American Book Awards あめりかんぶっくあわーど
Edition 13 (1992)
Winners
18 peopleA graphic novel that follows Holocaust survivor Vladek Spiegelman's testimony alongside the author's conversations with his father, Art. It layers family history, memory, guilt, and generational rupture into a sharply visual account of war's afterlife.
It redraws the shadow of the Holocaust through a son's search through his father's memories.
A complete graphic-novel edition about the Holocaust that layers Vladek Spiegelman's testimony with his son's conversations, exploring family history, memory, and trauma through visual storytelling.
It redraws the shadow of war through a son's search through his father's memories.
A poetry collection rooted in New Mexico landscapes and memory. Its poems move through desert light, family, and cultural belonging with spare intensity.
Memory of dry land becomes the breathing space of the poems.
A landmark essay collection on feminism, science, technology, and the unstable borders of nature. Using the cyborg as a key metaphor, it challenges fixed binaries.
The cyborg becomes a metaphor for remaking boundaries.
A book-length exploration of the overlap between science and spirituality. It sets new scientific thinking beside religious insight and asks what it means to belong to the universe.
It searches for a sense of belonging in the space between science and religion.
A bilingual poetry anthology shaped by Chicano identity, displacement, and personal memory. The poems move between private experience and political belonging.
Bilingual poems sketch the contours of a life shaped by movement.
A study of language competence that combines memoir and scholarship. Keith Gilyard examines African American language, schooling, and his own experience to show how knowledge and identity intersect.
It follows one’s own voice while thinking through the relation between language and education.
A memoir-like record by a Yurok woman that preserves Native life, history, and cultural survival.
An essayistic study of late twentieth-century Japan that follows dissenting voices to expose political and cultural fault lines.
A novel about a Filipino American man’s reckoning with family, faith, and cultural conflict.
A large bilingual collection of Dena'ina and English writings, bringing together stories, lessons, songs, poems, place names, and autobiographical pieces. It preserves Peter Kalifornsky's voice across nearly two decades of work.
A bilingual record that passes Dena'ina language and memory to the next generation.
A Southern novel set in Georgia, tracing family memory, faith, romance, and the tensions between women in one household. Raymond Andrews explores the emotional complexity that runs through an African American family.
Family memory and private desire quietly collide in the South.
A psychological family novel centered on twin brothers and the pressures that grow inside one household. Set in Oregon, it follows how love, obligation, and rivalry shape a family over time.
It quietly digs up the pain buried deep within a family.
A picture-book history of Japanese Americans that follows the story from exclusion and incarceration to renewal. Based on Hamanaka’s mural, it presents the experience in a clear, visually driven form for younger readers.
A mural tells the story of the Japanese American journey.
An oral history of the wartime internment of Italian and German nationals in the United States. It reconstructs a little-known chapter of the war through testimony and documentary evidence.
It uncovers a forgotten history of detention through testimony.
A critical study of Lorraine Hansberry’s drama, read through both political commitment and artistic form. It places her plays in the context of civil-rights politics and Black women’s representation.
It reads Hansberry’s theater at the intersection of politics and aesthetics.
A nonfiction portrait of a Buffalo bar and the Polish-American family behind it. Through one neighborhood business, the book traces urban change, work, and memory.
A single bar becomes a doorway into the history of a city.
An anthology of contemporary African American drama, collecting plays written mainly after 1975. It showcases the range of Black theater and frames the movement with an extensive introduction.
It gathers the power of contemporary Black theater into one volume.