Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement 2007-13

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The Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing was established in 2007. The recipient’s contributions may be academic, non-fiction, fiction, or a combination of any of the three, and his or her work should embody the values of the Pritzker Military Library.

wiki: Pritzker Military Library Literature Award is a literary award given annually by the Pritzker Military Library. First awarded in 2007, it is a lifetime achievement award for military writing, sponsored by the Tawani Foundation of Chicago. The prize is valued at $100,000, making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world.

Honorees[edit]

2007: James M. McPherson
2008: Allan Millett
2009: Gerhard Weinberg
2010: Rick Atkinson
2011: Carlo D'Este
2012: Max Hastings
2013: Tim O'Brien

from Shelf-Awareness 6/26/13: Tim O'Brien has won the 2013 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Sponsored by the Tawani Foundation, the $100,000 literature award will be presented at the Library's annual gala on November 16.

This marks the first time that the award has been given to a fiction writer. Rick Atkinson, the 2011 prize winner, commented: "Tim O'Brien's fiction about Vietnam, which derives from his own experience as a soldier, is haunting, evocative, and wonderfully inventive. Yet his writing transcends that particular war in that particular era to illuminate our sense of war universally."

O'Brien's works include If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato. His short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories of the Century and in publications such as the New Yorker, the Atlantic and Esquire.

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Rick Atkinson has won the 2010 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The $100,000 honorarium, citation and medallion, sponsored by the Tawani Foundation, will be presented at the Library's annual Liberty Gala on October 22 in Chicago.   Atkinson's books include In the Company of Soldiers, The Long Gray Line and the first two volumes of a trilogy about the American role in the liberation of Europe in World War II: An Army at Dawn and The Day of Battle. He is currently working on the last volume in the series.

Gerhard L. Weinberg has won the $100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The formal presentation to the recipient of the Pritzker, as well as winners of the Colby Awards (Shelf Awareness, March 25, 2009), will occur October 24, during the Pritzker Military Library's Liberty Gala at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Ill. The Library will also recognize the Union League Club of Chicago with the Founder's Award.

"Dr. Weinberg is truly a gifted writer of military history who has devoted his skills and talent to produce A World at Arms, perhaps the finest study of World War Two ever attempted by a single scholar," said James N. Pritzker, founder of the Pritzker Military Library.

Chicago, IL-The 2009 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing will be announced on Monday, June 22 at www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org. The $100,000 honorarium, citation and medallion, sponsored by the Chicago-based Tawani Foundation, will be presented at the Library's annual Liberty Gala on October 24, 2009 at Chicago's Palmer House Hilton.

The Pritzker Military Library Literature Award recognizes a living author for a body of work that has profoundly enriched the public understanding of American military history. The recipient's contributions may be academic, non-fiction, fiction, or a combination of any of the three, and his or her work should embody the values of the Pritzker Military Library.
A national panel of historians, writers and individuals related to the study of American history and heritage are currently reviewing nominations and definitive works submitted by publishers, agents, book sellers and other professional literary organizations.

The award was first presented in 2007 to James M. McPherson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States); Tried by War : Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief; and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, among other books.

In 2008, The Pritzker Military Library Literature Award was presented to Allan R. Millett, author of many books including Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps; The Politics of Intervention: The Military Occupation of Cuba, 1906-1909; The General: Robert L. Bullard and Officership in the United States Army; and In Many a Strife: General Gerald C. Thomas and the U.S. Marine Corps.