Alabama Author Award

Given by Alabama Library Association

170 Works 202,182 Books 6,972 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
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WorkCategoryYear
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Fiction2022
The Cat Man of Aleppo by Irene Latham
Juvenile2022
Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer
Nonfiction2022
Known by Salt (Philip Levine Prize for Poetry) by Tina Mozelle Braziel
Poetry2022
Girls Like Us by Randi Pink
Young Adult2022
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Fiction2021
Bugs Don't Hug: Six-Legged Parents and Their Kids by Heather L. Montgomery
Juvenile2021
A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost by Frye Gaillard
Nonfiction2021
House Repairs by Angela Jackson-Brown
Poetry2021
Kent State by Deborah Wiles
Young Adult2021
Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis by Patti Callahan
Fiction2020
Meet Miss Fancy by Irene Latham
Juvenile2020
The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods by Emily Blejwas
Nonfiction2020
Magic city gospel : poems by Ashley M. Jones
Poetry2020
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Teen2020
Extraordinary Adventures: a novel by Daniel Wallace
Fiction2019
Journey's End by Rachel Hawkins
Juvenile2019
The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table by Rick Bragg
Nonfiction2019
Devils Within by S. F. Henson
Young Adult2019
Sycamore by Bryn Chancellor
Fiction2018
Catching a Storyfish by Janice N. Harrington
Juvenile2018
The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II by Winston Groom
Nonfiction2018
The Diabolic by S. J. Kincaid
Young Adult2018
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Fiction2017
Terror at Bottle Creek by Watt Key
Juvenile2017
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley by Kim Cross
Nonfiction2017
Still Waters by Ash Parsons
Young adult2017
Flora: A Novel by Gail Godwin
Fiction2016
The Sweetest Heist in History (Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective) by Octavia Spencer
Juvenile2016
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Nonfiction2016
March: Book One by John Lewis
Young Adult2016
Leaving Tuscaloosa : a novel by Walter Bennett
Fiction2015
Maple by Lori Nichols
Juvenile2015
Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond by Lilly Ledbetter
Non-Fiction2015
Insignia by S. J. Kincaid
Young Adult2015
Man in the Blue Moon by Michael Morris
Fiction2014
Every Day After by Laura Golden
Juvenile2014
While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
Non-Fiction2014
Dirty Little Secret by Jennifer Echols
Young Adult2014
The Typist by Michael Knight
Fiction2013
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
Non-Fiction2013
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Young Adult2013
The Widow and the Tree by Sonny Brewer
Fiction2012
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
Juvenile2012
Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family by Condoleezza Rice
Non-Fiction2012
Dirt Road Home by Watt Key
Young Adult2012
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Fiction2011
Leaving Gee's Bend by Irene Latham
Juvenile2011
Tin Man by Charlie Lucas
Non-Fiction2011
Crazy by Han Nolan
Young Adult2011
Wicked City by Ace Atkins
Fiction2010
Wind Flyers by Angela Johnson
Juvenile2010
The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg
Non-Fiction2010
What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson
Young Adult2010
The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
Fiction2009
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington
Juvenile2009
An Ornament to the City: Old Mobile Ironwork by John S. Sledge
Non-Fiction2009
Blood Brothers by S. A. Harazin
Young Adult2009
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón
Fiction2008
Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Juvenile2008
A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814 by Gregory A. Waselkov
Non-Fiction2008
Alabama Moon by Watt Key
Young Adult2008
Going North by Janice N. Harrington
Juvenile2007
Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America by Frye Gaillard
Non-Fiction2007
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Young Adult2007
Hell at the Breech by Tom Franklin
Fiction2006
Hard Times for Jake Smith: A Story of the Depression Era (Historical Fiction for Young Readers) by Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Juvenile2006
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania by Warren St. John
Non-Fiction2006
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Young Adult2006
Captain Saturday: A Novel by Robert Inman
Fiction2005
Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau by Jack Sacco
Non-Fiction2005
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
Young Adult2005
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert R. McCammon
Fiction2004
Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles
Juvenile2004
A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900-1965 by Patterson Toby Graham
Non-Fiction2004
It Wasn't All Dancing and Other Stories (Deep South Books) by Mary Ward Brown
Fiction2003
The Piano by William Miller
Juvenile2003
Alabama Governors: A Political History of the State by Samuel L. Webb
Non-Fiction2003
One Day in the Life of a Born Again Loser and Other Stories (Deep South Books) by Helen Norris
Fiction2002
Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
Juvenile2002
Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir by Barbara Robinette Moss
Non-Fiction2002
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Fiction2001
Rocket Boys by Jr. Homer H. Hickam
Non-Fiction2001
A Face in Every Window by Han Nolan
Young Adult2001
Somewhere in All This Green: New and Selected Stories by William Cobb
Fiction2000
Animal Trunk: Silly Poems to Read Aloud by Charles Ghigna
Juvenile2000
Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie (Religion & American Culture) by Wayne Flynt
Non-Fiction2000
Too Blue to Fly by Judith Richards
Fiction1999
Looking for Clark Gable and other 20th-Century Pursuits by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
Non-Fiction1999
Send Me Down a Miracle by Han Nolan
Young Adult1999
Jealous-Hearted Me: And Other Stories by Nancy Huddleston Packer
Fiction1998
Night in the Barn by Faye Gibbons
Juvenile1998
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
Non-Fiction1998
Forever Season by Don Keith
Fiction1997
The Summer of the Bonepile Monster by Aileen Kilgore Henderson
Juvenile1997
Forth to the Mighty Conflict: Alabama and World War II by Allen Cronenberg
Non-Fiction1997
Prize in the Snow by Bill Easterling
Juvenile1996
The American Presidency: An Intellectual History by Forrest McDonald
Non-Fiction1996
School for the Blind by Dennis McFarland
Fiction1995
Hoggle's Christmas by Rick Shelton
Juvenile1995
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff
Non-Fiction1995
Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
Fiction1994
The Cost of Courage: The Journey of an American Congressman by Carl Elliott
Non-Fiction1994
Lizard by Dennis Covington
Young Adult1994
Father Melancholy's Daughter by Gail Godwin
Fiction1993
When I Am Old with You by Angela Johnson
Juvenile1993
On the Spine of Time: An Angler's Love of the Smokies by Harry Middleton
Non-Fiction1993
Old Dogs and Children: A Novel by Robert Inman
Fiction1992
The Federal Road through Georgia, the Creek Nation, and Alabama, 1806-1836 by Henry deLeon Southerland
Non-Fiction1992
Bird of Paradise by Vicki Covington
Fiction1991
Rainbow Crow by Nancy Van Laan
Juvenile1991
Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites by Wayne Flynt
Non-Fiction1991
Sacrificial Ground by Thomas H. Cook
Fiction1990
The Jolly Mon by Jimmy Buffett
Juvenile1990
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Fiction1989
Summer Stories by Nola Thacker
Juvenile1989
Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance by Ann Waldron
Non-Fiction1989
Home Fires Burning by Robert Inman
Fiction1988
Count Your Way Through China by James Haskins
Juvenile1988
Saints and Strangers (New Poetry Series) by Andrew Hudgins
Non-Fiction1988
Tongues of flame by Mary Ward Brown
Fiction1987
Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr by Virginia Foster Durr
Non-Fiction1987
The Sixkiller Chronicles by Paul Hemphill
Fiction1986
Marmalade's Christmas Present by Cindy Wheeler
Juvenile1986
Tell About the South: The Southern Rage to Explain (Southern Literary Studies) by Fred C. Hobson
Non-Fiction1986
Usher's Passing by Robert R. McCammon
Fiction1985
Bibb County Alabama. The First Hundred Years, 1818-1918 by Rhoda Coleman Ellison
Non-Fiction1985
Almost Family (Deep South Books) by Roy Hoffman
Fiction1984
As the Waltz Was Ending by Emma Macalik Butterworth
Juvenile1984
George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol by Linda O. McMurry
Non-Fiction1984
The Brats and Mr. Jack by Hilary H. Milton
Juvenile1983
Judge Frank Johnson and Human Rights in Alabama by Tinsley E. Yarbrough
Non-Fiction1983
As Summers Die by Winston Groom
Fiction1982
Leroy and the Old Man by W. E. Butterworth
Juvenile1982
A place of springs by Viola Goode Liddell
Non-Fiction1982
The Second Coming by Walker Percy
Fiction1981
Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days by Sheyann Webb
Non-Fiction1981
Summer Lightning by Judith Richards
Fiction1980
Tiny Bat and the Ball Game by Margaret Zehmer Searcy
Juvenile1980
On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
Non-Fiction1980
Violet Clay by Gail Godwin
Fiction1979
Old Mobile by Jay Higginbotham
Non-Fiction1979
Whiskey Man by Howell Raines
Fiction1978
My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered by Howell Raines
Non-Fiction1978
In the Hours of Night by William Bradford Huie
Fiction1977
Tracing Your Ancestry: A Step-By-Step Guide to Researching Your Family History by F. Wilbur Helmbold
Non-Fiction1977
The gold disc of Coosa by Virginia Pounds Brown
Fiction1976
Alabama: One Big Front Porch by Kathryn Tucker Windham
Non-Fiction1976
Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray
Fiction1975
The search;: A biography of Leo Tolstoy by Sara Newton Carroll
Non-Fiction1975
Wildflowers of Alabama and Adjoining States by Blanche E. Dean
Non-Fiction [special award]1975
Paper Moon by Joe David Brown
Fiction1974
Merchant of terror: General Sherman and total war by John Bennett Walters
Non-Fiction1974
This Time Next Year by Anne Stallworth
Fiction1973
Hugo Black; the Alabama Years by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
Non-Fiction1973
Populism to Progressivism in Alabama by Sheldon Hackney
Non-Fiction1972
The Skating Rink by Mildred Lee
Young Adult1971
The constant circle; H. L. Mencken and his friends by Sara Mayfield
Non-Fiction1970
The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Babs H. Deal
Fiction1969
An Exile by Madison Jones
Fiction1968
The smiling phoenix; Southern humor from 1865 to 1914 by Wade H. Hall
Non-Fiction1967
The liberation of Lord Byron Jones by Jesse Hill Ford
Fiction1966
Power in Washington; a critical look at today's struggle to govern in the Nation's Capital by Douglass Cater
Non-Fiction1965
Alabama birds by Thomas A. Imhof
Non-Fiction1964
Dunbar's Cove by Borden Deal
Fiction1963
Historic Alabama Hotels and Resorts by James Sulzby
Non-Fiction1962
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1961
Sun Circles and Human Hands: The Southeastern Indians - Art and Industry by Emma Lila Fundaburk
Non-Fiction1959
Vizetelly Covers the Confederacy by William Stanley Hoole
Non-Fiction1958
Constitutional development in Alabama, 1798-1901: a study in politics, the Negro, and sectionalism by Malcolm Cook McMillan
Non-Fiction1957

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