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2007 Awards for Books
Published in 2006
judges
Adult Fiction
Winner:
Matthew Eck - The Farther Shore - Milkweed
Editions
Finalists:
Tony Romano - When the World Was Young -
HarperCollins
Benjamin Percy - Refresh - Refresh: Stories
- Graywolf Press
Brock Clarke - An Arsonist's Guide to Writers'
Homes in New England - Algonquin Books
Adult Nonfiction
Winner:
Patricia Hampl - The Florist's Daughter
- Harcourt
Finalists:
Barbara Oakley - Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell,
Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother's
Boyfriend - Prometheus Books
Ann Hagedorn - Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in
America, 1919 - Simon & Schuster
Biography
Winner:
Judith Testa - Sal Maglie: Baseball's Demon
Barber - Northern Illinois University Press
Finalists:
Robert E. Bonner - William F. Cody's Wyoming
Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows - University of
Oklahoma Press
Robert Collins - Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman,
Kansan - Pelican Publishing
Children's fiction
Winner:
Gary D. Schmidt - The Wednesday Wars - Clarion
Books
Finalists:
Nancy Crocker - Billie Standish Was Here
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Roderick Townley - The Red Thread: A Novel in
Three Incarnations - Simon & Schuster
Joan M. Wolf - Someone Named Eva - Clarion
Books
Children's Nonfiction
Winner:
Cris Peterson - Clarabelle: Making Milk and
So Much More - Boyds Mills Press
Finalists:
Dawn FitzGerald - Vinnie and Abraham - Charlesbridge
Publishing
Marlene Targ Brill - Marshall “Major” Taylor:
World Champion Bicyclist - 1899-1901 - Twenty-First Century
Books
Poetry
Winner:
Jeff Gundy - Spoken among the Trees - University
of Akron Press
Finalist:
Donald Platt - My Father Says Grace - University
of Arkansas Press
James Friend Memorial Award for Criticism
Winner:
Myrna Petlicki
Distinguished Service Award
Phyllis Ford Choyke
2006 Awards for Books Published
in 2005
judges
Adult Fiction
Winner:
Joe Meno - Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir:
Stories - Triquarterly
Finalists:
Edward Jae-Suk Lee - The Good Man: A Novel -
Bridge Works
Billy Lombardo - The Logic of the Rose: Chicago
Stories - BkMk Press
Richard Stern - Almonds to Zhoof: Collected
Stories - Triquarterly
Adult Nonfiction
Winner:
Steve Bogira - Courtroom 302: A Year Behind
the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse - Knopf
Finalists:
Sean B. Carroll - Endless Forms Most Beautiful:
The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
- W. W. Norton
Wilbert R. Hasbrouck - The Chicago Architectural
Club - Monacelli
Garry Wills - Henry Adams and the Making of
America - Houghton Mifflin
Biography
Winner:
Sam Weller - The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life
of Ray Bradbury - William Morrow
Finalists:
Jonathan Eig - Luckiest Man: The Life and Death
of Lou Gehrig - Simon & Schuster
Richard M. Fried - The Man Everybody Knew: Bruce
Barton and the Making of Modern America - Ivan R. Dee
Haki Madhubuti - YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One
Years of a Poet's Life - Third World Press
Children's fiction
Winner:
Gerald Morris - The Lioness and Her Knight (The
Squire's Tales) - Houghton Mifflin
Finalist:
J. Patrick Lewis - Galileo's Universe -
Creative Editions
Children's Nonfiction
Winner:
Sally M. Walker - Secrets of a Civil War Submarine:
Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley - Carolrhoda
Books
Finalist:
Candace Fleming - Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look
at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life - Atheneum/Anne
Schwartz Books
Poetry
Winner:
Kevin Stein - American Ghost Roses - University
of Illinois Press
Finalists:
Sherod Santos - Greek Lyric Poetry - W.
W. Norton
Christian Wiman - Hard Night - Copper Canyon
Press
James Friend Memorial Award for Literary
Criticism
Winner:
Bill Savage for his fine reviews in the Chicago Tribune
Lifetime of Literary Achievement
Bernard J. Brommel
2005 Awards for Books Published in 2004
judges
Adult Fiction
Winner:
Marilynne Robinson - Gilead: A Novel - Farrar,
Straus and Giroux
Finalists:
Darrell Spencer - Bring Your Legs with You -
University of Pittsburgh Press
Mary Sharratt - The Real Minerva - Houghton
Mifflin
Adult Nonfiction
Winner:
Kevin Boyle - Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race,
Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age - Henry Holt
Finalists:
Laurent Dubois - Avengers of the New World:
The Story of the Haitian Revolution - Belknap Press/Harvard
University Press
Carl Phillips - Coin of the Realm: Essays on
the Life and Art of Poetry - Graywolf Press
Lisa M. Fine - The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin,
and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. - Temple University
Press
Biography
Winner:
William Souder - Under a Wild Sky: John James
Audubon and the Making of "The Birds of America"
- North Point Press
Finalists:
Joan Reardon - Poet of the Appetites: The Lives
and Loves M. F. K. Fisher - North Point Press
Larry Haeg - In Gatsby's Shadow: The
Story of Charles Macomb Flandrau - University of Iowa
Press
Children's fiction
Winner:
Katherine Hannigan - Ida B:…and Her Plans to
Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
- Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins Children's Books
Children's Nonfiction
Winner:
Andrea Warren - Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam
War Orphan Became an American Boy - Farrar, Straus and
Giroux
Poetry
Winner:
Ted Kooser - Delights and Shadows - Copper
Canyon Press
James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism
Winner:
Eric Arnesen, Professor and Chair, Department of History,
University of Illinois at Chicago, for distinguished literary
criticism in the Chicago Tribune
2004 Awards for Books Published in 2003
judges
Adult Fiction:
Winner:
Stuart Dybek - I Sailed with Magellan - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Finalists:
Joseph Epstein - Fabulous Small Jews - Houghton Mifflin Co.
Margaret McMullan - In My Mother's House - Thomas Dunne Books
Katherine Shonk - The Red Passport - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Adult NonFiction:
Winner:
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's
World Series of Poker - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Finalists:
Antonio Damasio - Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain -
Simon & Schuster
John A. Lynn - Battle: A History of Combat and Culture - Westview Press
David Maraniss - They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and
America, October 1967 - Harcourt
Larry Stillman - A Match Made in Hell: The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw
Who Defied the Nazis - University of Wisconsin Press
Biography:
Winner:
Robert D. Sampson - John L. O'Sullivan and His Times - Kent State University Press
Finalists:
Andrea King Collier - Still with Me: A Daughter's Journey of
Love and Loss - Simon & Schuster
Jeffrey Lash - A Politician Turned General: The Civil War
Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut - Kent State University
Press
James Reidel - Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon
Kees - University of Nebraska Press
Children's Fiction:
Winner:
Kathe Koja - Buddha Boy - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Finalists:
Will Weaver - Claws - Harper Tempest
Erik Brooks - Octavius Bloom and the House of Doom - Albert Whitman
Children's NonFiction:
Winner:
Ilene Cooper - Jack: The Early Years of John F. Kennedy - Dutton Children's Books
Finalist:
Jan Greenberg - Romare Reardon: Collage of Memories - Harry N. Abrams
Poetry:
Winner:
Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser - Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry - Copper
Canyon Press
James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism:
Winner:
Bill Ott - editor and publisher of Booklist
2003 Awards for Books Published in 2002
Adult Fiction:
Winner:
Aleksandar Hemon - Nowhere Man - Doubleday
Finalists:
Robert Hellenga - Blues Lessons - Scribner
John Fulton - More Than Enough - Picador
Carol Anshaw - Lucky in the Corner - Houghton Mifflin
Co.
Adult NonFiction:
Winner:
Joseph Epstein - Snobbery: The American Version -
Houghton Mifflin
Finalists:
Joel Greenberg - A Natural History of the Chicago Region - University of Chicago Press
Eric Klinenberg - Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster
in Chicago - University of Chicago Press
Ted Kooser - Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
- University of Nebraska Press
Biography:
Winner:
Garry Wills - James Madison - Times Books
Finalist:
Jean Bethke Elshtain - Jane Addams and the Dream of American
Democracy - Basic Books
Children's Fiction:
Winner (tied):
Debra Seely - Grasslands - Holiday House
Jamie Gilson - Stink Alley - HarperCollins Children's
Books
Finalist:
Elizabeth Fama - Overboard - Cricket Books
Children's NonFiction:
Winner:
John Fleischman - Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story
About Brain Science - Houghton Mifflin Co. (Juvenile)
Finalist:
Ellen Jackson - Looking for Life in the Universe: The Search
for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Houghton Mifflin Co.
(Juvenile)
Poetry:
Winner:
Neal Bowers - Out of the South: Poems - Louisiana
State University Press
Finalist:
Gabriel Gudding - A Defense of Poetry - University
of Pittsburgh Press
James Friend Memorial Award for Literary
Criticism:
Winner:
Roger Miller - Chicago Sun-Times
2002 Awards for Books Published in 2001
Adult Fiction:
Winner:
Reginald McKnight - He Sleeps - Henry Holt
Finalists:
Dan Chaon - Among the Missing - Ballentine
Achy Obejas - Days of Awe - Ballentine
Janet Kauffman - Rot - Western Michigan University
Adult NonFiction:
Winner:
Robert Vivian - Cold Snap as Yearning - University
of Nebraska Press
Finalists:
Jon Anderson - City Watch: Discovering the Uncommon Chicago - University of Iowa Press
Stephen Kinzer - Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Dick Simpson - Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps: The
Politics of the Chicago City Council from 1863 to the Present
- Westview Press
Richard Lieberman - Personal Foul: Coach Joe Moore vs.
The University of Notre Dame - Academy Chicago Publishers
Biography:
Winner:
Andrea Lynn - Shadow Lovers: The Last Affairs of H. G.
Wells - Westview Press
Finalists:
Herbert K. Russell - Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography
- University of Illinois Press
Elliott J. Gorn - Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman
in America - Hill & Wang
Children's Fiction:
Winner:
Elaine Marie Alphin - Ghost Soldier - Henry Holt
Children's NonFiction:
Winner:
Andrea Warren - Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death
Camps - Harpercollins Juvenile Books
Poetry:
Winner:
Carl Phillips - The Tether - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Finalist:
Quan Barry - Asylum - University of Pittsburgh Press
James Friend Memorial Award for Literary
Criticism:
Winner:
Deborah Abbott, book reviewer for the Sun-Times
2001 Awards for Books Published in 2000
Adult Fiction:
Winner:
Jane S. Smith - Fool's Gold - Zoland Books
Finalists:
Porter Shreve - The Obituary Writer - Houghton Mifflin
Co.
Ronald Wallace - Quick Bright Things: Stories - Mid-List
Press
Dwight Allen - The Green Suit - Algonquin Books of
Chapel Hill
David J. Walker - The End of Emerald Woods - St. Martin's
Press, Minotaur Books
Adult NonFiction:
Winner:
Murray Sperber - Beer and Circus: How Big-time College
Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education - Henry Holt
& Co.
Finalists:
Steven R. Hoffbeck - The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five
Farm Families - Minnesota Historical Society
John Conroy - Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics
of Torture - Alfred Knopf
Tom Martinson - American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness
in Postwar Suburbia - Carroll & Graf
Jean Bethke Elshtain - Who Are We? Critical Reflections
and Hopeful Possibilities - Wm. B. Eerdsmans Publishing,
Co.
Biography:
Winner:
Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor - American Pharaoh: Mayor
Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
- Little Brown & Co.
Finalists:
Herbert Marder - The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's
Last Years - Cornell University Press
Cheri Register - Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir -
Minnesota Historical Society
Children's Fiction:
Winner:
Vicki Grove - Destiny - Penguin Putnam
Finalist:
Laurel Winter - Growing Wings - Houghton Mifflin,
Co.
Children's NonFiction:
Winner:
Dennis Brindell Fradin - Bound for the North Star: True
Stories of Fugitive Slaves - Houghton Mifflin Co., Clarion
Books
Finalists:
Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin - Ida B.
Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement - Houghton
Mifflin Co., Clarion Books
Catherine Thimmesh - Girls Think of Everything: Stories
of Ingenious Inventions by Women - Houghton Mifflin
Elsie Lee Splear - Growing Seasons - Putnam Publishing
Group
Poetry:
Winners:
Erin Belieu - One Above & One Below: Peoms - Copper
Canyon Press
Richard Jones - The Blessing: New and Selected Poems
- Copper Canyon Press
Finalists:
Josie Kearns - New Numbers - New Issues Press
Stephen Kuuisto - Only Bread, Only Light - Copper
Canyon Press
2000 Awards for Books Published in 1999
Children's Fiction:
Winner:
Arvella Whitmore - Trapped Between the Lash and the
Gun - Penguin Putnam, Inc.
Finalists:
Gary L. Blackwood - Moonshine - Marshall Cavendish
Dave Jarzyna - Slump - Delacorte Press
Ingrid Tomey - Nobody Else Has to Know - Delacorte
Press
Carolyn Crimi - Don't Need Friends - Random House
Children's NonFiction:
Winner:
Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack - Black
Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers
- Scholastic Press
Finalists:
Brandon Marie Miller - Dressed for the Occasion: What Americans
Wore 1620-1970 - Lerner Publications
Gwenyth Swain - Civil Rights Pioneer: A Story About Mary
Church Terrell - Carolrhoda Books, Inc.
Fay Robinson - A Dinosaur Named Sue - Scholastic
Inc.
Poetry:
Winner:
Willis Barnstone - Algebra of Night -
The Sheep Meadow Press
Finalist:
Joel Brouwer - Exactly What Happened - Purdue University
Press
Biography:
Winner:
Leslie Stainton - Lorca: A Dream of Life - Farrar,
Straus, & Giroux
Finalists:
Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman - Kerner: The
Conflict of Intangible Rights - University of Illinois
Press
Lawrence J. Friedman - Identity's Architect: A Biography
of Erik H. Erikson - Charles Scribner & Sons
Mary Allen - The Rooms of Heaven: A Story of Love, Death,
Grief, and the Afterlife - Alfred A. Knopf
Adult NonFiction:
Winner:
William Least Heat-Moon - River Horse - Houghton Mifflin
Co.
Finalists:
Kathleen Norris - Amazing Grace - Riverhead Books,
Penguin Putnam, Inc.
Mitchell Duneier - Sidewalk - Ferrar, Straus, &
Giroux
Walter Nugent - Into the West: The Story of Its People
- Alfred A. Knopf
Jacquelyn Kilpatrick - Celluloid Indians: Native Americans
and Film - University of Nebraska Press
Adult Fiction:
Winner:
Kent Haruf - Plainsong - Alfred A. Knopf
Finalists:
Scott Turow - Personal Injuries - Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Kelly Cherry - The Society of Friends - University
of Missouri Press
Gerald Shapiro - Bad Jews and Other Stories - Zoland
Books
Kent Meyers - Light in the Crossing - St. Martin's
Press
Lifetime Literary Achievement Award:
Richard Frisbie
1999 Awards for Books Published in 1998
Adult Fiction:
Barbara Croft - Necessary Fiction:s - University of
Pittsburgh Press
Adult NonFiction:
Eric T. Freyfogle - Bounded People, Boundless Lands: Envisioning
a New Land Ethic - Island Press
Biography:
Hull Cook - Fifty Years a Country Doctor - University
of Nebraska Press
Poetry:
Mark Cox - Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone
- University of Pittsburgh Press
Children's Fiction:
Janet Hickman - Susannah - Greenwillow Press
Children's NonFiction:
Andrea Warren - Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie
- Morrow Junior
1998 Awards for Books Published in 1997
Adult Fiction:
Sharon Solwitz - Blood and Milk - Sarabande Books
Adult NonFiction:
Thomas Lynch - The Undertaking - W.W. Norton
Biography:
Keith William Nolan and Dwight W. Birdwell - A Hundred
Miles of Bad Road - Presidio Press
Children's Fiction:
Winner:
Harriette Gillem Robinet - The Twins: The Pirates
and the Battle of New Orleans - Atheneum Books
Finalist:
Marlene Targ Brill - Diary of a Drummer Boy
- Millbrook Press
Children's NonFiction:
Brandon Marie Miller - Just What the Doctor
Ordered: The History of American Medicine - Lerner Publications
Poetry:
Jason Sommer - Other People's Troubles -
University of Chicago Press
1997 Awards for Books Published in 1996
Adult Fiction:
James McManus - Going to the Sun - Harper Collins.
Adult NonFiction:
Bill Holm - The Heart Can be Filled Anywhere on Earth -
Milkweed Editions
Biography:
James Park Sloan - Jerzy Kosinski - Dutton
Children's Fiction:
Stella Pevsner - Would My Fortune Cookie Lie? - Clarion
Books
Children's NonFiction:
Winner:
Andrea Warren - Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's
True Story - Houghton Mifflin
Finalist:
Marlene Targ Brill - Women for Peace - Franklin
Watts
Poetry:
Jane O. Wayne - A Strange Heart - Helicon Nine Editions
1996 Awards for Books Published in 1995
Adult Fiction:
Clint McCown - The Member Guest - Doubleday
Adult NonFiction:
Diane Dufva Quantic - The Nature of Place -University
of Nebraska Press
Poetry:
Allison Funk - Living at the Epicenter - Northeastern
University Press
Biography:
Jack and Rochelle Sutin - Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust
Story of Love and Resistance - (ed. by Lawrence Sutin)
- Graywolf Press
Children's Fiction:
Patricia Willis - Out of the Storm - Clarion Books
Children's NonFiction:
Mary Hoff and Mary M. Rodgers - Our Endangered Planet:
Atmosphere - Lerner Publications
Drama:
Stephen P. Daly - lifeidreamedof - Center Theater
Ensemble
Lifetime Achievement Award:
Martin E. Marty
1995 Awards for Books Published in 1994
Adult Fiction:
Robert Hellenga - The Sixteen Pleasures - Soho Press
Adult NonFiction:
Carl Smith - Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: the
Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town
of Pullman - University of Chicago Press
Biography:
Nelson Peery - Black Fire: The Making of an
American Revolutionary - The New Press
Children's Fiction:
Janet Hickman - Jericho - Greenwillow Books/William
Morrow & Company
Children's NonFiction:
Roger Sutton - Hearing Us Out: Voices From the Gay and
Lesbian Community - Little Brown & Company
Poetry:
George Bilgere - The Going: Poems - University of Missouri
Press
Drama:
Scott Sandoe - Points of Deviation - Alleyway Theatre;
Buffalo, New York
Lifetime Achievement Award:
Phyllis A. Whitney
1994 Awards for Books Published in 1993
Adult Fiction:
Stewart Massad - Doctors and Other Casualties - Warner
Books
Adult NonFiction:
Kathleen Norris - Dakota: A Spiritual Geography - Tickno
& Fields
Biography:
William Holtz - The Ghost in the Little House:
A Life of Rose Wilder Lane - University of Missouri Press
Children's Fiction:
Gloria Whelan - Night of the Full Moon - Alfred A.
Knopf
Children's NonFiction:
Virginia Hamilton - Many Thousand Gone: African Americans
from Slavery to Freedom - Random House
Poetry:
Susan Hahn - Incontinence - University of Chicago Press
Drama:
None
Lifetime Literary Achievement Award:
Dorothy F. Haas
1993 Awards for Books Published in 1992
Fiction:
Carol Anshaw - Aquamarine - Houghton Mifflin
Biography:
Bentley Gilbert - David Lloyd George: A Political Life,
vol II - Ohio State University Press
Children's Fiction:
Hadley Irwin - The Original Freddie Ackerman - McElderry
Books-Macmillan
Children's NonFiction:
Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins - Rosa Parks: My Story
- Penguin U.S.A.
Poetry:
Maureen Seaton - The Sea Among the Cupboards - New
Rivers Press
Drama:
Christopher Cartmill - Light in Love - Bailiwick Repertory
production
1992 Awards for Books Published in 1991
Biography:
Robert V. Remini - Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union
- Norton
Fiction:
Jane Smiley - A Thousand Acres - Knopf
NonFiction:
Alex Kotlowitz - There Are No Children Here - Doubleday
Children's Fiction:
Patricia Willis - A Place to Claim as Home - Clarion
Children's NonFiction:
Joan Blos - The Heroine of the Titanic - Morrow
Poetry:
David Baker - Sweet Home Saturday Night - University
of Arkansas Press
Drama:
John Logan - Hauptmann - Victory Gardens production
1991 Awards for Books Published in 1990
Adult Fiction:
Scott Turow - Burden of Proof - Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, Inc.
Adult NonFiction:
Garry Wills - Under God - Simon & Schuster
Biography:
Thomas B. Littlewood - The Story of Arch Ward - Iowa
State University Press
Children's Fiction:
Alden R. Carter - Robodad - Putnam Publishers
Children's NonFiction:
Gary Paulsen - Woodsong - Bradbury Press
Drama:
Marisha Chamberlin - The Angels of Warsaw - Victory
Gardens production
Poetry:
Robley Wilson - A Pleasure Tree - University of Pittsburgh
Press
1990 Awards for Books Published in 1989
(no awards given)
1989 Awards for Books Published in 1988
Adult Fiction:
Richard Russo - The Risk Pool
Adult NonFiction:
Donald W. Goodwin, M.D. - Alcohol and Water
Biography:
Robert Remini - The Life of Andrew Jackson
Children's Fiction:
Karen Ackerman - Song and Danceman
Children's NonFiction:
Janet Riehecky - Dinosaur Series
Drama:
Steven Dietz - God's Country
Poetry:
Nancy Van Winkel - Bad Girl With Hawk
1988 Awards for Books Published in 1987
Adult Fiction:
Jon Hassler - Grand Opening - William Morrow
Adult NonFiction:
John Conroy - Belfast Diary - Beacon Press
Biography:
Frederick J. Blue - Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics
- Kent State University Press
Children's Fiction:
Violet Olson - A View From the Pighouse Roof - Atheneum
Publishers. Macmillan Children's Book Group
Children's NonFiction:
Beverly Butler - Maggie By My Side - Dodd Mead &
Co.
Drama:
Jon Klein - T Bone N TWeasel - produced by Actors'
Theater; Louisville, KY
Poetry:
David Wojahn - Glassworks - University of Pittsburgh
Press
1987 Awards for Books Published in 1986
Adult Fiction:
Larry Heinemann - Paco's Story - Farrar Straus Giroux
Adult NonFiction:
Grace Bacon Ferrier - Teacher, Teacher, I Done It! I Done
It! I Done It! - Westphalia Press
Biography:
James Brewer Stewart - Wendell Phillips: Liberty's Hero - Louisiana State University Press
Children's Fiction:
Lynn Hall - Mrs. Porter's Pony - Charles Scribners
Friends of Midland Authors Award:
Arthur & Lila Weinberg
Drama:
(no award)
Poetry:
Alice Fulton - Palladium - University of Illinois Press
1986 Awards for Books Published in 1985
Adult Fiction:
Donald Bodey - F.N.G. - Viking Press
Adult NonFiction:
Dr. Frank Gonzalez-Crussi - Notes of an Anatomist -
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Biography:
Frank Schulze - Mies van der Rohe - University of
Chicago Press
Children's Fiction:
Pam Conrad - Prairie Songs - Harper & Row
Drama Award:
John Logan - Never the Sinner - produced by Stormfield
Theater
Blanche Rene Poetry Award:
Andrew Hudgins - Saints & Strangers - Houghton-Mifflin
Friends of the Midland Authors Award:
Jack Conroy (For a
lifetime body of work by a long-time SMA member)
1985 Awards for Books Published in 1984
Adult Fiction:
Douglas Unger - Leaving the Land
and
Leon Forrest - Two Wings to Veil My Face
Adult NonFiction:
William Shirer - The Nightmare Years: 1930-1940
Biography:
Carl Solberg - Hubert Humphrey: A Biography
Children's Fiction:
Gary Paulsen - Tracker
and
Cynthia Rylant - Waiting to Waltz
Drama:
Nancy Pahl Gilsenan - Beloved Friend
Poetry:
John Matthias - Northern Summer: New and Selected Poems,
1963-1985
Friends of Midland Authors Award:
Harry Mark Petrakis
1984 Awards for Books Published in 1983
Adult Fiction:
Morris Philipson - Secret Understandings
and
Joan Chase - During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
Adult NonFiction:
Allison Davis (posthumous) - Leadership, Love and
Aggression
and
Louise B. Young - The Blue Planet
Biography:
Bill Gilbert - Westering Man
Children's Fiction:
Marjorie Franco - Love in a Different Key
Friends of Midland Authors Award::
Elmer Gertz
Drama:
(no award)
Poetry: (The Blanche Rene Award)
Josephine Miles - Collected Poems, 1930-1983
1983 Awards for Books Published in 1982
Fiction:
Susan Engberg - Pastorale
Children's:
Patricia and Jack Demuth - Joel: Growing Up a Farm Man
1982 Awards for Books Published in 1981
Fiction:
Eugene C. Kennedy - Father's Day - Doubleday
NonFiction: (sociology and psychology)
Jonathan Raban - Old Glory An American Voyage
- Viking
Biography:
Dempsey Travis - An Autobiography of Black Chicago
- Partners Publishers Group
Drama:
John Olive - Standing on My Knees - Duke University
Press
History: (co-winners)
Melvin Holli and Peter d'A Jones - Ethnic Chicago - Edmans
Publishing Co.
James P. Berry - Wrecks and Rescues
of the Great Lakes
NonFiction: (politics
and economics)
James R. Millar - ABCs of Soviet Socialism - University
of Illinois Press
Poetry:
Sonia Gernes - Brief Lives - University of Notre Dame
Press
Clara Ingram Judson Award:* (for children's literature)
Annabella Irwin and Lee Hadley (writing together as "Hadley
Irwin") - Moon and Me - Margaret K. McElderry
Special Award:
Claudia Cassidy for her long career as a drama critic for
the Chicago Tribune and WFMT-FM.
1981 Awards for Books Published in 1980
Poetry:
Ted Kooser - Sure Signs
Fiction:
Stuart Dybek - Childhood and Other Neighborhoods
Children's:
(no award)
1980 Awards for Books Published in 1979
Fiction:
William Maxwell - So Long, See You Tomorrow
Poetry:
Gwendolyn Brooks - For continuing poetic achievements
Poetry:
Ralph Mills Jr. - Living With Distance
Drama:
Alan Gross - The Man in 605
Drama:
Amlin Gray - How I Got That Story
Biography:
Nellie Snyder Yost - Buffalo Bill
Children's:
Linda Mays - The Other Side
Psychology-Sociology:
Fred MacDonald - Don't Touch That Dial
Economics:
Edwin Coen - PBB: An American Tragedy
History:
John D. Unruh Jr. - The Plains Across
1979 Awards for Books Published in 1978
Adult Fiction:
John Christgau - Spoon - Viking Press
History:
Walter Blair and Hamlin Hill - America's Humor: From Poor
Richard to Doonesbury - Oxford University Press
Biography:
Bernard J. Brommel - Eugene V. Debs: Spokesman for
Labor and Socialism - Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company
Adult NonFiction:
Dr. Stephen Z. Cohen and Bruce Michael Gans - The
Other Generation Gap: The Middle-Aged and their Aging Parents
- Follett Publishing Company
Poetry:
Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto (editors and translators)
- Penguin Book of Zen Poetry - Swallow Press
and
John Frederic Bennett - Echoes From the Peaceable Kingdom
Drama:
Jeffrey Sweet - Porch
Children's:
(no award)
1978 Awards for Books Published in 1977
General NonFiction:
Eileen Williams - Harriet Monroe and the Poetry
Renaissance: The First Ten Years of Poetry Magazine, 1912-1922
- University of Illinois Press
Biography:
John Bartlow Martin - Adlai Sevenson and the World - Doubleday
and
Robert E. Hemenway - Zora Neale Hurston, A Literary Biography
- University of Illinois Press
History:
Paul C. Nagel - Missouri, a History - Norton
Children's Fiction:
Stella Pevsner - And You Gave Me a Pain, Elaine
- Seabury Press, Inc.
Children's NonFiction:
Bernice Rabe - The Orphan - E.P. Dutton
1977 Awards for Books Published in 1976
Fiction:
Larry Heinemann - Close Quarters - Farrar,
Strauss & Giroux
Clara Ingram Judson Award:* (for children's literature)
Charlotte Herman - Our Snowman Had Olive Eyes - Dutton
1976 Awards for Books Published in 1975
Clara Ingram Judson Award:* (for children's literature)
S. Carl Hirsch - He and She
1975 Awards for Books Published in 1974
1974 Awards for Books Published in 1973
Emmett Dedmon - China Journal
Herman Kogan - The First Century: The Chicago
Bar Association 1874-1974
History:
Gloria Jahoda - River of the Golden Ibis - Holt, Rinehart
and Winston
Poetry:
Robert H. Siegel - The Beast and the Elders - University Press of New England
(and six other awards)
1973 Awards for Books Published in 1972
Fiction:
Marilyn Durham - The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Poetry:
Leland Roloff - The Perception and Evocation of Literature
and Where's the Wonderful Child (work in progress)
1972 Awards for Books Published in 1971
Chicago Publishers' Award:
Mike Royko - Boss
Midland Authors History Award:
Rev. William Love Banks - The Black Church
in the United States
Patron Saints Award:*
Jeanne Morris - Brian Piccolo: A Short Season
Peggy McPhaul Award: (for best first
book)
James Park Sloan - War Games
William Burden Graham Poetry Award:
John Frederick Nims - Sappho and Valery
Midland Authors Poetry Award:
Robert Mitchell - Letters From Siberia
Distinguished Service Awards:
Robert J. Adelsperger
Charles Newman
Edward Barthell Jr. - Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece
Hardin W. Masters - Edgar Lee Masters: A Centenary Memorial
Anthology
Florence Rome - The Scarlet Letters
Jon Waltz - Medical Jurisprudence
1971 Awards for Books Published in 1970
Chicago Publishers' Award:
William Braden - The Age of Aquarius
Patron Saints Award:*
Cyrus J. Colter - The Beach Umbrella
Midland Authors Writers' Award:
Jack McPhaul - Johnny Torrio: First of the Gang Lords
Poetry:
John Frederic Bennett - Griefs and Exultations
Poetry:
John Frederic Bennett - The Struck Leviathan
American
Government Award:
George E. Reedy - The Twilight of the Presidency
Midland Authors Juvenile Books Award:
Elisa Bialk - 28 books for young readers
American History Award:
Walter Havighurst - River to the West: Three
Centuries of the Ohio
Distinguished Service Award:
Mary Jane Ward - The Snake Pit and other books
Barnabas F. Sears
Jane Barr - author of 30 books for youngsters
and for service to the society as its librarian for nearly
a decade.
1970 Awards for Books Published in 1969
Poet Laureate Award:
Carolyn M Rodgers - Songs of Black Bird
Chicago Writers Award:
Hoke Norris - It's Not Far, But I Don't Know the Way
Clara Ingram Judson Award:* (for children's literature)
Sidney Rosen - Wizard of the Dome
Chicago Publishers' Award for Fiction:
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
NonFiction:
Martin E. Marty - The Search for a Usable Future
Sidney Lens - Poverty: America's
Enduring Paradox
Poetry:
Chad Walsh - The End of Nature
Sallie Chesham - Walking With the Wind
Ruth Herschberger - Nature and Love Poems
Distinguished Service Award:
Morris Fishbein
Rand McNally and Co.
1969 Awards for Books Published in 1968
Patron Saints Award:*
Gwendolyn Brooks - In the Mecca
Chicago Publishers' Award:
Paul Tyner - Shoot It
Clara Ingram Judson Award:* (for children's literature)
James Ayars - The Illinois River
Distinguished Service Award:
Dorothy Bell Briggs
Robert Cromie for Where Steel Winds Blow and his Book
Beat television show
Daniel Walker and his associates for the Walker Report
Franklin J. Meine Award: (for research
assistance to authors)
Gertrude L. Woodward
1968 Awards for Books Published in 1967
Chicago Publishers' Award:
Studs Terkel - Division Street: America
Patron Saints Award:*
Era Bell Thomson - American Daughter
Kenneth F. Montgomery Poetry Award:
Rev. Raymond Roseleip - An Original and
Perfect Art
Clara Ingram Judson Award for Children's Literature:*
Morris Philipson - The Count Who Wished He Were
a Peasant: A Life of Leo Tolstoy
Midland Authors Distinguished Service
Citation:
Herman Kogan, editor of the "Book Week" section
of the Chicago Sun-Times
Hazel Ferguson, president of the Friends of Literature
John Find, editor of Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine,
for Marica Lee Masters' weekly "Today's Poets" feature
1967 Awards For Books Published in 1966
Kenneth F. Montgomery Poetry Award:
David Etter - Go Read the River
Clara Ingram Judson Award for Children's Literature:*
S. Carl Hirsch - The Living Community: A Venture
Into Ecology
Patron Saints Award:*
John Barlow Martin - Overtaken By Events
James L. Dow Award:*
Jack Conroy and Arna Bontemps - Anyplace But
Here - Hill and Wang
Chicago Writer's Award:*
John Drury - Rare and Well Done
Midland Authors Distinguished Service
Citation:
Harry Mark Petrakis
Oscar Lewis
Ruth Hawshaw
1966 Awards For Books Published in 1965
Patron Saints Award:*
Daniel Boorstin - The Americans: The
National Experience (second volume)
Kenneth F. Montgomery Poetry Award:
Marcia Masters Schmid - Intent on Earth
Clara Ingram Judson Award:* (for children's literature)
Rebecca Caudill - A Certain Small Sheperd
Chicago Writer's Award:*
Vincent Starret - Born in a Bookshop
Fiction:
Harry Mark Petrakis - Pericles on 31st St.
Translation:
John Frederick Nims - Ovid's Metamorphoses
Poetry in Teaching:
Wallace Douglas
Distinguished Service Citation:
Robert Cromie
1965 Awards For Books Published in 1964
James L. Dow Award:*
Saul Bellow - Herzog
Patron Saints Award:*
Lerone Bennett Jr. - What Man of Man: A Biography
of Martin Luther King Jr. - Johnson Pub. Co.
Kenneth F. Montgomery Poetry Award:
August Derleth
Clara Ingram Judson Award:* (for children's literature)
Irene Hunt - Across Five Aprils
1964 Awards For Books Published in 1963
Thermod Monsen Award:*
Winner:
Gwendolyn Brooks - Selected Poems
Finalists:
Ruth Painter Randall - I Jessie
Rita Richie - Ice Falcon
Patron Saints Award:*
Harry Mark Petrakis - The Odyssey of Kostas Valakis
Clara Ingram Judson Award:* (for children's literature)
Virginia S. Eifert - George Shannon: Young Explorer
with Lewis and Clark
1963 Awards For Books Published in 1962
Thermod Monsen Award:*
Winner:
J. F. Powers - Morte D'Urban
Finalists:
Daniel J. Boorstin - The Image: Or What Happened to the
American Dream
Frederick Feikema Manfred - Wanderlust
Hubert C. Woods - Child of the Arctic
Alberta Wilson Constant - Willie and
the Wildcat
Clara Ingram Judson Award:* (for children's literature)
Beverly Butler - To Light a Single Candle
Meritorious Achievement:
Richard Kinney
1962 Awards For Books Published in 1961
Thermod Monsen Award:*
Bruce Catton - The Coming Fury
Clara Ingram Judson Award:* (for children's literature)
Val Gendron - The Dragon Tree
1961 Awards For Book Published in 1960
Thermod Monsen Award:*
Walter Blair - Mark Twain & Huck Finn
Clara Ingram Judson Award:* (for children's literature)
Marguerite Henry - Gaudenzia: Pride of the Palio
1960 Awards For Book Published in 1959
Thermod Monsen Award:*
Winner:
Richard Ellmann - James Joyce (biography)
Finalists:
Kenneth S. Davis - The Hero: Charles A. Lindbergh and the
American Dream
Ralph Korngold - The Last Years
of Napoleon
1959 Awards For Book Published in 1958
Thermod Monsen Award:*
Winner:
Mark Van Doren - The Autobiography of Mark Van Doren
Finalist:
Daniel J. Boorstin - The Colonial Experience
1958 Awards For Book Published in 1957
Thermod Monsen Award:*
Jessamyn West - To See the Dream
1957 Awards For Book Published in 1956
Thermod Monsen Award:*
Winner:
Bruce Catton - This Hallowed Ground
Finalists:
John Berryman - Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Clara Ingram Judson - Mr. Justice
Holmes
Hoke Norris - All the Kingdoms
of the Earth
Ruth Stephan - The Flight
Edwin Way Teale - Autumn Across
America
*Special Awards:
Thormod Monsen Award:
The Thormod Monsen Award was the first award granted by the
Society of Midland Authors in the modern era. It was presented
from 1957 to 1966 to honor the best creative literary work
by an author in the twelve-state Midwest region. Thormod Monsen
founded a Chicago typesetting company in 1887.
Patron Saints Award:
The Patron Saints Award was established in 1964 for work
by a member of the Society of Midland Authors.
Chicago Writer's Award:
The Chicago Writer's Award for literary achievement in 1966
became the third award offered annually by the Society of
Midland Authors in the modern era.
The James L. Dow Award:
The James L. Dow Award was offered by advertising executive
James Dow in 1967.
Clara Ingram Judson Memorial Award:
The Clara Ingram Judson Memorial Award was presented to children's
writers for books demonstrating creativity and interest. The
annual award was made possible by grants from the Follett
Publishing Company in Chicago.
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