Thurber Prize for American Humor

Given by Thurber House

Muut nimet: Thurber Prize for American Humor Finalist (englanti), Thurber Prize for American Humor Semi Finalist (englanti)
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Awarded annually, the Thurber Prize for American Humor is one of the highest recognitions of humor writing in the United States. A panel of national judges selects three finalists from eight or nine

näytä lisää semi-finalists. Previously held in New York City, the Thurber Prize returned to its hometown roots—Columbus, Ohio—beginning in 2018.
näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Winner (21), Finalist (27), Semi-Finalist (1)
Luokat:
Kaikki, Special Honor (1), No Category (48)
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (2), 2013 (3), 2012 (3), 2011 (3), 2010 (3), 2009 (4), 2008 (3), 2007 (3), 2006 (3), 2005 (3), 2004 (3), 2001 (6), 1999 (1), 1997 (3)

Winner 21

TeosKategoriaVuosi
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (tekijä: Damon Young)2020
Hits and Misses: Stories (tekijä: Simon Rich)2019
Priestdaddy: A Memoir (tekijä: Patricia Lockwood)2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (tekijä: Trevor Noah)2017
The World's Largest Man: A Memoir (tekijä: Harrison Scott Key)2016
Dear Committee Members (tekijä: Julie Schumacher)2015
Truth in Advertising: A Novel (tekijä: John Kenney)2014
Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad (tekijä: Dan Zevin)2013
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff (tekijä: Calvin Trillin)2012
Half Empty (tekijä: David Rakoff)2011
How I Became a Famous Novelist (tekijä: Steve Hely)2010
Lamentations of the Father: Essays (tekijä: Ian Frazier)2009
I Love You, Beth Cooper (tekijä: Larry Doyle)2008
My Lucky Star (tekijä: Joe Keenan)2007
The Other Shulman: A Novel (tekijä: Alan Zweibel)2006
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (tekijä: Jon Stewart)2005
No Way to Treat a First Lady (tekijä: Christopher Buckley)2004
Big Kiss: One Actor's Desperate Attempt to Claw His Way to the Top (tekijä: Henry Alford)Special Honor2001
Me Talk Pretty One Day (tekijä: David Sedaris)2001
Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source (tekijä: The Onion)1999
Coyote V. Acme (tekijä: Ian Frazier)1997

Semi-Finalist 1

TeosVuosi
Happy Utopia Day, Joe McCarthy (tekijä: J.T. Lundy)2014

Finalist 27

TeosVuosi
Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel (tekijä: Shalom Auslander)2013
Lunatics (tekijä: Dave Barry)2013
Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America (tekijä: Leslie Knope)2012
Starting from Happy: A Novel (tekijä: Patricia Marx)2012
Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories (tekijä: Mike Birbiglia)2011
Sports from Hell: My Search for the World's Dumbest Competition (tekijä: Rick Reilly)2011
Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?: And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask (tekijä: Jancee Dunn)2010
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home (tekijä: Rhoda Janzen)2010
I Was Told There'd Be Cake (tekijä: Sloane Crosley)2009
Wrack and Ruin (tekijä: Don Lee)2009
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal (tekijä: Laurie Notaro)2009
Him Her Him Again The End of Him (tekijä: Patricia Marx)2008
Kusiaistarha ja muita epätoivoisia tilanteita (tekijä: Simon Rich)2008
Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel (tekijä: Merrill Markoe)2007
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! (tekijä: Bob Newhart)2007
Texas Hold 'Em: How I Was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, and Came Back as a Horny Toad (tekijä: Kinky Friedman)2006
Time Won't Let Me: A Novel (tekijä: Bill Scheft)2006
The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers (tekijä: Andy Borowitz)2005
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (tekijä: Firoozeh Dumas)2005
Me and Orson Welles: A Novel (tekijä: Robert Kaplow)2004
The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up (tekijä: Dan Zevin)2004
Trillionaire Next Door: The Greedy Investor's Guide to Day Trading (tekijä: Andy Borowitz)2001
In a Sunburned Country (tekijä: Bill Bryson)2001
Men My Mother Dated and Other Mostly True Tales (tekijä: Brett Leveridge)2001
It Takes a Village Idiot : A Memoir of Life After the City (tekijä: Jim Mullen)2001
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot (tekijä: Al Franken)1997
Naked (tekijä: David Sedaris)1997

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Awarded annually, the Thurber Prize for American Humor is one of the highest recognitions of humor writing in the United States. A panel of national judges selects three finalists from eight or nine semi-finalists. Previously held in New York City, the Thurber Prize returned to its hometown roots—Columbus, Ohio—beginning in 2018.

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The Thurber Prize for American Humor, named after American humorist James Thurber, recognizes outstanding contributions in humor writing by American authors. (English, Member-written)
The Thurber Prize for American Humor, named after James Thurber, recognizes outstanding contributions in humor writing by American authors. (English, Member-written)

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