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Jan 10, 2025 | 
fivebooks.com | Jonathan Eig |Gregg Hecimovich |Yunte Huang |Rachel Shteir
It’s brilliant to have you back on the site—for the fourth time—to talk about the books that made the National Book Critics Circle shortlist for the best recent biography. Did you notice any trends among the submissions for the 2024 biography prize? Biographies rarely break news, but two of our finalists did so months or years before publication.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
keyreporter.org | Gregg Hecimovich |Emily Monosson |Jeremy Eichler
Phi Beta Kappa is pleased to announce the winners of our three annual book awards. These $10,000 prizes are given to outstanding works of non-fiction that engage a wide audience with important ideas in science, history, and literature.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
pbk.org | Nicholas Dames |Mark Edmundson |Gregg Hecimovich |Sara Marcus
The ΦΒΚ Book Awards are administered in the following three, non-fiction categories:
The Christian Gauss Award: Celebrates outstanding books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism.
The Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science: Recognizes superior books by scientists written to illuminate aspects of science for a broad readership.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award: Honors scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Diana Nyad |Isabella Hammad |Gregg Hecimovich |Federico Finchelstein
Crossing to Safety Diana Nyad has an astonishing ability to do unfathomably difficult, even terrifying athletic feats, and, like many athletes, she did them in the aftermath of abuse.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
pbk.org | Gregg Hecimovich |Jeremy Eichler |Alfred A. Knopf |Emily Monosson
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative
By Gregg Hecimovich, Ecco
"In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman’s Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author’s identity remained unknown.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Gregg Hecimovich |Charly Palmer |Karida Brown |Catherine McNeur
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar. Basic, $35 (544p) ISBN 978-1-541-60199-4Historian Ogbar (Hip Hop Revolution) presents an illuminating and thought-provoking history of Atlanta from the 19th century to the present.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Gregg Hecimovich |Charly Palmer |Karida Brown |Catherine McNeur
Daniel Schulman. Knopf, $35 (592p) ISBN 978-0-451-49354-5Biographer Schulman (Sons of Wichita) delivers an ambitious and captivating group portrait of Jewish financial dynasties “with profound legacies” in the U.S. from the 1830s to the present.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Gregg Hecimovich |Charly Palmer |Karida Brown |Catherine McNeur
Matthew Guariglia. Duke Univ, $27.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-4780-2540-5This scrupulous debut from historian and policy analyst Guariglia traces “how race shaped modern policing and how, in turn, modern policing helped to define and redefine racial boundaries in New York.” Focusing on the period between the New York City Police Department’s founding in 1845 and WWII, Guariglia contends that the NYPD drew on “colonial methods” from abroad to police the city’s growing immigrant population.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Laurence Leamer |Gregg Hecimovich |Charly Palmer |Karida Brown
Laurence Leamer. Putnam, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-54297-2Biographer Leamer (Capote’s Women) serves up a breezy and gossip-filled group biography of Alfred Hitchcock’s blonde leading ladies.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Phil Catudal |Stacey Colino |Lise Van Susteren |Gregg Hecimovich
University of Maryland, College Park computer scientist Golbeck, who runs an Instagram account focused on golden retrievers she rescues, teams up with health writer Colino (coauthor of Emotional Inflammation) to deliver a fetching examination of the benefits of owning a dog.
