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 Past Recipients of the Ken Book Awards

2009

The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball
Nicholas Dawidoff

Hurry Down Sunshine
Michael Greenberg

Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
David Lovelace

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
Darby Penney and Peter Stastny, Photographs by Lisa Rinzler

Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia
Patrick Tracey

The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order
Joan Wickersham


2008

The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Norman Doidge, M.D.

Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism
Roy Richard Grinker

Get Well Soon
Julie Halpern

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Elyn R. Saks

Help Your Child or Teen Get Back on Track: What Parents and Professionals can do for Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Problems
Kenneth H. Talan, M.D.

2007

Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness
Pete Earley

In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
Eric Kandel

The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia
Kim Mueser and Susan Gingerich

Halfway House
Katherine Noel

The War Within: One More Step at a Time
G.B. Trudeau

2006

A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World
Susanne Antonetta

50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health
James Whitney Hicks, M.D.

Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
Joshua Wolf Shenk

My Depression: A Picture Book
Elizabeth Swados

American Mania: When More Is Not Enough
Peter C. Whybrow, M.D.

2005

The Peace of Mind Prescription: An Authoritative Guide to Finding the Most Effective Treatment for Anxiety and Depression
Dennis Charney and Charles Nemeroff

The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and His Visionary Madness
Michael Jay

The Madman's Tale
John Katzenbach

The Family Silver: A Memoir of Depression and Inheritance
Sharon O'Brien

Disaster Psychiatry: Intervening When Nightmares Come True
Anand Pandya M.D. and Craig Katz M.D.

Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue
Jane Pauley

2004
John Clare: A Biography
Jonathan Bate

Lost in America: A Journey with My Father

Sherwin B. Nuland

Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad
Virginia Holman

Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level
Sally E. Shaywitz

The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child: A Survival Guide for Parents
Judith Lederman and Candida Fink

Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family
Jean J. Beard and Peggy Gillespie

2003
Uphill Walkers
Madeleine Blais

Ladder 35, Engine 40
Juliana Lee Hatkoff and Craig M. Hatkoff

Q. The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones

Behind the Smile, My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression
Marie Osmond with Marcia Wilkie and Dr. Judith Moore

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Andrew Solomon

Sometimes Madness is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage
Kendall Taylor

2002

I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help! Helping the Seriously Mentally Ill Accept Treatment
Xavier Amador, M.D. with Anna-Lisa Johanson

Through the Seasons: Poems and Illustrations
Moe Armstrong

A Journey into My Father’s Struggle with Madness
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

Lay My Burden Down: Unraveling Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis among African-Americans
Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D. and Amy Alexander

The Day the Voices Stopped: A Memoir of Madness and Hope
Ken Steele and Claire Berman

2001

Night Falls Fast
Kay Redfield Jamison

Childhood Revealed
Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D. and Robin F. Goodman, Ph.D.

Bipolar Disorder
Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D.

Transforming Madness
Jay Neugeboren

The Bipolar Child
Demitri Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos

Breakthroughs in Antipsychotic Medications
Peter J. Weiden, M.D., in conjunction with Patricia L. Scheifler, M.S.W., Ronald J. Diamond, M.D. and Ruth Ross, M.D.

2000

I Know This Much Is True
Wally Lamb

A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar

How You Can Survive When They’re Depressed
Anne Sheffield

His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina
Danielle Steel

The Professor and The Madman
Simon Winchester

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