Iowa Author Awards - Past Recipients

2011 Authors
Elvin McDonald
Barry Griswell & Bob Jennings
Friend of Literacy: Judy McCoy Davis

2010 Authors
Dayton Duncan
Elizabeth Evans
Peter Bognanni
Friends of Literacy: Our Independent Booksellers Jon Heitzman, owner of The Book Store, and Alice Meyer, owner of Beaverdale Books

2009 Authors
Mildred Kalish
Deborah Marquart
John Stauffer
Friends of Literacy: Barbara & Michael Gartner

2008 Authors
Stephen Bloom
Robert Dana
Anne Ylvisaker
Friends of Literacy: Lois Bright

2007 Authors
Michael Carey
James McPherson
John Shors
Friends of Literacy: Elizabeth & David Kruidenier

2006 Authors
Max Allan Collins
Dorothy Garlock
Mary Swander
Friends of Literacy: Junior League of Des Moines

2005 Authors
Mary Lynn Kotz
Nick Kotz
Marilynne Robinson
Friends of Literacy: Christie Vilsack

2004 Authors
Frank Conroy
Curtis Harnack
Eleanora E. Tate
Friends of Literacy: Joan Bunke

2003 Authors
Douglas Bauer
Donald Harstad
Jane Smiley
Friends of Literacy: Elaine Estes

2002 Authors
Jeanette Eyerly
The Authors of Outside In:
African America History
in Iowa 1838 - 2000
Robert James Waller
Friends of Literacy: Doug Brown

2001 Authors
Venise Berry
John Culver
John Hyde
Donald Kaul

2000 Authors
James Autry
Barbara Robinette Moss
George S. Mills