Harvard’s Tiya Miles wins the Cundill History Prize’s top honor for ‘All That She Carried,’ a 2021 National Book Award winner. Her book The Dawn of Detroit received the Merle Curti Award, the James A. Rawley Prize, the James Bradford Best Biography Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction, an American Book Award, and a Frederick Douglass Book Prize. The Cundill History Prize’s 2022 FinalistsThe Cundill follows a different protocol from some of its sister programs, naming not a longlist, but an eight-book shortlist and then a trio of finalists. He was a native of Montreal, and took a bachelor’s degree in commerce in 1960 from McGill University, which would become—and remains—the seat of the Cundill History Prize. More from Publishing Perspectives on the Cundill History Prize is here.

Source: CNN December 02, 2022 15:02 UTC