Winner Announced for the 2023 Sperber Book Prize
University of California at Davis Professor Kathryn Olmsted’s book The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons…
Sperber Prize
Finalists Announced for the 2023 Sperber Book Prize
The authors of three biographies and one memoir have been chosen as the finalists for…
Sperber Prize Ceremony Honors Foreign Correspondents
Elizabeth Becker and Marvin Kalb, two esteemed correspondents whose reporting shed light on developments in…
Winners Announced for the 2022 Sperber Book Prize
Elizabeth Becker’s You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War has…
Finalists Announced for the 2022 Sperber Book Prize
Five biographies and one memoir have been chosen as the finalists for the Sperber Book…
2021 Sperber Prize Awarded for Biographies of Crusading Editor and Investigative Reporter
It was a year of firsts for the Ann M. Sperber Book Prize, awarded to…
Fordham to Award 2021 Sperber Prize to Biographies of Civil Rights Reporter and War Correspondent
Kerri K. Greenidge’s biography Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter and…
Fordham Honors Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter with Sperber Prize
Seymour Hersh, whose exposé of the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam…
Sperber Award Honors Legendary Editor
Robert Gottlieb, whose editing talents helped breathe life into some of the most celebrated works…
A Portrait of Joseph Mitchell, New York Storyteller
On Nov. 9, Fordham will honor Thomas Kunkel’s biography of The New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell,…