Jamaica Kincaid, Sterling D. Plumpp, Armond White Win American Book Awards

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BEFORE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION

The Raymond House • 655 -13th Street • Suite 302 • Oakland, California 94612

August 18, 2014

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact: Justin Desmangles, 916-425-7916

 

The Before Columbus Foundation announces the

Winners of the Thirty-Fifth Annual

AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS

Ceremonies, October 26, 2014, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

 

Oakland, CA—The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Fifth Annual AMERICAN 

BOOK AWARDS. The 2014 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized on Sunday, October 26th 

from 2:00-5:00 p.m. at the SF Jazz Center, Joe Henderson Lab, 201 Franklin Street (at Fell), San Francisco, CA.

This event is open to the public. 

 

The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the 

entire spectrum of America's diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary 

excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The 

award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There 

are no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation 

views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of 

various categories, groups, or “special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The 

Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers. 

 

The 2014 American Book Award Winners are:

 

Andrew Bacevich

Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, Metropolitan Books

 

Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin

Black Against Empire; The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, University of California Press

 

Juan Delgado (poetry) and Thomas McGovern (photography)

Vital Signs, Heyday Books

 

Alex Espinoza

The Five Acts of Diego León, Random House

 

Jonathan Scott Holloway

Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940, University of North Carolina Press

 

Joan Naviyuk Kane

Hyperboreal, University of Pittsburgh Press

 

Jamaica Kincaid

See Now Then, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

Tanya Olson

Boyishly, YesYes Books

 

Sterling D. Plumpp

Home/Bass, Third World Press

 

Emily Raboteau

Searching For Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora, Atlantic Monthly Press

 

Jerome Rothenberg with Heriberto Yepez

Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, Commonwealth Books

 

Nick Turse

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, Metropolitan Books

 

Margaret Wrinkle

Wash, Atlantic Monthly Press

 

Koon Woon

Water Chasing Water, Kaya Press

 

Armond White

Anti-Censorship Award:

 

Michael Parenti

Lifetime Achievement: