Previous winners of the annual Discover Awards include: Abby Geni
for The Lightkeepers and Matthew Desmond
for Evicted: Poverty and
Profit in the American City (both 2016); Mia Alvar
for In the Country: Stories and Jill Leovy
for Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (both 2015); Cheryl Strayed
for Wild (2012); David Sheff
for Beautiful Boy (2008); Ben Fountain
for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara (2006); Uzodinma Iweala
for Beasts of No Nation (2005); Alison Smith
for Name All the
Animals (2004); Anthony Doerr
for The Shell Collector; Elizabeth McCracken
for The Giant's House (1996); and Chang - rae Lee
for Native Speaker (1995).