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
Ecstasy and Terror by Daniel Mendelsohn
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