2002-2011 Connecticut Book Award Winners
2002 Winners
Lifetime Achievement for Service to the Literary Community
Fiction
- Kate Walbert for “Garden of Kyoto”
Memoir/Biography
- Char Miller for “Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism”
Non-fiction
- Cortney Davis for “I Knew a Woman”
- Michael Pollan for “Botany of Desire”
Poetry
- Marilyn Nelson for “Carver: A Life in Poems”
Children’s Author
- Marilyn Nelson for “Carver: A Life in Poems”
Design
- Helen Robinson for “Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson”
2003 Winners
Lifetime Achievement for Service to the Literary Community
Fiction
- Stewart O’Nan for “Wish You Were Here”
Memoir/Biograph
- Bob Smith for “Hamlet’s Dresser”
Non-fiction
- Robert Thorson for “Stone by Stone”
Poetry
- Vivian Shipley for “When There Is No Shore”
Children’s Author
- Bruce Clements for “A Chapel of Thieves”
Children’s Illustrator
- David A. Johnson for “Abraham Lincoln” by Amy Cohn and Suzy Schmidt
Design
- Jessica Helfand for “Reinventing the Wheel”
2004 Winners
Lifetime achievement award
Fiction
- Stewart O’Nan for “Night Country”
Memoir/Biography
- Colin McEnroe for “My Father’s Footprints”
Nonfiction
- Christopher Bickford and Howard R. Lamar for “Voices of the New Republic”
Poetry
- Susan Howe for “The Midnight”
Children’s Author
- Pegi Deitz Shea for “Tangled Threads”
Children’s Illustrator
- Wendell Minor for “Into the Woods”
Design
- Robin Price for “Language of Her Body”
2005 Winners
Lifetime Achievement for Service to the Literary Community
Fiction
- Peter Duval for “Rear View”
Memoir
- Charles Slack for “Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America’s First Female Tycoon”
Non-fiction
- James Gustave Speth for “Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment”
Poetry
- Sophie Cabot Black for “The Descent”
Children’s Author
- Leslie Connor for “Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel”
Children’s Illustrator
- Etienne Delessert for “Who Killed Cock Robin?”
Design
- William Drenttel and Don Whelan for “Lasting Impressons: The Grolier Club Library”
2006 Winners
Lifetime Achievement for Service to the Literary Community
Fiction
- Alice Mattison for “In Case We’re Separated”
Memoir/Biography
- Roya Hakakian for “Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran”
Non-fiction
- Robert Farris Thompson for “Tango: The Art History of Love”
Poetry
- Gabrielle Calvocoressi for “The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart”
Children’s Author
- Philip Caputo for “10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War”
Children’s Illustrator
- Nancy Elizabeth Wallace for “Alphabet House”
Design
- George Kokkinidis with Alexander Isley Inc. for “The Works: Anatomy of a City”
2007 Winners
Lifetime Achievement for Service to the Literary Community
Fiction
- Katharine Weber for “Triangle”
Memoir/Biography
- Denis R. Caron for “A Century in Captivity: The Life and Trials of Prince Mortimer, a Connecticut Slave”
Non-fiction
- David Brion Davis for “Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World”
Poetry
Children’s Author
- Lane Smith for “John, Paul, George & Ben”
Children’s Illustrator
- Barbara McClintock for “Adele and Simon”
Design
- Wendell Minor for “Rossiter: Country Houses of Washington, Connecticut”
2008 Winners
Lifetime Achievement for Service to the Literary Community
Fiction
- Philip Roth for “Exit Ghost”
Memoir/Biography
- Wally Lamb for “I’ll Fly Away”
Non-fiction
- David W. Blight for “Slave No More”
Poetry
- Margaret Gibson for “One Body”
Children’s Author
- Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson for “Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color”
Children’s Illustrator
- Wendell Minor for “Sitting Bull Remembers”
Design
- Howard Gralia for “Drawn to Enchant”
2009 Winners
Lifetime Achievement for Service to the Literary Community
Fiction
- Stewart O’Nan for “Songs for the Missing”
Memoir/Biography
- Steve Courtney for “Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain’s Closest Friend”
Non-fiction
- Jonathan Stevenson for “Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable: Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror”
Poetry
- Dick Allen for “Present Vanishing”
Children’s Author
- Leslie Connor for “Waiting for Normal”
Children’s Illustrator
- Bill Thompson for “Baseball Hour”
Design
- Jessica Helfand for “Scrapbooks: An American History”
2010 Winners
Lifetime Achievement for Service to the Literary Community
Fiction
- Todd Johnson for “The Sweet By and By”
Memoir/Biography
- Susan Campbell for “Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl”
Non-fiction
- John Wargo for “Green Intelligence: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health”
Poetry
- Rennie McQuilkin for “The Weathering”
Children’s Author
- Pegi Deitz Shea for “Noah Webster: Weaver of Words”
Children’s Illustrator
- Matt Collins for “A Picture Book of Harry Houdini”
Design
- Howard L. Gralla for “The Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art”
2011 Winners
Lifetime Achievement for Service to the Literary Community
- Roxanne J. Coady
- Kat Lyons
Fiction
- Michael C. White for “Beautiful Assassin”
Memoir
- Mark Oppenheimer for “Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate”
- Andrew J. Hoffman for “Builder’s Apprentice: A Memoir”
Non-fiction
- Susan P. Shoelwer (and Connecticut Historical Society Staff) for “Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art and Family, 1740-1840”
Poetry
- Elizabeth Alexander for “Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010”
Children’s Author
- Karen Romano Young for “Doodle Bug: A Novel in Doodles”
Children’s Illustrator
- Bill Thomson for “Chalk”
- Andrea Wisnewski for “The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane”
Design
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