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 for The Redemption of Nettie Sykes (2005), Xlibris.
2008
Robert Dalby for Kissing Babies at the Piggly Wiggly (2007), G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
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. for The Measure of Our Days:
Writings by William F. Winter (2006), University Press of Mississippi.
2008
Walt Grayson for Looking around Mississippi (2007), Donning Company Publishers.
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 for Historic Churches of Mississippi (2007), University Press of Mississippi.
2 Comments Add your own
1. Lynn Shurden | 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 | June 8th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Is this still a viable award? If so, when will the 2009 winners be announced?
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