Utah Book Award: Nonfiction
The Utah Book Award began in 1999 and is awarded each year by the Utah Humanities Council. Categories for the award (although not consistent each year) include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children, and young adult.
(2012/2013) From criminal hotspot to tourist destination, this title details the rich history of one of Utah’s most notorious streets.
(2002) The author, an artist and naturalist, explores the relationship that turquoise, both the color and the gem, has had with human and natural history.
(2008) The author, a self-proclaimed environmentalist with experience in landownership and development, examines the battle over public lands in the West.
(2005) In this exploration of Utahâs Southwestern bighorn sheep population, the author and naturalist also comments on the dwindling relationship between humans and nature.
(2016) Author Sean Prentiss details his search for the hidden gravesite of environmentalist and writer Edward Abbey, the “Thoreau of the West.”
(2001) The history and unique biology of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is researched in this title, supplemented with panoramic photographs.
(2000) The author explores Hieronymus Boschâs fifteenth-century triptych painting and examines the relationship between its unique imagery with the development of contemporary society.
(2015) Writer and visual artist Teresa Jordan describes her journey as she attempts to live her weekday life according to Benjamin Franklin’s idea of moral perfection.
