Congratulations to George Hutchinson on being selected as winner of the 2007 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award for his book, In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line.

The Christian Gauss Award is offered for books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism. The prize was established by the Phi Beta Kappa Senate in 1950 to honor the late Christian Gauss, the distinguished Princeton University scholar, teacher and dean who also served as President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

This prestigious award joins a long and growing list of honors this book has received including the Washington Post's "Best Nonfiction of 2006."

The award ceremony will take place in Washington, DC, on Friday, December 7th.