American Book Awards あめりかんぶっくあわーど
Edition 19 (1998)
Literary awardMulticultural literatureNo genre restrictions (novels, poetry, non-fiction, etc.)
Winners
11 people
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Winner
A poetry collection that directly captures memory and selfhood from the perspective of an Indigenous mixed-heritage woman.
Personal memory resonates as social testimony.
97 pages
poetryIndigenous identitymemoryselfhood
Angela Y. Davis
Winner
464 pages
Brenda Marie Osbey
Winner
144 pages
Don DeLillo
Winner
832 pages
Jim Barnes
Winner
288 pages
John A. Williams
Winner
Nancy Rawles
Winner
266 pages
Nora Okja Keller
Winner
240 pages
Sandra Benítez
Winner
464 pages
Scott DeVeaux
Winner
610 pages
Thomas Lynch
Winner
An essay collection about funeral work and death. It probes the meaning of life and mortality through close observations of the funeral trade as a profession.
From the funeral home, it quietly reconsiders how people confront death.
202 pages
essaysmortalityprofessional life