Saidiya Hartman has won the 45th annual Lionel Trilling Book Award for her book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. The Lionel Trilling Book Award, established in 1976 in honor of Lionel Trilling CC 1925, GSAS’38, is awarded annually to a member of Columbia's faculty whose book was published in the previous year and upholds a level of excellence commensurate with Trilling’s legacy.
