American Book Awards あめりかんぶっくあわーど
Edition 14 (1993)
Winners
13 peopleA study of African American and Caribbean artists in Paris, tracing exchange, exhibition, and cultural networks.
Investigative nonfiction about wealth, generosity, and the tension between money and commitments to peace, justice, and the environment.
A philosophical and political essay collection on prophetic thinking, public life, and the limits of Eurocentrism and multiculturalism.
A novel set in West Virginia coal country, where labor struggle, family, and the pull of nature shape the characters’ lives.
An essay collection that reflects on Native identity, memory, and the struggle to claim voice and presence.
A selected-poems collection that combines lyric intensity with social observation and a Black poetic imagination.
A poetry collection rooted in Nahuatl imagery, symbolic language, and the reclamation of Indigenous and Latino heritage.
An essay collection that treats the culture wars not as a dead end but as a resource for teaching, arguing that conflict can become a force for intellectual renewal.
Turning conflict itself into intellectual energy.
A sweeping biography that follows James Michael Curley while tracing the larger world of Boston politics, machine power, and immigrant social change.
A single politician’s life opens onto the full landscape of urban politics.
A poetry collection that traces family, memory, and belonging through brief lyric movements, letting Chicano experience emerge from ordinary scenes.
Home and memory are joined through quiet lyric fragments.
A bilingual life story and cultural record of life in the Chandalar country, preserving Gwich’in memory and experience.
A cultural history of Black men and basketball that uses sport to examine race, class, and American society.
A satirical novel set in the Philippines that uses family drama and political intrigue to explore dictatorship, history, and gender.