PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Winners

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Winners

	Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South by Margaret Renkl (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 999 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2022)	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
	Had I Known by Barbara Ehrenreich 3.74 avg rating — 657 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2021)	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
	Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape by Deborah Fleming 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2020)	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
	Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms by Michelle Tea 4.14 avg rating — 807 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2019)	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
	No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin 4.01 avg rating — 7,298 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2018)	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 Girls in My Town: Essays (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize) by Angela Morales (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 176 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2017)	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
	Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.40 avg rating — 321,104 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2016)	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
	Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War (New York Review Collections by Ian Buruma 3.81 avg rating — 72 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2015)	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
	Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs by James Wolcott (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 95 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2014)	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
	What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World by Robert Hass 4.06 avg rating — 237 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2013)	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
	Arguably: Selected Essays by Christopher Hitchens 4.20 avg rating — 9,506 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2012)	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
	Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations by Mark Slouka 4.18 avg rating — 85 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2011)	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
	Seeds of Mortality: The Public and Private Worlds of Cancer by Stewart Justman liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2004)	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
	Tests of Time by William H. Gass 4.07 avg rating — 115 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2003)	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
	Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry by David Bromwich 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2002)	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 Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by David Quammen (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 932 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2001)	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
	For the Time Being by Annie Dillard 4.14 avg rating — 4,012 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2000)	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 Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought by Marilynne Robinson 4.11 avg rating — 1,246 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (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
	Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels by Adam Hochschild 4.24 avg rating — 37 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (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
	Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick 4.19 avg rating — 70 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (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
	Other Minds: Critical Essays, 1969-1994 by Thomas Nagel 3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (1996)	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
	Sense of Place a Sense of Time by J.B. Jackson 4.14 avg rating — 142 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (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
	There's No Such Thing As Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too by Stanley Fish 3.76 avg rating — 92 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (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 Critics Bear it Away: American Fiction and the Academy by Frederick C. Crews 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (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
	The Culture of Pain by David B. Morris (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 67 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (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
	Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature by Martha C. Nussbaum 4.11 avg rating — 223 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (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
	Essays Ancient and Modern by Bernard Knox 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (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

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	A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders 4.54 avg rating — 16,463 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Nominee for Longlist (2022)	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
	Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie 4.17 avg rating — 797 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Nominee for Longlist (2022)	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
	Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter 3.95 avg rating — 3,262 ratings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Nominee for Longlist (2022)	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

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