
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead Books).Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South by Matthew Van Meter (Little, Brown).The Bear by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue Literary Press).Having and Being Had by Eula Biss (Riverhead Books) Today a Woman Went Mad at the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer (Bloomsbury Publishing).The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights by Dorothy Wickenden (Scribner).Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft by Samantha Silva (Flatiron Books).All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sac k, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (Penguin Random House).Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson (Scribner).Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Victoria Chang (Milkweed Editions).
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown (Viking). This makes The Song of the Cell the perfect book to win the Prize this year, as it undoubtedly is a richly rewarding reading experience and is a significant contribution to our world that will stand for ages.”Īll the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner (Little, Brown and Company) “Siddhartha Mukherjee has made centuries of serious scientific knowledge accessible to everyone through lively and masterful prose. “I have read authors who write about science with such verve and beautiful prose, and I have read scientists with deep command and knowledge on their subject matters, but never have I seen the two collide so well,” Ton-Aime said. Rudell Director of the Literary Arts at Chautauqua Institution. Mukherjee’s book, the first Prize winner so extensively dedicated to the hard sciences, stands apart in the tradition of doctor-writers due to the poetic, almost cosmic tone of its language, said Sony Ton-Aime, the Michael I. 23, 2023, in Chautauqua’s Hall of Philosophy. As author of this year’s winning book, Mukherjee receives $7,500, and will be presented with the Prize during a celebratory event and public reading at 5 p.m. Chautauqua Institution today proudly announces The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Scribner) by Siddhartha Mukherjee as the 2023 winner of The Chautauqua Prize.Īwarded annually since 2012, The Chautauqua Prize celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and to honor the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts. Mystic Heart Interspiritual Meditation ProgramĬHAUTAUQUA, N.Y.
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