Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant Winners Announced

The 2017 winners of the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant were announced on Thursday, comprised of eight writers who will each receive $40,000 to complete their books in progress. Now in its second year, the Whiting Foundation's grant aims to foster "original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible standard."

The list of winners and their works in progress are as follows:

Michael Brenson
David Smith and the Transformation of American Sculpture (forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Philip Gourevitch
You Hide That You Hate Me And I Hide That I Know (forthcoming from Penguin Press)

Pacifique Irankunda
The Times of Stories (forthcoming from Random House)

Seth Kantner
A Thousand Trails Home (forthcoming from Mountaineers Books)

Jay Kirk
Avoid the Day (forthcoming from Harper Perennial)

Meghan O'Rourke
What's Wrong With Me? The Mysteries of Chronic Illness (forthcoming from Riverhead Books)

George Packer
Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf)

Julie Phillips
The Baby on the Fire Escape (forthcoming from W. W. Norton)

For more information on the eight winners, visit here.