Winners
Fiction: Middlesex,
Jeffrey Eugenides (published by FS&G)
American Studies:
In
the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of
1692, Mary Beth Norton (published by Knopf)
Biography & Autobiography:
Jesse
James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, T. J. Stiles
(published by Knopf)
Poetry: Springing,
New and Selected Poems, Marie Ponsot (published
by Knopf)
The Lifetime Achievement
Award:
Edmund S. Morgan, whose most recent work is a biography
of Benjamin
Franklin (published
by Yale University Press).
The 2003 Ambassador Book Award ceremony took place
in September in the beautiful Trustees Room of The
New York Public Library. This event is the highlight
of the ESU Books-Across-the-Sea program that distributes
internationally books that are determined to have made
an exceptional contribution to the interpretation of
life and culture in the United States. The book exchange
program, which began with Britain in 1947 under the
chairmanship of T.S. Eliot, has grown to distribute
books to more than 30 countries as far away as Pakistan
and Sri Lanka.
In addition to the awards given for this year’s
Ambassador Books, a Lifetime Achievement Award
was conferred on historian Edmund S. Morgan. Mr.
Morgan’s
latest book is Benjamin Franklin, which
is uniquely based on Franklin’s actual
correspondence.
Ambassador
Book Awards History
"English is a subversive language. It can never
be spoken without suggesting the heritage of liberty
that grew with it."
Edmund S. Morgan 2003 ABA, Lifetime
Achievement Award Recipient
