Athenaeum of Philadelphia Announces Literary Award Finalists

Feb 01, 2024

The Athenaeum of Philadelphia has announced the finalists for its 74th annual Literary Award, which honors each year’s most outstanding literary work by a Philadelphia-area author or a work that is about Philadelphia.

The 2023 shortlist is as follows:

  • From One Cell: A Journey into Life’s Origins and the Future of Medicine by Ben Stanger (W.W. Norton & Company)
  • The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I by Steven Ujifusa (Harper)
  • Lazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed Science to accommodate Immigrants and Prevent Epidemics,by David S. Barnes (John Hopkins Press
  • Rug Man by David Amadio (Paul Dry Books)
  • Sink: A Memoir by Joseph Earl Thomas (Grand Central Publishing)
  • The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis (Alfred A. Knopf)

The award comes with a $1,000 cash prize as well as a public lecture. The winner will be announced at The Athenaeum’s annual Shareholder Meeting on April 15.

 

 

 

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