Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

The Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism was established in 1987 through a gift from Joseph Frank Bernstein, in honor of journalist Helen Bernstein (now Helen Bernstein Fealy).  The award is given annually to a journalist whose work has brought public attention to important issues and includes a $15,000 cash prize. Previous Bernstein Award winners include Shane Harris, David Finkel, Jane Mayer, Lawrence Wright, Charlie Savage and Dana Priest.

This year’s finalists are:

• Behind The Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (Random House)
• Confront and Conceal by David Sanger (Crown Publishers)
• Little America: The War Within The War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Spillover by David Quammen (W.W. Norton and Company)
• Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale by Tom Wilber (Cornell University Press)

The winner will be announced at a reception and award ceremony on May 22. Read the full press release.