The winners of the 2017 Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards have been announced! All three authors accepted the awards and did Q&A with audience members at the Book Awards Dinner in Washington, DC on December 1.
The winners are:
- Science Award: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Award: From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
- Christian Gauss Award: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Frank
More details on the awards and the award-winning books are here: