Chautauqua Prize

The Chautauqua Prize
Date	Annual
Country	United States
Presented by	Chautauqua Institution
First awarded	2012
Official website	http://www.ciweb.org/prize

The Chautauqua Prize is an annual American literary award established by the Chautauqua Institution in 2012. The winner receives US$7,500 and all travel and expenses for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua. It is a "national prize that celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts."

Winners and runners-up

• 2012: Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn
  • Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing
  • Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts
  • Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
  • Leonard Rosen, All Cry Chaos
  • Stephanie Powell Watts, We Are Taking Only What We Need
• 2013: Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
  • Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
  • Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, The Presidents Club
  • Gilbert King, Devil in the Grove
  • Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
  • John Colman Wood, The Names of Things
• 2014: Elizabeth Scarboro, My Foreign Cities
  • Louise Aronson, A History of the Present Illness: Stories
  • Lindsay Hill, Sea of Hooks
  • Roger Rosenblatt, The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood
  • James Tobin, The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
  • Margaret Wrinkle, Wash
• 2015: Phil Klay, Redeployment
  • Michael Blanding, The Map Thief
  • Kim Church, Byrd
  • Brian Hart, The Bully of Order
  • Lily King, Euphoria
  • Jason Sokol, All Eyes Are Upon Us
  • Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here is Too Great
  • Jean Thompson, The Witch

External links

• The Chautauqua Prize, official website.