American Book Awards

30 OCTOBER 2016 — sunday

The Before Columbus Foundation presents the thirty-seventh annual American Book Awards, a writers' award given by other writers, the 2016 winners are Laura Da' for Tributaries (University of Arizona), Susan Muaddi Darraj for Curious Land: Stories from Home (University of Massachusetts), Deepa Iyer for We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (The New Press), Mat Johnson for Loving Day (Spiegel & Grau), John Keene for Counternarratives (New Directions), William J. Maxwell for F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature (Princeton University), Lauret Savoy for Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (Counterpoint), Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette for The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Lawrence Hill Books), Jesús Salvador Treviño for Return to Arroyo Grande (Arte Público), Nick Turse for Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Haymarket Books), Ray Young Bear for Manifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear (Open Road Integrated Media); Lifetime Achievement: Louise Meriwether; Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Lyra Monteiro and Nancy Isenberg; Andrew Hope Award: Chiitaanibah Johnson, Joe Henderson Lab at SF Jazz Center, 201 Franklin Street, at Fell, San Francisco, open to the public, 2:00-5:00 (www.sfjazz.org)