The Book Prize Index

George Washington Prize: Founding Era

George Washington Prize: Founding Era recognizes founding era books represented in The Book Prize Index.

NonfictionAward
Winners
21
Finalists
75
Shortlisted
0
Longlisted
0
First year
2005
Latest year
2025
Books
96

Deadline

Not yet sourced

Prize amount

Not yet sourced

Criteria / coverage

Active years represented: 2005-present. Coverage runs 2005-2025 from the Past finalists wikitable, in which the winner of each year is flagged and the year cell is blank on continuation rows. The 2015 Special Achievement Award to the musical Hamilton is excluded as a non-book award.

Source coverage

100%

Sourced records

96 of 96

Official site

Open source

Submission info

Open source

Prize history