The Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction, formerly known as the James Fenimore Cooper Prize, is a biennial award for the best historical American fiction. It is awarded in odd-numbered years. The prize honors literary fiction that "makes a significant contribution to historical understanding, portrays authentically the people and events of the historical past, and displays skills in narrative construction and prose style.”
2023: A Dangerous Business, by Jane Smiley
2021: Conjure Women, by Afia Atakora
2019: There, There, by Tommy Orange
2017: (no prize awarded)
2015: Saint Monkey, by Jacinta Townsend
2013: Remember Ben Clayton, by Stephen Harrigan
2011: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, by Karl Marlantes
2009: Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
2007: The Last Town on Earth, by Thomas Mullen
2005: The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
2003: Paradise Alley, by Kevin Baker
2001: A Dangerous Friend, by Ward Just, and Bone by Bone, by Peter Matthiessen
1999: Gain, by Richard Powers
1997: The Cattle Killing, by John Edgar Wideman
1995: In the Lake of the Woods, by Tim O’Brien
1993: Shaman, by Noah Gordon
2017: (no prize awarded)
2015: Saint Monkey, by Jacinta Townsend
2013: Remember Ben Clayton, by Stephen Harrigan
2011: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, by Karl Marlantes
2009: Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
2007: The Last Town on Earth, by Thomas Mullen
2005: The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
2003: Paradise Alley, by Kevin Baker
2001: A Dangerous Friend, by Ward Just, and Bone by Bone, by Peter Matthiessen
1999: Gain, by Richard Powers
1997: The Cattle Killing, by John Edgar Wideman
1995: In the Lake of the Woods, by Tim O’Brien
1993: Shaman, by Noah Gordon
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