1939
J. Frank Dobie: Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver 1940
Dora Neffi Raymond: Captain Lee Hall of Texas 1941
George Sessions Perry: Hold Autumn in Your Hand

1942
Edwin Lanham: Thunder in the Earth

1943
Fayette Copeland: Kendall of the Picayune

1944
Frank Goodwyn: The Magic of Limping John

1945
J. Frank Dobie: A Texan in England
David Russell: Sing with Me Now

1946
Green Peyton: San Antonio—City in the Sun Whitney Montgomery: Joseph’s Coat

1947
John A. Lomax: Adventures of a Ballad Hunter
Claud Garner: Wetback
Arthur Sampley: Of the Strong and the Fleet

1948
Herbert Gambrel: Anson Jones
Vance K. Johnson: Heaven’s Tableland
David Westheimer: Summer on the Water
Vaida Montgomery: Hail for Rain

1949
Tom Lea: The Brave Bulls
Carl Coke Rister: Oil! Titan of the Southwest
Fred Gipson: Hound Dog Man
Frances Alexander: Time at the Window
Elizabeth Baker: Sonny-Bay Sim

1950
Roy Bedlichek: Karankawa Country
William Goyen: The House of Breath
Mary Poole: Being in Night
Carol Hoff: Johnny Texas
Carl Hertzog: The Journey of Fray Marcos de Niza

1951
Joe B. Frantz: Gail Borden, Dairyman to a Nation
Dillon Anderson: l and Claudie
Arthur Sanipley: Furrow with Blackbirds
John Latham: Lonesome Longhorns
Frank Wardlaw: The Florida of the Inca

1952
J. Frank Dobie: The Mustangs
George Williams: The Blind Bull
William D. Barney: Kneel from the Stone
Siddie Joe Johnson: A Month of Christmas
Carl Hertzog: The Typical Texan

1953
Walter Prescott Webb: The Great Frontier
Madison Cooper: Sironia, Texas
Robert Lee Brothers: The Hidden Lamp
Charlotte Baker: Magic for Mary M.
Frank H. Wardlaw: Life on the Texas Range

1954
Paul Horgan: Great River
William A. Owens: Walking on Borrowed Land
Ernest Mossner: The Life of David Hume
William Burford: Man Now
lrmengarde Eberle: Lone Star Fight
University of Texas Press: Renaissance Dictionaries

1955
John S. Spratt: The Road to Spindletop
Fred Gipson: Recollection Creek
William D. Barney: Permitted Proof
Fred Gipson: Trail-Driving Rooster
Carl Hertzog: Bells Over Texas

1956
Roy Bedichek: Educational Competition
Sikes Johnson: The Hope of Refuge
Vassar Miller: Adam’s Footprint
Jessie McGaw: How Medicine Man Cured Paleface Woman
Southern Methodist University Press: Early Texas Homes

1957
Frank E.Vandliver: Mighty Stonewall
Curt Anders: The Price of Courage
Eloise Roach: Platero and I
J.R.Williams: Tame the Wild Stallion
Tom Lea and Carl Hertzog: The King Ranch

1958
Lon Tinkle: Thirteen Days to Glory
William Humphrey: Home from the Hill
Camilla Campbell: Coronado and His Captains
University of Texas Press: Everett Spruce: A Portfolio
Carl Hertzog: Interwoven

1959
Lewis U. Hanke: Aristotle and the American Indian
Walter Clemons: The Poison Tree
David L. Miller: Modern Science and Human Freedom
Hamilton Maule: Jeremy Todd
Ramsey Yelvington: A Cloud of Witnesses
Byrd Hooper: Beef for Beauregard
Jo Alys Downs: The Muse in Mexico

1960
John Graves: Goodbye to a River
Bill Casey: A Shroud for a Journey
Robert Vines: Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines
Mary Stevens and Ted Sayles: Throw Stone
Vassar Miller: Wage War on Silence

1961
Frances S. Mossiker: The Queen’s Necklace
Larry McMurtry: Horseman, Pass By
WW. Newcomb,Jr.: The Indians of Texas
Lee McGiffin: Pony Soldier
Myra C. Livingston: I’m Hiding
Walter F. Kidd: Time Turns West
Carl Hertzog: The Samuel H. Kress Collection

1962
Rebecca Smith Lee: Mary Austin Holley
Katherine Anne Porter: Ship of Fools
Joseph Stephen Gallegly: Footlights on the Border
Loula Grace Erdman: Room to Grow
Frederic Will: A Wedge of Words
John Biggers: Ananse: The Web of Life in Africa
Anita Brewer: "Stanley Walker Obituary"

1963
Ellen Maury Slayden: Washington Wife
J.Y. Bryan: Come to the Bower
Joseph Milton Nance: After San Jacinto
Vassar Miller: My Bones Being Wiser
Wanda Jay Campbell: Ten Cousins
Kim Taylor: Tower Poetry Series
Jo AIys Downs (special citation): The Appaloosa
William D.Wittliff (special citation): The Free World
A.C. Greene (co-winner): "No Life Is Lived without Influence"
Larry Grove (co-winner): "Rain and a Day of Reflection"

1964
Frances S. Mossiker: Napoleon and Josephine
Tom Lea: The Hands of Cantu
Ramon Adams: Burs Under the Saddle
Frederic Will: "Reykjavik: 1963"
Bill Porterfield: "The President’s Homeland"
Jeanette Sebring Lowrey: Love, Bid Me Welcome
Thomas Whitbread: Four Infinitives
Kim Taylor: Dreamtigers

1965
Henry and Frances McCallum: The Wire that Fenced the West
William Humphrey: The Ordways
Lois Wood Burkhalter: Gideon Lincecum
Larry McMurtry: "Texas: Good Times Gone, or Here Again"
Paul Crume: "A Newsman Looks at the World’s Week"
Elizabeth Burleson: A Man of the Family
Roger Shattuck: Half Tame
William D.Wittliff: Bob More: Man and Birdman

1966
William A. Owens: This Stubborn Soil
Larry McMurtry (co-winner): The Last Picture Show
Tom Pendleton (co-winner): The Iron Orchard
William J. Goetzmann: Exploration and Empire
Ronnie Dugger: "Claude Eatherly’s Dark Star"
Jim Berry and Glen Castlebury: "Sniper in U.T.Tower"
R.G. Vliet: Events and Celebrations
Charlotte Baker: The Best of Friends
Jo Alys Downs: Charles M Russell

1967
Willie Morris: North toward Home
Robert Flynn: North to Yesterday
WW. Newcomb,Jr.: Rock Art of Texas Indians
Pauline Pinckney: Painting in Texas
John Tackett:"Time Stands Still"
Frederic Will: Planets
Michael Daves: Young Readers Book of Christian Symbolism
William D.Wittliff: Pease Porridge Hot

1968
Tom Lea: A Picture Gallery
Tom Horn (co-winner): The Shallow Grass
Marshall Terry (co-winner): Tom Northway
C.L. Sonnichsen: The Pass of the North
Robert S. Weddle: San Juan Bautista
Bifi Porterfleld: "The Archbishop and the Rebel Priests"
Edgar Simmons: Driving to Biloxi
Gus Tavo: Ride the Pale Stallion
William D.Wittliff: J. Frank Dobie

1969
CC. White and Ada Morehead Holland: No Quittin’ Sense
Willard Marsh: Beachhead in Bohemia
Bifi C. Malone: Country Music, USA
Virginia H.Taylor: The Franco-Texan Land Company
Greg Olds: The Texas Observer McCrocklin Series
Frances Alexander: Pebbles from a Broken Jar
Jo Alys Downs: A Thomason Sketchbook

1970
Gene Schuize: The Third Face of War
Paul Horgan: Whitewater
Richard B. Henderson: Maury Maverick
William C. Holden: The Espuela Land and Cattle Company
Elroy Bode: "Requiem for a WASP School"
R.G.Vliet: the man with the black mouth
Betsy Warren: Indians Who Lived in Texas
John Howard Griffm: The Visual World of Thomas Merton

1971
Charles W. Ferguson: Organizing to Beat the Devil
Nolan Porterfield: A Way of Knowing
Thomas Parke Hughes: Elmer Sperry
John Edward Weems: Dream of Empire
Charles Evans: "The Howard Hughes Series"
Arthur M. Sampley. Selected Poems
Willie Morris: Good Old Bay
Jo Alys Downs: Paul Kane’s Frontier

1972
Joseph C. Goulden: The Superlawyers
John Williams: Augustus
A.C. Greene: The Last Captive
Larry L. King: "The Last Frontier"
Marshall Terry: "The Antichrist"
Gene Shuford: Selected Poems
Byrd Baylor: When Clay Sings
William R. Holman: This Bitterly Beautiful Land

1973
Lewis L. Gould: Progressives and Prohibitionists
Shelby Reed Hearon (co-winner): The Second Dune
Chester L. Sullivan (co-winner): Alligator Gar
Donald E. Green: Land of the Underground Rain
Elroy Bode: "The Making of a Legend"
Michael Blackman: "The Golden Shadows Old West Museum"
Fania Kruger: Selected Poems
Loula Grace Erdman: A Bluebird Will Do
William D.Wittliff: A Christmas Tree; Dallas, the Deciding Years; The Saga of Texas Cookery

1974
John Graves: Hard Scrabble
C.W. Smith: Thin Men of Haddam
Edgar B. Kincaid,Jr.: The Bird Life of Texas
Griffm Smith,Jr.: "Forgotten Places"
J.Y. Bryan: "Frontier Vigil"
Michael Ryan: Threats Instead of Trees
Joan Lowery Nixon: The Alligator Under the Bed
David Holman: Hard Times in Texas

1975
Paul Horgan: Lamy of Santa Fe
Donald Barthelme: The Dead Father
Elizabeth A.H.John: Storms Brewed in Other Men’s Worlds
Archer Fullingim: A Country Editor’s View of Life
Catherine Petroski: "Beautiful My Mane in the Wind"
Kurth Sprague: The Promise. Kept
William R. Holman: Printing Arts in Texas
William D. Wittliff (special citation): The Promise Kept; Texas Heartland

1976
Thomas Thompson: Blood and Money
Max Apple: The Oranging ofAmerica
Lawrence Goodwyn: Democratic Promise
Griffin Smith,Jr.: ’Why Does Doiph Briscoe Want to be Governor?"
Walter McDonald: "The Track"
Walter McDonald: Caliban in Blue
William R. Holman: Baudelaire to Beckett

1977
William Humphrey: Farther Off From Heaven
R.G.Vliet: Solitudes
Frank Vandiver: Blackjack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing
Gary Cartwright: "The Endless Odyssey of Patrick Henry Polk"
Pat Carr: "Indian Burial"
Byrd Baylor: "Guess Who My Favorite Person Is"
Jack Myers: The Family Wars
William D. Wittliff: Hill Country Revisited

1978
Lon Tinkle: An American Original: The Life of J. Frank Dobie
Shelby Hearon: A Prince of a Fellow
Walt W. Rostow: The World Economy: History and Prospect
Ronnie Dugger: "To a Novelist Dying Young"
Carolyn Osbom (co-winner):"The Accidental Trip to Jamaica"
Allen Wier (co-winner): "Cambell Oakley’s Gospel Sun Shines on Singing Grass"
Tess Gallager (co-winner): Under Stars
Bin Ramke:(co-winner) The Difference Between Day and Night
William D. Wittliff: David Novros: Fresco Drawings

1979
Gary Cartwright: Blood Will Tell
Leon Hale: Addison
John Davidson: The Long Road North
Richard West: "Only the Strong Survive"
Laura Furman: "Eldorado"
Albert Goldbarth: Different Fleshes

1980
Michael Mewshaw: Life for Death
Laura Furman: The Glass House
Man Tennant and Michael Allender: The Guadalupe Mountains of Texas
Joel Barna (co-winner): Houston City and Inbetween magazines
Bryan Woolley. (co-winner): columns in Dallas Times Herald
David Hall: "The Smell in Bertha’s House"
Naomi Shihab Nye: Dtfferent Ways To Pray
George Lenox: The Guadalupe Mountains of Texas

1981
Phillip Lopate: Bachelorhood: Tales of the Metropolis
Beverly Lowry: Daddy’s Girl
John Ettling: The Germ of Laziness
Michael Berryhill: "The Death of a Poet"
Doug Crowell: "Work"
Pattiann Rogers: The Expectations of Light
Sidney Feinberg and Jean Paul Tremblay (co-winners):
On the Border
Frank J. Mangan (co-winner): Fort Bliss: An illustrated History
Larry Smitherman (co-winner): Texas Folk Art

1982
Robert A. Caro: The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Allen Hannay: Love & Other Natural Disasters
David J.Weber: The Mexican Frontier 1821-1846
Paul Burka: "The King of the Forest"
Jack Kent (co-winner): The Once-Upon-A-Time Dragon
Ouida Sebestyen (co-winner): IOU’s
Roland E. Sodowsky: "Landlady"
Naomi Shihab Nye (co-winner): Hugging the Jukebox
Thomas Whitbread (co-winner): Whomp and Moonshiver
Barbara and Fred Whitehead: Journey to Pleasant Hill

1983
Michael Mewshaw: Short Circuit
Joe Coomer: The Decatur Road
Lawrence C. Kelly: The Assault on Assimilation
Bryan Woolley: "Where Texas Meets the Sea"
Jack Kent: Silly Goose
Tom Zigal: "Curios"
Albert Goldbarth: Original Light: New and Selected Poems, 1973-1983
Barbara and Fred ‘Whitehead: Clem Maverick

1984
Celia Eckhardt (co-winner): Fanny Wright
John Bloom and Jim Atkinson (co-winners): Evidence of Love
Max Apple: Free Agents
William Roger Louis: The British Empire in the Middle East
Jeff Unger: "Huck at 100"
John Davidson (co-winner): "The Man Who Dreamed Luckenbach"
Drew Jubera (co-winner): "To Find a Mockingbird"
Beverly Lowry: "So Far from the Road, So Long Until Morning"
Rosemary Catacalos: Again for the First Time
Judy Alter: Luke and the Van Zandt County War
George Lenox: The Other Texas Frontier

1985
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Robert A. Fernea: The Arab World: Personal Encounters
Larry McMurtry: Lonesome Dove
Darwin Payne: Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West
Reginald Gibbons: "Mr. Walsh’s Mare"
Andrew Hudgins (co-winner): Saints and Strangers
Walter McDonald (co-winner): Witching on Hardscrabble
Doug Swanson: Woodrow Wilson High School (Dallas) series
C.W Smith: "Uncle Dad"
Paula G. Paul: Sarah, Sissy Weed and the Ships of the Desert
Walter Horton: Dallas Architecture, 1936-1986 1986

1986
William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann: The West of the Imagination
Rosalind Wright: Veracruz
Alfred W Crosby: Ecological Imperialism:The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
Gail Galloway Adams: "Inside Dope"
Edward Hirsch: Wild Gratitude
Brenda Bell: "Life After Death"
George Lenox and Omega Clay: The Panoramic Photography of Eugene 0. Goldbeck

1987
Kenneth B. Ragsdale: The Year America Discovered Texas: Centennial ‘36
Beverly Lowry: The Perfect Sonya
David Montejano: Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
Walter McDonald: The Flying Dutchman
Steve Barthelme: "Zorro"
Mike Cochran: "Texas Fugitives"
Robert Sherrill: "Can Miami Save Itself?"
Ruby C.Tolliver: Muddy Banks

1988
Lawrence Wright: In the New World: Growing Up with America, 1960-1984
William Hauptman: Good Rockin’Tonight
Emily Fourmy Cutrer: The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney
William Olsen: The Hand of God and a Few Bright Flowers
William Hauptman: "Moon Walking"
Evan Moore: "Cult of Terror"
Ronnie Dugger: "Voting by Computer"
David Price: The Song of Things Begun

1989
Ernestine Sewell Linck & Joyce Gibson Roach: Eats: A Folk History of Texas Foods
James Magnuson: Ghost Dancing
Randolph B. Campbell: An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas
Pattiann Rogers: Splitting and Binding
James Hoggard: "The Scapegoat"
Lance Bertelsen: "San Pietro and the ‘Art’ of War"
George Lenox: Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images in the Time of AIDS
Ilo Huller: Introducing Birds to Young Naturalists

1990
Virginia Stem Owens: If You Do Love Old Men
Lionel Garcia: Hardscrub
Nicolas Kanellos: A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Origins to 1940
Daryl Jones: Someone Going Home Late
Frances Lopez: Morillas: Behind the Curtains (trans.)
Rick Bass: "The Legend of Pig-Eye"
Bryan Woolley: "A Family Nightmare"
Scott McCartney: "S&Ls on Main Street"
Zinita Fowler: The Last Innocent Summer

1991
Max Oelschlaeger: The Idea of Wilderness
Sarah Bird: The Mommy Club
Robert S. Weddle: The French Thorn
Andrew Hudgins: The Never-Ending
Lee Merrill Byrd: "Major Six Pockets"
Lawrence Wright: "The Sensual Christian"
Mike Cochran: "Profile of Pinkie Roden"
W. Thomas Taylor: Self-Portrait with Birds
Charlotte Baker Montgomery: The Trail North

1992
David Weber: The Spanish Frontier in North America
Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses
Joel Barna: The See-Through Years: Creation and Destruction in Texas Architecture
Susan Wood: Campo Santo
Christopher Middleton & Leticia Garza-Falcon: The Andalusian Poems (trans.)
William Cobb: "The Atmosphere of Venus"
Dudley Althaus: "The New Awakening - Breaking the Chain of Conquest in Latin America"
Dj. Stout: Mojo
Sherry Garland: Song of the Buffalo

1993
Howard Swindle: Deliberate Indifference
Dagoberto Gilb: The Magic of Blood
William H. Goetzmann: Sam Chamberlain’s Mexican War: The San Jacinto Museum Paintings
Jack Myers: Bhindsided
Lee Merrill Byrd: My Sister Disappears
Elizabeth Franidin: "The Quest of a Projects Kid"
Denise Gamino: "The Lost Children"
Dagoberto Glib: "Nancy Flores"
W. Thomas Taylor: Audobon’s Great National Work: The Royal Octavo Edition of the Birds of America
Dee Stuart: The Astonishing Armadillo

1994
Lawrence Wright: Remembering Satan
Reginald Gibbons: Sweetbitter
Ron Tyler: Prints of the West
Pattiann Rogers: Firekeeper
Donley Watt: Can You Get There From Here?
William J. Cobb: "White Circles"
Mimi Schwartz: "Promised Land"
Bertie Acker: Iphigenia (trans)
Florence George Graves: "The Other Woman"
W. Thomas Taylor: The War Between the United States and Mexico
Barbara Elmore: Breathing Room

1995
Mary Karr: The Liars’ Club
Paul Scott Malone: In an Arid Land
Jewel Mogan: Beyond Telling
Ben Huseman: Wild Rivei Timeless Canyon
Betty Adcock: The Difficult Wheel
Paul Christensen: "Water"
Rick Bass: "The Fires Next Time"
Mike Tolson: "Race to the Future"
Dick Gerdes: The Fourth World (trans)
Ellen McKie: Codex Telleriano Remensis
Diane Stevens: Liza’s Blue Moon

1996
Nolan Porterfield: The Last Cavalier
Sandra Scofield:A Chance to See Egypt
Kathleen Cambor: The Book of Mercy•
Rick Bass: The Book of Yak
Isabel Nathaniel: The Dominion of Lights
Daniel Stern: "The Passion According to St. John by J.S. Bach"
Debbie Nathan: "The Death of Jane Roe"
Mike Tolson: "When Hope Dies"
Dj. Stout: Heaven of Animals
W. Thomas Taylor and Barbara Whitehead: Trading in Santa Fe
J.A. Benner: Uncle Comanche

1997
Tam Holley with Joe Holley: My Mother’s Keeper: A Daughter’s Memoir of Growing up in the Shadow of Schizophrenla
Lisa Sandlin: A Message to the Nurse of Dreams
Joseph Skibell: A Blessing on the Moon
John Miller Morris: El Liano Estacado
Bruce Bond: Radiography
Clifford Hudder: "Misplacements"
Skip Hollandsworth: "The Curse of Romeo and Juliet"
Michael Leahy: "Oswald:A Brother’s Burden"
Debbie Nathan &Willavaldo del Gadfflo: The Moon Will Forever Be a Distant Love (trans)
Jerry Herring: Charles Schorre
David Timmons: This Wild and Vivid Land
Naomi Shihab Nye: Habibi

1998
B.H. Fairchild: The Art of the Lathe
C.W Smith: Understanding Women
Susan Choi: The Foreign Student
William C. Davis: Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
Don Carleton: A Breed So Rare: The Life of JR Parten, Liberal Texas Oil Man, 1896-1992
Marian Schwartz: The Ladies from St. Petersburg: Three Novellas
James Hoggard: Poems from Cuba: Alone Against the Sea
Jane Roberts Wood: "My Mother Had a Maid"
Rick Bass: "Into the Fire"
Patrick Beach: "The Struggle for the Soul of Kreuz Market"
Bryan Woolley: "A Legend Runs Through It"
Pat Mora: The Big Sky

1999
Robert Draper: Hadrian’s Walls
Rick Demarinis: Borrowed Hearts
Ann Rowe Seaman: Swaggart, The Unauthorized Biography
Walt McDonald: Whatever the Wind Delivers
J. Gilberto Quezada, Border Boss: Manual B. Bravo and Zapata County
Jenny Lind Porter: Verses on Death, Helinand of Froidmont (trans.)
Tracy Daugherty: "Comfort Me with Apples"
Steven and Rick Barthelme:"Good Losers"
James Hoggard: "Greetings from Cuba"
Benjamin Aiire Saenz: Grandma Fina and Her Wonderful Umbrellas/La Abuelita Fina y Sus Sombrilas Maravillosas
Neal Barrett Jr: Interstate Dreams
Margerie Adkins West: Angels on High
Molly Renda: On the Plains

2000
Laura Wilson: Hutterites of Montana
Rosa Shand: The Gravity of Sunlight
Richard V. Francaviglia: The Cast Iron Forest
Corey Marks: Renunciation
Edward Snow: Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Glen Pourciau: "Deep Wilderness"
Pamela Colloff: "Sins of the Father"
Joe Holley: "The Hill Country: Love It to Death"
Barbara Elmore: Crookwood
Molly Ivins and Lou DuBose: Shrub
Bradey Hutchison: Willard Clark: Printer and Printmaker
DJ Stout and Julie Savasky: John Graves and the Making of Goodbye to a River

2001
Katherine Tanney: Carousel of Progress
Sarah Bird: The Yokota Officers Club
Larry McMurtry: Sacagawea ‘s Nickname: Essays on the American West
Betje Kiler: Pavie in the Borderlands
Marco Perela: Adventures of a No Name Actor
Wendy Barker and Saranindranath Tagore: Rabindranath Tagore’s Final Poems
Susan Wood: Asunder
Ted Genoways: Bullroarer
larry L. King: "The Book on Willie Morris"
Mike Tolson, James Kimberly, Steve Brewer, and Allen Turner: "A Deadly Distinction"
Tom McNeely: "Tickle Torture"
Carmen Bredeson: Animals that Migrate
Lori Aurelia Williams: When Kambia Elaine Flew from Neptune
Vicki Trego Hill: Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution

2002
Ray Gonzalez:The Underground Heart: A Return to a Hidden Landscape
Rick Bass: Hermit’s Story
Lisa Schamess: Borrowed Light
Michael Gagarin: Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists
Reginald Gibbons: It’s Time
Dan Rifenburgh: Advent
Ben Fountain III: "Near Extinct Birds of the Central Cordillera"
Lawrence Wright: "The Man Behind Bin Laden"
Mark Lisheron and Bill Bishop: "Cities of Ideas"
Kathi Appelt: Where, Where Is Swamp Bear?
Carolee Dean: Comfort
Kinky Friedman: Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
Dj Stout and Julie Savasky: Pedro Paramo

2003
Don Graham: Kings of Texas
Robert Ford: The Student Conductor and Joseph Skibell: The English Disease
Jack Jackson: translated by John Wheat: Almonte’s Texas B. H Fairchild, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
John Blair: The Green Girls and Jennifer Grotz: Cusp
Lynn Hoggard: translator: Nelida by Marie D’Agoult
Steven Barthelme: "Claire"
Jan Reid: "End of the River"
Dick J. Reavis: for a series of articles on homelessness
Betty Lou Phillips: Emily Goes Wild
Brian Yansky: My Road Trip to the Pretty Girl Capital of the World
D J Stout and Julie Savasky: The Texas Cowboy Kitchen

2004
Steven Mintz: Huck’s Raft
Laurie Lynn Drummond: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Held Against You
Bret Anthony Johnston: Corpus Christi
William Wenthe: Not Till We Are Lost
Andres Resendez: Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850
Philip Boehm: translator, Death in Danzig
Mike Nichols: Balaam Gimble’s Gumption
Ben Fountain: "Bouki and the Cocaine"
Zanto Peabody: "The Search for Eddie Peabody"
DJ Stout and Julie Savasky: Maps of the Imagination
Lawrence Wright: "The Kingdom of Silence"
Diane Stanley: Jack and the Beanstalk
Susan Abraham and Denise Gonzales: Cecilia’s Year

2005
Nate Blakeslee: Tuiia: Race,Cocaine and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
Stephen Graham Jones: Bleed into Me
Karen Olsson: Waterloo
Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad: Freedom Colonies
John Bricuth: As Long As It’s Big
DJ Stout and Julia Savasky: photographs by John Dyer, Conjunto
Edward Hegstrom, Tony Freemantle, and Elena Vega: "One Nation: Two Worlds"
Kelly Bennett: Not Norman
Pamela Porter: The Crazy Man
Rick Bass: "The Lives of Rocks"
Pamela Colloff: "Unholy Act"
Harvey Unis: Demosthenes: Speeches 18 and 19

2006
Lawrence Wright: The Looming Tower
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Jerry Thompson: Civil War to the Bloody End
Dominic Smith: The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
Christopher Bakken: Goat Funeral
Marian Schwartz: translator, White on Black
John Spong: "The Good Book and the Bad Book"
Tony Freemantle: "The Gulf Coast Revisited"
Mark Wisniewski: "Prisoners of War"
Tim Tingle: Crossing Bok Chitto
Heather Hepler: Scrambled Eggs at Midnight
Mary Ann Jacob: Timeless Texas