Commonwealth Club of California Book AwardsCaliforniana

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Andere Namen: California Book Award (Engels), California Book Award for Nonfiction, Commonwealth Club of California (Engels), California Commonwealth Club Gold Medal (Engels)
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Since 1931, the Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards have honored the exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers. Each year a select jury considers hundreds of books toon meer in search of the very best in literary achievement. Eligible books must be written while the author is a resident of California, and they must be published during the year under consideration. Awards are presented in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, First Work of Fiction, Poetry, Californiana, Notable Contribution to Publishing, Juvenile Literature and Young Adult Literature. toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Gold Medal (214), Silver Medal (391), Winner (424), Finalist (262)
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Jaren:
Alle, 2024 (5), 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1978 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1971 (1), 1970 (1), 1969 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1964 (1), 1963 (1), 1961 (1), 1959 (1), 1958 (1), 1957 (1), 1956 (1)

Gold Medal 19

WerkJaar
The High Sierra: A Love Story door Kim Stanley Robinson2023
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles door Rosecrans Baldwin2022
California Exposures: Envisioning Myth and History door Richard White2021
The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation door Miriam Pawel2019
San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 door Laura A. Ackley2014
Chuckwalla Land: The Riddle of California's Desert door David Rains Wallace2011
A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California door Laura Cunningham2010
Storm over Mono door John Hart1996
Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard door Robert V. Hine1992
Farming on the Edge door John Hart1991
Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965 door Caroline A. Jones1990
Denial of Disaster door Gladys C. Hansen1989
Julia Morgan, Architect door Sara Holmes Boutelle1988
De Golden Gate door Vikram Seth1986
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980 door Thomas Albright1985
The University of California/Sotheby Book of California Wine door Doris Muscatine1984
Winemaking in California door Ruth Teiser1982
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience door J. S. Holliday1981
An Everyday History of Somewhere door Ray Raphael1974

Silver Medal 31

WerkJaar
Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City door Robert Gottlieb2007
The Great Black Way door RJ Smith2006
The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 door Philip L. Fradkin2005
Beasts of the Fields: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 door Richard Steven Street2004
The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire door Mark Arax2003
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology door David L. Ulin2002
Capturing Light door Drew Heath Johnson2001
The literature of California / 1, Native American beginnings to 1945 door Al Young2000
Rush for Riches door J. S. Holliday1999
Harvest Son door David Mas Masumoto1998
The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s door Kevin Starr1997
The Great Central Valley door Stephen Johnson1993
Bitter Melon door Jeff Gillenkirk1987
The Klamath Knot door David Rains Wallace1983
The Dark Range door David Rains Wallace1978
Nothing seemed impossible: William C. Ralston and early San Francisco (Western biography series) door David Lavender1975
Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849 door Jay Monaghan1973
Monterey door Augusta Fink1972
The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California door Alexander Saxton1971
The El Dorado Trail door Ferol Egan1970
The Great Betrayal door Audrie Girdner1969
Everyman's Eden; a history of California door Ralph Joseph Roske1968
Fool's Gold A Biography of John Sutter door Richard Dillon1967
Chancy and the Grand Rascal door Sid Fleischman1966
Sarah & the Senator door Robert Henry Kroninger1964
South from San Francisco door Frank Merriman Stanger1963
Ishi in Two Worlds door Theodora Kroeber1961
The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned door William Bronson1959
Montgomery and the Portsmouth door Fred Blackburn Rogers1958
San Francisco Bay door Harold Gilliam1957
Men of the Western Waters door Dale Van Every1956

Winner 3

WerkJaar
The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age door Robert Aquinas McNally2018
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 door Benjamin Madley2016
California's Wild Edge door Tom Killion2015

Finalist 7

WerkJaar
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City door Andrew Alden2024
Octopus's Garden: How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California door Benjamin T. Jenkins2024
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities door John King2024
Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California door Kaitlin P. Reed2024
The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland door Ali Winston2024
The High Sierra: A Love Story door Kim Stanley Robinson2023
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles door Rosecrans Baldwin2022

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