New England Society Book Awards Winners Announced

New York—The NES Book Awards are made in four categories: Art & Photography, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Specialty and are presented annually to authors of books published in the previous twelve months. The winners were celebrated at events on June 13 & 14 in New York. And, the winners are: 

ART:

Cartoon County: My Father and his Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe by Cullen Murphy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

PHOTOGRAPHY: 

East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography by Diane Waggoner; With Russell Lord and Jennifer Raab (Yale University Press in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

FICTION: 

A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline (William Morrow)

NONFICTION: 

Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England by Douglas L. Winiarski (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

SPECIALTY: 

Moon New England Road Tripby Jen Rose Smith (Hachette Book Group)