PEN New England Award
# PEN New England Award

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) to honor a New England author or book with a New England setting or subject. 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. 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. 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 |
| - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 2002 | Elizabeth McCracken | Niagara Falls All Over Again |
| 2003 | Adam Haslett | You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories |
| 2004 | Joan Leegant | An Hour in Paradise |
| 2004 | Carlo Rotella | Cut Time: An Education at the Fights |

### 2005-present

PEN New England Award winners :

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