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American Writers
Chicago

Adult Literature Award Authors

2009

• KALISHA BUCKHANNON, Conception (St. Martin's Press)
• FRANCES DePONTES PEEBLES, The Seamstress (Haper Collins)

2008

• THOMAS MALTMAN, The Night Birds (Soho Press)

2007

• SARA GRUEN, Water For Elephants (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
• GILLIAN FLYNN, Sharp Objects (Shaye Areheart Books)

2006

• DEAN BAKOPOULOS, Please Don’t Come Back From the Moon (Harcourt)
• STEVE BOGIRA, Courtroom 302 (Knopf)

2005

• PAUL JASKUNAS, Hidden (Free Press)
• ROBERT KURSON, Shadow Divers (Ballantine Books)

2004

• ERIN HART, Haunted Ground (Scribner)
• MICHAEL BYERS, Long For This World (Houghton Mifflin)

2003

• TED KOOSER, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (University of Nebraska Press)
• K. J. ERICKSON, Dead Survivors (St. Minotaur Press)

2002

• JIM KOKORIS, The Rich Part of Life (St. Martin’s)
• SARAH STONICH, These Granite Islands (Little, Brown)

2001

• J. D. DOLAN, Phoenix (Alfred A. Knopf)
• ELIZABETH ONESS, Articles of Faith (University of Iowa Press)

2000

• TERRI PAUL, Glass Hearts (Academy Chicago Publishers)
• BUNNY McBRIDE, Women of the Dawn (University of Nebraska Press)

1999

• KENT MEYERS, The Witness of Combines (University of Minnesota Press)
• WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER, Iron Lake (Pocket Books)

1998

• TESSA BRIDAL, The Tree of Red Stars (Milkweed Editions)
• SHARON SKOLNICK, Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse (University of Nebraska Press)

1997

• DEBORAH IIDA, Middle Son (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
• SHAUNA SINGH BALDWIN, English Lessons and Other Stories (Goose Lane Editions)

1996

• DAVID HAYNES, Somebody Else’s Mama (Milkweed Editions)
• JOSIP NOVAKOVITCH, Apricots From Chernobyl (Graywolf)

1995

• MAXINE CLAIR, Rattlebone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• A. MANETTE ANSAY, Vinegar Hill (Viking Penquin)

1994

• LARRY WATSON, Montana 1948 (Milkweed Editions)
• SHELLEY MICKLE FRASER, Replacing Dad (Algonquin Books)

1993

• MEG PEI, Salaryman (Viking)
• DEBORAH EISENBERG, Under the 82nd Airborne (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

1992

• MICHAEL SHELDON, Orwell (Harper Collins)
• CAROL BLY, The Tomcat's Wife and Other Stories (Harper Collins)

1991

• JAMES HYNES, The Wild Colonial Boy (Atheneum)
• JAMES HICKEY, Chrysanthemum in the Snow (Crown)

1990

• HARRY MIDDLETON, The Earth is Enough (Simon & Schuster)
• WILL WEAVER, A Gravestone Made of Wheat and Other Stories (Simon & Schuster)

1989

• SUSAN DODD, Mamaw (Viking)
• JOHN HILDEBRAND, Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon (Houghton Mifflin)

1988

• STEVE HELLER, The Automotive History of Lucky Kellerman (Chelsea Green Publishing Company)
• MONA SIMPSON, Anywhere But Here (Knopf)

1987

• KAREN LEE OSBOURNE, Carlyle Simpson (Academy Chicago)
• MAXINE CHERNOFF, Bop (Coffee House Press)

1986

• CHARLES DICKINSON, Crows (Knopf)
• MARY MORRIS, The Bus of Dreams (Houghton Mifflin)

1985

• JACK FULLER, Fragments (Morrow)
• SARA PERETSKY, Deadlock (Dial)

1984

• JOAN CHASE, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia (Harper & Row)
• REBECCA HILL, Blue Rise (Morrow)

1983

• WILL D. CAMPBELL, The Glad River (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)
• JOHN MADSON, Where the Sky Began (Houghton Mifflin)

1982

• JANE SMILEY, At Paradise Gate (Simon & Schuster)
• BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Winter Count (Charles Scribner's Sons)

1981

• DOUGLAS C. JONES, Elkhorn Tavern (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)
• JOHN YOUNT, Hardcastle (Richard Marek)

1980

• NANCY PRICE, An Accomplished Woman (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan)
• JOHN CASEY, Testimony and Demeanor (Knopf)

1979

• BETTE HOWLAND, Blue in Chicago (Harper & Row)
• ROSLYN ROSEN LUND, The Sharing (Morrow)

1978

• JON HASSLER, Staggerford (Atheneum)
• TONI MORRISON, Song of Solomon (Knopf)
• JONATHAN PENNER, Going Blind (Simon & Schuster)

1977

• WILLIAM BRASHLER, City Dogs (Harper & Row)
• JOSEPH E. FINLEY, Missouri Blue (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
• DOUGLAS C. JONES, The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer (Charles Scribner's Sons)