Finalists have been selected for the $50,000 Gotham Book Prize, created early in the pandemic "to encourage and honor writing about New York City." The winner will be named June 5 at the Queens Public Library's annual gala.
Prize co-founders Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson (Tusk founded P&T Knitwear bookstore) said, "It's impossible to capture the richness of New York City in just one book, but the 11 finalists for the 2024 Gotham Book Prize all come pretty close. We can't wait to award the $50,000 prize to one of these books in the coming months, and for the first time we'll be doing it alongside Queens Public Library--a great institution serving the most diverse place in the world. And while we are well past the lowest points of the pandemic, the Gotham Book Prize is a way to celebrate the creative minds who have bounced back and continued to tell the tale of one of the greatest stories in the world--the City of New York."
The finalists:
All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Brinkley
Between Two Moons by Aisha Abdel Gawad
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
Flores and Miss Paula by Melissa Rivero
Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park
Rikers: An Oral History by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer
The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille
We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White
Women of the Post by Joshunda Sanders
