The 2014 winners were honored at a ceremony on May 4, 2015.

The Winners

Award for Natural History
Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York by Ted Steinberg (Simon & Schuster)

Award for Biography/Memoir
J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist by Thomas Beller (New Harvest)

Award for Fiction
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish (Tyrant Books)

The Hornblower Award for a First Book
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur (Harvard University Press)

Special Citation of Merit
Peter Pennoyer, Anne Walker, and Jonathan Wallen for their series of books about New York architecture

• The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich (W.W. Norton, 2003)
• The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore (W.W. Norton, 2006)
• The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury (W.W. Norton, 2009)
• New York Transformed: The Architecture of Cross and Cross (Monacelli Press, 2014)