The PEN New England Award (previously L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award and Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award) is awarded annually by PEN New England (today PEN America Boston)[1] to honor a New England author or book with a New England setting or subject.[2][3] The award was established in 1975 by The Boston Globe in conjunction with PEN to honor the veteran Boston Globe editor Laurence L. Winship.

Since 2005, the award has been presented in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and poetry with each winner receiving $1,000.[2] For one year in 2012, the award was called the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award in honor of father and son, Thomas Winship, both long-time Boston Globe editors. It was renamed to simply PEN New England Award starting with the 2013 award.

The award presentation is sponsored in part by the JFK Presidential Library.[4] The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Winners

1975-2004

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award winners
Year Author Title Ref.
1975 Andre Dubus Separate Flights
1976 Claude-Anne Lopez The Private Franklin: The Man and His Family
1977 E. B. White Letters of E. B. White
1978 Martha Saxton Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography
1979 Abbott Lowell Cummings The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
1980 Millicent Bell Marquand: An American Life
1981 Estelle Jussim Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day, Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete
1982 William Sargent Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay
1983 ?
1984 Bernd Heinrich In a Patch of Fireweed: A Biologist's Life in the Field
1985 Susan Cheever Home Before Dark
1986 Diana Korzenik Drawn to Art: A Nineteenth Century American Dream
1987 Claudia Koonz Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics
1988 Susan Quinn A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney
1989 Jill Ker Conway The Road from Coorain
1990 Tracy Kidder Among Schoolchildren
1991 Mary Oliver House of Light
1992 Nicholas Fox Weber Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928-1943
1993 Jack Beatty The Rascal King: Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
1994 ?
1995 ?
1996 Jane Brox Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family
1997 Jan Swafford Charles Ives: A Life With Music
1998 Anita Shreve The Weight of Water
1999 Donald Hall Without: Poems
2000 John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
2001 Jay Wright Transfigurations: Collected Poems [5]
2002 Elizabeth McCracken Niagara Falls All Over Again [6]
2003 Adam Haslett You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories [7]
2004 Joan Leegant An Hour in Paradise
Carlo Rotella Cut Time: An Education at the Fights

2005-present

PEN New England Award winners[8]
Year Category Author Title Ref.
2005 Fiction Jennifer Haigh Baker Towers [9]
Non-fiction Swanee Hunt This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace [9]
Poetry Kevin Goodan In the Ghost-House Acquainted [9]
2006 Fiction Edward J. Delaney Warp & Weft [10]
Non-fiction Leo Damrosch Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius [10]
Poetry Stanley Kunitz The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in The Garden [10]
2007 Fiction K. C. Frederick Inland [11]
Non-fiction Sebastian Junger A Death in Belmont [11]
Poetry Louise Glück Averno: Poems [11]
2008 Fiction Rishi Reddi Karma and Other Stories [12]
Non-fiction Kristen Laine American Band: Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland [12]
Poetry Ann Killough Beloved Idea [12]
2009 Fiction Margot Livesey The House on Fortune Street [13]
Non-fiction Patrick Tracey Stalking Irish Madness [13]
Poetry Nancy K. Pearson Two Minutes of Light [13]
2010 Fiction Anne Sanow Triple Time [14]
Non-fiction Elyssa East Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town [14]
Poetry Meg Kearney Home, Now [14]
2011 Fiction Kermit Moyer The Chester Chronicles [15]
Non-fiction Jerald Walker Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption [15]
Poetry Charles Douthat Blue for Oceans [15]
2012 Fiction Yannick Murphy The Call [16]
Non-fiction Mitchell Zuckoff Lost In Shangri-La [16]
Poetry Elizabeth Willis Address [16]
2013 Fiction Heidi Julavits The Vanishers [17]
Non-fiction Bernd Heinrich Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death [17]
Poetry David Huddle Blacksnake at the Family Reunion [17]
2014 Fiction Jennifer Haigh News from Heaven [18]
Non-fiction Doug Bauer What Happens Next?: Matters of Life and Death [18]
Poetry Karen Skolfield Frost in the Low Areas [18]
2015 Fiction Carolyn Chute Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves [19]
Non-fiction Kevin Birmingham The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysees [19]
Poetry Wesley McNair The Lost Child [19]
2016 Fiction Jim Shepard The Book of Aron
Non-fiction Rinker Buck The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Poetry Reginald Dwayne Betts Bastards of the Reagan Era
2017 Fiction Robin MacArthur Half Wild
Non-fiction Matthew Desmond Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Poetry David Rivard Standoff
2018 No award

References

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  14. ^ a b c "2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Awards". JFK Library. March 3, 2010. Archived from the original on October 2, 2015. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  15. ^ a b c Gardner, Jan (March 20, 2011). "Zombies dissected". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on October 23, 2018. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
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  19. ^ a b c Baldwin, Letitia (April 29, 2015). "Maine writers win top pen awards". The Ellsworth American. Archived from the original on February 27, 2023. Retrieved October 9, 2018.

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