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December 9, 2025By Erin Somers

Whiting Nonfiction Grant Winners

December 9, 2025By Erin Somers

The Whiting Foundation announced the winners of its 2025 Nonfiction Grants for Works-in-Progress. Winners each receive $40,000.

Paul Bogard, How to See the Sky: The Newest Science, the Oldest Questions, and Why They Matter for Life (HarperOne)

Jason Cherkis, The Attempters: The Science and Struggle of Suicidality (Random House)

S.C. Cornell, The Migrant and the Murderer: A True Story (Penguin Press)

Caitlin Dickerson, Deported: The Hidden Toll of American Expulsion (Random House and One World)

Elena Dudum, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful (One Signal)

Grace Elizabeth Hale, They Don’t Own Us: Harlan County, Kentucky and the Past and Future of American Workers (Mariner)

Will Harris, Need Is Need (Fitzcarraldo Editions)

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Both and Neither (Doubleday, Phoenix, and Sonatine)

Avi Steinberg, Grace Paley: A Life (FSG)

Raksha Vasudevan, Empires Between Us: Estrangement and Kinship Across Three Continents (Graywolf Press and Knopf)

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