Gotham Book Prize

Gotham Book Prize
DateDecember
Reward(s)$50,000
First awarded2020
Last awardedActive
Websitegothambookprize.org

The Gotham Book Prize is awarded annually to a fiction or non-fiction work judged the best about or set in New York City. The award was founded by Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson.

Winners

Year Genre(s) Author Title Result Ref.
2021 Fiction James McBride Deacon King Kong Winner
2022 Fiction Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby Finalist
Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle
Kaitlyn Greenidge Libertie
Zakiya Dalila Harris The Other Black Girl
Natalie Standiford Astrid Sees All
Elisabet Velasquez When We Make It
Jim Lewis Ghosts of New York
Nonfiction Tom Dyja New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess and Transformation
Andrea Elliott Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Sarah Schulman Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993