Inaugural Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant Winners Announced
The inagugral recipients of the 2016 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant have been announced. Each $35,000 grant is awarded to a writer with a work in progress, in order to aid in the process of completing the book. The inaugural winners are:
- Deborah Baker, The Last Englishman: Love, War and the End of Empire (Graywolf Press)
- Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House (Grove Press)
- Timothy N. Golden, Nowhere Land: America and Its Enemies at Guantánamo (The Penguin Press)
- Joshua Roebke, The Invisible World: The Story of Physics in the 20th Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Sarah Elizabeth Ruden, The Confessions of Augustine: A New Translation (Forthcoming from Random House)
- John Jeremiah Sullivan, The Prime Minister of Paradise: Christian Gottlieb Priber and the Search for a Lost American Enlightenment (Random House)