LOUISIANA LITERARY AWARD

WINNERS

2021

Title: Spreading the Gospel of Books: Essae M. Culver and the Gensis of Louisiana Parish Libraries

Author: Florence M. Jumonville

2020

Title: Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

Author: Robert W. Fieseler

2019

Title: Tragedy of Brady Sims

Author: Ernest Gaines

2018

Title: Ain't There No More: Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain

Author: Donald Davis

2017

Title: Legendary Louisiana Outlaws: The Villains and Heroes of Folk Justice

Author: 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