PREVIOUS WINNERS OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD

2001

Amanda J. Cobb
Andrea Dworkin
Diana García
Sandra M. Gilbert
Chalmers Johnson
Russell Charles Leong
Janet McAdams
Elizabeth Nunez
W.S. Penn
Cheri Register
Chris Ware
Carolyne Wright
Malcolm Margolin
Ted Joans
Tillie Olsen
Philip Whalen

2000

Esther G. Belin
Jon Eckels
Emil Guillermo
Elva Treviño Hart
Michael Lally
Michael Patrick MacDonald
Andrés Montoya
Kate Moses
Camille Peri
Janisse Ray
David A.J. Richards
John Russell Rickford
Russell John Rickford
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Allan J. Ryan
Leroy TeCube
Helen Thomas
David Toop
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Jack E. White
Ronald Sukenick
Frank Chin
Robert Creeley

1999

Edwidge Danticat
Trey Ellis
Lauro Flores
Gary Gach
Nelson George
James D. Houston
Anna Linzer
Jerry Lipka
Gerald V. Mohatt
the Ciulistet Group
Alice McDermott
Speer Morgan
Gloria Naylor
Josip Novakovich
Judith Roche
Meg McHutchison
Gioia Timpanelli
E. Donald Two-Rivers
Luis Alberto Urrea
Brian Ward
Chiori Santiago
Judith Lowry
Bobby Byrd and Lee Byrd
Robert Hawley
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1998

Jim Barnes
Sandra Benítez
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Angela Y. Davis
Don DeLillo
Scott DeVeaux
Nora Okja Keller
Thomas Lynch
Brenda Marie Osbey
Nancy Rawles
John A. Williams
Douglas Messerli
Paul Metcalf
Vivian Gussin Paley
LaVonne Brown Ruoff

1997

Alurista
Dorothy Barresi
William M. Banks
Derrick Bell
Thulani Davis
Tom De Haven
Martín Espada
Montserrat Fontes
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Noel Ignatiev
John Garvey
Brenda Knight
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Sunaina Maira
Rajini Srikanth
Louis Owens
Michele Wood
Toyomi Igus
Allan Kornblum
Bruce Anderson
Marc Gerald
Samuel Blumenfeld
Jack D. Forbes

1996

Sherman Alexie
Stephanie Cowell
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Maria Espinosa
William Gass
Kimiko Hahn
E.J. Miller Laino
Chang-rae Lee
James W. Loewen
Glenn C. Loury
Agate Nesaule
Joe Sacco
Ron Sakolsky
Fred Wei-han Ho
Arthur Sze
Robert Viscusi
Paul Owen Lewis
Niall O'Dowd
Alexander Taylor
Judith Doyle
Herb Caen
Janice Mirikitani

1995

Thomas Avena
Herb Boyd
Robert L. Allen
Denise Chávez
John Egerton
Gordon Henry, Jr.
Joyce Ann Joyce
Li-Young Lee
Sandra Haldeman Martz
Marnie Mueller
Peter Quinn
Linda Raymond
Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.
Tricia Rose
John Ross
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
Lawrence Yep
Jean and Mou-Sien Tseng
Gwendolyn Brooks
James T. Farrell
Jack Conroy
Richard Wright
Nelson Algren
Frederica de Laguna

1994

Miguel Algarin
Bob Holman
Eric Drooker
Paul Gilroy
Rose Glickman
Janet Campbell Hale
Lawson Fusao Inada
Graciela Limón
Jill Nelson
Gregory J. Reed
Giose Rimanelli
Ronald Takaki
Tino Villanueva
Virginia Kroll
Katherine Roundtree
Joyce Jenkins
Edward W. Said
Joseph Mitchell

1993

Francisco X. Alarcón
Jack Beatty
Asake Bomani
Belvie Rooks
Nelson George
Denise Giardina
Diane Glancy
Gerald Graff
Christopher Mogil
Anne Slepian
Peter Woodrow
Katherine Peter
Leroy Quintana
Eugene Redmond
Ninotchka Rosca
Cornel West
Naomi Long Madgett
Scott Walker
Ray Gonzalez
Margaret Walker

1992

Raymond Andrews
Peter Bacho
William B. Branch
A'Lelia Perry Bundles
José Antonio Burciaga
Fritjof Capra
David Steindl-Rast
Thomas Matus
Steven Carter
Norma Field
Stephen Fox
Keith Gilyard
Donna J. Haraway
Peter Kalifornsky
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Sandra Scofield
Art Spiegelman
Lucy Thompson
Sheila Hamanaka
John Gill
Elaine Gill
Harvey Kurtzman

1991

Lucia Berlin
Thomas Centolella
Mary Crow Dog
Richard Erdoes
Nora Marks Dauenhauer
Richard Dauenhauer
Jessica Hagedorn
Joy Harjo
bell hooks
Deborah Keenan
Roseann Lloyd
Meridel Le Sueur
D.H. Melhem
The Mill Hunk Herald
R. Baxter Miller
Alejandro Murguía
Charley Trujillo
Karen Tei Yamashita
John Edgar Wideman
Bruce Wright
Haki R. Madhubuti
Ernesto Cardenal

1990

Paula Gunn Allen
Martin Bernal
Michelle T. Clinton
Sesshu Foster
Naomi Quiñonez
Miles Davis
Quincy Troupe
James M. Freeman
Daniela Gioseffi
José Emilio Gonzalez
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Sergei Kan
Adrienne Kennedy
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Mayumi Tsutakawa
Margarita Donnelly
Hualing Nieh
Itabari Njeri
John Norton
Arnold Rampersad
Lloyd A. Thompson
John C. Walter
Elizabeth Woody
James O. Freedman
John Crawford
Allen Ginsberg
Sonia Sanchez

1989

Isabel Allende
Frank Chin
J. California Cooper
Emory Elliott
Charles Fanning
Eduardo Galeano
Henry L. Gates, Jr.
Josephine Gattuso Hendin
William Hohri
Carolyn Lau
Audre Lorde
Leslie Scalapino
Jennifer Stone
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Askia Muhammed Touré
Alma Luz Villanueva
Amiri Baraka
Ed Dorn
Nicolás Kannellos

1988

Jimmy Santiago Baca
Daisy Bates
Allison Blakely
David Halberstam
Marlon Hom
Salvatore La Puma
Wing Tek Lum
Toni Morrison
Charles Olson
George Butterick
Edward Sanders
Kesho Scott
Cherry Muhanji
Egyirba High
Thomas Parkinson
Ronald Sukenick
Gerald Vizenor
Opal Whiteley
Benjamin Hoff
Steve Allen
Jayne Meadows
David Zaslow
Kathleen Bullock
Lawson Inada
Patti McCoy
James Spady

1987

Ai
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
Dorothy Bryant
Ana Castillo
Septima Clark
Cynthia Stokes Brown
Gary Giddins
Juan Felipe Herrera
Etheridge Knight
Michael Mayo
Daniel McGuire
Terry McMillan
Harvey Pekar
John Wieners
James Welch
Cyn Zarco
Charles Blockson
Dennis Clark

1986

Miguel Algarin
Helen Barolini
Natasha Borovsky
Raymond Federman
Linda Hogan
Susan Howe
Jeff Hannusch
Cherrie Moraga
Gloria Anzaldua
Toshio Mori
Anna Lee Walters
Terence Winch
Michael Feingold
Hisaye Yamamoto

1985

Sandra Cisneros
Robert Duncan
Louise Erdrich
Peter Irons
Angela Jackson
Ron Jones
Colleen J. McElroy
Jiro Nakano
Kay Nakano
William Oandasan
Maureen Owen
Sonia Sanchez
Mary Sarton
Gary Soto
John Kuo Wei Tchen
Julia Vinograd
John Oliver Killens
Joe Flaherty

1984

Amiri Baraka
Amina Baraka
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Cecil Brown
Joseph Bruchac
Jesus Colon
William Kennedy
Maurice Kenny
Venkatesh Kulkarni
Paule Marshall
Ruthanne Lum McCunn
You-shan Tang
Ellen Lai-shan Yeung
Thomas McGrath
Miné Okubo
Howard Schwartz
Gary Snyder
Josephine Miles

1983

Nash Candelaria
Barbara Christian
Judy Grahn
Peter Guralnick
Jessica Hagedorn
James D. Houston
Joy Kogawa
Cecilia Liang
Sean O'Tuama
Thomas Kinsella
Harriet Rohmer
John A. Williams
Evangelina Vigil
Kaye Boyle

1982

Russell Banks
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Frank Chin
Tato Laviera
E.L. Mayo
Duane Niatum
Hilton Obenzinger
Leroy Quintana
Jerome Rothenberg
Ronald Tanaka
Joyce Carol Thomas
Al Young
Him Mark Lai
Genny Lim
Judy Yung
Chester Himes

1981

Helen Adams
Miguel Algarin
alta
Toni Cade Bambara
Peter Blue Cloud
Rose Drachler
Susan Howe
Robert Kelly
Alan Lau
Lionel Mitchell
Nicholasa Mohr
Ben Santos
Frank Stanford
Larry Neal

1980

Rudolfo Anaya
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Jayne Cortez
Ed Dorn
Milton Murayama
Leslie Silko
Quincy Troupe
Douglas Woolf

 

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