Alabama Author Awards from the Alabama Library Association
Non-Fiction

2012

Rice, Condoleezza. Extraordinary, Ordinary People.

2011

Windham, Ben. Tin Man: Charlie Lucas.

2010

Bragg, Rick. The Prince of Frogtown.

2009

Sledge, John. An Ornament to the City.

2008

Waselkov, Gregory. A Conquering Spirit.

2007

Gaillard, Frye. Cradle of Freedom.

2006

St. John, Warren. Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer.

2005

Sacco, Jack. Where the Birds Never Sing.

2004

Graham, Patterson Toby. A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama’s Public Libraries.

2003

Webb, Samuel. and Armbrester, Margaret E. (editors). Alabama governors: A Political History of the State.

2002

Moss, Barbara Robinette. Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter.

2001

Hickham, Homer, Jr. Rocket Boys.

2000

Flynt, Wayne Dr. Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptist in the Heart of Dixie.

1999

Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton. Looking for Clark Gable and Other 20th Century Pursuits: Collected Writings.

1998

Rick Bragg. All Over But the Shoutin'.

1997

Allen T. Cronenberg. Forth To The Mighty Conflict: Alabama World War II.

1996

Dr. Forrest McDonald. The American Presidency: An Intellectual History.

1995

Tobias Wolff. In Pharoah’s Army: Memories Of The Lost War.

1994

Carl Elliott. The Cost Of Courage: The Journey Of An American Congressman.

1993

Harry Middleton. On The Spine Of Time: An Angler’s Love Of The Smokies.

1992

Henry Southerland and Jerry Brown. The Federal Road.

1991

Dr. Wayne Flynt. Poor But Proud: Alabama’s Poor Whites.

1989

Ann Waldron. Close Connections: Caroline Gordon And The Southern Renaissance.

1988

Andrew Hudgins. Saints And Strangers.

1987

Virginia Foster Durr. Outside The Magic Circle: The Autobiography Of Virginia Foster Durr. Edited by Hollinger F. Barnard [nonfiction, awarded to author and editor]

1986

Fred Hobson. Tell About The South: The Southern Rage To Explain.

1985

Rhoda Ellison. Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years, 1818-1918.

1984

Linda O. McMurry. George Washington Carver, Scientist And Symbol.

1983

Tinsley E. Yarbrough. Judge Frank Johnson And Human Rights In Alabama.

1982

Viola Liddell. A Place Of Springs.

1981

Sheyann Webb, Rachel West Nelson, and Frank Sikora. Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories Of The Civil-Rights Days.

1980

Edward O. Wilson. On Human Nature.

1979

Jay Higginbotham. Old Mobile: Fort Louis De La Louisiane, 1702-1711.

1978

Howell Raines. My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days In The Deep South Remembered.

1977

F. Wilbur Helmbold. Tracing Your Ancestry.

1976

Kathryn Tucker Windham. Alabama: One Big Front Porch.

1975

Sara Newton Carroll. The Search: A Biography Of Leo Tolstoy.

Blanche E. Dean, Amy Mason, and Joab Thomas. Wildflowers Of Alabama And Adjoining States. [special award]

1974

John Bennett Walters. Merchant Of Terror: General Sherman And Total War.

1973

Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton. Hugo Black: The Alabama Years.

1972

Sheldon Hackney. Populism To Progressivism In Alabama.

1970

Sara Mayfield. The Constant Circle: H. L. Mencken and His Friends.

1967

Wade H. Hall. The Smiling Phoenix; Southern Humor From 1865 To 1914.

1965

Douglass Cater. Power In Washington; A Critical Look At Today’s Struggle To Govern In The Nation’s Capital.

1964

Thomas A. Imhof. Alabama Birds.

1962

James F. Sulzby, Jr. Historic Alabama Hotels and Resorts.

1960

Hudson Strode. For his distinguished contribution to Alabama’s literary culture. Awarded in recognition of his historical writings and also for his inspiration and instruction to young writers who have become successful.

1959

Emma Lila Fundaburk and Mary D. Foreman. Sun Circles And Human Hands; The Southeastern Indians Art And Industries.

1958

W. Stanley Hoole. Vizetelly Covers the Confederacy.

1957

Malcolm C. McMillan. Constitutional Development in Alabama, 1798-1901: A Study in Politics, The Negro, and Sectionalism.

Alabama Author Awards from the Alabama Library Association Non-Fiction