Monday night at the 15th annual Books for a Better Life Awards: (from l.) Scott Manning of Scott Manning & Associates; Jamie Colby, co-winner of the wellness category for Back to Life After a Heart Crisis; Dr. Nancy Snyderman, author, NBC News chief medical editor and Hall of Fame inductee; Daphne Rose Kingma, winner of the spiritual category for The Ten Things to Do When Life Falls Apart; Jamie Raab, executive v-p of Hachette Book Group, publisher of Grand Central Publishing and Hall of Fame inductee; Dr. Srinivasan S. Pillay, winner of the motivational category for Life Unlocked; Dr. Marc Wallack, co-winner of the wellness category for Back to Life After a Heart Crisis; and Mary Catherine Bateson, winner of the psychology category for Composing a Further Life.
Other winners of the awards--sponsored by the Southern New York Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society--who were not pictured, were:
Childcare/Parenting: Brave Girl Eating by Harriet Brown
First Book: The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Green: Eaarth by Bill McKibben
Inspirational Memoir: Breaking Night by Liz Murray
Personal Finance: The New Good Life by John Robbins
Relationships: Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell