By Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
Grove Press
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has announced the 2019 Book Awards Short List
The ΦΒΚ Book Awards are administered in the following three, non-fiction categories:
The Christian Gauss Award: Celebrates outstanding books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism.
The Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science: Recognizes superior books by scientists written to illuminate aspects of science for a broad readership.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award: Honors scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.
Finalists and award-winning authors are selected by a panel of experts in each category. Award-winning authors will each receive a $10,000 prize at a celebratory dinner event in Washington, D.C. in December 2019. For more information or to attend this dinner please email Jen Horneman.
By Imani Perry,Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Beacon Press
By Jonathan Kramnick (ΦΒΚ, Cornell University), Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness
The University of Chicago Press
By George Hutchinson, Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s
Columbia University Press
By Vera Tobin,Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot
Harvard University Press
By Thor Hanson,Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Basic Books
By Adam Frank,Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
W. W. Norton and Company
By Marcia Bjornerud,Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Princeton University Press
By Nick Pyenson,Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
Viking Press
By Alan Stern and David Grinspoon,Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
Picador
By Sarah E. Igo,The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
Harvard University Press
By Joanne Freeman (ΦΒΚ Pomona College),The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux
By Jennifer Summit (ΦΒΚ Vassar College) and Blake Vermeule,Action Versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters
University of Chicago Press
By Matthew Restall,When Montezuma Met Cortes: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
Ecco
By Justin Driver,The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
Knopf | Pantheon
Featured Reviews
- Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees is featured in the Phi Beta Kappa magazine, The American Scholar.
- Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures is featured in the Phi Beta Kappa's American Scholar podcast, Smarty Pants.
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Action Versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters, Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto, and Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion are featured in the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Magazine The Key Reporter.
Please email Eva Caldera at ecaldera@pbk.org with any inquiries or call (202) 745-3244.