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front row (sitting) left to right: N. Carroll, C. Lozada, K. Lytle Hernández, E. Alexander, E. Ramshaw, M. Miller, N. Barnes; back row left to right: J. Archibald, A. Applebaum, N. Trethewey, S. Chan, G. Thompson, G. Escobar, K. Merida, D. Remnick, V. T. Nguyen, G. Chua (absent: C. Shipman, J. Cobb). (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)
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Elizabeth Alexander and Emily Ramshaw, co-chairs; Marjorie Miller, administrator
Alexandra Fuller
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Fi: A Memoir of My Son
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An elegiac meditation on motherhood and grief, written from the rage and pain of losing a child, but in a voice that ultimately resonates with beauty and hard-won acceptance.
Publisher
Grove Press
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2025
Categories:
Memoir or Autobiography
Lucy Sante
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I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
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A questioning yet clear-eyed narrative of the author’s journey to become who she is from who she once was, set against a vanished New York City that is profoundly part of her past.
Publisher
Penguin Press
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2025
Categories:
Memoir or Autobiography
Tessa Hulls
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An affecting work of literary art and discovery whose illustrations bring to life three generations of Chinese women – the author, her mother and grandmother, and the experience of trauma handed down with family histories.
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2025
Categories:
Memoir or Autobiography
Publisher
MCD
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The World She Edited: Katherine S. White at The New Yorker
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A meticulous rendering of the life of the pioneering but unheralded magazine editor who helped refashion America’s mid-century culture by identifying and publishing some of the country’s notable literary figures.
Publisher
Mariner Books
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2025
Categories:
Biography
David Greenberg
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John Lewis: A Life
Citation
An exhaustively researched and insightful portrait of the civil rights activist and Georgia Congressman that breaks new ground by documenting his life after the 1960s, against the backdrop of new Black political strength and more recent racial justice protests.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
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2025
Categories:
Biography
Seth Rockman
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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
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A layered analysis of the manufacture and movement of tools and other everyday products between the North and South–from New England businesses to Southern planters and their enslaved workers–and how they created a shared economy.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Tags:
2025
Categories:
History
Kathleen DuVal
Citation
A panoramic portrait of Native American nations and communities over a thousand years, a vivid and accessible account of their endurance, ingenuity and achievement in the face of conflict and dispossession.
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2025
Categories:
History
Publisher
Random House
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Edda L. Fields-Black
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A richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion that brought 756 enslaved people to freedom in a single day, weaving military strategy and family history with the transition from bondage to freedom.
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2025
Categories:
History
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War