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Governor's Writers Day Awards at the Washington State Library, 1966-2000
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Governor's Writers Day Awards At The Washington State Library, 1966-2000
Beginning in 1966, the Governor's Office and the Washington State Library sponsored a ceremony to recognize Washington's authors. In the beginning, the recognition was for the entire output of the author and independent of their most recent publication. Beginning in 1969,
the list of recognized authors
came from the previous year's publications. The Staff of the Washington/Northwest Room - now known as
Special Collections
- coordinated the Governor's Writers Day Awards, but the ceremony event involved virtually every department of the state library.
The list below contains each recipient, grouped by year, from 1966 until the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library assumed the responsibility for administration of the awards in 2000, then renamed the honor as the
Washington State Book Awards
, in 2001. Many of the award winning titles are a part of the Pacific Northwest Collection and available for circulation. Other titles are maintained in the
Governor's Writers Award Collection
and are available for review at the library's reading room in Tumwater, WA. In 2017, the Washington Center for the Book became a joint partnership between the Washington State Library and the Seattle Public Library. You may view recipients of the Washington State Book Awards, from 2001 to present-day, or review submission guidelines and access the entry form for the current award season, via the
Washington Center for the Book resource page
.
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2006-Present
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List of Recipients, By Year Awarded:
1966
*
Vokes Richardson
Dr. Miriam Lincoln
#
Murray Morgan
Gordon Newell
Alan Nourse
Josephine Stearns Norling
#
Ernest Norling
Blanche Payne
Robert F. Karolevitz
lrving Petite
Allis McKay
Zola Helen Ross
Max Savelle
#
Floyd Schmoe
James Stevens
David Wagoner
Sophus Keith Winther
Lawrence J. Zillman
#
Eva Greenslit Anderson
Angelo Pellegrini
Kenneth MacKenzie Dodson
Ralph Andrews
Herbert E. Arntson
#
Mary W. Avery
Archie Binns
Patricia Campbell
Ella E. Clark
Marg Nelson
#
Giovanni Costigan
Carolyn Kizer
Byron M. Fish
Claudius O. Johnson
Nard Jones
Molly Cone
Pauline B. Johnson
Sister Mary Gilbert
(f.k.a. Madeline DeFrees)
Richard F. Hugo
William Holm
Dr. William R. Halliday
Muriel L. Guberlet
Wilbur J. Granberg
1967
*
Richard Lancaster
Margaret Pitcairn Strachan
#
Robert H. Ruby
Nancy Wilson Ross
W. Dale Nelson
Lucile McDonald
Zoa Morin Sherburne
Bill Gulick
Ernest K. Gann
William O. Douglas
Doris Burn
Nelson Bentley
John R. Brown
Janice Warnke
Ruth Kirk
1968
*
Knute Skinner
Robert L. Wood
Evelyn Wells
Melvin Rader
Margaret E. Murie
Howard McCord
Hazel Heckman
Archie Binns
Erna Gunther
Neta Lohnes Frazier
Raymond A. Wohlrabe
Murray Morgan
1969
Captive Wild.
By Lois Crisler
The Great Columbia Plain: A Historical Geography, 1805-1910.
By Donald W. Meinig
The Higher Learning in America: A Reassessment.
By Paul Woodring
The Summerfolk.
By Doris Burn
Tragedy and Melodrama: Versions of Experience.
By Robert Bechtold Heilman
Market Sketchbook.
By Victor Steinbrueck. By
Illustrator's Award
University of Washington Press.
Printer's Award
1970
Alaska Bush Pilots in the Float Country.
By Archie Satterfield and Lloyd Jarman
Annie Annie.
By Molly Cone
Freddie Found a Frog.
By Alice Napjus
Good Luck in Cracked Italian.
By Richard F. Hugo
Living Poor, A Peace Corps Chronicle
. By Moritz Thomsen
MacArthur's Amphibious Navy: Seventh Amphibious Force Operations, 1943-1945.
By Daniel E. Barbey
New and Selected Poems.
By David Wagoner
Nisei: The Quiet Americans
. By Bill Hosokawa
Washington.
By Carl Gohs
The Year of the Whale.
By Victor B. Scheffer
Glen C. Adams, Ye Galleon Press.
Printer's Award
The Mountaineers.
Special Award
1971
After the Death of an Elder Klallam, and Other Poems.
By Duane W. McGinnis
Glory of the Seas.
By Michael Jay Mjelde
Mill Town.
By Norman H. Clark
Minus Three.
By Gene W. Mason
Moving Through Here.
By Don McNeill
The Spokane Indians: Children of the Sun.
By Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown
Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight?
By David Wagoner
Pacific Search.
Special Magazine Award
Northwest Art News & Views.
By
Special Magazine Award
Cool Clear Water: The Key to Our Environment
. By Harvey Manning, Bob Spring, and Ira Spring.
Author/Illustrator Award
Desert Life.
By Ruth and Louis Kirk.
Author/Illustrator Award
1972
Another Roadside Attraction.
By Tom Robbins
The Ballyhoo Bonanza.
By John Fahey
The Challenge of Rainier.
By Dee Molenaar
Come Wade the River.
By Ralph Wahl
How Much is Enough? Shaping the Defense Program, 1961-1969.
By Alain Enthoven
Phone Calls From the Dead.
By Beth Bentley
Revenge of the Lawn.
By Richard Brautigan
The Seeing Eye.
By Victor B. Scheffer
Snake River Country.
By Bill Gulick
Eskimo Boy Today.
By Byron Fish, Bob Spring, and Ira Spring.
Author/Illustrator Award
Margaret McKenny.
Special Award
1973
Backpacking: One Step at a Time.
By Harvey Manning
Birds of Prey on the Pacific Northwest Slope.
By Tony Angell
The Burning.
By Jack Cady
The Game of Words.
By Willard Espy
Indian life on the Northwest coast of North America, as seen by the early explorers and fur traders during the last decades of the eighteenth century.
By Erna Gunther
Island Year.
By Hazel Heckman
Literatura Chicana: Texto Y Contexto/Chicano Literature: Text and Context.
By Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Joseph Sommers, and Antonia Castaneda Shular
New Queens for Old: A Novella and Nine Stories
. By Gabriel Fielding
The Northwest Coast Indian ABC Book.
By Charles Peck and Sherrill Carlson
The Politics of Irish Literature: From Thomas Davis to W.B. Yeats.
By Malcolm Brown
The Politics of the Ocean.
By Edward Wenk
Seattle.
By Nard Jones
Swan among the Indians: life of James G. Swan, 1818-1900; based upon Swan's hitherto unpublished diaries and journals.
By Lucile McDonald
Edward S. Curtis.
Special Award
1974
An Atlas of Primate Gross Anatomy: Baboon, Chimpanzee and Man
. By Charles D. Wood and Daris Swindler
The Backyard Astronomer.
By Alan Nourse
Band of Brothers.
By Ernest Gann
The Dance of Legislation.
By Eric Redman
Desert: The American Southwest.
By Ruth Kirk
Flood Tide of Empire: Spain and the Pacific Northwest, 1543-1819.
By Warren Cook
Ladies' Home Journal Family Medical Guide.
By Alan Nourse
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir.
By Richard F. Hugo
Master Builders of the Animal World.
By David Hancocks
The Year of the Angler.
By Steve Raymond
Index of Art in the Pacific Northwest.
Henry Art Gallery.
Special Award
1975
Cry Crisis! Rehearsal in Alaska.
By Harvey Manning
Fisheries of the North Pacific: History, Species, Gear & Processes.
By Robert J. Browning
Go East, Young Man: the Early Years: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas.
By William O. Douglas
The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits.
By Mary T. McCarthy
Medicine Creek.
By William O. Turner
Sleeping in the Woods.
By David Wagoner
To Die Is Not Enough: A True Account of Murder and Retribution.
By Donald Delano Wright
Copper Canyon Press.
Special Award: Small Presses
Signpost Press.
Special Award: Small Presses
Spring Rain Press.
Special Award: Small Presses
1976
After the Blizzard.
By James J. McAuley
An Almanac of Words at Play.
By Willard Espy
Hosea Globe and the Fantastical Peg-Legged Chu.
By Graydon Beeks
Masked Rituals of Afikpo, the Context of African Art.
By Simon Ottenburg
Return to Sender: Or, When the Fish in the Water Was Thirsty.
By Raymond Mungo
The Windows to His World: The Story of Trevor Kincaid.
By Muriel Lewis Guberlet
There's a Sound in the Sea: A Child's-Eye View of the Whale.
By Tamar Griggs
Utopias on Puget Sound.
By Charles Pierce LeWarne
Folly Press (Phil Garland, publisher).
Special Award
1977
A White Serpent Castle.
By Lensey Namioka
Children of Dune.
By Frank Herbert
Country of Resemblances.
By Beth Bentley
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
By Tom Robbins
Indian Art of the Northwest Coast: A Dialogue on Craftsmanship and Aesthetics.
By Bill Holm
Seattle, Past to Present.
By Roger Sale
Stained Glass: Music for the Eye.
By Jill and Robert Hill
The Squirrel Cage: The Best of Douglass Welch.
By Victor B. Scheffer
Lewis and Clark's America: Seattle Art Museum, July 15 - September 26, 1976.
Contributors to the [two volume] catalogue, Willis F. Woods, Paul Macapia, Mary E. Macapia. Seattle Art Museum.
Special Award
1978
After Ninety.
By Imogen Cunningham
Bugle of the Elk.
By Paul S. Bernsen
Eskimo Art: Tradition and Innovation in North Alaska.
By Dorothy Jean Ray
Holy the Firm.
By Annie Dillard
Island Between.
By Margaret Murie
The Secret of Fire 5.
By Jack Olsen
To Frighten a Storm: Poems.
By Gladys Cardiff
WASP, Where is thy Sting?
By Florence King
Northwest Arts (Maxine Cushing Gray, publisher).
Special Award
1979
A Hostage to Fortune.
By Ernest K. Gann
Exploring Washington Archaeology.
By Richard D. Daugherty and Ruth Kirk
Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E. B. White.
By Roger Sale
Inside Moves.
By Todd Walton
Northwest Traditions: Seattle Art: Museum, June29 - December 10, 1978.
By Martha Kingsbury
Ravens, Crows, Magpies, and Jays.
By Tony Angell
The Farm on the River of Emeralds.
By Moritz Thomsen
The Practice.
By Alan E. Nourse
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind.
By Ivan Doig
Under Stars: Poems.
By Tess Gallagher
The Northwest Kitchen: A Seasonal Cookbook (Sumi Illustrations).
By George Tsutakawa.
Special Award: Illustrator
1980
A Life in Architecture.
By Monoru Yamasaki
Asleep in Another Country.
By Melinda Mueller
Ceramics in the Pacific Northwest: A History.
By LaMar Harrington
Homebase.
By Shawn Wong
Profanity Hill.
By Irene Burns Miller
Puget's Sound: A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound.
By Murray Morgan
Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man.
By Bill Russell
Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold.
By Joan Dash
The Dulcimer Boy.
By Tor Seidler
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing.
By Richard F. Hugo
Vision Quest.
By Terry Davis
Reverend Edward Kowrach, Editor for multiple frontier diaries and journals published by Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, WA.
Special Award
1981
Adventures of a Zoologist.
By Victor B. Scheffer
Edward S. Curtis in the Land of the War Canoes.
By Bill Holm and George Irving Quimby
Hambone.
By Caroline Fairless
Hazel's Star.
By Daphne Enslow
Klondike Lost: A Decade of Photographs bv Kinsey & Kinsey.
By Norm Bolotin
Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification.
By Clifford Burke
So Narrow the Bridge and Deep the Water.
By Lisa Thomas
The Right Madness on Skye.
By Richard F. Hugo
The Stranger Beside Me.
By Ann Rule
They Tried To Cut It All.
By Edwin Van Syckle
Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edqe of America.
By Ivan Doig
Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen.
By Sven H. Rossel and Patricia L. Conroy.
Special Award: Translation
Seattle: Photography. By David Barnes.
Special Award: Photography
1982
A Closed Book: Poems.
By Richard Blessing
Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla.
By John McCoy
Fireweed and Other Poems.
By William H. Matchett
Frank Matsura, Frontier Photographer.
By JoAnn Roe
It's Just Too Much.
By Jean Davies Okimoto
Talking Medicine: America's Doctors Tell Their Stories.
By Peter Rabinowitz
The Clay Pedestal: A Re-examination of the Doctor-Patient.
By Thomas Preston
The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art and Architecture.
By Gyorgy Doczi
The Right to Hope: Crisis and Community.
By Melvin Rader
They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?
By Patrick E. McManus
Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writinq Process.
By Peter Elbow
The Chickencoop Chinaman; and, The year of the Dragon: Two Plays. By Frank Chin.
Special Award
Mary Barnard.
Special Award: Poetry and Translation
1983
A Bundle of Sticks.
By Pat Rhoads Mauser
Digressions of a Native Son.
By Emmett Watson
Flood: Poems.
By William Matthews
Gardening With Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Guide.
By Arthur R. Kruckeberg
Getting Free: A Handbook for Women in Abusive Relationships.
By Ginny NiCarthy
Imaginary Crimes.
By Sheila Ballantyne
Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History.
By Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown
Mountain in the Clouds: A Search for the Wild Salmon.
By Bruce Brown
Mountains of North America.
By Fred Beckey
Nepali Aama: Portrait of the Nepalese Hill Woman.
By Broughton Coburn
Never Done: A History of American Housework.
By Susan Strasser
Oxherding Tale.
By Charles Johnson
Zola Helen Ross.
Special Award
1984
50 Northwest Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in the Pacific Northwest.
By Bruce Guenther, Marsha Burns, and Ed Marquand
Beyond the Far Side.
By Gary Larsen
Cathedral: Stories.
By Raymond Carver
Cities in the Round.
By Norman J. Johnston
How to Suppress Women's Writing.
By Joanna Russ
Ish River: Poems.
By Robert Sund
Let Me Hear Your Voice: Portraits of Aging Immigrant Jews.
By Mimi Handlin, Marilyn Smith Layton, and Rochelle Casserd
Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast: an Illustrated Guide to Northern California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
By Eugene N. Kozloff
The Language of Oppression.
By Haig A. Bosmajian
The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain.
By William H. Calvin
Voices: A Life of Frank O'Connor.
By James Matthews
Yo no Bi: The Beauty of Japanese Folk Art.
By William J. Rathbun
Bill Holm.
Special Award
1985
English Creek.
By Ivan Doig
Grandfather Twilight.
By Barbara Berger
Magic Bullets.
By Grant Fjermedal
Mermaids in the Basement: Poems for Women.
By Carolyn Kizer
People of the Ice Whale: Eskimos, White Men and the Whale.
By David Boeri
Salt Air.
By Sharon Bryan
Seabirds of Eastern North Pacific and Arctic Waters.
By Delphine Haley
Sketchbook: A Memoir of the 1930s and the Northwest School.
By William Cumming
The Audubon Society Handbook for Butterfly Watchers.
By Robert Michael Pyle
The Complete Shade Gardener.
By George Schenk
The Goldmark Case: An American Libel Trial.
By William L. Dwyer
The Trumpeter Swan: A White Perfection.
By Skylar Hansen
Willingly: Poems.
By Tess Gallagher
Richard Hugo.
Special Award
1986
Blackbirds of the Americas.
By Gordon H. Orians and Tony Angell
Edward S. Curtis: The Life and Times of a Shadow Catcher.
By Barbara A. Davis
Leaving the Land.
By Douglas Unger
Place Names of Washington.
By Robert Hitchman
Sea Change: Poems.
By Christopher Howell
Shadow of Lies.
By Donald E. McQuinn
Steamer's Wake.
By Jim Faber
The Dark Path of Our Names.
By Joan Swift
The Imagery of Art Wolfe.
By Art Wolfe
The Indians of Puget Sound: The Notebooks of Myron Eells
. By George P. Castile
The Trillion Dollar Budget: How to Stop the Bankrupting of America.
By Glenn R. Pascall
The Year of the Trout.
By Steve Raymond
Bob Spring, Ira Spring, Vicky Spring and Harvey Manning.
Special Award
1987
At the Forest's Edge: Memoir of a Physician-Naturalist.
By David Tirrell Hellyer
Bay and Ocean: Ark Restaurant Cusine.
By Jimella Lucas and Nanci Main
Blind Trust.
By John Nance
Chihuly: Color, Glass and Form.
By Dale Chihuly
Jacob Lawrence, American Painter.
By Ellen Wheat
Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest.
By Clifford E. Trafzer and Richard D. Scheuerman
Soldiers in Hiding: A Novel.
By Richard Wiley
The Lover of Horses and Other Stories.
By Tess Gallagher
The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander the Great.
By Arther L. Ferrill
The Tomorrow Makers: A Brave New World of Living-brain Machines.
By Grant Fjermedal
Tramp: Sagas of High Adventure in the Vanishing World of the Old Tramp Freighters.
By Michael J. Krieger
Ultramarine: Poems.
By Raymond Carver
Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land.
By Robert Michael Pyle
Ruth Kirk.
Special Award
Charles Krebs.
Special Award #
1988
A History of the Catholic Church in the Pacific Northwest 1743-1983.
By Wilfred P. Schoenberg
Being & Race: Black Writing Since 1970.
By Charles Johnson
Bone Flames; Jesus and Fat Tuesday and Other Short Stories.
By Colleen J. McElroy
Dancing at the Rascal Fair.
By Ivan Doig
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women.
By Caroline W. Bynum
King Midas and the Golden Touch.
By Kathryn Hewitt
Spirit and Ancestor: A Century of Northwest Coast Indian Art at the Burke Museum.
By Bill Holm
The Goddess Letters: The Myth of Demeter and Persephone Retold.
By Carol Orlock
The River That Flows Uphill: A Journey From the Big Bang to the Big Brain.
By Dr. William H. Calvin
The Year in Bloom: Gardening for All Seasons in the Pacific Northwest.
By Ann Lovejoy
At the Field's End: Interviews with 20 Pacific Northwest Writers.
Edited by Nicholas O'Connell.
Special Award
1989
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things.
By Robert Fulghum
Bears of the World.
By Terry Domico
Honey from the Lion: An African Journey.
By Wendy Laura Belcher
Micromysteries: Stories of Scientific Detection.
By Gail Kay Haines
Stehekin: A Valley in Time.
By Grant McConnell
The Good Times Are Killing Me: A Novel.
By Lynda Barry
The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families.
By Stephanie Coontz
The World of Patience Gromes: Making and Unmaking a Black Community.
By Scott C. Davis
Washington's Audacious State Capitol and Its Builders.
By Norman J. Johnston
Women and Their Quilts: A Washington State Centennial Tribute.
By Nancyann Johanson Twelker
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories.
By Raymond Carver.
Special Award: Posthumous
1990
Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West.
By Morris Berman
Dead Languages: A Novel.
By David Shields
Fireweed: An American Saga.
By Nellie Buxton Picken
Passport.
By Galen Garwood and Sam Hamill
Remembered Drums: A History of the Puget Sound Indian War.
By Jerry Eckrom
The American Eagle.
By Pat Leeson and Tom Leeson
The Broken Cord.
By Michael Dorris
The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind: Stories.
By David Guterson
The Magic Fan.
By Keith Baker
Washington's Centennial Farms: Yesterday and Today.
By Mary Beth Lang
When I Kept Silence.
By Naomi Clark
Ted Rand.
Special Award: Excellence in Children's Book Illustration
1991
**
Floating in My Mother's Palm: A Novel.
By Ursula Hegi
George Tsutakawa.
By Martha Kingsbury
Gwinna.
By Barbara Berger
Late Frontier: A History of Okanogan County, Washington.
By Bruce A. Wilson
Peoples of Washington: Perspectives on Cultural Diversity.
By S.E. Solberg and Sid White
Picture Postcard
. By Fredrick D. Huebner
The End of the Holocaust: The Liberation of the Camps
. By Jon Bridgman
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest.
By Timothy Egan
The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers
. By Moritz Thomsen
Washington: A Centennial Atlas.
By James W. Scott
Willo Davis Roberts.
Special Award: Contributions to the field of children's literature
LeRoy Soper,
University Bookstore.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1992
A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War.
By Ina Chang
A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State.
By Robin K. Wright
Augury.
By Phillip Garrison
Hidden Coast: Kayak Explorations from Alaska to Mexico.
By Joel Rogers
Hood Canal: Splendor at Risk.
By Christopher Dunagan and Jeff Brody
Nch'l-Wana, "The Big River": Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land.
By James Selam and Eugene S. Hunn
Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound.
By John Keeble
Solider of the Great War.
By Mark Helprin
Stalking the Ice Dragon: An Alaskan Journey.
By Susan Zwinger
The Wives' Tale.
By Alix Wilber
1993
At the Helm of Twilight.
By Anita Endrezze
Come Back Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought It Back to Life.
By Sidnee Wheelwright and Molly Cone
Killing Color.
By Charlotte Watson Sherman
Moon Crossing Bridge: Poetry.
By Tess Gallagher
Seya's Song.
By Ron Hirschi
Snow Crash.
By Neal Stephenson
Spiritual Space: The Religious Architecture of Pietro Belluschi.
By Meredith L. Clausen
Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey.
By Lydia Y. Minatoya
The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest.
By William A Dietrich
Two Trains Running.
By August Wilson
Murray Morgan.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
Vi Hilbert.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1994
Oh How Can I Keep on Singing? Voices of Pioneer Women: Poems.
By Jana Harris
Baseball Saved Us.
By Ken Mochizuki
Lifting the Veil: The Feminine Face of Science.
By Linda Jean Shepherd
Palestinians: The Making of a People.
By Joel S. Migdal
Reconciliation Road: A Family Odyssey of War and Honor.
By John Douglas Marshall
The Pugilist at Rest: Stories.
By Thom Jones
The Triumph of Tradition: The Emergence of Whitman College, 1859-1924.
By G. Thomas Edwards
Jackson Street After Hours: The Roots of Jazz in Seattle.
By Eduardo Calderon and Paul De Barros
Pacific Northwest the Beautiful Cookbook: Authentic Recipes from the Pacific Northwest.
By E. Jane Armstrong, Kathy Casey and Lane Morgan
First Indian on the Moon
;
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
;
Old Shirts and New Skins.
By Sherman Alexie
Rick Simonson
,
Elliot Bay Book Company.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1995
An Ocean Between Us: The Changing Relationship of Japan and the United States, Told in Four Stories From the Life of an American.
By Evelyn Iritani
April and the Dragon Lady.
By Lensey Namioka
Carl F. Gould: A Life in Architecture and the Arts.
By William T. Booth
George S. Long: Timber Statesman.
By Charles Twining
Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries.
By Sharon McGrayne
Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America.
By Jack Nisbet
Squish: A Wetland Walk.
By Nancy Luenn
Stones from the River.
By Ursula Hegi
Tankers Full of Trouble: The Perilous Journey of Alaska Crude.
By Eric Nalder
The Gifts of the Body.
By Rebecca Brown
The University of Washington Press
(Seattle) in honor of the 75th anniversary of the press, with special recognition of the contribution of four staff members: Don Ellegood (Former Press Director), Audrey Meyer (Art Director), Naomi Pascal (Editor-in-Chief), and Pat Soden (Current Press Director).
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1996
Ironman.
By Chris Crutcher
Maija.
By Tiina Nunnally
Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species.
By Mark L. Plummer
Storm Boy.
By Paul Owen Lewis
Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions.
By Denise Levertov
The Greatest Sound on Earth, or Eine Kleine Alte Fahrt Mit Orchester.
By Myron Richards
The Land That Slept Late: The Olympic Mountains in Legend & History.
By Robert L. Wood
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River.
By Richard White
Tusk and Stone.
By Malcolm Bosse
Spencer G. Shaw, Master Storyteller and Professor Emeritus of the
School of Library Science, University of Washington.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1997
An Evening at the Garden of Allah.
By Roger Simpson and Don Paulson
Bad Land: An American Romance.
By Jonathan Raban
Bucking the Sun: A Novel.
By Ivan Doig
Buddha.
By Demi
Harping On: Poems 1985-1995.
By Carolyn Kizer
Into the Wild.
By Jon Krakauer
No One Walks on My Father's Moon.
By Chara M. Curtis and Rebecca Hyland
Olympic National Park: A Natural History Guide.
By Tim McNulty
Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
By Andrew Ward
This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence.
By Alan Thein Durning
David Wagoner, Poet and Novelist.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1998
Dark Blue Suit and Other Stories.
By Peter Bacho
Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence.
By George B. Dyson
Echoes of the Elders: The Stories and Paintings of Chief Lelooska.
By Chief Lelooska
Love Like Gumbo.
By Nancy Rawles
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion.
By Edward J. Larson
The Fair and the Falls: Spokane's Expo '74: Transforming an American Environment.
By J. William T. Youngs
The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier.
By Bruce Barcott
The Profile Makers: Poems.
By Linda Bierds
The Ring of Truth: An Original Irish Tale.
By Teresa Bateman
Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America.
By Shelby Scates
Glen Adams, Publisher,
Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1999
After a Spell: Poems.
By Nance Van Winckel
Building Washington: A History of Washington State Public Works.
By Genevieve McCoy and Paul Dorpat
Divided Destiny: A History of Japanese Americans in Seattle.
By David A. Takami
Escape of the Bird Women.
By Linda Andrews
Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and the Indian Identities Around Puget Sound.
By Alexandra Harmon
Kirtland Cutter: Architect in the Land of Promise.
By Henry C. Matthews
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West.
By Timothy Egan
Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness.
By Robin Hemley
Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family's Past.
By Richard White
The Flower in the Skull.
By Kathleen Alcalá
Tess Gallagher, Mentor and Author, Port Angeles.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
2000
†
Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage.
By Robert Michael Pyle
Origins of Architectural Pleasure.
By Grant Hildebrand
Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis.
By Jim Lichatowich
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine.
By Thom Jones
Sunrise to Paradise: The Story of Mount Rainier National Park.
By Ruth Kirk
The Father of the Predicaments.
By Heather McHugh
The Tiger Iris.
By Joan Swift
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break.
By Lensey Namioka
Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems.
By David Wagoner
What She Left Me.
By Judy Doenges
Walter Carr, Founder and Former Owner of the Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
Notes:
* Prior to 1969 the awards were given to authors without mentioning specific book titles. The 1969 awards were for books published in 1968, and that pattern remains constant: awards in one year for books published the previous calendar year.
** Beginning in 1991, a new award, the Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award, honored a person who has given his or her vision and time to add to the cultural enrichment of this state and the Pacific Northwest. The award was named after the librarian most responsible for the development of the Washington Author Collection and the Governor's Writers Awards. The final award was presented to Mary Randlette, Photographer, of Olympia as part of the 2001 Washington State Book Awards.
† 2000 is the final year that the award was known as the Governor's Writers Award, and is the first year that it was admnistered by the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library. While not administered by the State Library, the awards for this year have been included for the sake of completeness.
# - no holdings at WSL; link redirects to author results at OCLC WorldCat
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Governor's Writers Day Awards At The Washington State Library, 1966-2000
Beginning in 1966, the Governor's Office and the Washington State Library sponsored a ceremony to recognize Washington's authors. In the beginning, the recognition was for the entire output of the author and independent of their most recent publication. Beginning in 1969,
the list of recognized authors
came from the previous year's publications. The Staff of the Washington/Northwest Room - now known as
Special Collections
- coordinated the Governor's Writers Day Awards, but the ceremony event involved virtually every department of the state library.
The list below contains each recipient, grouped by year, from 1966 until the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library assumed the responsibility for administration of the awards in 2000, then renamed the honor as the
Washington State Book Awards
, in 2001. Many of the award winning titles are a part of the Pacific Northwest Collection and available for circulation. Other titles are maintained in the
Governor's Writers Award Collection
and are available for review at the library's reading room in Tumwater, WA. In 2017, the Washington Center for the Book became a joint partnership between the Washington State Library and the Seattle Public Library. You may view recipients of the Washington State Book Awards, from 2001 to present-day, or review submission guidelines and access the entry form for the current award season, via the
Washington Center for the Book resource page
.
Jump to an Awards Year:
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2006-Present
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List of Recipients, By Year Awarded:
1966
*
Vokes Richardson
Dr. Miriam Lincoln
#
Murray Morgan
Gordon Newell
Alan Nourse
Josephine Stearns Norling
#
Ernest Norling
Blanche Payne
Robert F. Karolevitz
lrving Petite
Allis McKay
Zola Helen Ross
Max Savelle
#
Floyd Schmoe
James Stevens
David Wagoner
Sophus Keith Winther
Lawrence J. Zillman
#
Eva Greenslit Anderson
Angelo Pellegrini
Kenneth MacKenzie Dodson
Ralph Andrews
Herbert E. Arntson
#
Mary W. Avery
Archie Binns
Patricia Campbell
Ella E. Clark
Marg Nelson
#
Giovanni Costigan
Carolyn Kizer
Byron M. Fish
Claudius O. Johnson
Nard Jones
Molly Cone
Pauline B. Johnson
Sister Mary Gilbert
(f.k.a. Madeline DeFrees)
Richard F. Hugo
William Holm
Dr. William R. Halliday
Muriel L. Guberlet
Wilbur J. Granberg
1967
*
Richard Lancaster
Margaret Pitcairn Strachan
#
Robert H. Ruby
Nancy Wilson Ross
W. Dale Nelson
Lucile McDonald
Zoa Morin Sherburne
Bill Gulick
Ernest K. Gann
William O. Douglas
Doris Burn
Nelson Bentley
John R. Brown
Janice Warnke
Ruth Kirk
1968
*
Knute Skinner
Robert L. Wood
Evelyn Wells
Melvin Rader
Margaret E. Murie
Howard McCord
Hazel Heckman
Archie Binns
Erna Gunther
Neta Lohnes Frazier
Raymond A. Wohlrabe
Murray Morgan
1969
Captive Wild.
By Lois Crisler
The Great Columbia Plain: A Historical Geography, 1805-1910.
By Donald W. Meinig
The Higher Learning in America: A Reassessment.
By Paul Woodring
The Summerfolk.
By Doris Burn
Tragedy and Melodrama: Versions of Experience.
By Robert Bechtold Heilman
Market Sketchbook.
By Victor Steinbrueck. By
Illustrator's Award
University of Washington Press.
Printer's Award
1970
Alaska Bush Pilots in the Float Country.
By Archie Satterfield and Lloyd Jarman
Annie Annie.
By Molly Cone
Freddie Found a Frog.
By Alice Napjus
Good Luck in Cracked Italian.
By Richard F. Hugo
Living Poor, A Peace Corps Chronicle
. By Moritz Thomsen
MacArthur's Amphibious Navy: Seventh Amphibious Force Operations, 1943-1945.
By Daniel E. Barbey
New and Selected Poems.
By David Wagoner
Nisei: The Quiet Americans
. By Bill Hosokawa
Washington.
By Carl Gohs
The Year of the Whale.
By Victor B. Scheffer
Glen C. Adams, Ye Galleon Press.
Printer's Award
The Mountaineers.
Special Award
1971
After the Death of an Elder Klallam, and Other Poems.
By Duane W. McGinnis
Glory of the Seas.
By Michael Jay Mjelde
Mill Town.
By Norman H. Clark
Minus Three.
By Gene W. Mason
Moving Through Here.
By Don McNeill
The Spokane Indians: Children of the Sun.
By Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown
Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight?
By David Wagoner
Pacific Search.
Special Magazine Award
Northwest Art News & Views.
By
Special Magazine Award
Cool Clear Water: The Key to Our Environment
. By Harvey Manning, Bob Spring, and Ira Spring.
Author/Illustrator Award
Desert Life.
By Ruth and Louis Kirk.
Author/Illustrator Award
1972
Another Roadside Attraction.
By Tom Robbins
The Ballyhoo Bonanza.
By John Fahey
The Challenge of Rainier.
By Dee Molenaar
Come Wade the River.
By Ralph Wahl
How Much is Enough? Shaping the Defense Program, 1961-1969.
By Alain Enthoven
Phone Calls From the Dead.
By Beth Bentley
Revenge of the Lawn.
By Richard Brautigan
The Seeing Eye.
By Victor B. Scheffer
Snake River Country.
By Bill Gulick
Eskimo Boy Today.
By Byron Fish, Bob Spring, and Ira Spring.
Author/Illustrator Award
Margaret McKenny.
Special Award
1973
Backpacking: One Step at a Time.
By Harvey Manning
Birds of Prey on the Pacific Northwest Slope.
By Tony Angell
The Burning.
By Jack Cady
The Game of Words.
By Willard Espy
Indian life on the Northwest coast of North America, as seen by the early explorers and fur traders during the last decades of the eighteenth century.
By Erna Gunther
Island Year.
By Hazel Heckman
Literatura Chicana: Texto Y Contexto/Chicano Literature: Text and Context.
By Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, Joseph Sommers, and Antonia Castaneda Shular
New Queens for Old: A Novella and Nine Stories
. By Gabriel Fielding
The Northwest Coast Indian ABC Book.
By Charles Peck and Sherrill Carlson
The Politics of Irish Literature: From Thomas Davis to W.B. Yeats.
By Malcolm Brown
The Politics of the Ocean.
By Edward Wenk
Seattle.
By Nard Jones
Swan among the Indians: life of James G. Swan, 1818-1900; based upon Swan's hitherto unpublished diaries and journals.
By Lucile McDonald
Edward S. Curtis.
Special Award
1974
An Atlas of Primate Gross Anatomy: Baboon, Chimpanzee and Man
. By Charles D. Wood and Daris Swindler
The Backyard Astronomer.
By Alan Nourse
Band of Brothers.
By Ernest Gann
The Dance of Legislation.
By Eric Redman
Desert: The American Southwest.
By Ruth Kirk
Flood Tide of Empire: Spain and the Pacific Northwest, 1543-1819.
By Warren Cook
Ladies' Home Journal Family Medical Guide.
By Alan Nourse
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir.
By Richard F. Hugo
Master Builders of the Animal World.
By David Hancocks
The Year of the Angler.
By Steve Raymond
Index of Art in the Pacific Northwest.
Henry Art Gallery.
Special Award
1975
Cry Crisis! Rehearsal in Alaska.
By Harvey Manning
Fisheries of the North Pacific: History, Species, Gear & Processes.
By Robert J. Browning
Go East, Young Man: the Early Years: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas.
By William O. Douglas
The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits.
By Mary T. McCarthy
Medicine Creek.
By William O. Turner
Sleeping in the Woods.
By David Wagoner
To Die Is Not Enough: A True Account of Murder and Retribution.
By Donald Delano Wright
Copper Canyon Press.
Special Award: Small Presses
Signpost Press.
Special Award: Small Presses
Spring Rain Press.
Special Award: Small Presses
1976
After the Blizzard.
By James J. McAuley
An Almanac of Words at Play.
By Willard Espy
Hosea Globe and the Fantastical Peg-Legged Chu.
By Graydon Beeks
Masked Rituals of Afikpo, the Context of African Art.
By Simon Ottenburg
Return to Sender: Or, When the Fish in the Water Was Thirsty.
By Raymond Mungo
The Windows to His World: The Story of Trevor Kincaid.
By Muriel Lewis Guberlet
There's a Sound in the Sea: A Child's-Eye View of the Whale.
By Tamar Griggs
Utopias on Puget Sound.
By Charles Pierce LeWarne
Folly Press (Phil Garland, publisher).
Special Award
1977
A White Serpent Castle.
By Lensey Namioka
Children of Dune.
By Frank Herbert
Country of Resemblances.
By Beth Bentley
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
By Tom Robbins
Indian Art of the Northwest Coast: A Dialogue on Craftsmanship and Aesthetics.
By Bill Holm
Seattle, Past to Present.
By Roger Sale
Stained Glass: Music for the Eye.
By Jill and Robert Hill
The Squirrel Cage: The Best of Douglass Welch.
By Victor B. Scheffer
Lewis and Clark's America: Seattle Art Museum, July 15 - September 26, 1976.
Contributors to the [two volume] catalogue, Willis F. Woods, Paul Macapia, Mary E. Macapia. Seattle Art Museum.
Special Award
1978
After Ninety.
By Imogen Cunningham
Bugle of the Elk.
By Paul S. Bernsen
Eskimo Art: Tradition and Innovation in North Alaska.
By Dorothy Jean Ray
Holy the Firm.
By Annie Dillard
Island Between.
By Margaret Murie
The Secret of Fire 5.
By Jack Olsen
To Frighten a Storm: Poems.
By Gladys Cardiff
WASP, Where is thy Sting?
By Florence King
Northwest Arts (Maxine Cushing Gray, publisher).
Special Award
1979
A Hostage to Fortune.
By Ernest K. Gann
Exploring Washington Archaeology.
By Richard D. Daugherty and Ruth Kirk
Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E. B. White.
By Roger Sale
Inside Moves.
By Todd Walton
Northwest Traditions: Seattle Art: Museum, June29 - December 10, 1978.
By Martha Kingsbury
Ravens, Crows, Magpies, and Jays.
By Tony Angell
The Farm on the River of Emeralds.
By Moritz Thomsen
The Practice.
By Alan E. Nourse
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind.
By Ivan Doig
Under Stars: Poems.
By Tess Gallagher
The Northwest Kitchen: A Seasonal Cookbook (Sumi Illustrations).
By George Tsutakawa.
Special Award: Illustrator
1980
A Life in Architecture.
By Monoru Yamasaki
Asleep in Another Country.
By Melinda Mueller
Ceramics in the Pacific Northwest: A History.
By LaMar Harrington
Homebase.
By Shawn Wong
Profanity Hill.
By Irene Burns Miller
Puget's Sound: A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound.
By Murray Morgan
Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man.
By Bill Russell
Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold.
By Joan Dash
The Dulcimer Boy.
By Tor Seidler
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing.
By Richard F. Hugo
Vision Quest.
By Terry Davis
Reverend Edward Kowrach, Editor for multiple frontier diaries and journals published by Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, WA.
Special Award
1981
Adventures of a Zoologist.
By Victor B. Scheffer
Edward S. Curtis in the Land of the War Canoes.
By Bill Holm and George Irving Quimby
Hambone.
By Caroline Fairless
Hazel's Star.
By Daphne Enslow
Klondike Lost: A Decade of Photographs bv Kinsey & Kinsey.
By Norm Bolotin
Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification.
By Clifford Burke
So Narrow the Bridge and Deep the Water.
By Lisa Thomas
The Right Madness on Skye.
By Richard F. Hugo
The Stranger Beside Me.
By Ann Rule
They Tried To Cut It All.
By Edwin Van Syckle
Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edqe of America.
By Ivan Doig
Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen.
By Sven H. Rossel and Patricia L. Conroy.
Special Award: Translation
Seattle: Photography. By David Barnes.
Special Award: Photography
1982
A Closed Book: Poems.
By Richard Blessing
Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla.
By John McCoy
Fireweed and Other Poems.
By William H. Matchett
Frank Matsura, Frontier Photographer.
By JoAnn Roe
It's Just Too Much.
By Jean Davies Okimoto
Talking Medicine: America's Doctors Tell Their Stories.
By Peter Rabinowitz
The Clay Pedestal: A Re-examination of the Doctor-Patient.
By Thomas Preston
The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art and Architecture.
By Gyorgy Doczi
The Right to Hope: Crisis and Community.
By Melvin Rader
They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?
By Patrick E. McManus
Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writinq Process.
By Peter Elbow
The Chickencoop Chinaman; and, The year of the Dragon: Two Plays. By Frank Chin.
Special Award
Mary Barnard.
Special Award: Poetry and Translation
1983
A Bundle of Sticks.
By Pat Rhoads Mauser
Digressions of a Native Son.
By Emmett Watson
Flood: Poems.
By William Matthews
Gardening With Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Guide.
By Arthur R. Kruckeberg
Getting Free: A Handbook for Women in Abusive Relationships.
By Ginny NiCarthy
Imaginary Crimes.
By Sheila Ballantyne
Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History.
By Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown
Mountain in the Clouds: A Search for the Wild Salmon.
By Bruce Brown
Mountains of North America.
By Fred Beckey
Nepali Aama: Portrait of the Nepalese Hill Woman.
By Broughton Coburn
Never Done: A History of American Housework.
By Susan Strasser
Oxherding Tale.
By Charles Johnson
Zola Helen Ross.
Special Award
1984
50 Northwest Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in the Pacific Northwest.
By Bruce Guenther, Marsha Burns, and Ed Marquand
Beyond the Far Side.
By Gary Larsen
Cathedral: Stories.
By Raymond Carver
Cities in the Round.
By Norman J. Johnston
How to Suppress Women's Writing.
By Joanna Russ
Ish River: Poems.
By Robert Sund
Let Me Hear Your Voice: Portraits of Aging Immigrant Jews.
By Mimi Handlin, Marilyn Smith Layton, and Rochelle Casserd
Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast: an Illustrated Guide to Northern California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
By Eugene N. Kozloff
The Language of Oppression.
By Haig A. Bosmajian
The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain.
By William H. Calvin
Voices: A Life of Frank O'Connor.
By James Matthews
Yo no Bi: The Beauty of Japanese Folk Art.
By William J. Rathbun
Bill Holm.
Special Award
1985
English Creek.
By Ivan Doig
Grandfather Twilight.
By Barbara Berger
Magic Bullets.
By Grant Fjermedal
Mermaids in the Basement: Poems for Women.
By Carolyn Kizer
People of the Ice Whale: Eskimos, White Men and the Whale.
By David Boeri
Salt Air.
By Sharon Bryan
Seabirds of Eastern North Pacific and Arctic Waters.
By Delphine Haley
Sketchbook: A Memoir of the 1930s and the Northwest School.
By William Cumming
The Audubon Society Handbook for Butterfly Watchers.
By Robert Michael Pyle
The Complete Shade Gardener.
By George Schenk
The Goldmark Case: An American Libel Trial.
By William L. Dwyer
The Trumpeter Swan: A White Perfection.
By Skylar Hansen
Willingly: Poems.
By Tess Gallagher
Richard Hugo.
Special Award
1986
Blackbirds of the Americas.
By Gordon H. Orians and Tony Angell
Edward S. Curtis: The Life and Times of a Shadow Catcher.
By Barbara A. Davis
Leaving the Land.
By Douglas Unger
Place Names of Washington.
By Robert Hitchman
Sea Change: Poems.
By Christopher Howell
Shadow of Lies.
By Donald E. McQuinn
Steamer's Wake.
By Jim Faber
The Dark Path of Our Names.
By Joan Swift
The Imagery of Art Wolfe.
By Art Wolfe
The Indians of Puget Sound: The Notebooks of Myron Eells
. By George P. Castile
The Trillion Dollar Budget: How to Stop the Bankrupting of America.
By Glenn R. Pascall
The Year of the Trout.
By Steve Raymond
Bob Spring, Ira Spring, Vicky Spring and Harvey Manning.
Special Award
1987
At the Forest's Edge: Memoir of a Physician-Naturalist.
By David Tirrell Hellyer
Bay and Ocean: Ark Restaurant Cusine.
By Jimella Lucas and Nanci Main
Blind Trust.
By John Nance
Chihuly: Color, Glass and Form.
By Dale Chihuly
Jacob Lawrence, American Painter.
By Ellen Wheat
Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest.
By Clifford E. Trafzer and Richard D. Scheuerman
Soldiers in Hiding: A Novel.
By Richard Wiley
The Lover of Horses and Other Stories.
By Tess Gallagher
The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander the Great.
By Arther L. Ferrill
The Tomorrow Makers: A Brave New World of Living-brain Machines.
By Grant Fjermedal
Tramp: Sagas of High Adventure in the Vanishing World of the Old Tramp Freighters.
By Michael J. Krieger
Ultramarine: Poems.
By Raymond Carver
Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land.
By Robert Michael Pyle
Ruth Kirk.
Special Award
Charles Krebs.
Special Award #
1988
A History of the Catholic Church in the Pacific Northwest 1743-1983.
By Wilfred P. Schoenberg
Being & Race: Black Writing Since 1970.
By Charles Johnson
Bone Flames; Jesus and Fat Tuesday and Other Short Stories.
By Colleen J. McElroy
Dancing at the Rascal Fair.
By Ivan Doig
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women.
By Caroline W. Bynum
King Midas and the Golden Touch.
By Kathryn Hewitt
Spirit and Ancestor: A Century of Northwest Coast Indian Art at the Burke Museum.
By Bill Holm
The Goddess Letters: The Myth of Demeter and Persephone Retold.
By Carol Orlock
The River That Flows Uphill: A Journey From the Big Bang to the Big Brain.
By Dr. William H. Calvin
The Year in Bloom: Gardening for All Seasons in the Pacific Northwest.
By Ann Lovejoy
At the Field's End: Interviews with 20 Pacific Northwest Writers.
Edited by Nicholas O'Connell.
Special Award
1989
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things.
By Robert Fulghum
Bears of the World.
By Terry Domico
Honey from the Lion: An African Journey.
By Wendy Laura Belcher
Micromysteries: Stories of Scientific Detection.
By Gail Kay Haines
Stehekin: A Valley in Time.
By Grant McConnell
The Good Times Are Killing Me: A Novel.
By Lynda Barry
The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families.
By Stephanie Coontz
The World of Patience Gromes: Making and Unmaking a Black Community.
By Scott C. Davis
Washington's Audacious State Capitol and Its Builders.
By Norman J. Johnston
Women and Their Quilts: A Washington State Centennial Tribute.
By Nancyann Johanson Twelker
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories.
By Raymond Carver.
Special Award: Posthumous
1990
Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West.
By Morris Berman
Dead Languages: A Novel.
By David Shields
Fireweed: An American Saga.
By Nellie Buxton Picken
Passport.
By Galen Garwood and Sam Hamill
Remembered Drums: A History of the Puget Sound Indian War.
By Jerry Eckrom
The American Eagle.
By Pat Leeson and Tom Leeson
The Broken Cord.
By Michael Dorris
The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind: Stories.
By David Guterson
The Magic Fan.
By Keith Baker
Washington's Centennial Farms: Yesterday and Today.
By Mary Beth Lang
When I Kept Silence.
By Naomi Clark
Ted Rand.
Special Award: Excellence in Children's Book Illustration
1991
**
Floating in My Mother's Palm: A Novel.
By Ursula Hegi
George Tsutakawa.
By Martha Kingsbury
Gwinna.
By Barbara Berger
Late Frontier: A History of Okanogan County, Washington.
By Bruce A. Wilson
Peoples of Washington: Perspectives on Cultural Diversity.
By S.E. Solberg and Sid White
Picture Postcard
. By Fredrick D. Huebner
The End of the Holocaust: The Liberation of the Camps
. By Jon Bridgman
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest.
By Timothy Egan
The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers
. By Moritz Thomsen
Washington: A Centennial Atlas.
By James W. Scott
Willo Davis Roberts.
Special Award: Contributions to the field of children's literature
LeRoy Soper,
University Bookstore.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1992
A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War.
By Ina Chang
A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State.
By Robin K. Wright
Augury.
By Phillip Garrison
Hidden Coast: Kayak Explorations from Alaska to Mexico.
By Joel Rogers
Hood Canal: Splendor at Risk.
By Christopher Dunagan and Jeff Brody
Nch'l-Wana, "The Big River": Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land.
By James Selam and Eugene S. Hunn
Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound.
By John Keeble
Solider of the Great War.
By Mark Helprin
Stalking the Ice Dragon: An Alaskan Journey.
By Susan Zwinger
The Wives' Tale.
By Alix Wilber
1993
At the Helm of Twilight.
By Anita Endrezze
Come Back Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought It Back to Life.
By Sidnee Wheelwright and Molly Cone
Killing Color.
By Charlotte Watson Sherman
Moon Crossing Bridge: Poetry.
By Tess Gallagher
Seya's Song.
By Ron Hirschi
Snow Crash.
By Neal Stephenson
Spiritual Space: The Religious Architecture of Pietro Belluschi.
By Meredith L. Clausen
Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey.
By Lydia Y. Minatoya
The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest.
By William A Dietrich
Two Trains Running.
By August Wilson
Murray Morgan.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
Vi Hilbert.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1994
Oh How Can I Keep on Singing? Voices of Pioneer Women: Poems.
By Jana Harris
Baseball Saved Us.
By Ken Mochizuki
Lifting the Veil: The Feminine Face of Science.
By Linda Jean Shepherd
Palestinians: The Making of a People.
By Joel S. Migdal
Reconciliation Road: A Family Odyssey of War and Honor.
By John Douglas Marshall
The Pugilist at Rest: Stories.
By Thom Jones
The Triumph of Tradition: The Emergence of Whitman College, 1859-1924.
By G. Thomas Edwards
Jackson Street After Hours: The Roots of Jazz in Seattle.
By Eduardo Calderon and Paul De Barros
Pacific Northwest the Beautiful Cookbook: Authentic Recipes from the Pacific Northwest.
By E. Jane Armstrong, Kathy Casey and Lane Morgan
First Indian on the Moon
;
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
;
Old Shirts and New Skins.
By Sherman Alexie
Rick Simonson
,
Elliot Bay Book Company.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1995
An Ocean Between Us: The Changing Relationship of Japan and the United States, Told in Four Stories From the Life of an American.
By Evelyn Iritani
April and the Dragon Lady.
By Lensey Namioka
Carl F. Gould: A Life in Architecture and the Arts.
By William T. Booth
George S. Long: Timber Statesman.
By Charles Twining
Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries.
By Sharon McGrayne
Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America.
By Jack Nisbet
Squish: A Wetland Walk.
By Nancy Luenn
Stones from the River.
By Ursula Hegi
Tankers Full of Trouble: The Perilous Journey of Alaska Crude.
By Eric Nalder
The Gifts of the Body.
By Rebecca Brown
The University of Washington Press
(Seattle) in honor of the 75th anniversary of the press, with special recognition of the contribution of four staff members: Don Ellegood (Former Press Director), Audrey Meyer (Art Director), Naomi Pascal (Editor-in-Chief), and Pat Soden (Current Press Director).
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1996
Ironman.
By Chris Crutcher
Maija.
By Tiina Nunnally
Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species.
By Mark L. Plummer
Storm Boy.
By Paul Owen Lewis
Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions.
By Denise Levertov
The Greatest Sound on Earth, or Eine Kleine Alte Fahrt Mit Orchester.
By Myron Richards
The Land That Slept Late: The Olympic Mountains in Legend & History.
By Robert L. Wood
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River.
By Richard White
Tusk and Stone.
By Malcolm Bosse
Spencer G. Shaw, Master Storyteller and Professor Emeritus of the
School of Library Science, University of Washington.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1997
An Evening at the Garden of Allah.
By Roger Simpson and Don Paulson
Bad Land: An American Romance.
By Jonathan Raban
Bucking the Sun: A Novel.
By Ivan Doig
Buddha.
By Demi
Harping On: Poems 1985-1995.
By Carolyn Kizer
Into the Wild.
By Jon Krakauer
No One Walks on My Father's Moon.
By Chara M. Curtis and Rebecca Hyland
Olympic National Park: A Natural History Guide.
By Tim McNulty
Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
By Andrew Ward
This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence.
By Alan Thein Durning
David Wagoner, Poet and Novelist.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1998
Dark Blue Suit and Other Stories.
By Peter Bacho
Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence.
By George B. Dyson
Echoes of the Elders: The Stories and Paintings of Chief Lelooska.
By Chief Lelooska
Love Like Gumbo.
By Nancy Rawles
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion.
By Edward J. Larson
The Fair and the Falls: Spokane's Expo '74: Transforming an American Environment.
By J. William T. Youngs
The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier.
By Bruce Barcott
The Profile Makers: Poems.
By Linda Bierds
The Ring of Truth: An Original Irish Tale.
By Teresa Bateman
Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America.
By Shelby Scates
Glen Adams, Publisher,
Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
1999
After a Spell: Poems.
By Nance Van Winckel
Building Washington: A History of Washington State Public Works.
By Genevieve McCoy and Paul Dorpat
Divided Destiny: A History of Japanese Americans in Seattle.
By David A. Takami
Escape of the Bird Women.
By Linda Andrews
Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and the Indian Identities Around Puget Sound.
By Alexandra Harmon
Kirtland Cutter: Architect in the Land of Promise.
By Henry C. Matthews
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West.
By Timothy Egan
Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness.
By Robin Hemley
Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family's Past.
By Richard White
The Flower in the Skull.
By Kathleen Alcalá
Tess Gallagher, Mentor and Author, Port Angeles.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
2000
†
Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage.
By Robert Michael Pyle
Origins of Architectural Pleasure.
By Grant Hildebrand
Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis.
By Jim Lichatowich
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine.
By Thom Jones
Sunrise to Paradise: The Story of Mount Rainier National Park.
By Ruth Kirk
The Father of the Predicaments.
By Heather McHugh
The Tiger Iris.
By Joan Swift
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break.
By Lensey Namioka
Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems.
By David Wagoner
What She Left Me.
By Judy Doenges
Walter Carr, Founder and Former Owner of the Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle.
Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award
Notes:
* Prior to 1969 the awards were given to authors without mentioning specific book titles. The 1969 awards were for books published in 1968, and that pattern remains constant: awards in one year for books published the previous calendar year.
** Beginning in 1991, a new award, the Nancy Pryor Blankenship Award, honored a person who has given his or her vision and time to add to the cultural enrichment of this state and the Pacific Northwest. The award was named after the librarian most responsible for the development of the Washington Author Collection and the Governor's Writers Awards. The final award was presented to Mary Randlette, Photographer, of Olympia as part of the 2001 Washington State Book Awards.
† 2000 is the final year that the award was known as the Governor's Writers Award, and is the first year that it was admnistered by the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library. While not administered by the State Library, the awards for this year have been included for the sake of completeness.
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