“History is not dead.”
"The Grateful American Book Prize was created to make sure of that,” so said David Bruce Smith, co-founder of the annual award.
Submit Your Book for the Annual Award by July 31, 2024.
May 29, 2024 – “History is not dead. The Grateful American Book Prize was created to make sure of that,” so said David Bruce Smith, co-founder of the annual book prize with the late Dr. Bruce Cole, former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
NOW ACCEPTING: Submissions of non-fiction, fiction, and biographies — for readers in grades seven through nine (ages 11-15) — which depict important events and people in American history. The Prize comes with a $13,000 cash award in commemoration of the 13 original colonies, a lifetime membership to the New-York Historical Society, and a medallion by the renowned artist Clarice Smith.
Eligible books must be published between August 1, 2023, and July 31, 2024.
Previous winners have included Michelle Coles’s Black Was the Ink, Sharon Robinson’s Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963, Sonia Sotomayor’s The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor, and Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures.
