Michigan Author Award
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The Michigan Author Award is awarded annually by the Michigan Library Association
to recognize an outstanding published body of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or play script.
A panel of judges representing Michigan librarians and the Michigan Center for the Book determines the recipient on overall literary merit.
2007 Sarah Stewart
2006 Steve Hamilton
2005 Christopher Paul Curtis
2004 Patricia Polacco
2003 Diane Wakoski
2002 Nicholas Delbanco
2001 Thomas Lynch
2000 Janie Lynn Panagopoulos
1999 Jerry Dennis
1998 Gloria Whelan
1997 Loren Estleman
1996 Elmore Leonard
1995 Janet Kauffman
1994 Nancy Willard
1993 Charles Baxter
1992 Dan Gerber
Michigan Library Association
The Michigan Library Association is headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, United States. It publishes a library science journal, MLA Forum.-History:...
to recognize an outstanding published body of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or play script.
A panel of judges representing Michigan librarians and the Michigan Center for the Book determines the recipient on overall literary merit.
Michigan Author Award recipients
2008 Tom StantonTom Stanton
Tom Stanton is the author of several nonfiction baseball books, including two memoirs. In 1983, Stanton, a journalist, co-founded The Voice Newspapers in suburban Detroit and served as editor for sixteen years before embarking on a literary career in 1999...
2007 Sarah Stewart
Sarah Stewart (author)
Sarah Stewart is an award-winning author of children's books. She is married to David Small.-Works :*The Gardener with David Small , Trumpet Club, New York 1998*'The Library with David Small , Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
2006 Steve Hamilton
Steve Hamilton (author)
Steve Hamilton is an American writer of detective fiction. He was born January 10, 1961 and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated in 1983 from the University of Michigan where he won the Hopwood Award for fiction. -Works:...
2005 Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis is an American children's author and a Newbery Medal winner who wrote The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 and the critically acclaimed Bud, Not Buddy. Bud, Not Buddy is the first novel to receive both the Coretta Scott King Award and the Newbery Medal...
2004 Patricia Polacco
Patricia Polacco
Patricia Barber Polacco is the author and illustrator of numerous picture books for children.She struggled in school because she was unable to read until age 14 due to dyslexia; she found relief by expressing herself through art...
2003 Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski is a American poet who is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s.-Biography:...
2002 Nicholas Delbanco
Nicholas Delbanco
-Life:He was educated at Harvard University, B.A. 1963; Columbia University, M.A. 1966. He taught at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 1966–84, and at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1984-85...
2001 Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch (poet)
Thomas Lynch is an American poet, essayist, and undertaker.-Early life:Lynch was educated by nuns and Christian Brothers at Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Lynch then went to university and mortuary school, from which he graduated in 1973...
2000 Janie Lynn Panagopoulos
1999 Jerry Dennis
1998 Gloria Whelan
Gloria Whelan
Gloria Whelan is a poet, short story writer, and novelist for children and adults. She has won the National Book Award for her novel Homeless Bird. Her books include many historical fiction novels, including a trilogy set on Mackinac Island and a quartet series set in communist Russia...
1997 Loren Estleman
1996 Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. , better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.Among his...
1995 Janet Kauffman
Janet Kauffman
Janet Kauffman is an American novelist, poet, and mixed media artist.-Biography:Kauffman was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She has taught in the English Department at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan since 1988...
1994 Nancy Willard
Nancy Willard
Nancy Willard is an award-winning children's author, poet, and novelist. In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn...
1993 Charles Baxter
1992 Dan Gerber
Dan Gerber
Dan Gerber is an American poet.- Biography :Gerber received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Michigan State University in 1962. He was the co-founder, with Jim Harrison, of the literary magazine Sumac.As part of his journalist profession, Gerber made extensive travels, primarily to Africa...