The Whiting Foundation announced the eight recipients of their new $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants to help with the research and completion of their books:
Michael Brenson, David Smith and the Transformation of American Sculpture (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Philip Gourevitch, You Hide That You Hate Me And I Hide That I Know (Penguin Press)
Pacifique Irankunda, The Times of Stories (Random House)
Seth Kantner, A Thousand Trails Home (Mountaineers Books)
Jay Kirk, Avoid the Day (Harper Perennial)
Meghan O’Rourke, What’s Wrong With Me? The Mysteries of Chronic Illness (Riverhead Books)
George Packer, Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (Alfred A. Knopf)
Julie Phillips, The Baby on the Fire Escape (W. W. Norton)