University of Nebraska Press Award Winners - University of Nebraska Press

RECENT AWARD WINNERS
The University of Nebraska Press is the proud publisher of many award-winning authors, including Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser; Nobel Prize in Literature winners J. M. G. Le Clézio, Herta Müller, and Mario Vargas Llosa; and two-time National Book Award winner Wright Morris. Discover our most recent award winners below, and visit our Past Awards page for additional award-winning books.
	Empires, Nations, and Families A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 Anne F. Hyde Winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
	Banzai Babe Ruth Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan Robert K. Fitts Winner of Silver Medal at 2012 IPPY Awards in the sports/fitness/recreation category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards
	Private Property Paule Constant Translated by Margot Miller and France Grenaudier-Klijn Introduction by Claudine Fisher Named to the fiction longlist in the 2012 Best Translated Book Awards sponsored by Three Percent
	Useful Fictions Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature Michael Austin Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 by Choice Magazine
	Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution Jonathan R. Dull Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 by Choice Magazine
	Quotology Willis Goth Regier Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 by Choice Magazine
	Atlas of the Great Plains Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer Foreword by David J. Wishart Introduction by John C. Hudson 2011 Booklist Editor's Choice, reference category
	Inventing the Jew Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures Andrei Oisteanu Foreword by Moshe Idel Translated by Mirela Adascalitei Winner of the 2011 Alexandru D. Xenopol prize awarded by the Romanian Academy
	What They Saved Pieces of a Jewish Past Nancy K. Miller Winner of the 2012 Jewish Journal Book Prize
	The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth Tikva Frymer-Kensky and Tamara Cohn Eskenazi 2011 National Jewish Book Award Winner, Barbara Dobkin Award in Women’s Studies
	A Double Life Discovering Motherhood Lisa Catherine Harper 2011 National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlight
	Paralyses Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity John Culbert Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, sponsored by the Modern Languages Association
	A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee) Jack B. Martin With the assistance of Margaret McKane Mauldin and Juanita McGirt Winner of the 2011 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America