The New York City Book Awards 2007
Award for Photography
New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac by Michael Lorenzini and Kevin Moore (Aperture)
Award for History
Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by D. Graham Burnett (Princeton University Press)
The 2007-2008 Book Awards Jury
Constance Rogers Roosevelt, chair; Lucienne Bloch, Barbara Cohen, Jules Cohn, Ellen Feldman, Martin Filler, Roger Pasquier, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Susan Soros, Meg Wolitzer
The awards presentation, hosted by Laurence Bergreen, took place May 14, 2008.
Book Awards Jury Chair Constance Rogers Roosevelt welcomes attendees.
Host Laurence Bergreen talks about the history and relevance of New York writing.
Michael Lorenzini accepts the award for New York Rises and honors the legacy of photographer Eugene de Salignac.
Juror Roger Pasquier discusses the work of Trying Leviathan author D. Graham Burnett.
Photographs by David Ortiz
