Colby Award
The William E. Colby Award (short: Colby Award ) is an annually since 1999 by the Chicago Tawani Foundation , whose President Colonel (Ret.) Jennifer N. Pritzker is, in collaboration with the Pritzker Military Museum & Library of awarded literary prize . It is named after the former director of the CIA William Colby, who died in 1996 . Awards are given to larger fictional or non-fictional contributions to military history , intelligence operations or international relations ; Self-applications and publications from a self-publisher are not considered . The prize has been awarded since 2012 during the William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium (Director: Andrew L. Knauf ) at Norwich University's private military college in Northfield , Vermont . The associated Colby Circle is directed by military writers Carlo D'Este and WEB Griffin .
Award winners
- 1999: Fred Chiaventone for A Road We Do Not Know and Bill Harlow for Circle William
- 2000: BG Burkett and Glenna Whitley for Stolen Valor
- 2001: James Bradley and Ron Powers for Flags of Our Fathers
- 2002: Patrick K. O'Donnell for Beyond Valor and Ralph Wetterhahn for The Last Battle
- 2003: Bryan Mark Rigg for Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
- 2004: Bing West and Ray L. Smith for The March Up and Robert L. Bateman for No Gun Ri
- 2005: Jon Meacham for Franklin and Winston: An Epic Story of an Intimate Friendship and Sid Shachnow and Jann Robbins for Hope and Honor
- 2006: Kevin J. Weddle for Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont and Nathaniel Fick for One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
- 2007: Ian W. Toll for Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy and John A. Glusman for Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese 1941–1945
- 2008: R. Alan King for Twice Armed: An American Soldier's Battle for Hearts and Minds in Iraq
- 2009: Dexter Filkins for The Forever War and Marcus Luttrell for Lone Survivor
- 2010: Jack Jacobs and Douglas Century for If Not Now, When?
- 2011: Karl Marlantes for Matterhorn
- 2012: Michael Franzak for A Nightmare's Prayer
- 2013: Thomas P. McKenna for Kontum: The Battle to Save South Vietnam
- 2014: Logan Beirne for Blood of Tyrants: George Washington and the Forging of the Presidency
- 2015: Douglas V. Mastriano for Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne
- 2016: Nisid Hajari for Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
Web links
- Information on the Colby Award at the William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium
- Colby Award at the Tawani Foundation