PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

Given by PEN America

117 Works 37,286 Books 1,246 Reviews 4.1
Wikipedia info. There was no award 2005-2010.
Stages:
All, Winner (28), Finalist (49), Longlist (84)
Years:
All, 2023 (10), 2022 (9), 2021 (10), 2020 (10), 2019 (10), 2018 (10), 2017 (10), 2016 (10), 2015 (10), 2014 (8), 2013 (3), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1)

Winner 28

WorkYear
A Left-Handed Woman: Essays by Judith Thurman2023
Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South by Margaret Renkl2022
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich2021
Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape by Deborah Fleming2020
Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms by Michelle Tea2019
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin2018
The Girls in My Town: Essays (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize) by Angela Morales2017
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates2016
Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War (New York Review Books Collection) by Ian Buruma2015
Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs by James Wolcott2014
What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World by Robert Hass2013
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens2012
Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations by Mark Slouka2011
Seeds of mortality : the public and private worlds of cancer by Stewart Justman2004
Tests of Time by William H. Gass2003
Skeptical music : essays on modern poetry by David Bromwich2002
The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by David Quammen2001
For the Time Being by Annie Dillard2000
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought by Marilynne Robinson1999
Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels by Adam Hochschild1998
Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick1997
Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994 by Thomas Nagel1996
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by John Brinckerhoff Jackson1995
There's No Such Thing As Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too by Stanley Fish1994
The Critics Bear it Away: American Fiction and the Academy by Frederick Crews1993
The Culture of Pain by David B. Morris1992
Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature by Martha Nussbaum1991
Essays Ancient and Modern by Bernard Knox1990

Finalist 49

WorkYear
A Left-Handed Woman: Essays by Judith Thurman2023
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri2023
Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin by Peter Orner2023
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris2023
The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home by Alison Townsend2023
Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South by Margaret Renkl2022
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib2022
Homo Irrealis: Essays by André Aciman2022
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures) by Teju Cole2022
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett2022
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich2021
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick2021
Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays by Robert Michael Pyle2021
Terroir: Love, Out of Place by Natasha Sajé2021
Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape by Deborah Fleming2020
I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz (New York Review Books Classics) by Eve Babitz2020
Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison2020
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum2020
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino2020
Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms by Michelle Tea2019
We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim2019
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee2019
Impossible Owls: Essays by Brian Phillips2019
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith2019
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin2018
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano2018
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin2018
Alpine Apprentice (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.) by Sarah Gorham2018
Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West by Robert Leonard Reid2018
The Girls in My Town: Essays (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize) by Angela Morales2017
The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood by Belle Boggs2017
Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole2017
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind by Siri Hustvedt2017
Becoming Earth by Eva Saulitis2017
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates2016
After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction by Renata Adler2016
The Quarry: Essays by Susan Howe2016
The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson2016
Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles by David L. Ulin2016
Moral imagination by David Bromwich2015
Loitering: New and Collected Essays by Charles D'Ambrosio2015
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison2015
Limber by Angela Pelster2015
Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs by James Wolcott2014
Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm2014
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris2014
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit2014
The Story of America: Essays on Origins by Jill Lepore2013
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture (New York Review Collections) by Daniel Mendelsohn2013

Longlist 84

WorkYear
A Left-Handed Woman: Essays by Judith Thurman2023
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri2023
Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin by Peter Orner2023
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris2023
The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home by Alison Townsend2023
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by Jessi Klein2023
A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home by Frances Mayes2023
Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties by Suzanne Roberts2023
Small Acreages: New and Collected Essays by Georgia Green Stamper2023
Streaming Now: Postcards from the Thing That Is Happening by Laurie Stone2023
Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South by Margaret Renkl2022
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib2022
Homo Irrealis: Essays by André Aciman2022
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures) by Teju Cole2022
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett2022
Cranial fracking by Ian Frazier2022
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter2022
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie2022
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders2022
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich2021
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick2021
Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays by Robert Michael Pyle2021
Terroir: Love, Out of Place by Natasha Sajé2021
Wow, No Thank You: Essays by Samantha Irby2021
Figure It Out: Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum2021
Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood’s Golden Age by David Lazar2021
Like Love (Machete) by Michele Morano2021
Maybe The People Would Be The Times by Lucy Sante2021
Skull Cathedral: A Vestigial Anatomy by Melissa Wiley2021
Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape by Deborah Fleming2020
I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz (New York Review Books Classics) by Eve Babitz2020
Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison2020
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum2020
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino2020
Anxious Attachments by Beth Alvarado2020
Essays One by Lydia Davis2020
Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn2020
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang2020
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young2020
Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms by Michelle Tea2019
We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim2019
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee2019
Impossible Owls: Essays by Brian Phillips2019
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith2019
Ladies Lazarus by Piper J. Daniels2019
A Mouth Is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance by Natalie Hopkinson2019
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins2019
Mine: Essays by Sarah Viren2019
The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang2019
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin2018
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano2018
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin2018
Alpine Apprentice (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.) by Sarah Gorham2018
Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West by Robert Leonard Reid2018
Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place by Rilla Askew2018
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat2018
Sunshine State: Essays by Sarah Gerard2018
Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm by Sarah Menkedick2018
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit2018
Known and Strange Things: Essays by Teju Cole2017
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind by Siri Hustvedt2017
Against Everything: Essays by Mark Greif2017
Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life by Joyce Carol Oates2017
Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter by Peter Singer2017
Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change by Andrew Solomon2017
Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing by Jennifer Weiner2017
This Old Man: All in Pieces by Roger Angell2016
Our Only World: Ten Essays by Wendell Berry2016
Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader by Linda Nochlin2016
Reporting Always: Writings from The New Yorker by Lillian Ross2016
The Life of Images: Selected Prose by Charles Simic2016
Surrendering Oz: A Life in Essays by Bonnie Friedman2015
The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt by David Giffels2015
Where have you been? Selected essays by Michael Hofmann2015
Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli2015
You Feel So Mortal: Essays on the Body by Peggy Shinner2015
Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs by James Wolcott2014
Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm2014
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris2014
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit2014
Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II: From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas (New York Review Collections) by Martin Filler2014
The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus by Jonathan Franzen2014
Stories We Tell Ourselves: "Dream Life" and "Seeing Things" (Sightline Books) by Michelle Herman2014
The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia by Alden Jones2014

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