Commonwealth Club of California Book AwardsCaliforniana

Given by Commonwealth Club of California

Autres noms: California Book Award (Anglais), California Book Award for Nonfiction, Commonwealth Club of California (Anglais), California Commonwealth Club Gold Medal (Anglais)
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Since 1931, the Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards have honored the exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers. Each year a select jury considers hundreds of books afficher plus in search of the very best in literary achievement. Eligible books must be written while the author is a resident of California, and they must be published during the year under consideration. Awards are presented in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, First Work of Fiction, Poetry, Californiana, Notable Contribution to Publishing, Juvenile Literature and Young Adult Literature. afficher moins
Stages:
Tous, Gold Medal (214), Silver Medal (391), Winner (424), Finalist (262)
Catégories:
Années:
Tous, 2024 (5), 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1978 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1964 (1), 1963 (1), 1961 (1), 1959 (1), 1958 (1), 1957 (1), 1956 (1)

Gold Medal 19

ŒuvreAnnée
The High Sierra: A Love Story par Kim Stanley Robinson2023
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles par Rosecrans Baldwin2022
California Exposures: Envisioning Myth and History par Richard White2021
The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation par Miriam Pawel2019
San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 par Laura A. Ackley2014
Chuckwalla Land: The Riddle of California's Desert par David Rains Wallace2011
A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California par Laura Cunningham2010
Storm over Mono par John Hart1996
Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard par Robert V. Hine1992
Farming on the Edge par John Hart1991
Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965 par Caroline A. Jones1990
Denial of Disaster par Gladys C. Hansen1989
Julia Morgan, Architect par Sara Holmes Boutelle1988
Golden gate par Vikram Seth1986
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980 par Thomas Albright1985
The University of California/Sotheby Book of California Wine par Doris Muscatine1984
Winemaking in California par Ruth Teiser1982
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience par J. S. Holliday1981
An Everyday History of Somewhere par Ray Raphael1974

Silver Medal 31

ŒuvreAnnée
Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City par Robert Gottlieb2007
The Great Black Way par RJ Smith2006
The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 par Philip L. Fradkin2005
Beasts of the Fields: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 par Richard Steven Street2004
The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire par Mark Arax2003
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology par David L. Ulin2002
Capturing Light par Drew Heath Johnson2001
The literature of California / 1, Native American beginnings to 1945 par Al Young2000
Rush for Riches par J. S. Holliday1999
Harvest Son par David Mas Masumoto1998
The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s par Kevin Starr1997
The Great Central Valley par Stephen Johnson1993
Bitter Melon par Jeff Gillenkirk1987
The Klamath Knot par David Rains Wallace1983
The Dark Range par David Rains Wallace1978
Nothing seemed impossible: William C. Ralston and early San Francisco (Western biography series) par David Lavender1975
Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849 par Jay Monaghan1973
Monterey par Augusta Fink1972
The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California par Alexander Saxton1971
The El Dorado Trail par Ferol Egan1970
The Great Betrayal par Audrie Girdner1969
Everyman's Eden; a history of California par Ralph Joseph Roske1968
Fool's Gold A Biography of John Sutter par Richard Dillon1967
Chancy and the Grand Rascal par Sid Fleischman1966
Sarah & the Senator par Robert Henry Kroninger1964
South from San Francisco par Frank Merriman Stanger1963
Ishi. Testament du dernier Indien sauvage de l'Amérique du Nord par Theodora Kroeber1961
The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned par William Bronson1959
Montgomery and the Portsmouth par Fred Blackburn Rogers1958
San Francisco Bay par Harold Gilliam1957
Men of the Western Waters par Dale Van Every1956

Winner 3

ŒuvreAnnée
The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age par Robert Aquinas McNally2018
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 par Benjamin Madley2016
California's Wild Edge par Tom Killion2015

Finalist 7

ŒuvreAnnée
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City par Andrew Alden2024
Octopus's Garden: How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California par Benjamin T. Jenkins2024
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities par John King2024
Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California par Kaitlin P. Reed2024
The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland par Ali Winston2024
The High Sierra: A Love Story par Kim Stanley Robinson2023
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles par Rosecrans Baldwin2022

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