NEW YORK (AP) — This 12 months’s winners of the Gotham Guide Prize have fun New York Metropolis as skilled on foot, bus and practice.
Ian Frazier, creator of “Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough,” and Nicole Gelinas, who wrote “Motion: New York’s Lengthy Battle to Take Again Its Streets from the Automobile,” will break up the $50,000 in prize cash given for books that “encourage and honor writing about New York City,” award officers introduced Monday.
Philanthropists-political strategists Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson cofounded the Gotham prize in 2020 as a “way to uplift the creative community” throughout the pandemic.
In “Paradise Bronx,” Frazier attracts upon his years of strolling in regards to the New York Metropolis borough and weaves collectively the whole lot from Revolutionary Battle historical past to baseball and hip-hop. Gelinas’ “Movement” continues the custom of such classics as Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” in documenting how New Yorkers have fought for the preservation and enchancment of mass transit.
“This year, we are proud to award the Gotham Book Prize to two outstanding works of non-fiction that combine rigorous research with a unique point of view to illuminate the rich and complex history that makes New York City great,” Tusk and Wolfson stated in an announcement.
Earlier notable Gotham Guide Prize recipients
2021: James McBride, “Deacon King Kong.”
2022: Andrea Ellott, “Invisible Child.”
2023: John Wooden Candy, “The Sewing Girl’s Tale,” and Sidik Fofana, “Stories from the Tenant Downstairs.”
2024: Colson Whitehead, “Crook Manifesto.”
