December 5, 2017

2017 Book Awards Announced

The winners of the 2017 Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards have been announced! All three authors accepted the awards and did Q&A with audience members at the Book Awards Dinner in Washington, DC on December 1.

The winners are:

• Science Award: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Award: From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
• Christian Gauss Award: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Frank

More details on the awards and the award-winning books are here: https://pbk.org/web/2017BookAwards