Literary Awards

The Third Annual Boston Book Review
Literary Awards (1997)

These $1000 prizes celebrate excellent literary accomplishments published in 1996.

The Fisk Fiction Prize
is given in memory of Lilla Fisk Rand., judged by Carole Maso.
Carol Maso is one of the country's best writers, Carol Maso's latest book is Aureole published by Norton. A very sexual, and lyrically evocative writer, Carol Maso is the Director of the prestigious Graduate Creative Writing Program at Brown University.: Winner; Jamaica Kincaid The Autobiography of My Mother; Nominees; Robert Coover, John's Wife; Michael Joyce, Twilight, A Symphony; Kono Taeko, Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories; David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest; John Edgar Wideman, The Cattle Killing; Tom La Farge, Terror of Earth

The Rea Non-Fiction Prize
is given in memory of Anne Rea Jewell., judged by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is one of the country's top intellectuals and foremost expert on Afro-American affairs, Henry Louis Gates is the editor of the recently published Norton Anthology of African American Literature. He is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities, Chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American research, Harvard University.: Winner; Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes; Nominees; Richard Taruskin, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions; Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners; Harold Brodkey, This Wild Darkness; Melissa Fay Greene, The Temple Bombing

The Bingham Poetry Prize
is given in memory of Belinda Bingham Pierce., judged by Robert Creeley.
Robert Creeley has won every major and minor poetry award in the US. One of the Black Mountain Poets and one of Jack Kerouac's best friends. He has published dozens of books and his collected prose, essays, and poems have recently been published by University of California Press.: Winner; Ronald Johnson, Ark; Nominees; Susan Howe, Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979; Bob Kauffman, Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems; Alice Notley, The Descent of Alette