Literary Awards

The Fifth Annual Boston Book Review
Literary Awards (1999)

These $1000 prizes celebrate excellent literary accomplishments published in 1998.

The Fisk Fiction Prize
is given in memory of Lilla Fisk Rand, judged by Ann Beattie.: Winner; Denise Giardina for Saints and Villains (Fawcett); Nominees; Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (Knopf); The Hours by Michael Cunningha(Farrar,Straus, and Giroux); Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina (Fawcett); The Giant, O’Brien by Hilary Mantel (Marian Wood/Holt); Freedomland by Richard Price (Broadway)

The Rea Non-Fiction Prize
is given in memory of Anne Rea Jewell, judged by Orlando Patterson.: Winner; Henry Mayer for All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery (St. Martin's); Nominees; All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer (St. Martin's); Havana Dreams: A Story of Cuba by Wendy Gimbel (Knopf); The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs by John Avise (Harvard University Press); Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson (Harvard University Press); Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow (Random House)

The Bingham Poetry Prize
is given in memory of Belinda Bingham Pierce, judged by Robert Pinsky.: Winner; Mark Strand for Blizzard of One (Knopf); Nominees; Blizzard of One by Mark Strand (Knopf); Sweet Machine by Mark Doty (HarperCollins); This Time: New and Selected Poems by Gerald Stern (Norton); Trace Elements by Barbara Jordan (Penguin U.S.A.); Reversing the Spell by Eleanor Wilner (Copper Canyon); From the Devotions by Carl Phillips (Graywolf)

Established in 1995 by Boston Book Review editor emeritus Lucinda Jewell to honor members of her family who have supported American literary and intellectual accomplishments, the awards are given for books of poetry and fiction published in the preceding year. There is no appplication process. The awards will given at the traditional dinner ceremony attended by winners, judges, and media held at Harvard's Upstairs at the Pudding on May 22nd, 1999.