PEN/Jean Stein Book Award is awarded by the PEN America to honor a "a book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit, and impact". The award of $75,000 is one of the richest prizes given by the PEN American Center. It was first awarded in 2017.
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in more than 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.
Winners and finalists +Previous winners and finalists+YearAuthorTitleResultRef.2017The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in BetweenWinnerKnown and Strange ThingsFinalistOlioDark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical RightThe Underground Railroad2018WhereasWinnerWe Were Eight Years in Power: An American TragedyFinalistWhite TearsThe ChangelingBunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News2019Friday BlackWinnerThe Carrying: PoemsFinalistCitizen IllegalThe OverstoryEducated: A Memoir2020Where Reasons EndWinnerThe UndyingFinalistDeaf Republic: PoemsThe World Doesn't Require YouRusty Brown2021Be Holding: A PoemWinnerBorderland ApocryphaFinalistThe Death of Vivek OjiThe Freezer DoorSharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel2022The Kissing Bug WinnerHarrowFinalistThe TreesMilk Blood HeatThe President and the Frog2023 Dr. No WinnerActing ClassFinalistMilkweed Smithereens If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English2024No award conferred.2025Dead in Long Beach, CaliforniaFinalistWith My Back to the World: Poems On Freedom 2026FinalistThings in Nature Merely GrowSURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field GuideInto the Hush
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External links PEN America PEN/Jean Stein Book Award