Chicago Tribune Book Prizes
Posted by: Sarah Hunter
This year’s Chicago Tribune Book Prizes were awarded this weekend at the Chicago Humanities Festival. The Literary Prize went to Stephen Sondheim, renowned musical theater lyricist. The Heartland Prize, given to one nonfiction and one fiction author, awards works “embodying the spirit of the nation’s heartland.” Here are the winners!
Freedom By Jonathan Franzen
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic of America’s Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson
November 8th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Our Book Club read Freedom and we all thought it was awful. Probably the worst book we read last year! No one cared about the characters at all! Judging from some of the Book Club write ups in the Trib, we were not alone!