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List of Submitted Books to the

14th Annual Marfield Prize award

You are invited to review one or more of the books below for this year’s Marfield Prize for the best nonfiction book on the arts. For more information and to see the review form, click the button below:


Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect by Anthony Alofsin


Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren by Colin Asher 


Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas by Larry Bloom


The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom


Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives by Jane Brox


Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age

by Carolyn Kinder Carr


Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary by John Clubbe  


Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York 1840-1917 by Dale Cockrell


Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music by John Corbett


Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music by Richard Crawford


The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey

by Margaret Leslie Davis


Throughsmoke by Jehanne Dubrow  


The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

by Orlando Figues


Time Is The Thing A Body Moves Through  by T. Fleischmann


Virginia Woolf and The Women Who Shaped Her World by Gillian Gill


The Distance Between: A Memoir by Timothy J. Hillegonds


Sounds Like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman


A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits

by Paul Hirsch


Listening For America: Inside The Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim

by Rob Kapilow


The Restless Ilan Stavans: Outside on the Inside by Steven G. Kellman


The Role of the Scroll by Thomas Forrest Kelly


This Must Be The Place: An Architectural History of Popular Music Performance Venues

by Robert Kronenburg


One Hundred Autobiographies by David Lehman


House of Secrets by Allison Levy


Socialist Realism by Trisha Low


A Month In Siena by Hisham Matar


The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture by James Meyer


Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's by Tiffany Midge


Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser


Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris


A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti

by Andrew Patner


The City Beneath: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti by Susan A. Phillips


Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik


Prince of Drones: The Reginald Denny Story by Kimberly Pucci


Nightingales in Berlin: Searching for the Perfect Sound by David Rothenberg


Dangerous Melodies by Jonathan Rosenberg


White Flights by Jess Row


Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City

by Witold Rybczynski


The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America by Ilan Stavans


The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood and the Making of a Legendary Film

by W.K. Stratton


What Blest Genius: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare by Andrew McConnell Stott


Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor


Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life by Twyla Tharp


Contact High: A Visual History of Hip Hop by Vikki Tobak


Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

by William E. Wallace


A Shared Truth: The Theater of Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol by Julie Ann Ward


Scott Walker and The Song of The One-All-Alone by Scott Wilson