Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award: Book Award recognizes book award books represented in The Book Prize Index.
- Winners
- 64
- Finalists
- 0
- Shortlisted
- 0
- Longlisted
- 0
- First year
- 1981
- Latest year
- 2025
- Books
- 66
Deadline
Not yet sourced
Prize amount
Not yet sourced
Criteria / coverage
Active years represented: 1981-present. Official laureate records from 1981 through 2025. Multiple works described by official detail pages as receiving the award are normalized as co-winners. March: Book One (2014) is retained as an honorable mention because the historical winners list calls it a special recognition; The Burning Season (1991) is likewise marked honorable mention from a contemporary report. Beloved (1988) is excluded as fiction. The archive repeats the 1995 heading for Jack Bass, whose official detail page and contemporary records identify his award as 1994; the importer corrects that isolated heading error. Historical finalist slates were not published and are not inferred.