Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing
In 2007, Tawani Foundation began a new venture: to create a major literature award. The Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing celebrates a lifetime body of work by a military author. Nominations are sent in from publishers, agents, booksellers and other professional literary organizations. A screening committee composed of prominent historians, authors and scholars spend many hours reading definitive works and discussing each nominee.
James M. McPherson, the preeminent civil war historian of our time, was chosen to receive the first Award which included a $100,000 honorarium, medallion and citation.
2007 Screening Committee
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The Foundation continued to build on the success of the inaugural year in 2008 when a new Screening Committee selected historian Allan R. Millett as the 2nd recipient of the Award. Dr. Millett is known in military history circles for his academic writings on American Military policy and 20th century conflicts.
2008 Screening Committee
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In the third year of the award, the 2009 recipient was Gerhard L. Weinberg. Dr. Weinberg has authored volumes of landmark and highly regarded works, including World in the Balance: Behind the Scenes of World War II; Hitler's Foreign Policy 1933-1939: The Road to World War II; Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders; and his masterpiece, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Dr. Weinberg's extensive and impressive total body of writing, extending over nearly forty years, eminently fulfills the literature award standard: "a lifetime achievement in military writing."
2009 Screening Committee
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Now, in 2010, the fourth author to join the distinguished ranks of the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award recipients is Rick Atkinson. His body of work includes the first two published volumes of the Liberation Trilogy, An Army at Dawn and The Day of Battle, as well as In the Company of Soldiers, which earned Atkinson a Pulitzer Prize, and The Long Gray Line. Mr. Atkinson’s books have indeed profoundly enriched the public understanding of American military history.
2010 Screening Committee
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