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Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

19 years tracked (1990–2020), 19 entries total.

Presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters to recognize exceptional essay collections published in the United States.

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2020

Resurrection Of The Wild: Meditations On Ohio's Natural Landscape

Deborah Fleming

Winner

2018

No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters

Ursula Leguin

Winner

2017

The Girls In My Town: Essays

Angela Morales

Winner

2015

Theater Of Cruelty: Art, Film, And The Shadows Of War

Ian Buruma

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2014

Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs

James Wolcott

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2013

What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World

Robert Hass

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2012

Arguably: Selected Essays

Christopher Hitchens

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2004

Seeds Of Mortality: The Public and Private Worlds of Cancer

Stewart Justman

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2003

Test Of Time: Essays

William Gass

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2002

Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry

David Bromwich

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2000

For the Time Being

Annie Dillard

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1998

Finding The Trapdoor: : Essays, Portraits, Travels

Adam Hochschild

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1996

Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994

Thomas Nagel

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1995

A Sense Of Place, A Sense Of Time

John Brinckerhoff Jackson

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1994

There's No Such Thing As Free Speech: And It's A Good Thing Too

Stanley Fish

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1993

The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction And The Academy

Frederick Crews

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1992

The Culture Of Pain

David Morris

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1991

Love's Knowledge: : Essays on Philosophy and Literature

Martha Nussbaum

Winner

1990

Essays Ancient And Modern

Bernard Knox

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