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LOUISIANA LITERARY AWARD |
2024 Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius |
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2023 Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight In Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards, and Nick Weldon |
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2022 The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett |
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2021 Spreading the Gospel of Books: Essae M. Culver and the Gensis of Louisiana Parish Libraries by Florence M. Jumonville |
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2020 Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler |
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2019 Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest Gaines |
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2018 Ain't There No More: Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain by Donald Davis |
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2017 Legendary Louisiana Outlaws: The Villains and Heroes of Folk Justice by Dr. Keagan LeJeune |
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2016 Title: Billy Cannon: A Long, Long Run Author: Charles N. de Gravelles |
2015 Title: Bourbon Street: A History Author: Campanella |
2014 Title: Louisiana Eats! The People, the Food, and Their Stories Author: Poppy Tooker & David G. Speilman |
2013 Title: A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping that Haunted a Nation Author: Margaret Dunbar Cutright and Tal McThenia |
2012 Title: The Louisiana Populist Movement 1881-1900 Author: Donna Barnes |
2011 Title: Edwin Edwards: Governor of Louisiana Author: Leo Honeycutt |
2010 Title: Gumbo Tales Author: Sara Roahen |
2009 No award given this year |
2008 Title: After the Hunt: Louisiana's Authoritative Collection of Wild Game & Game Fish Cookery Author: John D. Folse |
2007 Title: Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family Author: Kimberly Willis Holt |
2006 Title: The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World: 1820-1860 Author: Richard Follett |
2005 Title: Inside the Carnival: Unmasking Louisiana Politics Author: Wayne Parent |
2004 Title: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps Author: John T. Magill and Jason R. Wiese |
2003 Title: A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana Author: Carl L. Bankston III and Stephen J. Caldas |
2002 Title: From Chaos to Continuity: The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System Author: Mark F. Fernandez |
2001 Title: Marie Adrien Persac; Louisiana Artist Author: Parrott H. Bacot |
2000 Title: Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities Author: Joseph Tregle, Jr. |
1999 Title: My Louisiana Sky Author: Kimberly Willis Holt |
1998 Title: Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940: The Historic American Buildings Survey Author: Jessie Poesch and Barbara SoRelle Bacot |
1997
Title: Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans Author: Dell Upton |
1996 Title: Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 Author: Adam Fairclough |
1995 Title: Washington through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Lady Author: Lindy Boggs |
1994 Title: A Lesson Before Dying Author: Ernest Gaines |
1993 Title: Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century Author: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall |
1992 Title: Flora of Louisiana Stones Author: Margaret and Lowell Urbatsch |
1991 Title: The Collected Stories of John William Corrington Author: Joyce Corrington |
1990 Title: The Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana Author: Harold Dundee and Douglas Rossman |
1989 Title: Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate Evans Author: Eli N. |
1988 Title: The Thanatos Syndrome Author: Walker Percy |
1987 Title: Requiem for a Kingfish Author: Ed Reed |
1986 Title: Lady's Time Author: Alan Hewat |
1985 Title: Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935-1942 Author: Thomas Cutrer |
1984 Title: Grace King: A Southern Destiny Author: Robert Bush |
1983 Title: Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Area Author: David King |
1982 Title: Atchafalaya, America's Largest River Basin Swamp Author: C. C. Lockwood |
1981 Title: Lost New Orleans Author: Mary Cable |
1989 Title: Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate Evans Author: Eli N. |
1980 Title: Yankee Autumn in Acadiana: A Narrative of the Great Texas Overland Expedition through Southwest Louisiana, October - December 1863 Author: David Edmonds |
1979 Title: In Search of Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz Author: Donald Marquis |
1978 Title: Lancelot Author: Walker Percy |
1977 Title: Acadia Parish, Louisiana: A History to 1900 Author: Mary Alice Fontenot and Paul Freeland |
1976 Title: Louisiana Reconstructed, 1863-1877 Author: Joe Gray Taylor |
1975 Title: The Mammals of Louisiana and its Adjacent Waters Author: George Lowery |
1974 Title: The Bayous Feibleman Author: Peter S. |
1973 Title: Wildflowers of Louisiana and Adjoining Sates Brown Author: Clair A. |
1972 Title: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Author: Ernest Gaines |
1971 Title: They Came to Louisiana: Letters of a Catholic Missions, 1854-1882 Author: Dorothea McCants |
1970 Title: Huey Long Author: Harry Williams |
1969 No award given this year. |
1968 Title: New Orleans Jass: A Family Album Author: Al Rose and Edmond Souchon |
1967 Title: Tulane: The Biography of a University Author: John Dyer |
1966 Title: Gayoso: The Life of a Spanish Governor in the Mississippi Valley, 1789-1799 Author: Jack Holmes |
1965 Title: Henry Watkins Allen of Louisiana Author: Vincent Cassidy and Amos Simpson |
1964 Title: The Civil War in Louisiana Author: John Winters |
1963 Title: Cajun Sketches from the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana Author: Lauren Post |
1962 Title: The Siege of New Orleans Author: Charles Brooks |
1961 Title: Rudolph Matas: A Biography of One of the Great Pioneers in Surgery Author: Isidore Cohn and Hermann Deutsch |
1960 No award given this year. |
1959 Title: The Rudolph Matas History of Medicine in Louisiana Author: John Duffy |
1958 Title: Louisiana Sugar Plantations during the American Civil War Author: Charles Roland |
1957 Title: Huey Long's Louisiana: State Politics, 1920-1952 Author: Allan Sindler |
1956 Title: Louisiana Birds Author: George Lowery |
1955 No award given this year. |
1954 Title: Fleur de Lys and Calumet: Being the Pénicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana Author: Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams |
1953 Title: The Golden Age of the New Orleans Theater Author: John Kendall |
1952 Title: The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans Author: Robert Tallant |
1951 Title: Red Bone Woman Author: Carlyle Tillery |
1950 Title: Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans Author: John Churchill Chase |
1949 Title: Creole Folk Tales: Stories of the Louisiana March Country Author: Hewitt Ballowe |
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