L.L. Winship / PEN New England Award
PEN New England presents this award for exceptional works of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a New England author or with a New England setting.

2004

Winner:
Cut Time : an education at the fights, by Carlo Rotella

Finalists:
  • The Bounty : the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty, by Caroline Alexander
  • The Day Before : new poems, by Dick Allen
  • The Hazards of Good Breeding, by Jessica Shattuck
  • Departure : poems, by Rosanna Warren

2003

Winner:
You Are Not A Stranger Here, by Adam Haslett

Finalists:
  • My Sky Blue Trades : growing up counter in a contrary time, by Sven Birkerts
  • The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade, by Robert Harms
  • Open Season : stories, by Lucy Honig
  • Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, by Atul Gawande
  • Union : poems, by Don Share

2002

Winner:
Niagara Falls All Over Again
, by Elizabeth McCracken

Finalists:
  • The Bostons, by Carolyn Cooke
  • Mystic River, by Denis Lehane
  • Eva Moves the Furniture, by Margot Livesey
  • John Adams, by David McCullough

2001

Winner:
Transfigurations: Collected Poems, by Jay Wright

Finalists:
  • Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis
  • The Century of the Gene, by Evelyn Fox Keller
  • The Collected Poems, by Stanley Kunitz
  • The Human Stain, by Philip Roth

2000

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, by John W. Dower

1999

Without : poems, by Donald Hall

1998

The Weight of Water, by Anita Shreve

1997

Charles Ives: A life with Music, by Jan Swafford

1996

Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family, by Jane Brox

1995

No Award Given

1994

The Rascal King : the life and times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958, by Jack Beatty

1993

Patron Saints : five rebels who opened America to a new art, 1928-1943, by Nicholas Fox Weber

1992

The House of Light, by Mary Oliver

1991

Among Schoolchildren, by Tracy Kidder

1990

The Road from Coorain, by Jill Ker Conway

1989

A Mind of her Own : the life of Karen Horney, by Susan Quinn

1988

Mothers in the Fatherland : women, the family, and Nazi politics, by Claudia Koonz

1987

Drawn to Art : a nineteenth-century American dream, by Diana Korzenik

1986

Home Before Dark, by Susan Cheever

1985

In a Patch of Fireweed, by Bernd Heinrich

1984

Frederick Law Olmstead and the Boston Park System, by Gloria Zaitzevsky

1983

Shallow Waters : a year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay, by William Sargent

1982

Slave to Beauty : the eccentric life and controversial career of F. Holland Day, photographer, publisher, aesthete, by Estelle Jussim

1981

Marquand: An American Life, by Millcent Bell

1980

The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725, by Abbot Lowell Cummings

1979

Louisa May, by Martha Sexton

1978

Letters of E.B. White, by E.B. White

1977

The Private Franklin : the man and his family, by Claude Anne Lopez and Eugenia W. Herbert

1976

Separate Flights, by Andre Dubus


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