The Chautauqua Prize is an annual American literary award established by the Chautauqua Institution in 2012. The winner receives US$7,500 and all travel and expenses for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua. It is a "national prize that celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts."
Winners and runners-up
2012: Andrew Krivak, The SojournGeraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing
Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts
Nathaniel Philbrick, Why Read Moby-Dick?
Leonard Rosen, All Cry Chaos
Stephanie Powell Watts, We Are Taking Only What We Need
2013: Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow CatcherBen Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, The Presidents Club
Gilbert King, Devil in the Grove
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
John Colman Wood, The Names of Things
2014: Elizabeth Scarboro, My Foreign CitiesLouise Aronson, A History of the Present Illness: Stories
Lindsay Hill, Sea of Hooks
Roger Rosenblatt, The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood
James Tobin, The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
Margaret Wrinkle, Wash
2015: Phil Klay, RedeploymentMichael Blanding, The Map Thief
Kim Church, Byrd
Brian Hart, The Bully of Order
Lily King, Euphoria
Jason Sokol, All Eyes Are Upon Us
Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here is Too Great
Jean Thompson, The Witch
2016: Cyrus Copeland, Off the Radar: A Father’s Secret, a Mother’s Heroism, and a Son’s Quest
Lynsey Addario, It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Lenore Myka, King of the Gypsies: Stories
Steven Niteingale, Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God
Susan Southard, Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
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