Alabama Author AwardNon-Fiction

Given by Alabama Library Association

Other Names: Alabama Library Association Nonfiction Award
59 Works 16,979 Books 551 Reviews 4.2
Awards are based on literary merit. An honored author must be an Alabamian by birth or have lived in Alabama for at least five (5) years. The book for which the award is presented must have been show more published within the past three (3) calendar years prior to the year of the Association Convention at which the award is presented. Reprints of works originally published prior to the cutoff year of the award are not eligible for consideration. An author's body of work is ineligible. An editor or translator may be considered if the book is of value to the permanent record of the State. The honoree must be living. show less
Categories:
All, Fiction (53), Juvenile (35), Non-Fiction (59), Non-Fiction [special award] (1), Poetry (4), Teen (1), Young Adult (21), Young adult (1)
Years:
All, 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (1), 1974 (1), 1973 (1), 1972 (1), 1970 (1), 1967 (1), 1965 (1), 1964 (1), 1962 (1), 1959 (1), 1958 (1), 1957 (1)
WorkYear
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines
2022
Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer
2022
A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost by Frye Gaillard
2021
The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods by Emily Blejwas
2020
The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table by Rick Bragg
2019
The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II by Winston Groom
2018
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley by Kim Cross
2017
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
2016
Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond by Lilly Ledbetter
2015
While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
2014
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
2013
Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family by Condoleezza Rice
2012
Tin Man by Charlie Lucas
2011
The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg
2010
An Ornament to the City: Old Mobile Ironwork by John S. Sledge
2009
A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814 by Gregory A. Waselkov
2008
Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America by Frye Gaillard
2007
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania by Warren St. John
2006
Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau by Jack Sacco
2005
A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900-1965 by Patterson Toby Graham
2004
Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State by Samuel L. Webb
2003
Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir by Barbara Robinette Moss
2002
Rocket Boys by Jr. Homer H. Hickam
2001
Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie (Religion & American Culture) by Wayne Flynt
2000
Looking for Clark Gable and other 20th-Century Pursuits by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
1999
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
1998
Forth to the Mighty Conflict: Alabama and World War II by Allen Cronenberg
1997
The American Presidency: An Intellectual History by Forrest McDonald
1996
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff
1995
The Cost of Courage: The Journey of an American Congressman by Carl Elliott
1994
On the Spine of Time: An Angler's Love of the Smokies by Harry Middleton
1993
The Federal Road through Georgia, the Creek Nation, and Alabama, 1806-1836 by Henry deLeon Southerland
1992
Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites by Wayne Flynt
1991
Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance by Ann Waldron
1989
Saints and Strangers (New Poetry Series) by Andrew Hudgins
1988
Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr by Virginia Foster Durr
1987
Tell About the South: The Southern Rage to Explain (Southern Literary Studies) by Fred C. Hobson
1986
Bibb County Alabama. The First Hundred Years, 1818-1918 by Rhoda Coleman Ellison
1985
George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol by Linda O. McMurry
1984
Judge Frank Johnson and Human Rights in Alabama by Tinsley E. Yarbrough
1983
A place of springs by Viola Goode Liddell
1982
Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days by Sheyann Webb
1981
On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
1980
Old Mobile by Jay Higginbotham
1979
My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered by Howell Raines
1978
Tracing Your Ancestry: A Step-By-Step Guide to Researching Your Family History by F. Wilbur Helmbold
1977
Alabama: One Big Front Porch by Kathryn Tucker Windham
1976
The search;: A biography of Leo Tolstoy by Sara Newton Carroll
1975
Merchant of terror: General Sherman and total war by John Bennett Walters
1974
Hugo Black; the Alabama Years by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
1973
Populism to Progressivism in Alabama by Sheldon Hackney
1972
The constant circle; H. L. Mencken and his friends by Sara Mayfield
1970
The smiling phoenix; Southern humor from 1865 to 1914 by Wade H. Hall
1967
Power in Washington; a critical look at today's struggle to govern in the Nation's Capital by Douglass Cater
1965
Alabama birds by Thomas A. Imhof
1964
Historic Alabama Hotels and Resorts by James Sulzby
1962
Sun Circles and Human Hands: The Southeastern Indians - Art and Industry by Emma Lila Fundaburk
1959
Vizetelly Covers the Confederacy by William Stanley Hoole
1958
Constitutional development in Alabama, 1798-1901: a study in politics, the Negro, and sectionalism by Malcolm Cook McMillan
1957
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