Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize

2019: Rebecca Makkai for The Great Believers^[2]
2018: George Saunders for Lincoln in the Bardo^[3]
2017: Colson Whitehead for The Underground Railroad^[4]
2016: Jane Smiley for Golden Age^[5]
2015: Chang-Rae Lee for On Such a Full Sea
2014: Daniel Woodrell for The Maid's Version^[6]
2013: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Americanah
2012: Richard Ford for Canada
2011: Jonathan Franzen for Freedom
2010: E. O. Wilson for Anthill^[7]
2009: Jayne Anne Phillips for Lark and Termite^[8]
2008: Aleksandar Hemon for The Lazarus Project^[9]
2007: Robert Olmstead for Coal Black Horse
2006: Louise Erdrich for The Painted Drum^[10]
2005: Marilynne Robinson for Gilead
2004: Ward Just for An Unfinished Season
2003: Scott Turow for Reversible Errors
2002: Alice Sebold for The Lovely Bones
2001: Mona Simpson for Off Keck Road^[11]
2000: Jeffery Renard Allen for Rails Under My Back
1999: Elizabeth Strout for Amy and Isabelle
1998: Jane Hamilton for The Short History of a Prince
1997: Charles Frazier for Cold Mountain
1996: Antonya Nelson for Talking in Bed
1995: William Maxwell for All The Days and Nights
1994: Maxine Clair for Rattlebone
1993: Annie Proulx for The Shipping News
1992: Jane Smiley for A Thousand Acres
1991: Kaye Gibbons for A Cure for Dreams
1990: Tim O'Brien for The Things They Carried
1989: Ward Just for Jack Gance
1988: Eric Larsen for An American Memory

2019: Sarah Smarsh for Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth^[12]
2018: Caroline Fraser for Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder^[3]
2017: Matthew Desmond for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City^[4]
2016: Margo Jefferson for Negroland: A Memoir ^[13]
2015: Danielle Allen for Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
2014: Jesmyn Ward for Men We Reaped^[14]
2013: Thomas Dyja for The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream^[15]
2012: Paul Hendrickson for Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life and Lost 1934-1961
2011: Isabel Wilkerson for The Warmth of Other Suns^[16]
2010: Rebecca Skloot for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks^[17]
2009: Nick Reding for Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town^[8]
2008: Garry Wills for Head and Heart: American Christianities and What the Gospels Meant^[9]
2007: Orville Vernon Burton for The Age of Lincoln
2006: Taylor Branch for At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-1968^[10]
2005: Kevin Boyle for Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age
2004: Ann Patchett for Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
2003: Paul Hendrickson for Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
2002: Studs Terkel for Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death Rebirth and Hunger for a Faith
2001: Louis Menand for The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America^[11]
2000: Zachary Karabell for The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
1999: Jay Parini for Robert Frost: A Life
1998: Alex Kotlowitz for The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns A Death and America's Dilemma
1997: Thomas Lynch for The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
1996: Jonathan Harr for A Civil Action
1995: Richard Stern for A Sistermony
1994: Henry Louis Gates Jr. for Colored People: A Memoir
1993: Norman Maclean for Young Men and Fire
1992: Melissa Fay Greene for Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Non-Fiction
1991: William Cronon for Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
1990: Michael Dorris for The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
1989: Joseph Epstein for Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives
1988: Don Katz for The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears

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