Dan Zevin Wins Thurber Prize for Humor Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times Dan Zevin, author of "Dan Gets a Minivan," which was honored for humor writing. Dan Zevin, the author of "Dan Gets a Minivan" (Scribner), has been awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the Thurber House announced on Monday. The Thurber Prize, given annually for an outstanding book of humor writing published in the United States, comes with an award of $5,000. The finalists this year were Shalom Auslander for "Hope, A Tragedy" (Riverhead) and Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel for "Lunatics" (G. P. Putnam's Sons). The prize is administered by the Thurber House, a nonprofit literary group named after James Thurber, the New Yorker writer and cartoonist. Mr. Zevin, 49, has written a humor column for Boston Magazine and contributed to NPR, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. Calvin Trillin was the recipient of the prize in 2012.