June 8, 2017 New England Society Book Awards Event at the Union League
On June 8th, the New England Society in the City of New York (NES) celebrated the winners of its 2017 New England Society Book Awards. The annual Awards honor books of merit that celebrate New England and its culture in any of four major categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Art & Photography, and Specialty Titles with winners as followed:
Fiction: The One-in-a-Million Boy, by Monica Wood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt): The incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house creates a friendship that touches each member of the boy’s unmoored family.
Nonfiction: The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics, by Stephen Coss (Simon & Schuster): An amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history.
Specialty Title: Hubbard Brook: The Story of a Forest Ecosystem, by Richard T. Holmes & Gene E. Likens (Yale University Press): Highlights of many important ecological findings amassed during the 50 years of research conducted at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Art: The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era, by Susan Rather (Yale University Press): The first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an American artist in the 18th- and early 19th-century transatlantic world.
Photography: Maine on Glass, by W. H. Bunting, Kevin Johnson, Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. (Tilbury House Publishers): The postcard images in this book were selected from 22,000 glass plate negatives created by the Eastern company between 1909 and World War II.
Read MoreFiction: The One-in-a-Million Boy, by Monica Wood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt): The incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house creates a friendship that touches each member of the boy’s unmoored family.
Nonfiction: The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics, by Stephen Coss (Simon & Schuster): An amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history.
Specialty Title: Hubbard Brook: The Story of a Forest Ecosystem, by Richard T. Holmes & Gene E. Likens (Yale University Press): Highlights of many important ecological findings amassed during the 50 years of research conducted at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Art: The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era, by Susan Rather (Yale University Press): The first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an American artist in the 18th- and early 19th-century transatlantic world.
Photography: Maine on Glass, by W. H. Bunting, Kevin Johnson, Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. (Tilbury House Publishers): The postcard images in this book were selected from 22,000 glass plate negatives created by the Eastern company between 1909 and World War II.
