American Book Awards - Recipients - 2000 To 2009

2000 To 2009

2000

• Allan J. Ryan for The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art
• Andrés Montoya for The Ice Worker Sings and Other Poems
• Camille Peri, Kate Moses for Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood
• David A. J. Richards for Italian American: The Racializing of an Ethnic Identity
• David Toop for Exotica
• Elva Trevino Hart for Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
• Emil Guillermo for Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective; With an Introduction by Ishmael Reed
• Frank Chin for The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
• Helen Thomas for Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times
• Janisse Ray for Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
• John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford for Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
• Leroy TeCube for Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story
• Lois-Ann Yamanaka for Heads By Harry
• Michael Lally for It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose
• Michael Patrick MacDonald for All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
• Rahna Reiko Rizzuto for Why She Left Us, a novel
• Robert Creeley for The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005

Editor/Publisher: Ronald Sukenick

Journalism: Jack E. White

Lifetime Achievement: Frank Chin

Lifetime Achievement: Robert Creeley

2001

• Amanda J. Cobb for Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949
• Andrea Dworkin for Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation
• Carolyne Wright for Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire
• Chalmers Johnson for Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
• Cheri Register for Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
• Chris Ware for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
• Diana Garcia for When Living Was a Labor Camp
• Elizabeth Nunez for Bruised Hibiscus
• Janet McAdams for Island of Lost Luggage
• Philip Whalen for Overtime: Selected Poems
• Russell Leong for Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
• Sandra M. Gilbert for Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1999
• Ted Joans for Teducation
• Tillie Olsen for Silences
• William S. Penn for Killing Time With Strangers

Editor/Publisher Award: Malcolm Margolin

Lifetime Achievement: Ted Joans

Lifetime Achievement: Tillie Olsen

Lifetime Achievement: Philip Whalen

2002

• Aaron Abeyta, Colcha
• Susanne Antonetta, The Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
• Rilla Askew, Fire in Beulah
• Tananarive Due, The Living Blood
• Gloria Frym, Homeless at Home
• Dana Gioia, Interrogations at Noon
• LeAnne Howe, Shell Shaker
• Alex Kuo, Lipstick and Other Stories
• Michael N. Nagler, Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future
• Donald Phelps, Reading the Funnies : Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout the First Half of the 20th Century
• Al Young, The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems, 1990-2000

Children's Book: Jessel Miller, Angels in the Vineyards

Lifetime Achievement: Lerone Bennett

Lifetime Achievement: Jack Hirschman

2003

• Kevin Baker, Paradise Alley
• Debra Magpie Earling, Perma Red
• Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
• Rick Heide, ed., Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California
• Igor Krupnik, Willis Walunga, Vera Metcalf, and Lars Krutak, eds., Akuzilleput Igaqullghet, Our Words Put to Paper: Sourcebook in St. Lawrence Island Yupik Heritage and History
• Alejandro Murguía, This War Called Love: Nine Stories
• Jack Newfield, The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania
• Joseph Papaleo, Italian Stories
• Eric Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
• Jewell Parker Rhodes, Douglass' Women, a novel
• Rachel Simon, Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
• Velma Wallis, Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River

Editor: Max Rodriguez, QBR: The Black Book Review (www.qbr.com)

2004

• Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent, a novel
• David Cole, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism
• Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
• Kristin Hunter Lattany, Breaking Away
• A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions
• Diane Sher Lutovich, What I Stole
• Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation
• Renato Rosaldo, Prayer to Spider Woman / Rezo a la Mujer Arana
• Scott Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
• Michael Walsh, And All the Saints

2005

• Bernard W. Bell, The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots And Modern Literary Branches
• Cecelie Berry, Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
• Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
• Julie Chibbaro, Redemption
• Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
• Alisha S. Drabek and Karen R. Adams, The Red Cedar of Afognak, A Driftwood Journey
• Ralph M. Flores, The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family
• Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Swimming in the American: A Memoir And Selected Writings
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
• Don Lee, Country of Origin, a novel
• Lamont B. Steptoe, A Long Movie of Shadows
• Don West, No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems, eds. Jeff Biggers and George Brosi

Journalism: Bill Berkowitz

2006

• Mackenzie Bezos, The Testing of Luther Albright, a novel
• Matt Briggs, Shoot the Buffalo
• David P. Diaz, The White Tortilla: Reflections of a Second-Generation Mexican-American
• Darryl Dickson-Carr, The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction
• Thomas Ferraro, Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America
• Tim Z. Hernandez, Skin Tax
• Josh Kun, Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America
• P. Lewis, Nate
• Peter Metcalfe, Gumboot Determination: The Story of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium
• Kevin J. Mullen, The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories from Old San Francisco
• Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin, eds., A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children
• Matthew Shenoda, Somewhere Else
• Carlton T. Spiller, Scalding Heart

Editor: Chris Hamilton-Emery, Salt Publishing Ltd.

Lifetime Achievement: Jay Wright

2007

• Daniel Cassidy, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
• Michael Eric Dyson, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
• Rigoberto Gonzalez, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
• Reyna Grande, Across a Hundred Mountains, a novel
• Ernestine Hayes, Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir
• Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
• Gary Panter, Jimbo's Inferno
• Jeffrey F. L. Partridge, Beyond Literary Chinatown
• Judith Roche, Wisdom of the Body
• Kali Vanbaale, The Space Between

2008

• Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem Being Young and Arab in America
• Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
• Jonathan Curiel, Al’ America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots
• Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Lydia T. Black, and Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká, Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804
• Maria Mazziotti Gillan, All That Lies Between Us
• Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998
• C. S. Giscombe, Prairie Style
• Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go, a novel
• L. Luis Lopez, Each Month I Sing
• Tom Lutz, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
• Fae Myenne Ng, Steer Toward Rock
• Yuko Taniguchi, The Ocean in the Closet
• Lorenzo Thomas, Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition, ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen
• Frank B. Wilderson III, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid

Lifetime Achievement: J. J. Phillips, Author of Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale

2009

• Houston A. Baker, Jr., Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era
• Danit Brown, Ask for a Convertible
• Jericho Brown, Please
• José Antonio Burciaga, The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga, eds. Mimi R. Gladstein and Daniel Chacón
• Claire Hope Cummings, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
• Stella Pope Duarte, If I Die in Juarez
• Linda Gregg, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems
• Suheir Hammad, Breaking Poems
• Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder
• George E. Lewis, A Power Stronger than Itself: The A.A.C.M. and American Experimental Music
• Patricia Santana, Ghosts of El Grullo
• Jack Spicer, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, ed. Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian

Lifetime Achievement: Miguel Algarín