Winners
Mississippi Authors Awards - Winners:
Fiction
1987
Richard Ford - Sportswriter
1988
Terry Cline - Quarry
1989
Ellen Douglas - Can’t Quit You Baby
1990
Larry Brown - Dirty Work
1991
Ellen Gilchrist - I Cannot Get You Close Enough
1992
John Grisham - The Firm
1993
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
1994
Lewis Nordan - Wolf Whistle
1995
Greg Isles - Black Cross
1996
Dorothy Shawhan - Lizzie
1997
Cathy Adams - Other Autumns
1998
Howard Bahr - Black Flower
1999
Nevada Barr - Firestorm
2000
Steve Yarbrough - Oxygen Man
2001
Martin Hegwood - Green-eyed Hurricane
2002
Bill Fitzhugh - Cross Dressing
2003
Joe Edd Morris - Land Where My Fathers Died
2004
Davis L. Temple Jr. - Two Letters Then Booger Den: Land of Dark Waters
2005
Charlaine Harris - Club Dead
2006
Bev Marshall - Right as Rain
Non-Fiction
1987
Eudora Welty - One Writer’s Beginnings
1988
Felder Rushing - Gardening Southern Style
1989
Margaret Walker - Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius
1990
Willie Morris - Homecoming
1991
Melany Neilson - Even Mississippi
1992
Charles Wilson and William Ferris - Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
1993
Clifton Taulbert - Last Train North
1994
John Marzalek - Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order
1995
Anne A. Lipscomb and Kathleen S. Hutchinson - Tracing your Mississippi Ancestor
1996
Majorue Spruill - New Women of the South
1997
Mary Carol Miller - Lost Mansions of Mississippi
1998
Clarice T. Campbell - Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South
1999
Elizabeth Spencer - Landscapes of the Heart
2000
Edward Cohen - Peddler’s Grandson
2001
Norman Winter - Mississippi Gardener’s Guide
2002
R. Scott Brunner - Due South: Dispatches from Down Home
2003
Ruth Williams - Younger Than That Now
2004
Minor Ferris Buchanan - Holt Collier: His Life, His Roosevelt Hunts, and the Origin of the Teddy Bear
2005
Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays - Being dead is no excuse
2006
Suzanne Marrs - Eudora Welty: A Biography
Special
1999
Peggy Prenshaw for Editorship
2000
Laurie Parker for Juvenile Literature - Everywhere in Mississippi and Mississippi Alphabet
2001
Maude Schuyler Clay for Photography - Delta Land
2003
Chuck Galey for Children’s Illustration - Jazz Cats
2003
Wyatt Waters for Art - Southern Palate
2004
Freddi Williams Evans for Children’s Literature - A Bus of Our Own
2005
Harris Barnes - Cotton: a 50 year pictorial history: the photographs of Harris Barnes
2006
Margaret McMullan - How I Found the Strong
