The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation The American Book Awards, established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation, recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre. The purpose of the awards is to acknowledge the excellence and multicultural diversity of American writing. 2006 MacKenzie Bezos, The Testing of Luther Albright (Fourth Estate) Matt Briggs, Shoot the Buffalo (Clear Cut Press) David Diaz, The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second-Generation Mexican-American (BookSurge) Darryl Dickson-Carr, The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction (Columbia University Press) Thomas J. Ferraro, Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America (New York University Press) Tim Z. Hernandez, Skin Tax (Heyday Books) Josh Kun, Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (University of California Press) P. Lewis, Nate (Back House Books) Peter Metcalfe, Gumboot Determination: The Story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, (SEARHC Foundation) Kevin J. Mullen, The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco (Noir Publications) Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin, editors, A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children (AltaMira Press/Oyate) Matthew Shenoda, Somewhere Else (Coffee House Press) Carlton T. Spiller, Scalding Heart (Nuyorican Press) Editor�s Award: Chris Hamilton-Emery, Salt Publishing Ltd. Lifetime Achievement Award: Jay Wright 2005 The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches, Bernard W. Bell Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood, Cecelie Berry Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Jeff Chang Redemption, Julie Chibbaro Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, Richard A. Clarke The Red Cedar of Afognak, A Driftwood Journey, Alisha S. Drabek and Karen R. Adams The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family, Ralph M. Flores Swimming in the American: A Memoir and Selected Writings, Hiroshi Kashiwagi Crimes Against Nature, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Country of Origin, Don Lee Long Movie of Shadows, Lamont B. Steptoe No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems, Don West 2004 Crescent, Diana Abu-Jaber Enemy Aliens, David Cole Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America, Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Ph.D. Breaking Away, Kristin Lattany Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions, A. Robert Lee What I Stole, Diane Sher Lutovich All Over Creation, Ruth Ozeki Prayer to Spider Woman / Rezo a la Mujer Araña, Renato Rosaldo Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of The Sixties, Scott Saul And All the Saints, Michael Walsh 2003 Paradise Alley, Kevin Baker Perma Red, Debra Magpie Earling Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California, Rick Heide, editor Akuzilleput Igaqullghet, Our Words Put to Paper Sourcebook in St. Lawrence Island Yupik Heritage and History, Igor Krupnik, Willis Walunga, and Vera Metcalf, editors; compiled by Igor Krupnik and Lars Krutak This War Called Love: Nine Stories, Alejandro Murguía The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania, Jack Newfield Italian Stories, Joseph Papaleo What Is This Thing Called Jazz?African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists, Eric Porter Douglass’ Women, Jewell Parker Rhodes Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, Rachel Simon Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River, Velma Wallis Editor Award: Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review (www.qbr.com) 2002 The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990 - 2000, Al Young Reading the Funnies: Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout The First Half of the Twentieth Century, Donald Phelps Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future, Michael N. Nagler Lipstick and Other Stories, Alex Kuo Shell Shaker, Lee Ann Howe Interrogations at Noon, Dana Gioia Homeless at Home, Gloria Frym The Living Blood, Tananarive Due Fire in Beulah, Rilla Askew The Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir, Susanne Antonetta Colcha, Aaron A. Abeyta Lifetime Achievement: Lerone Bennett, Jr. - Jack Hirschman Children's Literature: Jessel Miller Angels in the Vineyards 2001 Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories; The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949, Amanda J. Cobb Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation, Andrea Dworkin When Living Was a Labor Camp, Diana García Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1999, Sandra M. Gilbert Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, Chalmers Johnson Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories, Russell Charles Leong The Island of Lost Luggage, Janet McAdams Bruised Hibiscus, Elizabeth Nunez Killing Time with Strangers, W.S. Penn Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir, Cheri Register Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire, Carolyne Wright Editor/Publisher Award: Malcolm Margolin Lifetime Achievement: Ted Joans; Tillie Olsen; Philip Whalen 2000 From the Belly of My Beauty, Esther G. Belin Sing When the Spirit Says Sing: Selected & New Poems 1960-1990, Jon Eckels Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective, Emil Guillermo Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child, Elva Treviño Hart It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry and Prose, Michael Lally All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Michael Patrick MacDonald The Ice Wosrkers Sings and Other Poem, Andrés Montoya Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood, Kate Moses and Camille Peri, editors Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity, David A.J. Richards Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, John Russell Rickford and Russell John Rickford Why She Left Us, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto The Trickster Shift: Humor and Irony in Contemporary Native Art, Allan J. Ryan Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story, Leroy TeCube Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times, Helen Thomas Exotica, David Toop Heads by Harry (as part of trilogy with Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers and Blu's Hanging), Lois-Ann Yamanaka Journalism Award: Jack E. White Editor/Publisher Award: Ronald Sukenick Lifetime Achievement Award: Frank Chin; Robert Creeley 1999 The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat Right Here, Right Now, Trey Ellis The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature, Lauro Flores (editor) What Book!?:Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop, Gary Gach (editor) Hip Hop America, Nelson George The Last Paradise, James D. Houston Ghost Dancing, Anna Linzer Transforming the Culture of Schools: Yup'ik Eskimo Examples, Jerry Lipka, with Gerald V. Mohatt and the Ciulistet Group Charming Billy, Alice McDermott The Freshour Cylinders, Speer Morgan The Men of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor Salvation and Other Disasters, Josip Novakovich First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim, Judith Roche and Meg McHutchison (editors) Sometimes the Soul, Gioia Timpanelli Survivor's Medicine, E. Donald Two-Rivers Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life, Luis Alberto Urrea Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations, Brian Ward Children' s Book Award: Home to Medicine Mountain, Chiori Santiago (writer) and Judith Lowry (illustrator) 1998 On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions, Jim Barnes Bitter Grounds, Sandra Benitez Dog Road Woman, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, Angela Y. Davis Underworld, Don DeLillo The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History, Scott DeVeaux Comfort Woman, Nora Okja Keller The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, Thomas Lynch All Saints, Brenda Marie Osbey Love Like Gumbo, Nancy Rawles Safari West, John A. Williams 1997 Et Tu...Raza, Alurista The Post-Rapture Diner, Dorothy Barresi Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life, William M. Banks Gospel Choirs, Derrick Bell Maker of Saints, Thulani Davis Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies, Tom De Haven Imagine the Angels of Bread, Martin Espada Dreams of the Centaur, Monserrat Fontes The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century, Guillermo Gomez-Pena Race Traitor, Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey Women of the Beat Generation, Brenda Knight Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of the Homelands, Shirley Geok-lin Lim Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, Sunaina Maira and Rajini Srikanth Nightland, Louis Owens 1996 Reservation Blues, Sherman Alexie The Physician of London, Stephanie Cowell Arranged Marriage, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Longing, Maria Espinosa The Tunnel, William Gass The Unbearable Heart, Kimiko Hahn Girl Hurt, E. J. Miller Laino Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James W. Loewen One by One from the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America, Glenn C. Loury Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile, Agate Nesaule Palestine, Joe Sacco Sounding Off! Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, Ron Sakolsky and Fred Wei-han Ho, editors Archipelago, Arthur Sze Astoria, Robert Viscusi 1995 Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS, Thomas Avena Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America, Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen Face of an Angel, Denise Chavez Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South, John Egerton The Light People, Gordon Henry, Jr. The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, Li-Young Lee I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted, Sandra Haldeman Martz Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest, Marnie Mueller Banished Children of Eve, Peter Quinn Rocking the Babies, Linda Raymond Spidertown, Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Tricia Rose Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas, John Ross Crossing Ocean Parkway: Readings by an Italian American Daughter, Marianna De Marco Torgovnick 1994 Aloud! Voices from the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe, edited by Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman Flood! A Novel in Pictures, Eric Drooker Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Paul Gilroy Daughters of Feminists, Rose Glickman Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter, Janet Campbell Hale Legends from Camp, Lawson Inada In Search of Bernabé, Graciela Limón Economic Empowerment Through the Church, Gregory J. Reed Benedetta in Guysterland, Giose Rimanelli A Different Mirror: A Muliticultural History of America, Ronald Takaki Scenes from the Movie GIANT, Tino Villanueva WOOD-HOOPOE Willie, Virginia Kroll, illustrated by Katherine Roundtree Volunteered Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, Jill Nelson 1993 Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation, Francisco X. Abarc�u The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, Jack Beatty Paris Connections: African-American Artists in Paris, Asake Bomani and Belvie Rooks Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball, Nelson George The Unquiet Earth, Denise Giardina Claiming Breath, Diane Glancy Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education, Gerald Graff We Gave Away a Fortune: Stories of People Who Have Devoted Themselves and Their Wealth to Peace, Justice and the Environment, Christopher Mogil and Anne Slepian, with Peter Woodrow Neets'aii Gwiindaii: Living in the Chandalar Country, Katherine Peter The History of Home, Leroy Quintana The Eye in the Ceiling: Selected Poems, Eugene Redmond Twice Blessed, Ninotchka Rosca Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism: Volume I:Prophetic Thought in Post- Modern Times; Volume II: Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America, Cornel West 1992 Jessie and Jesus, Raymond Andrews Cousin Claire, Raymond Andrews Cebu, Peter Bacho Black Thunder: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Drama, William B. Branch Madam C.J. Walker, A'Lelia Perry Bundles Undocumented Love, José Antonio Burciaga Belonging to the Universe, Fritjof Capra and David Steindl-Rast with Thomas Capra Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity, Steven Carter In the Realm of a Dying Emperor, Norma Field The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II, Stephen Fox Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Donna J. Haraway A Dena'ina Legacy, K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky, edited by James Kari and Alan Boraas The Last Fine Time, Verlyn Klinkenborg Calendar of Dust, Benjamin Alire Sáenz Beyond Deserving, Sandra Scofield Maus: A Survivor's Tale, I: My Father Bleeds History; II: And Here My Troubles Began, Art Speigelman To the American Indian: Reminscences of a Yurok Woman, Lucy Thompson (Che- ne-wah Weitch-ah-wah) The Journey, Sheila Hamanaka Voices of the Self: A Study of Language, Keith Gilyard 1991 Homesick: New & Selected Stories, Lucia Berlin Terra Firma, Thomas Centolella Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog with Richard Erdoes Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory, edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn In Mad Love and War, Joy Harjo Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics, bell hooks Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile, edited by Deborah Keenan and Roseann Lloyd Harvest Song, Meridel Le Sueur Heroism in the New Black Poetry, D.H. Melhem Overtime: Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald, The Mill Hunk Herald The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes, R. Baxter Miller Southern Front, Alejandro Murguia Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam, edited by Charley Trujillo Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Karen Tei Tamashita Phildelphia Fire, John Edgar Wideman Black Robes, White Justice, Bruce Wright 1990 Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women, Paula Gunn Allen Black Athena, Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilizations: Volume 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985, Martin Bernal Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry, Michelle T. Clinton, Sesshu Foster, and Naomi Quinonez Miles: The Autobiography, Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives, James M. Freeman Women on War (Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age), Daniela Gioseffi Vivar a Hostos, Jose Emilio Gonzalez Italian Days, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Symbolic Immmortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the 19th Century, Sergei Kan People Who Led to My Plays, Adrienne Kennedy The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's anthology, edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, and Margarita Donnelly Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China, Hualing Nieh Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: Family Portraits and PersonalEscapades, Itabari Njeri The Light at the End of the Bog, John Norton Romans and Blacks, Lloyd A. Thompson The Harlem Fox, J. Raymond James and Tammany, 1920-1970, John C. Walter Hand into Stone, Elizabeth Woody 1989 Eva Luna, Isabel Allende, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co., Frank Chin Homemade Love, J. California Cooper Columbia Literary History of the United States, edited by Emory Elliott The Exiles of Erin: 19th Century Irish American Fiction, Charles Fanning Memory of Fire, Eduardo Galeano, translated by Cedric Belfrage The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Right Thing to Do, Josephine Gattuso Hendin Repairing America, William Hohri Wode Shuofa (My Way of Speaking), Carolyn Lau A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde Way, Leslie Scalapino Stone's Throw, Jennifer Stone Floating the River in Melancholy, Shuntaro Tanikawa, translated by William I. Eliot and Kazuo Kawamura (bilingual edition) From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance, Askia Muhammed Toure The Ultraviolet Sky, Alma Luz Villanueve 1988 Martin and Meditations on the South Valley, Jimmy Santiago Baca The Long Shadow of Little Rock, Daisy Bates Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought, Allison Blakely The Reckoning, David Halberstam Songs of Gold Mountain, Marlon Horn The Boys of Bensonhurst, Salvatore La Puma Expounding the Doubtful Points, Wing Tek Lum Beloved, Toni Morrison The Collected Poems of Charles Olson, Charles Olson, edited by George Butterick Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961-1985, Edward Sanders Tight Spaces, Kesho Scott, Cherry Muhanji & Egyirba High Down and In, Ronald Sukenick Griever: An American Monkey King in China, Gerald Vizenor The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow, Opal Whiteley, presented by Benjamin Hoff 1987 SIN, Ai Liberazione della Dona: Feminism in Italy, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum Confessions of Madame Psyche, Dorothy Bryant The Mixquiahuala Letters, Ana Castillo Ready From Within, Septima Clark, edited by Cynthia Stokes Brown Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker, Gary Giddins Face Games, Juan Felipe Herrera The Essential Etheridge Knight, Etheridge Knight Practicing Angels, A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry, edited by Michael Mayo Portrait of a Little Boy in Darkness, Daniel McGuire Mama, Terry McMillan American Splendor, Harvey Pekar Selected Poems, 1958-1984, John Wieners Fools Crow, James Welch Circumnavigations, Cyn Zarco 1986 Time's Now, Miguel Algarin The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women, edited by Helen Barolini A Daughter of the Nobility, Natasha Borovsky Smiles on Washington Square, Raymond Federman Seeing Through the Sun, Linda Hogan My Emily Dickinson, Susan Howe I Hear You Knockin', Jeff Hannusch (a.k.a. Almost Slim) This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua Yokohama, California, Toshio Mori The Sun Is Not Merciful, Anna Lee Walters Irish Musicians/American Friends, Terence Winch 1985 The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros Ground Work: Before the War, Robert Duncan Love Medicine, Louise Erdich Justice at War, Peter Irons Solo in the Box Car, Third Floor E, Angela Jackson Say Ray, Ron Jones Queen of the Ebony Aisles, Colleen J. McElroy Poets Behind Barbed Wire, edited and translated by Jiro Nakano and Kay Nakano Round Valley Songs, William Oandasan Amelia Earhart (AE), Maureen Owen Homegirls and Handgrenades, Sonia Sanchez At Seventy: A Journal, May Sarton Living Up the Street, Gary Soto Genth's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown, Kohn Kuo Wei Tchen 1984 Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women, Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka The Heat Bird, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Days Without Weather, Cecil Brown Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets, Joseph Bruchac A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches, Jesus Colon O Albany, William Kennedy The Mama Poems, Maurice Kenny Naked in Deccan, Vankatesh Kulkarni Praisesong for the Window, Paule Marshall Pie-Biter, illustrated by Ruthanne Lum McCunn and You-shan Tang, translated by Ellen Lai-shan Yeung Echoes Inside the Labyrinth, Thomas McGrath Citizen 13660, Mine Okubo The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Red Nachman, Howard Schwartz Axe Handles, Gary Snyder 1983 Not By the Sword, Nash Candelaria Black Women Novelists, Barbara Christian Queen of Wands, Judy Grahn Lost Highway, Peter Guralnick Pet Food & Tropical Apparitions, Jessica Hagedorn Californians, James D. Houston Obasan, Joy Kogawa Chinese Folk Poetry, Cecilia Liang An Duanaire, Sean O'Tuama and Thomas Kinsella The Legend of Food Mountain, Harriet Rohmer !Click Song, John A. Williams Thirty An' Seen a Lot, Evangelina Vigil 1982 The Book of Jamaica, Russell Banks Emplumada, Lorna Dee Cervantes Chickencoop Chinaman and Year of the Dragon, Frank Chin Enclave, Tato Laviera Collected Poems, E.L. Mayo Songs for the Harvester of Dreams, Duane Niatum This Passover or Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem, Hilton Obenzinger Sangre, Leroy Quintana Pre-Faces & Other Writings, Jerome Rothenberg Shino Suite, Ronald Tanaka Marked by Fire, Joyce Carol Thomas Bodies & Soul, Al Young Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 1910- 1949, edited by Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung 1981 Turn Again to Me & Other Poems, Helen Adams On Call, Miguel Alarin The Shameless Hussy, alta The Salt Eaters, Toni Cade Bambara Back Then Tomorrow, Peter Blue Cloud The Choice, Rose Drachler The Liberties, Susan Howe In Time, Robert Kelly Songs for Jadina, Alan Lau Traveling Light, Lionel Mitchell Felita, Nicholasa Mohr A Scent of Apples, Ben Santos 1980 Tortuga, Rudolfo Anaya Random Possession, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Mouth on Paper, Jayne Cortez Hello, La Jolla, Ed Dorn All I'm Asking for is My Body, Milton Murayama Ceremony, Leslie Silko Snake-Back Solos, Quincy Troupe Future Preconditional, Douglas Woolf Topics: Awards,