Washington Irving Book Awards
Washington Irving Awards
Celebrating local authors and promoting reading, these biennial awards have honored Westchester authors since 1987.Books are selected by a panel of Westchester librarians based on criteria that include readability, literary quality, and wide general appeal.
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2013 Washington Irving Award Winners
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FICTION
Ashford, Barbara (New Rochelle). Spellcast. DAW Books, 2011.
Barbieri, Maggie (Croton). Extra Credit. New York: St. Martin’s, 2012.
DeLillo, Don (Yonkers). The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. New York: Scribner, 2011.
Engelmann, Karen (Dobbs Ferry). Stockholm Octavo. New York: Ecco Press, 2012.
Gross, Andrew (Purchase). Eyes Wide Open. New York: William Morrow, 2011.
Santiago, Esmeralda (Somers). Conquistadora. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Staub, Wendy Corsi (Katonah). Nightwatcher. New York: Harper, 2012.
Tropper, Jonathan (New Rochelle). One Last Thing Before I Go. New York: Penguin, 2012.
Woodruff, Lee (Rye). Those We Love Most. New York: Voice/Hyperion, 2012.
Zimmerman, Jean (Ossining). The Orphanmaster. New York: Viking Press, 2012
NONFICTION:
Courage, Richard (Valhalla) and Robert Bone. The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Fleder, Rob (Briarcliff Manor). Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World’s Most Loved (and Hated) Team. New York: Ecco, 2012.
Gilbert, Allison (Irvington). Parentless Parents: How the Loss of Our Mothers and Fathers Impacts the Way We Raise Our Children. New York: Hyperion, 2011.
Kennedy, Kostya (Larchmont). 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports. New York: Sports Illustrated Books, 2011.
Massie, Robert K. (Irvington). Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. New York: Random House, 2011.
Pearlman, Jeff (New Rochelle). Sweetness: the Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton. Gotham, 2011.
Reisler, Jim (Irvington). Igniting the flame: America’s first Olympic team. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2012.
Rosenstrach, Jenny (Dobbs Ferry). Dinner: a Love Story. New York: Ecco, 2012.
Steinberg, Jacques (Larchmont). You are an Ironman: How Six Weekend Warriors Chased Their Dream of Finishing the World’s Toughest Triathlon. New York: Viking, 2011.
Tarrant-Reid, Linda (New Rochelle). Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century. New York: Abrams, 2012.
Warner, Priscilla (Larchmont). Learning to Breathe: My Year-Long Quest to Bring Calm to My Life. New York: Free Press, 2011.
Wickenden, Dorothy (Pelham). Nothing Daunted: the Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West. New York: Scribner, 2011.
Zevin, Dan (Larchmont). Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad. New York: Scribner, 2012.
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