Gotham Book Prize
DateDecember
Reward(s)$50,000
First awarded2020
Last awardedActive
Websitegothambookprize.org

The Gotham Book Prize is awarded annually to a fiction or non-fiction work judged the best about or set in New York City. The award was founded by Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson.[1][2]

Winners

Year Genre(s) Author Title Result Ref.
2021 Fiction James McBride Deacon King Kong Winner [3]
2022 Fiction Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby Finalist [4][5]
Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle
Kaitlyn Greenidge Libertie
Zakiya Dalila Harris The Other Black Girl
Natalie Standiford Astrid Sees All
Elisabet Velasquez When We Make It
Jim Lewis Ghosts of New York
Nonfiction Tom Dyja New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess and Transformation
Andrea Elliott Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Sarah Schulman Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

References

  1. Bussel, Rachel Kramer. "Gotham Book Prize To Award Winning Author $50,000 For Book About Or Set In New York City". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  2. "New writer's prize aims to keep mistique of NYC alive through literature". PIX11. 2020-07-30. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  3. McBride, James (6 April 2021). "James McBride's 'Deacon King Kong' wins inaugural Gotham prize". The Boston Globe.
  4. Schaub, Michael (2022-01-29). "Finalists for the 2022 Gotham Book Prize Revealed". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  5. Mechler, Anita (2022-01-28). "2022 Gotham Book Prize Finalists Announced | Book Pulse". Library Journal. Retrieved 2022-01-30.


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