Gotham Book Prize
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Literary award
Award
DateDecember
Reward$50,000
First award2020
Final awardActive
| Gotham Book Prize | |
|---|---|
| Date | December |
| Reward | $50,000 |
| First award | 2020 |
| Final award | Active |
| Website | gothambookprize |
The Gotham Book Prize is a $50,000 prize awarded annually to a fiction or non-fiction work judged the best about or set in New York City. The award was founded by venture capitalist Bradley Tusk and political consultant Howard Wolfson.[1][2]
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | James McBride | Deacon King Kong | Winner | [3][4] |
| Rumaan Alam | Leave the World Behind | Finalist | [5] | |
| Christopher Beha | The Index of Self-Destructive Acts | Finalist | [6] | |
| David Goodwillie | Kings County | Finalist | [6] | |
| Debra Jo Immergut | You Again | Finalist | [6] | |
| N. K. Jemisin | The City We Became | Finalist | [5] | |
| David Paul Kuhn | The Hard Hat Riot: Nixon, New York City, & the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution | Finalist | [6] | |
| Raven Leilani | Luster | Finalist | [6] | |
| Amy Poeppel | Musical Chairs | Finalist | [6] | |
| Jerry Seinfeld | Is This Anything? | Finalist | [6] | |
| 2022 | Andrea Elliott | Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City | Winner | [3] |
| Tom Dyja | New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess and Transformation | Finalist | [7][8] | |
| Kaitlyn Greenidge | Libertie | Finalist | [7][8] | |
| Zakiya Dalila Harris | The Other Black Girl | Finalist | [7][8] | |
| Jim Lewis | Ghosts of New York | Finalist | [7][8] | |
| Torrey Peters | Detransition, Baby | Finalist | [7][8] | |
| Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 | Finalist | [7][8] | |
| Natalie Standiford | Astrid Sees All | Finalist | [7][8] | |
| Elisabet Velasquez | When We Make It | Finalist | [7][8] | |
| Colson Whitehead | Harlem Shuffle | Finalist | [7][8] | |
| 2023 | Sidik Fofana | Stories from the Tenants Downstairs | Winner (tie) | [3] |
| John Wood Sweet | The Sewing Girl’s Tale | |||
| Jill Bialosky | The Deceptions | Finalist | [9][10] | |
| Hernan Diaz | Trust | Finalist | [9][10] | |
| Xochitl Gonzalez | Olga Dies Dreaming | Finalist | [9][10] | |
| James Hannaham | Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta | Finalist | [9][10] | |
| Lisa Hsiao Chen | Activities of Daily Living | Finalist | [9][10] | |
| Dwyer Murphy | An Honest Living | Finalist | [9][10] | |
| Bushra Rehman | Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion | Finalist | [9][10] | |
| Mecca Jamilah Sullivan | Big Girl | Finalist | [9][10] | |
| Martha Anne Toll | Three Muses | Finalist | [9][10] | |
| 2024 | Colson Whitehead | Crook Manifesto | Winner | [11][12] |
| Reuven Blau | Rikers: An Oral History, Graham Rayman | Finalist | [13][14] | |
| Patrick Brinkley | All the Beauty in the World | Finalist | [13][14] | |
| Aisha Abdel Gawad | Between Two Moons | Finalist | [13][14] | |
| Patricia Park | Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim | Finalist | [13][14] | |
| Prudence Peiffer | The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever | Finalist | [13][14] | |
| Melissa Rivero | Flores and Miss Paula | Finalist | [13][14] | |
| Joshunda Sanders | Women of the Post | Finalist | [13][14] | |
| Maria Smilios | The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis | Finalist | [13][14] | |
| Alexander Stille | The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune | Finalist | [13][14] | |
| Tyriek White | We Are a Haunting | Finalist | [13][14][15] | |
| 2025 | Xochitl Gonzalez | Anita de Monte Laughs Last | Longlist | [16] |
| Prithi Kanakamedala | Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough | Longlist | [16] | |
| Guy Trebay | Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York | Longlist | [16] | |
| Rumaan Alam | Entitlement | Longlist | [16] | |
| Joél Leon | Everything and Nothing at Once | Longlist | [16] | |
| Muriel Leung | How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster | Longlist | [16] | |
| Lisa Ko | Memory Piece | Longlist | [16] | |
| Nicole Gelinas | Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car | Winner (tie) | [17] | |
| Ian Frazier | Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough | Winner (tie) | [17] | |
| Karen Valby | The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History | Longlist | [16] | |
| Tricia Romano | The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture | Longlist | [16] | |
| Yasmin Zaher | The Coin | Longlist | [16] | |
| Anna Akbari | There Is No Ethan | Longlist | [16] | |
| Andrew Boryga | Victim | Longlist | [16] |
References
- ↑ Bussel, Rachel Kramer. "Gotham Book Prize To Award Winning Author $50,000 For Book About Or Set In New York City". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2021-06-11. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
- ↑ "New writer's prize aims to keep mistique of NYC alive through literature". PIX11. 2020-07-30. Archived from the original on 2021-05-14. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
- 1 2 3 Temple, Emily (2023-04-24). "Two New York City books will split this year's $70,000 Gotham Book Prize". Literary Hub. Archived from the original on 2023-05-01. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ↑ McBride, James (6 April 2021). "James McBride's 'Deacon King Kong' wins inaugural Gotham prize". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 11 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- 1 2 "Inaugural Gotham Book Prize Finalists". Locus Online. 2021-01-20. Archived from the original on 2022-06-27. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Gotham Book Prize Announces Inaugural Finalists". Publishers Weekly. 2021-01-19. Archived from the original on 2024-01-16. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Schaub, Michael (2022-01-29). "Finalists for the 2022 Gotham Book Prize Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 2022-01-29. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Mechler, Anita (2022-01-28). "2022 Gotham Book Prize Finalists Announced | Book Pulse". Library Journal. Archived from the original on 2022-01-30. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Culgan, Rossilynne Skena (2023-02-13). "The 2023 Gotham Book Prize finalists have been announced; add these NYC books to your list". Time Out New York. Archived from the original on 2023-03-30. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Temple, Emily (2023-02-13). "Here are the finalists for the $50,000 Gotham Book Prize". Literary Hub. Archived from the original on 2023-12-07. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ↑ Schaub, Michael (2024-06-05). "Winner of the Gotham Book Prize Is Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 2024-06-11. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ↑ "Prize Winners". Gotham Book Prize. Archived from the original on 2024-06-11. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Gallery 3". Gotham Book Prize. Archived from the original on 2024-04-16. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Schaub, Michael (2024-04-16). "Finalists for the Gotham Book Prize Are Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 2024-04-18. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
- ↑ "2024 Gotham Book Prize Finalists". Locus Online. 2024-04-16. Archived from the original on 2024-04-16. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Allen, Brittany (2025-01-31). "Here are the finalists for the 2025 Gotham Book Prize". Literary Hub. Archived from the original on 2025-02-06. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
- 1 2 "Gallery 3". Gotham Book Prize.