Chicago Tribune Heartland Literary Prize
Established in 1988, this award annually recognizes a novel and work of non-fiction that reinforce and perpetuate the values of America's heartland.

2005

Fiction:  Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

Nonfiction: Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, by Kevin Boyle

2004

Fiction:
  An Unfinished Season, by Ward Just

Nonfiction:  Truth & Beauty : A Friendship, by Ann Patchett

2003

Fiction:  Reversible Errors, by Scott Turow

Nonfiction:  Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy, by Paul Hendrickson


2002

Fiction:  The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold

Nonfiction:  Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, by Studs Terkel


2001

Fiction:  Off Keck Road--Mona Simpson

Nonfiction:  The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America--Louis Menand


2000

Fiction:  Rails under My Back--Jeffery Renard Allen

Nonfiction:  The Last Campaign: The Election of 1948--Zachary Karabell


1999

Fiction:  Amy and Isabelle--Elizabeth Strout

Nonfiction:  Robert Frost: A Life--Jay Parini


1998

Fiction:  The Short History of a Prince--Jane Hamilton

Nonfiction:  The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma--Alex Kotlowitz


1997

Fiction:  Cold Mountain--Charles Frazier

Nonfiction:  The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade--Thomas Lynch


1996

Fiction:  Talking in Bed--Antonya Nelson

Nonfiction:  A Civil Action--Jonathan Harr


1995

Fiction:  All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories of William Maxwell--William Maxwell

Nonfiction:  A Sistermony--Richard G. Stern


1994

Fiction:  Rattlebone--Maxine Clair

Nonfiction:  Colored People: A Memoir--Henry Gates


1993

Fiction:  The Shipping News--E. Annie Proulx

Nonfiction:  Young Men & Fire--Norman Maclean


1992

Fiction:  A Thousand Acres--Jane Smiley

Nonfiction:  Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction--Melissa Fay Greene


1991

Fiction:  A Cure for Dreams--Kaye Gibbons

Nonfiction:  Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West--William Cronon


1990

Fiction:  The Things They Carried--Tim O'Brien

Nonfiction:  The Broken Cord--Michael Dorris


1989

Fiction:  Jack Gance--Ward Just

Nonfiction:  Partial Payments--Joseph Epstein



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