1958 A Death in the Family by James Agee **Click here to order**
1988 Look Homeward by David Herbert Donald **Click here to order**
1975 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard **Click here to order*
1997 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier **Click here to order**
Given by the American Booksellers Association to the book that booksellers most enjoy recommending
1997 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier **Click here to order**
1991 The Education of Little Tree by Forest Carter **Click here to order**
This award, co-sponsored by Berea College, is given to the year's most outstanding book about Appalachia as determined by a distinguished panel of judges.
1997 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier **Click here to order**
1996 The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 by Wilma A. Dunaway **Click here to order**
1995 Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History by Deborah Vansau McCauley **Click here to order**
1994 Colored People: A Memoir by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. **Click here to order**
1993 No award given
1992 The Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina **Click here to order**
1991 Coal Towns: Life, Work and Culture in Company
Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960
by Crandall A. Shifflett **Click here
to order**
1990 Remembering Our Past, Building Our Future by Helen Lewis and Susanna O'Donnell **Click here to order**
1989 Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina by John Inscoe **Click here to order**
1988 Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith **Click here to order**
1987 Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina **Click
here to order**
Apples on the Flood: The
Southern Mountain Experience by Rodger Cunningham **Click
here to order**
1986 The Hawk's Nest Incident by Martin Cherniack **Click here to order**
1985 Sometimes A Shining Moment by Eliot Wigginton **Click here to order**
1984 Last One Home by John Ehle **Click here to order**
1983 Generations by John Egerton
1982 Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers by Ron Eller **Click here to order**
1981 Life, Work and Rebellion in the Coal Fields by David Corbin **Click here to order**
1980 Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in An Appalachian Valley by John Gaventa **Click here to order**
1979 The New River Controversy by Thomas J. Schoenbaum **Click here to order**
1978 Which Side Are You On? by John W.
Hevener **Click
here to order**
Appalachia On Our Mind by Henry D. Shapiro **Click
here to order**
1977 Kinfolks by Gurney Norman **Click here to order**
1976 Everything in Its Path by Kai T. Erickson **Click here to order**
1975 We Be Here When the Morning Comes by Brian Woolly and Ford Reid **Click here to order**
1974 No award given
1973 Barry Bingham, Jr., of the Louisville Courier Journal for thorough, persistent and influential reporting on Appalachia
1972 The Foxfire Book by Eliot Wigginton and his students **Click here to order**
1971 Appalachia's Children by David H. Loof **Click here to order**
1970 Ben A. Franklin of the New York Times from his series of articles on Appalachia
1996 Loyal Jones
1988 Albert Perrin
1985 Albert Stewart - Certificate of Achievement
1979 Cratis Williams
1978 Harriette Simpson Arnow
1977 James Still
1976 Harry Caudill
1975 Jesse Stuart
1973 Wilma Dykeman
1972 Robert Coles, M.D.
Gurney Norman
Meredith Sue Willis
Jeff Daniel Marion
George Ella Lyon
David Huddle
Charles Wright
Mary Lee Settle
Robert Morgan
Wilma Dykeman
Jim Wayne Miller
John Ehle
Lee Smith
Fred Chappell
James Still