Stonewall Book Awards: Hoffman, Katz, Bronski

In a surprise choice the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Awards gave its top fiction prize to Sweet Like Sugar [Kindle] by Wayne Hoffman. The novel explores the loving friendship between a 27 year old gay Jewish man and an orthodox rabbi in his 80s.

Nonfiction saw its first tie since 1995, for Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States [Kindle] and Jonathan D. Katz's Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.

Runners up, called Honor Books, in fiction are: Annabel by Kathleen Winter, Remembrance of Things I Forgot by Bob Smith, and the play The Temperamentals by Jon Marans. The nonfiction Honor Books are Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories by Wanda Corn and Tirza True Latimer, Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick Krieger, and Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme by Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman.

The awards committee gave a special Honor prize to The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Mr. Oscar Wilde.

Comments

[Jameson Currier]

The Temperamentals by Jon Marans, published by Chelsea Station Editions, is the ALA Stonewall Honor Book, not the acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service, which is the edition you have linked to Amazon on your post. The trade edition published by Chelsea Station Editions includes Marans’ script and production photos from the off-Broadway production of the play, along with a foreword by actor Michael Urie; an introduction by activist David Mixner; a look at Gernreich's fashion career by journalist Joel Nikolaou; and an afterword on Harry Hay by journalist Michael Bronski. It also includes historical photos by Robert Giard and from the special collections of the The James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of the San Francisco Public Library.