# Chautauqua Prize

The Chautauqua Prize is an annual American literary award established by the Chautauqua Institution in 2012. The winner receives US$7,500 and all travel and expenses for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua. It is a "national prize that celebrates a book of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction that provides a richly rewarding reading experience and honors the author for a significant contribution to the literary arts."

## Honorees

Chautauqua Prize winners and shortlist :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2012 | Andrew Krivak | The Sojourn | Winner |
| 2012 | Geraldine Brooks | Caleb's Crossing | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Erik Larson | In the Garden of Beasts | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Nathaniel Philbrick | Why Read Moby-Dick? | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Stephanie Powell Watts | We Are Taking Only What We Need | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Leonard Rosen | All Cry Chaos | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Timothy Egan | Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher | Winner |
| 2013 | Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy | The Presidents Club | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Ben Fountain | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Winner |
| 2013 | Gilbert King | Devil in the Grove | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Madeline Miller | The Song of Achilles | Shortlist |
| 2013 | John Colman Wood | The Names of Things | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Elizabeth Scarboro | My Foreign Cities | Winner |
| 2014 | Louise Aronson | A History of the Present Illness: Stories | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Lindsay Hill | Sea of Hooks | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Roger Rosenblatt | The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood | Shortlist |
| 2014 | James Tobin | The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Margaret Wrinkle | Wash | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Phil Klay | Redeployment | Winner |
| 2015 | Michael Blanding | The Map Thief | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Kim Church | Byrd | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Brian Hart | The Bully of Order | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Lily King | Euphoria | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Jason Sokol | All Eyes Are Upon Us | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Bilal Tanweer | The Scatter Here Is Too Great | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Jean Thompson | The Witch | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Cyrus Copeland | Off the Radar: A Father's Secret, a Mother's Heroism, and a Son's Quest | Winner |
| 2016 | Lynsey Addario | It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Lenore Myka | King of the Gypsies: Stories | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Steven Niteingale | Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Susan Southard | Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Peter Ho Davies | The Fortunes | Winner |
| 2017 | H. W. Brands | The General vs. The President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Victoria Pope Hubbell | Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920s | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Ben Winters | Underground Airlines | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Colin Woodard | American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Kao Kalia Yang | The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Alex Marzano-Lesnevich | The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir | Winner |
| 2018 | Hala Alyan | Salt Houses | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Glenn Frankel | High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Anne Gisleson | The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Meg Howrey | The Wanderers | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Andrew Krivák | The Signal Flame | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Dalia Rosenfeld | The Worlds We Think We Know | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Anjali Sachdeva | All the Names They Used For God | Winner |
| 2019 | Edward Carey | Little | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Ken Krimstein | The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Kiese Laymon | Heavy: An American Memoir | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Richard Powers | The Overstory | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Elizabeth Rush | Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Elizabeth H. Winthrop | The Mercy Seat | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Petina Gappah | Out of Darkness, Shining Light | Winner |
| 2020 | Mikhal Dekel | Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Carolyn Forché | What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Myla Goldberg | Feast Your Eyes | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Isabella Hammad | The Parisian | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Imani Perry | Breathe: A Letter to My Sons | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Pitchaya Sudbanthad | Bangkok Wakes to Rain | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Eula Biss | Having and Being Had | Winner |
| 2021 | Louise Erdrich | The Night Watchman | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Danielle Evans | The Office of Historical Corrections | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Yaa Gyasi | Transcendent Kingdom | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Andrew Krivak | The Bear | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Natasha Trethewey | Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Matthew Van Meter | Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen: His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South | Shortlist |
| 2021 | C Pam Zhang | How Much of These Hills is Gold | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Rebecca Donner | All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler | Winner |
| 2022 | Daniel James Brown | Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Victoria Chang | Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Ash Davidson | Damnation Spring | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Robert Jones, Jr. | The Prophets | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Tiya Miles | All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Jason Mott | Hell of a Book | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Samantha Silva | Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Dorothy Wickenden | The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Hilma Wolitzer | Today a Woman Went Mad at the Supermarket: Stories | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human | Winner |
| 2023 | Hafizah Augustus Geter | The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Levi Vonk with Axel Kirschner | Border Hacker: A Tale of Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the Run | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Meron Hadero | A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Jenny Tinghui Zhang | Four Treasures of the Sky | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Geraldine Brooks | Horse | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Jean Hanff Korelitz | The Latecomer | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry | The Orchard | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Javier Zamora | Solito: A Memoir | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Sidik Fofana | Stories from the Tenants Downstairs | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Tananarive Due | The Reformatory | Winner |
| 2024 | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Chain-Gang All-Stars | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Isabella Hammad | Enter Ghost | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Paul Harding | This Other Eden | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Kelly Link | White Cat, Black Dog: Stories | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Emily Strasser | Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History | Shortlist |