award
  • ASCAP Deems Taylor Award
  • Association for Recorded Sound Book Award
  • Jazz Journalist Association Book Award
  • Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award
  • NAACP Image Award
  • National Association of Science Writers Award
  • Poetry Society of America Shelley Memorial Award
  • Society for American Music Irving Lowens Award
  • Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
• Pulitzer Prize
• State and Regional Awards
• Translation Awards

ASCAP Deems Taylor Award

1. Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie

   Ed Cray, Studs Terkel

   The groundbreaking biography, available for the centennial of Woody Guthrie’s birth in July 2012.More

2. Nica's Dream: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness

   David Kastin

   The first biography of the legendary Rothschild heiress who reigned as New York’s “Jazz Baroness.”More

3. America's Musical Life: A History

   Richard Crawford

   "A superb, all-encompassing survey of music in America." —Kirkus ReviewsMore

4. New Worlds of Dvoŕák: Searching in America for the Composer's Inner Life

   Michael B. Beckerman

   A forceful reinterpretation of the composer's personality and work.More