Literary Award Winners

2007 award winner Jon Clinch and Literary Award Committee Chair Cordelia Frances Biddle

2007 Jon Clinch, Finn: A Novel, New York: Random House, 2007.
2006 David Traxel, Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920, c2006.
2005 Kermit Roosevelt, In the Shadow of the Law, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
2004 Roger W. Moss, Historic Sacred Places of Philadelphia, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
2003

 

 Jack Repcheck, The Man Who Found Time, Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2003.
2002 Jane Golden, Robin Rice & Monica Yant Kinney, Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.

Charlene Mires, Independence Hall in American Memory, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

 
2001 No Award

 
2000 Susan Sidlauskas, Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Patricia Tyson Stroud, The Emperor of Nature; Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

George E. Thomas, William L. Price; Arts and Crafts to Modern Design, New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Ben Yagoda, About Town; The New Yorker and the World It Made, New York: Scribner, 2000.

 
1999 J. Welles Henderson & Rodney P. Carlisle,  Jack Tar: A Sailor's Life, 1750-1910, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1999.

Witold Rybczynski, A Clearing In The Distance, New York: Scribner, 1999.

Jonathan Weiner, Time, Love, Memory, New York: Knopf, c1999.

 
1998 James J. O'Donnell, Avatars of the Word.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Leonard Warren, Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything,  New Haven: Yale University Press, c1998.  

 
1997 A.C. Elias, Jr., Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Athens, University of Georgia Press, c1997.

Kathleen A. Foster and Kenneth Finkel, Captain Watson's Travels in America. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

David P. Silverman, Ancient Egypt.  New York, Oxford University Press, 1997.

David P. Silverman, Search for Ancient Egypt. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1997

Mary Walton, Car. New York, W.W. Norton, 1997.

 
1996 Peter Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography. New York, Cambridge, 1996.

Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Tumbling. New York, Morrow, 1996.

 
1995 Thomas Childers, Wings of Morning. New York, Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Witold Rybczynski, City Life. New York, Scribner, 1995.

Susan Stewart, The Forest. Chicago University Press, 1995.

 
1994 Paul Fussell, The Anti-Egotist. New York, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Steve Lopez, Third and Indiana. New York, Viking-Penguin, 1994.

Barry Schwartz, The Costs of Living. New York, Norton, 1994.

 
1993 Seymour I. Toll, A Judge Uncommon. Philadelphia, Legal Communications, 1993.

Susan Q. Stranahan, Susquehanna, River of Dreams. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1993.

 
1991-1992 Art Carey, The United States of Incompetence. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

Elizabeth Johns, American Genre Painting. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991.

Roger Lane, William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours. New York, Oxford University Press, 1991.

Arthur Power Dudden, The America Pacific. New York, Oxford University Press, 1992.

 
1990 Matthews Masayuki Hamabata, Crested Kimono. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1990.

Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. New York, Yale University Press, 1990.

Paul Halpern, Time Journeys. New York, McGraw Hill, 1990.

Ora Mendels, A Taste for Treason. New York, Carol Pub. Group, 1990.

 
1989 Coral Lansbury, The Grotto. New York, Knopf, 1989.

Emily W. Sunstein, Mary Shelley. Boston, Little Brown, 1989.

James Snyder, Medieval Art. New York, Abrams, 1989.

 
1988 Marilyn Gaull, English Romanticism. New York, Norton, 1988.

Barbara Holland, The Name of the Cat. New York, Dodd Mead, 1988.

John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy. New York, Hill & Wang, 1988.

 
1987 No Award

 

1986 David Eisenhower, Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945. New York, Random House, 1986.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Pat Nixon. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Michael Malone, Handling Sin. Boston, Little Brown, 1986.

Barry Schwartz, The Battle for Human Nature. New York, Norton, 1986.

 
1985 Ralph Keyes, Chancing It. Boston, Little Brown, 1985.

Thomas Maeder, Crime and Madness. New York, Harper & Row, 1985.

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct. New York, Knopf, 1985.

 
1984 Roland M. Frye, The Renaissance Hamlet. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1984.

Jean Gordon Lee, Philadelphia and the China Trade, 1784-1844. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984.

Philip Chadwick Foster Smith, The Empress of China. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Maritime Museum, 1984.

 
1983 Gerald Carson, The Dentist and the Empress. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

Helen H. Gemmill, E.L., the Bread Box Papers. Doylestown, PA, Bucks County Historial Society, 1983.

 
1982 Susan Gray Detweiler, George Washington's Chinaware. New York, Abrams, 1982.

Jean Seder, Voices of Kensington. Ardmore, PA, Whitmore Publishing Co., 1982.

Desmond Ryan, Deadlines. New York, Norton, 1982.

Seymour Shubin, The Captain. New York, Stein & Day, 1982.

David R. Slavitt, Ringer. New York, Dutton, 1982.

 
1981 David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident. New York, Harper & Row, 1981.

Daniel Hoffman, Brotherly Love. New York, Random House, 1981.

John A. Lukacs, Philadelphia, Patricians & Philistines, 1900-1950. New York, Farrar, Straus, Girox, 1981.

Edgar P. Richardson, Charles Willson Peale and His World. New York, H. N. Abrams, 1981.

Russell F. Weigley, Eisenhower's Lieutenants. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1981.

 
1980 Arthur R.G. Solmssen, A Princess in Berlin. Boston, Little Brown, 1980.

Lois G. Forer, Criminals and Victims. New York, Norton, 1980.

James C. Humes, Churchill: Speaker of the Century. New York, Stein & Day, 1980.

 
1979 E. Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia. New York, Free Press, 1979.

Richard J. Boyle, John Twactman. New York, Watson Guptill, 1979.

Dorothy Shipley White, Black Africa and De Gaulle. University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979.

 
1978 Anthony F.C. Wallace, Rockdale. New York, Knopf, 1978.

Peggy Anderson, Nurse. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1978.

Elizabeth Gray Viving, Being Seventy. New York, Viking Press, 1978.

Jan V. Westcott, A Woman of Quality. New York, Putnam, 1978.

 
1977 Seymour Adelman, The Moving Pageant. Lititz, PA, Sutter House, 1977.

John Francis Marion, Famous and Curious Cemeteries. New York, Crown Publishers, 1977.

Barbara Rex, I Want to Be in Love Again. New York, Norton, 1977.

 
1976 No Award

 
1975 Martin P. Snyder, City of Independence. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1975.

 
1974 John R. Coleman, Blue Collar Journal. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1974.

 
1973 John Maas, The Glorious Enterprise. Watkins Glen, NY, American Life Foundation, 1973.

 
1972 Jerre Mangione, The Dream and the Deal. Boston, Little Brown, 1972.

 
1971 Loren Eiseley, The Night Country. New York, Scribner, 1971.

 
1970 No Award

 
1969 Henry Clarence Pitz, The Brandywine Tradition. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1969.

Chaim Potok, The Promise. New York, Knopf, 1969.

 
1968 Ernest Penney Earnest, Expatriates and Patriots. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1968.

Robert C. Smith, The Art of Portugal. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968.

 
1967 Daniel P.Mannix, The Fox and the Hound. New York, Dutton, 1967.

Edmund N. Bacon, Design of Cities. New York, Viking Press, 1967.

 
1966 Edward S. Gifford, Jr., Father Against the Devil. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1966.

 
1965 Laurence Davis Lafore, The Long Fuse. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1965.

 
1964 Kristin Hunter, God Bless the Child. New York, Scribner's, 1964.

Elizabeth Gray Vining, Take Heed of Loving Me. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1964.

Dorothy Shipley White, Seeds of Discord. Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 1964.

 
1963 Daniel Hoffman, The City of Satisfactions. New York, Oxford University Press, 1963.

Samuel Noah Kramer, The Sumerians. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1963.

 
1962 Curtis Bok, Maria. New York, Knopf, 1962.

Carleton S. Coon, The Origins of Races. New York, Knopf, 1962.

Richard S. Dunn, Puritans and Yankees. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1962.

 
1961 Roy F. Nichols, The Stakes of Power, 1845-1877. New York, Hill and Wang, 1961.

Lauren R. Stevens, The Double Axe. New York, Scribner, 1961.

 
1960 Edwin Wolf, II (with John F. Fleming), Rosenbach: a biography. Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1960.

David Taylor, Storm the Last Rampart. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1960.

 
1959 John Edwin Canaday, Mainstreams of Modern Art: David to Picasso. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1959.

 
1958 Loren Eisley, Darwin's Century. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1958.

Lyon Sprague DeCamp, An Elephant for Aristotle. Garden City, NJ, Doubleday, 1958.

 
1957 Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Lion and the Throne. Boston, Little Brown, 1957.

Bettina Linn, A Letter to Elizabeth. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1957.

 
1956 Livingston Biddle, Jr., The Village Beyond. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1956.

Samuel Noah Kramer, From the Tablets of Summer. Indian Hills, CO, Falcon's Wing Press, 1956.

 
1955 Conyers Read, Mr. Secretary Cecil and Queen Elizabeth. New York, Knopf, 1955.

 
1954 Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1953.

 
1953 Lawrence Henry Gipson, The Great War for the Empire 1760-1763, vol. 8, The Culmination, 1760-1763. New York, Knopf, 1953.

 
1952 Nicholas B. Wainwright, A Philadelphia Story. Philadelphia, Wm. F. Fell Co., 1952.

 
1951 Arthur Hobson Quinn, The Literature of the American People. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1950.

 
1950 Henry N. Paul, The Royal Play of Macbeth. New York, Macmillan, 1950.

 
1949 John L. LaMonte, The World of the Middle Ages. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1949.

 

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