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Alabama Author Awards from the Alabama Library Association - Non-Fiction

2024

Book Jacket Perry, Imani. South to America : a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation

2023

Book Jacket Ben Raines. The last slave ship : the true story of how Clotilda was found, her descendants, and an extraordinary reckoning

2022

Book Jacket Allison Moorer. Blood : a memoir

2021

Book Jacket Frye Gaillard. A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility and Innocence Lost

2020

Book Jacket Emily Blejwas. The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods

2019

Book Jacket Rick Bragg. The best cook in the world : tales from my momma's table

2018

Book Jacket Winston Groom. The generals : Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the winning of World War II

2017

Book Jacket Kim Cross. What Stands in a Storm : Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley

2016

Book Jacket Bryan Stevenson. Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption

2015

Book Jacket Lilly Ledbetter with Lanier Scott Isom. Grace and Grit : my fight for equal pay and fairness at Goodyear and beyond .

2014

Book Jacket Carolyn McKinstry. While the World Watched.

2013

Book Jacket Mike Brown. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming.

2012

Book Jacket Condoleezza Rice. Extraordinary, Ordinary People.

2011

Book Jacket Charlie Lucas and Ben Windham. Tin Man.

2010

Book Jacket Rick Bragg. The Prince of Frogtown.

2009

Book Jacket John Sledge. An Ornament to the City.

2008

book jacket Gregory Waselkov. A Conquering Spirit.

2007

book jacket Frye Gaillard. Cradle of Freedom.

2006

book jacket Warren St. John. Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer.

2005

book jacket  Jack Sacco. Where the Birds Never Sing.

2004

book jacket Patterson Toby Graham. A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries.

2003

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

2002

book jacket Barbara Robinette Moss. Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter.

2001

book jacket  Homer Hickham, Jr. Rocket Boys.

2000

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

1999

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

1998

book jacket Rick Bragg. All Over But the Shoutin'.

1997

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

1996

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

1995

book jacket Tobias Wolff. In Pharaoh's Army: Memories Of The Lost War.

1994

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

1993

book jacket Harry Middleton. On The Spine Of Time: An Angler's Love Of The Smokies.

1992

book jacket Henry Southerland and Jerry Brown. The Federal Road.

1991

book jacket Dr. Wayne Flynt. Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites.

1989

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

1988

book jacket Andrew Hudgins. Saints And Strangers.

1987

book jacket 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

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

1985

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

1984

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

1983

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

1982

book jacket Viola Liddell. A Place Of Springs.

1981

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

1980

book jacket Edward O. Wilson. On Human Nature.

1979

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

1978

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

1977

book jacket F. Wilbur Helmbold. Tracing Your Ancestry.

1976

book jacket Kathryn Tucker Windham. Alabama: One Big Front Porch.

1975

book jacket Sara Newton Carroll. The Search: A Biography Of Leo Tolstoy.
book jacket Blanche E. Dean, Amy Mason, and Joab Thomas. Wildflowers Of Alabama And Adjoining States. [special award]

1974

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

1973

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

1972

book jacket Sheldon Hackney. Populism To Progressivism In Alabama.

1970

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

1967

book jacket Wade H. Hall. The Smiling Phoenix : Southern Humor From 1865 To 1914.

1965

book jacket Douglass Cater. Power In Washington : A Critical Look At Today's Struggle To Govern In The Nation's Capital.

1964

book jacket Thomas A. Imhof. Alabama Birds.

1962

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

1960

Hudson Strode 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

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

1958

book jacket 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.