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
2007
Laura Evans – The Redemption of Nettie Sykes (2005), Xlibris.
2008
Robert Dalby – Kissing Babies at the Piggly Wiggly (2007), G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
2009
Kathryn Stockett – The Help (2009), published by Putnam.
2010
Deborah Johnson – The Air Between Us
2011
Mary Anna Evans – Floodgates
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
2007
Andrew P. Mullins, Jr. – The Measure of Our Days:
Writings by William F. Winter (2006), University Press of Mississippi.
2008
Walt Grayson – Looking around Mississippi (2007), Donning Company Publishers.
2009
Gerard Helferich – High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta (2007), published by Counterpoint.
2010
Chris Myers Asch – The Senator and the Sharecropper: the Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
2011
Ellis Anderson – Under Surge Under Siege
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
2008
Sherry Pace – Historic Churches of Mississippi (2007), University Press of Mississippi.
2010
Sarah Campbell for Children’s Literature – Wolfsnail: a Backyard Predator
2011
Hester Bass for Children’s Literature – The Secret World of Walter Anderson
3 Comments
1. Lynn Shurden&hellip | March 24th, 2010 at 10:13 am
Can we please get an updated list of award winners on the web site? Thanks.
2. Beth Gann&hellip | June 8th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Is this still a viable award? If so, when will the 2009 winners be announced?
3. Good News for Wolfsnail |&hellip | August 12th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
[...] The committee voted in February to add the children’s award to its list, which has traditionally included fiction and nonfiction for adults. A list of previous award winners can be found here. [...]