Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize Winners

Chicago Tribune established the Heartland Prizes in 1988 to recognize each year a novel and a work of non-fiction that reinforce and perpetuate the va ...more

Winners

	Robert Frost: A Life by Jay Parini 4.08 avg rating — 362 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton 3.67 avg rating — 2,212 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma by Alex Kotlowitz 3.78 avg rating — 1,985 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier 3.89 avg rating — 248,950 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch 3.87 avg rating — 3,163 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Sistermony by Richard Stern 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rattlebone by Maxine Clair 3.91 avg rating — 649 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Colored People: A Memoir by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 4.11 avg rating — 1,107 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shipping News by Annie Proulx 3.88 avg rating — 151,637 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon 4.26 avg rating — 3,538 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction (1992)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 71,870 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (1991)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene 3.98 avg rating — 1,622 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction (1991)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 4.14 avg rating — 340,582 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (1990)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris 3.91 avg rating — 1,514 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction (1990)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons 3.79 avg rating — 31,936 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (1989)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An American Memory by Eric Larsen (Goodreads Author) 3.48 avg rating — 33 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (1988)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears by Donald R. Katz (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 164 ratings Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction (1987)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars