NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Authors of books-in-progress on subjects ranging from Edgar Allan Poe to subway vigilante are among this year's 10 recipients of $40,000 Whiting grants for nonfiction.
established in 2016, have previously gone to such acclaimed authors as George Packer, Ilyon Woo and Meghan O'Rourke.
Recipients announced Friday by the Whiting Foundation include Emily Ogden's 鈥淔railties: How Poe Helps Us Live with Ourselves,鈥� Heather Ann Thompson's 鈥淔ear and Fury: Bernhard Goetz and the Rebirth of White Vigilantism in America History鈥� and Hannah Zeavin's 鈥淎ll Freud鈥檚 Children: A Story of Inheritance.鈥�
Grants also were awarded for Ronald Williams II's 鈥淏lack Embassy: TransAfrica and the Struggle for Foreign Policy Justice,鈥� Nadim Roberts' 鈥淭he Highway,鈥� Hettie O鈥橞rien's 鈥淒iminishing Returns,鈥� Sarah Esther Maslin's 鈥淣othing Stays Buried" and Arun Kundnani's 鈥淚 Rise in Fire: H. Rap Brown, Jamil Al-Amin, and the Long Revolution.鈥�
The other two recipients were James Duesterberg's 鈥淔inal Fantasy: A Secret History of the Present鈥� and Leah Broad's 鈥淭his Woman鈥檚 War: Women and Music in World War II.鈥�
鈥淭he 2024 grantees鈥� wide-ranging projects chronicle the experience of the individual in society and their effect on society in turn," the Whiting foundation's director of literary programs, Courtney Hodell, said in a statement. "These gifted writers examine large and sometimes frightening forces, breaking them down into their constituent parts in order to understand and defang them. It is brave work that we are proud to support.鈥�
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