LOUISIANA LITERARY AWARD

2023

Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight In Reconstruction Louisiana by Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards, and Nick Weldon

2022

The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett

2021

Spreading the Gospel of Books: Essae M. Culver and the Gensis of Louisiana Parish Libraries by Florence M. Jumonville

2020

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler

2019

Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest Gaines

2018

Ain't There No More: Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain by Donald Davis

2017

Legendary Louisiana Outlaws: The Villains and Heroes of Folk Justice by Dr. Keagan LeJeune

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

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