Cambridge-based essayist J.D. Daniels is among the 10 recipients of this year’s Whiting Award, the Whiting Foundation revealed Wednesday evening. Daniels, who has lived in Cambridge since 2003, has contributed to the Boston University-based literature and arts magazine AGNI, as well as n+1 and The Oxford American. In 2013, he was awarded the Terry Southern Prize, with its $5,000, by The Paris Review. The Whiting Award, given annually to promising writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, comes with a prize of $50,000, its winners selected from a pool put forth by anonymous nominators also chosen by the Foundation. Past winners include David Foster Wallace, August Wilson, and Alice McDermott.

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