Announcing the 2015 New York City Book Awards!
The 2015-16 season marks the 20th anniversary of the New York City Book Awards. The awards were founded in 1995-96 to honor books of literary quality or historical importance that evoke the spirit or enhance appreciation of New York City. Click here for more general information about the awards.
The Library is proud to announce the 2015-16 honorees.
Robin Jaffee Frank
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art/Yale University Press
Shane White
Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire
St. Martin’s Press
Gerard Koeppel
City on a Grid: How New York Became New York
Da Capo Press
Arthur Browne
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
Beacon Press
The Hornblower Award for a First Book
Tom Glynn
Reading Publics: New York City’s Public Libraries, 1754-1911
Empire State Editions/Fordham University Press
Special Citation for Two Iconic New York City Writers
Vivian Gornick
author most recently of The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Roger Angell
author most recently of This Old Man: All in Pieces (Doubleday)
For information about the May 3 awards ceremony, please click here.
The 2015-2016 New York City Book Awards are generously underwritten by Ellen M. Iseman.
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