The Alliance joins with the History and Bibliography Section of the New Jersey Library Association, Rutgers University Press, and Special Collections and University Archives of Rutgers University Libraries, to present an annual award to an author who has published recently on a topic about New Jersey. Members of the Author Awards Committee include Chad Leinaweaver (Chair), Harriet Sepinwall, Richard Veit, Laura Poll, and Ben Beede. Criteria and rules for submission for the Author Award may be found here. Past recipients of the Author Award are: 2011 Non-fiction Scholarly Category Ezra Shales. Made in Newark: Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2010). Non-fiction Popular Category Michael S. Adelberg. The American Revolution in Monmouth County: The Theatre of Spoil and Destruction (Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2010). Non-fiction Reference Category Joseph G. Bilby, ed. New Jersey Goes to War: Biographies of 150 New Jerseyans Caught up in the Struggle of the Civil War (Hightstown, N.J.: Longstreet House, 2010). Fiction and Poetry Category Irene Fleming. The Edge of Ruin, Emily Weiss Mystery ed. (New York, N.Y. : Minotaur Books, Macmillan, 2010). 2010 Reference Category Lurie, Maxine N. and Peter O. Wacker, eds., and Michael Siegel. Mapping New Jersey: an Evolving Landscape (Rivergate Books/Rutgers University Press, 2009). Non-Fiction, Scholarly Category Sidorick, Daniel. Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century (ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2009). and Veit, Richard F. and Mark Nonestied. New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape (Rivergate Books/Rutgers University Press, 2008). Non-fiction, Popular Category Mappen, Marc. There's More to New Jersey than the Sopranos (Rivergate Books/Rutgers University Press, 2009). Reproduction of Primary Resources Category Gossen, Anne. Princeton 1783: the Nation's Capital (Morven Museum and Garden, 2009). Fiction and Poetry Category Yampolsky, J. Louis. A Boardwalk Story (Plexus Publishing, 2009). 2009 For the Non-Fiction Scholarly category: John Fea. The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). and For the Non-Fiction Popular category: Michael Aaron Rockland. The George Washington Bridge: Poetry in Steel (New Brunswick: Rivergate Books, 2008). 2008 Frank A. Curcio. Hunterdon County's Forgotten Lime Industry : a Working Guide (Flemington, N.J.: Hunterton County Cultural & Heritage Commission, 2006). Alan M. Kraut and Deborah A. Kraut. Covenent of Care : Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007). Deborah Yaffe. Other People's Children : the Battle for Justice and Equality in New Jersey's Schools (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007). 2007 Sora Friedman. No Place Like Home : the Founding and Transformation of the New Deal Town of Jersey Homesteads, New Jersey (Doctoral disseration, George Mason University, 2005). [Available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses] 2006 Howard Gillette, Jr. Camden After the Fall : Decline and Renewal in a Post-industrial City (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). 2005 Dermot Quinn. The Irish in New Jersey : Four Centuries of American Life (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004). Helen-Chantal Pike. Asbury Park's Glory Days : the Story of an American Resort (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005). 2004 Jennifer Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and Edvige Giunta, eds. Italian American writers on New Jersey : an Anthology of Poetry and Prose (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003). S. Mitra Kalita. Suburban Sahibs : Three Immigrant Families and Their Passage From India to America (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003). Kevin Coyne. Marching Home : to War and Back with the Men of One American Town (New York: Viking/Penguin, 2003). Lloyd Gardner. The Case that Never Dies : the Lindbergh Kidnapping (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004). Maxine N. Lurie and Marc Mappen, eds. Encyclopedia of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004). 2003 Richard Veit. Digging New Jersey's Past : Historical Archaeology in the Garden State (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002). Lucy Rosenfeld and Marina Harrison. A Guide to Green New Jersey : Nature Walks in the Garden State (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003). 2002 Delight Dodyk, ed. The Diary of Sarah Tabitha Reid, 1868-1873 (Freehold, N.J.: Monmouth County Historical Association, 2001). Helen-Chantal Pike. Greetings from New Jersey : a Postcard Tour of the Garden State (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001). 2001 Firth Fabend. Zion on the Hudson : Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000). Paul Wice. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and the American Justice System (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000). Merce Ridgeway. The Bayman : a Life on Barnegat Bay (Harvey Cedars, N.J.: Down the Shore Publishers, 2000). 2000 Mark Di Ionno. A Guide to New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail : for Families and History Buffs (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000). Michael Immerso. Newark's Little Italy : the Vanished First Ward (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997). Meredith Bzdak and Douglas Peterson. Public Sculpture in New Jersey : Monuments to Collective Identity (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999). Troy Messenger. Holy Leisure : Recreation and Religion in God's Square Mile (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999). Penelope Scambly Schott. Penelope : the Story of the Half-scalped Woman : a Narrative Poem (Gainsville : University Press of Florida, 1999).  Five of the six 2000 NJSAA Author Award winners (Immerso, Di Ionno, Petersen, Bzdak, and Messenger) with Maxine N. Lurie, President. 1999 Donald Sinclair. Education and Schools in New Jersey Before 1900 : a Guide to Pertinent Resources in the Rutgers University Special Collection and University Archives (New Brunswick, N.J.: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University, 1998). 1998 Mark Di Ionno. New Jersey's Coastal Heritage : a Guide (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997). 1997 Joanna Burger. A Naturalist Along the Jersey Shore (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996). 1996 Michael Rockland. Snowshoeing Through Sewers : Adventures in New York City, New Jersey, and Philadelphia (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994). |