Boston Book Review Literary Awards
(1995-1999)
The Boston Book Review Literary Awards in Poetry, Fiction, and Non-Fiction were awarded annually for books published in the preceding calendar year.

1999

The Fisk Fiction Prize:
Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina

Nominees:
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Giant, O’Brien by Hilary Mantel
Freedomland by Richard Price

The Rea Non-Fiction Prize:
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer

Nominees:
Havana Dreams: A Story of Cuba by Wendy Gimbel
The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs by John Avise
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

The Bingham Poetry Prize:
Blizzard of One: Poems by Mark Strand

Nominees:
Sweet Machine by Mark Doty
This Time: New and Selected Poems by Gerald Stern
Trace Elements by Barbara Jordan
Reversing the Spell by Eleanor Wilner
From the Devotions by Carl Phillips



 
1998

The Fisk Fiction Prize:
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Nominees:
Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine
The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin by Maeve Brennan
All Around Atlantis: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg
The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips

The Rea Non-Fiction Prize:
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

Nominees:
T.R.: The Last Romantic by H. W. Brands
Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Martha C. Nussbaum
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas
Civic Ideals : Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History by Rogers M. Smith

The Bingham Poetry Prize:
The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry by John Ashbery
               and
Desire by Frank Bidart

Nominees:
Shroud of the Gnome: Poems by James Tate
The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt by Amy Clampitt
On a Stair by Ann Lauterbach
Falling Water: Poems by John Koethe
Natal Command by Peter M. Sacks
One Crossed Out by Fanny Howe



 
1997

The Fisk Fiction Prize:
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid

Nominees:
John's Wife by Robert Coover
Twilight, A Symphony by Michael Joyce
Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories by Kono Taeko
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Cattle Killing by John Edgar Wideman
Terror of Earth by Tom La Farge

The Rea Non-Fiction Prize:
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Nominees:
Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions by Richard Taruskin
Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
This Wild Darkness by Harold Brodkey
The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene
The Bingham Poetry Prize:
Ark by Ronald Johnson

The Bingham Poetry Prize:
Ark by Ronald Johnson

Nominees:
Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979 by Susan Howe
Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems by Bob Kauffman
The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley



 
1996

The Fisk Fiction Prize:
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates

The Rea Non-Fiction Prize:
Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia by Dennis Covington

The Bingham Poetry Prize:
Atlantis: Poems by Mark Doty



 
1995

The Fisk Fiction Prize:
The Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown

The Rea Non-Fiction Prize:
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom

The Bingham Poetry Prize:
Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993 by Heather McHugh

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