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The Robert B. Silvers Foundation
is pleased to announce
the recipients ofTHE 2019 SILVERS GRANTS
FOR WORK IN PROGRESS
The Robert B. Silvers Foundation is a charitable trust established by a bequest of the late Robert B. Silvers, a founding editor of
The New York Review of Books, with the aim of supporting writers working in the fields cultivated by Mr. Silvers as editor of The New York
Review of Books: long-form literary and arts criticism, the intellectual essay, political analysis, and social commentary. Such support
takes the form of the Silvers Grants for Work in Progress, bestowed annually beginning in Fall 2019, and the Silvers-Dudley Prizes,
which will be presented annually beginning in 2020.Rea Hederman, President Daniel Mendelsohn, Director
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http://www.silversfoundation.org
Patricia Albers
Mountain View, California
Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André KertészPatrick Arden
New York, New York
Stealing Home: A Tale of Two Yankee Stadiums
and the Life and Theft of the Great American CityTucker Carrington
Oxford, Mississippi
“‘Everybody’s Got Opinions’:
History’s Role in the Supreme Court’s
Batson Jurisprudence After
Flowers v. State of Mississippi”Alexander Clapp
Athens, Greece
“A Trial in Piraeus: Greece, Turkey,
and the Largest Heroin Bust
in Europe’s History”Jennifer Croft
Los Angeles, California
Translation CommunitiesYuqing Cui
Los Angeles, California
“One of a Billion”Danielle Dreilinger
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Secret History of Home EconomicsRebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Irvine, California
Be Fruitful: A Century of American Ideas
about ReproductionHugh Eakin
New York, New York/St. Paul, Minnesota
The Picasso Wars: John Quinn,
Paul Rosenberg, Alfred Barr, Jr.,
and the Exhibition that Changed AmericaPaul Elie
Brooklyn, New York
Temptation: Art, Faith, Sex, and
Controversy in the 1980sLauren Elkin
Paris, France
Art Monsters:
On Beauty and ExcessCarolin Emcke
Berlin, Germany
“Regarding the Death of Others”Patrick French
New Delhi, India
The Golden Woman:
The Authorized Biography of Doris LessingMcKenzie Funk
Ashland, Oregon
Identity ManPaul S. Hirsch
Washington, D.C./Austin, Texas
Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Books,
America, and the WorldSanti Elijah Holley
Portland, Oregon
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Murder BalladsJoshua Jelly-Schapiro
New York, New York
Borders: A Human HistoryIan Johnson
Beijing, China
The Burning Beacon: Keeping Civil Society
Alive in Xi Jinping’s ChinaDaniel H. Judt
Oxford, United Kingdom
“Notes Toward a Definition of Climate Justice”Emily Kopley
Montreal, Canada
The Life of Anon: Concealed Authorship in
Britain and America, 1880 to 1950Marie Myung-Ok Lee
New York, New York
American Dream: An ElegyJulie Mayhew
Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
The One and Only Mabel Poulton:
The many (possibly) true stories of how a
British silent movie actress lost her voiceJacob Mikanowski
Berkeley, California
Goodbye, Eastern Europe!: A Search for
Origins through Literature and HistoryÈve Morisi
Yerres, France/Oxford, United Kingdom
French and Francophone Fictions
of Terrorism (1789–2019)Alexis Okeowo
Brooklyn, New York
A Story of AlabamaEfthimios Parasidis
Columbus, Ohio
Front Lines of Science:
The Quest for Military SuperiorityAmy Reading
Ithaca, New York
Katharine S. White Edits The New YorkerAaron Robertson
Brooklyn, New York
“‘Neither Shall Thy Land Any More Be
Termed Desolate’: Albert Cleage Jr. and
the Beulah Farm Project”Rollo Romig
New York, New York
Two or Three Murders in South IndiaSarah Ruden
Hamden, Connecticut
The Gospels: A New TranslationGabriel/Gabb Schivone
Tucson, Arizona
“An Examination of Trends
in Higher Education”Mosi Secret
Brooklyn, New York
Teaching Them: The 1960s Experiment to
Desegregate the Boarding Schools of the SouthElaine Showalter
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Literary LifeFrancesca Wade
London, United Kingdom
“Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife”Tatsiana Zhurauliova
Romainville, France
“‘Operating on the World’: Cartography
and American Spatial Imagination”