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Awards Won by Beacon Press
National Book Award
The Healing
(Gayl Jones, 1998 finalist)
New and Selected Poems, Volume One
(Mary Oliver, 1992)
National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist
Five Thousand Days Like This One
(Jane Brox, 1999)
Does Your House Have Lions?
(Sonia Sanchez, 1997)
The End of the Novel of Love
(Vivian Gornick, 1997)
Lannan Literary Fellowship
Freeman House
, 2005
Lannan Literary Award for Non-fiction
Scott Russell Sanders
, 1995
L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award
Here and Nowhere Else
(Jane Brox, 1995)
House of Light
(Mary Oliver, 1991)
PEN American Center Beyond Margins Award
West of the Jordan
(Laila Halaby, 2004)
PEN Southwest Book Award for Poetry
Waiting for the Paraclete
(Lise Goette)
Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
(Jeanne Theoharis, 2013)
NAACP Image Award - Biography / Autobiography
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
(Arthur Browne, 2016 Nominee)
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
(Jeanne Theoharis, 2013 Winner)
MEMO Palestine Book Award Winner
Brokers of Deceit
(Rashid Khalidi, 2013)
Lionel Trilling Book Award Winner
Brokers of Deceit
(Rashid Khalidi, 2014)
International Latino Book Awards
For All of Us, One Today
(Richard Blanco, 2014 Winner)
Hunting Season
(Mirta Ojitao, 2014 Finalist)
Minnesota Book Award Winner - Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
Prairie Silence
(Melanie Hoffert, 2014)
Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Finalist
The Sounds of Slavery
(Shane White and Graham White, 2005)
Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award, Short List
On the Courthouse Lawn
(Sherrilyn Ifill, 2008 Finalist)
Summer Snow
(Trudier Harris, 2004)
Christopher Award
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
(Arthur Browne, 2016)
Choosing Naia
(Mitchell Zuckoff, 2002)
The Measure of Our Success
(Marian Wright Edelman, 1993)
House of Light
(Mary Oliver, 1991)
Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Encountering God
(Diana L. Eck, 1995)
Grawemeyer Award of Ideas Improving World Order
For the Common Good
(Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr., 1991)
National Outdoor Book Awards
Before They're Gone
(Michael Lanza, 2012 Honorable Mention)
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, Outstanding Book Awards
Drifting Toward Love
(Kai Wright, 2008 Winner)
We Are All Suspects Now
(Tram Nguyen, 2006 winner)
Storming Caesars Palace
(Annelise Orleck, 2006 winner)
Sarah's Long Walk
(Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick, 2005 Honorable Mention)
Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High and Tight
(Carol Burke, 2004 Honorable Mention)
Speak My Name
(Edited by Don Belton, 1995)
Turning Back
(Stephen Steinberg, 1996)
Living with Racism
(Joe Feagin and Melvin Sikes, 1994)
Race Matters
(Cornel West, 1994)
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
(Howard Zinn, 1994)
Albert A . Hourani Award of the Middle East Studies Association, Honorable Mention
Resurrecting Empire
(Rashid Khalidi, 2004)
Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education Book of the Year Selection
The Power of Their Ideas
(Deborah Meyer, 1996)
Anthony Leeds Prize
Homefront
(Catherine Lutz, 2002)
Victor Turner Prize in Enthographic Writing
Homefront
(Catherine Lutz, 2002 honorable mention)
AAR Best First Book In History of Religion
The Bone Gatherers
(Nicola Denzey, 2008 Finalist)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Acts of Faith
(Eboo Patel, 2008 Finalist)
PASS Award
American Furies
(Sasha Abramsky, 2008 Winner)
Lambda Literary Awards
Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics
(Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski, 2016 Finalists)
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
(Daisy Hernández, 2015 Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award Recipient)
Kate Bornstein,
A Queer and Pleasant Danger
(2014 Pioneer Award Recipient)
"You Can Tell Just by Looking"
(Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, Michael Amico, 2013 Finalist)
Kate Clinton,
I Told You So
(2010 Pionner Award Recipient)
Mean Little deaf Queer
(Terry Galloway, 2009 Finalist)
The Pure Lover
(David Plante, 2009 Finalist)
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage
(Nancy Polikoff, 2008 Finalist)
Drifting Toward Love
(Kai Wright, 2008 Finalist)
Historic Winslow House Book Award
The Muse of the Revolution
(Nancy Rubin Stuart, 2009 Winner)
C. L. R. James Award for Best Book
Illegal People
(David Bacon, 2007-2008 Winner)
Ken Book Award
The Lonely Soldier
(Helen Benedict, 2010 Winner)
Plattner Award
The Blue Cotton Gown
(Patsy Harman, 2009 non-fiction Winner)
Goldie Award
Mean Little deaf Queer
(Terry Galloway, 2010 Short Story/Essay Collections Winner)
Quill Award
New and Selected Poems: Volume 2
(Mary Oliver, 2006 finalist for poetry)
Blue Iris
(Mary Oliver, 2005 finalist for poetry)
Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Award/Arts
The Pueblo Imagination
(Lee Marmon, 2004)
ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award
A Queer History of the United States
(Michael Bronski, 2012)
ALA Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction
Nina Here Nor There
(Nick Krieger, 2012)
Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son
(Kevin Jennings, 2006)
Beyond Shame
(Patrick Moore, 2004)
CHOICE Magazine, Outstanding Academic Books
Let the Students Speak!
(David Hudson, 2012)
Prophetic Encounters
(Dan McKanan, 2012)
White Men on Race
(Joe Feagin and Eileen O'Brien, 2004)
The Opening of the American Mind
(Lawrence W. Levine, 1997)
Seeing and Believing
(Margaret Miles, 1996)
Poetic Justice
(Martha Nussbaum, 1996)
Lieutenant Nun
(Catalina de Erauso, 1996)
Turning Back
(Stephen Steinberg, 1996)
Working the Spirit
(Joseph M. Murphy, 1994)
But She Said
(Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, 1933)
Spirituality & Health Best Books
Breathing Space
(Heidi Neumark, 2003)
Breakfast Epiphanies
(David Anderson, 2002)
New England Booksellers Association Book Award
Love and Fury
(Richard Hoffman, 2014 Non-fiction Finalist)
Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words
(Kate Whouley, 2012 Non-Fiction)
New England Booksellers Association, Literary Excellence Award
Mary Oliver
, 1999
New England Booksellers Association, Presidential Award
Cornel West
Doris Grumbach
Firecracker Alternative Book Award
Transgender Warriors
(Leslie Feinberg, 1996)
American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults
The Measure of Our Success
(Marian Wright Edelman, 1993)
Library Journal,
Best Books of the Year
Ethical Chic
(Fran Hawthorne, 2012)
Cries of the Spirit
(Marilyn Sewell, 1991)
Publishing Triangle Literary Awards
A Queer and Pleasant Danger
(Kate Bornstein, 2012 Judy Grahn Award Finalist)
Drifting Toward Love
(Kai Wright, 2008 Finalist)
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage
(Nancy Polikoff, 2008 Finalist)
The Pure Lover
(David Plante, 2009 Randy Shits Award Finalist)
Harry Chapin Media Awards
The Missing Class
(Katherine Newman and Victor Tan Chen, 2008 Finalist)
Closing the Food Gap
(Mark Winne, 2008 Finalist)
Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Awards
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
(Daisy Hernández, 2015 Autobiography/Memoir II Gold Award)
I Told You So
(Kate Clinton, 2009 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner)
AAUP Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About Award, by the American Library Association
Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words
(Kate Whouley, 2012 Featured Title)
Early Spring
(Amy Seidl, 2009 Winner)
American Book Award
An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States
(Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 2015 Recipient)
Investigative Reporters and Editors Book Award
Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina
(Ronnie Greene, 2015 Winner)
New York City Book Award
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
(Arthur Browne, 2016 Winner)
Wheatley Book Award
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
(Arthur Browne, 2016 Winner in Nonfiction)
Sara A. Whaley Book Prize
Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
(Premilla Nadasen, 2016 Recipient)
Society for this History of the Early Republic (SHEAR) Book Prize
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
(Daina Berry, 2018 Recipient)
Phillis Wheatley Literary Award from the Sons & Daughters of the United States
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
(Daina Berry, 2018 Recipient)
Middle Passage (SDUSMP) Heredity Society
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
(Dainy Berry)
PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
(Paul Ortiz, 2018 Recipient)