Prize Winners for 1992 - 2002

Year and Picture

Author and Select Works

Biography

1992  William Hoffman

    The Land that Drank the Rain (1982)

    By Land, by Sea: Stories (1988)

William Hoffman
1993  Ernest J. Gaines

    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971)

    A Lesson Before Dying (1993)

Ernest J. Gaines
1994  James Welch

    The Death of Jim Lonely (1979)

    Indian Lawyer (1990)

James Welch
1995  Helena Maria Viramontes

    The Moths and the Other Stories (1985)

    Under the Feet of Jesus (1995)

Helena Maria Viramontes
1996  Annie Proulx

    The Shipping News (1993)

    That Old Ace in the Hole (2002)

Annie Proulx
1997  Maxine Hong Kingston

    The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976)

    China Men (1980)

Maxine Hong Kingston
1998  Eric Kraft

    The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, Observations of Peter Leroy (1982)

    Herb 'n' Lorna (1994)

Eric Kraft
1999  Jill McCorkle

    The Cheer Leader (1985)

    Carolina Moon (1996)

Jill McCorkle
2000  Madison Smartt Bell

    The Washington Square Ensemble (1983)

    Master of Crossroads (2000)

Madison Smartt Bell
2001  Randall Kenan

    A Visitation of Spirits (1989)

    Walking on Water, Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century (1999)

Randall Kenan
2002  Richard Powers

    Three Farmers on their way to a Dance (1985)

    Gain (1998)

Richard Powers