1999
Leslie Fielder

1996
Pauline Kael

1995
Manny Farber

1994
T.J. Clark

1990
Wallace Stegner

1989
Robert Duncan — poet
William Everson — poet

1988
Herbert Gold

1987
Brian Moore

1986
Norman Corwin

1985
Ray Bradbury

1983
Christopher Isherwood

1982
Neil Simon

1981
Louis L'Amour

1980
Irving Stone

1979
Richard Armour

1978
Ariel and Will Durant

1977
Jessamyn West

2009
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

2008
Strays by Ron Koertge

2007
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata

2006
The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales

2005
Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin

2004
Zipped by Laura and Tom McNeal

2003
Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge

2002
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor

2001
Iris and Walter by Elissa Haden Guest

2000
Weslandia by Paul Fleischman

1999
Petty Crimes by Gary Soto

1998
James Printer: A Novel of Rebellion by Paul Samuel Jacobs

1997
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret

1996
The Van Gogh Café by Cynthia Rylant

1995
Coyote by Gerald McDermott

1994
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (And What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull

1993
Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray? by Randy Powell

1992
Tree of Cranes by Allen Say

1991
The Dragon's Robe by Deborah Nourse Lattimore

1990
Children's Lit: The Five-Finger Discount by Barthe De Clements
Young Adult: The Forty-Third War by Louise Moeri

1989
Children's Lit: Her Own Song by Ellen Howard
Young Adult: Probably Still Nick Swanson by Virginia Euwer Wolff

1988
Young Adult (tie): Street Family by Adrienne Jones, The Return by Sonia Levitin

1987
Children's Fiction: The Girl by Robbie Branscum
Children's Nonfiction: Israel by Helen Hinckley Jones

1986
Children's Lit: King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood
Young Adult: Top Secret by John Reynolds Gardiner

1985
The Butter Battle Book by Theodor Geisel

1983
Young Adult (tie): Birds of Summer by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Ratha's Creature by Clare Bell

2009
Braided Sorrow by Marisela Treviño Orta

2008
Harm's Way by Shem Bitterman

2007
Mayakovsky Takes the Stage by Craig Volk

2006
Devil's Advocate by Donald Freed

2005
The Clean Room by Sarah Ruhl

2004
Body of Faith by Luis Alfaro

2003
Ted Kaczynski Killed People with Bombs by Michelle Carter

2002
Who Loves You, Jimmie Orrio? by Cheryldee Huddleston

2001
The Theory of Everything by Prince Gomolvilas

2000
Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties by Michelle Carter

1999
The Knee Desires the Dirt by Julie Hébert

1998
Polaroid Stories by Naomi Iizuka

1997
How I Spent My Life's Vacation by Rita Nachtmann

1996
Ballad of Yachiyo by Philip Kan Gotanda
Tender is the Night by Simon Levy

1995
Pot Mom by Justin Tanner

1994
Lonely Planet by Steven Dietz

1993
Heroes and Saints by Cherrie Moraga

1992
The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan

1990
Teenage Wedding by John Steppling

1989
Kingfish by Marlene Meyer

1983
Going to See the Elephant by Karen Hensel, Patti Jones, Elana Kent, Sylvia Meredith, Elizabeth Lloyd Shaw, Laura Toffenetti

2009
A Country Called Home by Kim Barnes

2008
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon

2007
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier

2006
Wounded by Percival Everett

2005
The Daydreaming Boy by Micheline Aharonian Marcom

2004
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber

2003
My Happy Life by Lydia Millet

2002
Hell's Bottom, Colorado by Laura Pritchett

2001
Spontaneous by Diana Wagman

2000
Village of A Million Spirits: A Novel of the Treblinka Uprising by Ian Macmillan

1999
Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell

1998
The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss

1997
The Atlas by William T. Vollmann

1996
The Paper Boy by Pete Dexter

1995
Living to be 100 by Robert Boswell

1994
My Horse and Other Stories \by Stacey Levine

1993
Alburquerque by Rudolfo Anaya

1992
Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros

1991
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

1990
Fiction/Novel: Trip Master Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston
Fiction/Short Story: If the River Was Whiskey by T. Coraghessan Boyle

1989
Fiction/Novel: Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
Fiction/Short Story: A Boy Like Astrid's Mother by Mae Briskin

1988
Fiction/General: Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
Fiction/First Novel: Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher

1987
Fiction/General: The Long Walk by George La Fountaine
Fiction/Short Stories: Fair August by Laura Kalpabian
Fiction/First Novel: The Life of Helen Alone by Karen Lawrence

1986
Red Baker by Robert Ward

1985
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr

1983
False Match by Henry Bean

1982
Window Light by Anne Nietzke

1987
Monster Seaweeds, The Story of the Giant Kelps by Mary Daegling

2009
"Before and After" by Karen Olsson (Texas Monthly)

2008
"The Test of Their Lives" (Los Angeles Magazine) by Jesse Katz

2007
"Highway Run" (Harper's) by Jake Silverstein

2006
"The Life and Death of Iris Chang" (San Francisco Chronicle) by Heidi Benson

2005
"Operation Lionheart" (San Francisco Chronicle) by Meredith May

2004
"Places of Darkness" (National Geographic Adventure) by Kira Salak

2003
"Enrique's Journey" (Los Angeles Times) by Sonia Nazario

2002
"Jeanette Kamman's Library for Orphans" (City Pages) by Peter Ritter

2001
"Blue Like Me" (LA Weekly) by Erin Aubry Kaplan

2000
"A Legal Way Out" (Los Angeles Times) by Berry Siegal

1999
"Mr. Maxwell's Baby" (Orange County Register) by Carol Masciola

1998
"A Labor of Love for Boys of McFarland" (Los Angeles Times) by Mark Arax

1997
"The Accident" (The Los Angeles Times Magazine) by J.R. Moehringer

1996
"Shut Up, Little Man" (SF Weekly) by George Cothran

1995
"Mexico's Poet Rebel" (Vanity Fair) by Ann Louise Bardach

1994
"The Mathematics of Discrimination" (Los Angeles Times Magazine) by Margy Rochlin

1993
"The Bride Wore Crimson" (Dallas Life Magazine) by Bryan Woolley

1992
"Voices in the Dark" (Texas Monthly) by Joe Holley
"Letters to the War" (LA Weekly) by Michael Ventura

1991
Peter Brewton —Awarded for his series on the Savings & Loan scandal (Houston Post)

1990
David Shaw (Los Angeles Times)

1989
"Asian Pacific Sketchbook" (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) by Shawn Hubler and Lennie LaGuire

1988
Barry Siegal —Awarded for his series on Gene Therapy Race (Los Angeles Times)

1983
NEWSPAPER WRITING
Phil Kerby — The Los Angeles Times

MAGAZINE WRITING
Jonathan Kirsch — California Magazine

RADIO WRITING
Rita Cash - KFWB

1982
MAGAZINE WRITING — SILVER
"Escape from Colombia" (Mother Jones Magazine) by Lawrence T. Johnson

MAGAZINE WRITING — GOLD
"Who Can Own What America Knows?" (The Nation) by Anita Schiller and Herbert I. Schiller

RADIO WRITING — SILVER
Miriam Bejerre — KNX News Radio

RADIO WRITING — GOLD
Charles Morgan — KPFK-FM

NEWSPAPER WRITING — SILVER
"An Edge in My Voice" (LA Weekly) by Harlan Ellison

NEWSPAPER WRITING — GOLD
"RIPOFF: The Story of Fraud in California's Garment Industry" (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) by Merle Linda Wolin

1983
Most Promising Student Writer: Short Story, "Mind Your Business" (UCLA) by Gretchen Van Lente

1982
Most Promising Writer: Caroline Fraser — poetry

2009
Creative Nonfiction: The Soloist by Steve Lopez
Research Nonfiction: Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang

2008
Creative Nonfiction: The Fragile Edge by Julia Whitty
Research Nonfiction: Poor People by William by T. Vollman

2007
Creative Nonfiction: The Horizontal World by Debra Marquart
Research Nonfiction: The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

2006
Creative Nonfiction: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human by Michael Chorost
Research Nonfiction: Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild

2005
Creative Nonfiction: A Meal Observed by Andrew Todhunter
Research Nonfiction: Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright

2004
Creative Nonfiction: In the Shadow of Memory by Floyd Skloot
Research Nonfiction: Lonely Plants by David Grinspoon

2003
Creative Nonfiction: Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg
Research Nonfiction: Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril by Timothy Ferris

2002
Creative Nonfiction: Many Circles: New and Selected Essays by Albert Goldbarth
Research Nonfiction: Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission by Hampton Sides

2001
Creative Nonfiction: And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner City High School Students by Miles Corwin
Research Nonfiction: Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 by A. J. Langguth

2000
Creative Nonfiction: The Kid (What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Get Pregnant): An Adoption Story by Dan Savage
Research Nonfiction: The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome

1999
Creative Nonfiction: Red Star Sister by Leslie Brody
Research Nonfiction: The Contested Plains by Elliott West

1998
Creative Nonfiction: Burning the Days by James Salter
Research Nonfiction: Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature by Harry Greene

1997
Creative Nonfiction: Bad Land by Jonathan Raban
Research Nonfiction: No Matter How Loud I Shout by Edward Humes

1996
Drowning in the Sea of Love by Al Young

1995
Toulouse-Lautrec, A Life by Julia Frey

1994
President Kennedy: Profile of Power by Richard Reeves

1993
Hole in the Sky by William Kittredge

1992
J. Edgar Hoover, The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry

1991
Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West by Richard Misrach and Myriam Weisang Misrach

1990
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip and Jay Wurts

1989
Borrowed Time, An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette

1988
The Other Side of Time by Brendan Phibbs, M.D.

1986
The Color of the Air by John Sanford

1985
The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer by Jackson Benson

1983
Raven by Tim Reiterman and John Jacobs

2009
Skeleton of the Crow - New and Selected Poems 1978-2008 by Seido Ray Ronci

2008
187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border by Juan Felipe Herrera

2007
Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 by Ralph Angel

2006
Here, Bullet by Brian Turner

2005
In A Landscape of Having to Repeat by Martha Ronk

2004
The Standing Wave by Gabriel Spera

2003
Arcady by Donald Revell

2002
The Mercy Seat: Collected and New Poems 1967-2001 by Norman Dubie

2001
The Cartographer's Tongue by Susan Rich

2000
Garden of Exile by Aleida Rodriguez

1999
The Art of the Lathe by B. H. Fairchild

1998
The Profile Makers by Linda Bierds

1997
Cranial Guitar by Bob Kaufman

1996
Poems 1923-1941 by Carl Rakosi

1995
The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992 by Jack Gilbert

1994
Sesame by Jack Marshall

1993
The Man With Night Sweats by Thom Gunn

1992
Provinces by Czeslaw Milosz

1991
New Dark Ages by Donald Revell

1990
Empathy by Mei-Mei Berseenbrugge

1989
Sun by Michael Palmer

1988
Evening Wind by Robert Mezey

1987
Sapphics Against Anger by Timothy Steele

1986
Taking to Water by Roberta Spear

1985
Tuning by David Antin

1983 The Passages of Joy by Thom Gunn

1983
Ward Richie

2009
Milk by Dustin Lance Black

2008
There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson

2007
Stranger Than Fiction by Zach Helm

2006
Goodnight and Good Luck by George Clooney and Grant Heslov

2005
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman

2004
Mystic River by Brian Helgeland

2003
Adaptation by Charlie and Donald Kaufman

2002
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff

2001
Erin Brockovich by Susannah Grant

2000
Three Kings by David O. Russell

1999
The Opposite of Sex by Don Roos

1998
Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson

1997
Jerry Maguire by Cameron Crowe

1996
Apollo 13 by William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert

1995
The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont

1994
Schindler's List by Steven Zaillian

1993
The Player by Michael Tolkin

1992
Thelma and Louise by Callie Khouri

1991
Reversal of Fortune by Nicholas Kazan

1990
SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL
Crimes and Misdemeanors by Woody Allen

SCREENPLAY ADAPTATION
Drugstore Cowboy by Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost

1989
Running on Empty by Naomi Foner

1988
River's Edge by Neil Jimenez

1982
MOTION PICTURE & DRAMATIC WRITING — SILVER
Station J: An American Epic by Richard France

MOTION PICTURE & DRAMATIC WRITING — GOLD
Missing by Donald Stewart and Costa-Gavras

2009
Breaking Bad: Crazy Handful of Nothin by George Mastras

2008
The Sopranos: The Second Coming by Terence Winter

2007
Mrs. Harris by Phyllis Nagy

2006
Sucker Free City by Alex Tse

2005
Iron Jawed Angels by Sally Robinson, Eugenia Bostwick Singer, Raymond Singer, and Jennifer Friedes

2004
Out of Ashes by Anne Meredith

2003
10,000 Black Men Named George by Cyrus Nowrasteh

2002
The Day Reagan Was Shot by Cyrus Nowrasteh

2001
Nuremberg by David W. Rintels

2000
Strange Justice by Jacob Epstein

1999
The Informant by Nicholas Meyer

1998
Weapons of Mass Distraction by Larry Gelbart

1997
Inside by Bima Stagg

1996
Zooman by Charles Fuller
Hiroshima by John Hopkins

1995
State of Emergency by Susan Black and Lance Gentile

1994
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader — Murdering Mom by Jane Anderson

1993
Citizen Cohn by David Franzoni

1982
TELEVISION WRITING — SILVER
"Stolen Tears" by Sam Egen

TELEVISION WRITING — GOLD
"Blacklist" by Seth Freeman

2009
Selected Poems of Friedrich Holderlin translated by Maxine Chernoff & Paul Hoover

2008
A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud, trans. by Donald Revell

2007
The Carving of Insects by Bian Zhilin, trans. by Mary M. Y. Fung and David Lunde

2006
War Variations by Amelia Rosselli, trans. by Lucia Re and Paul Vangelisti

2005
The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter

2004
Island of the Dead by Jean Frémon, trans. by Cole Swenson

2003
Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950 by Cesare Pavese, trans. by Geoffrey Brock

2002
Antilyrik and Other Poems by Vítezslav Nezval, trans. Jerome Rothenberg and Milos Sovak

2001
Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan by John Felstiner

2000
The Diary of Nickolay Punin 1904-1953 by Jennifer Green Krupala

1998
A Bohemian Youth, trans. by Michael Henry Heim

1997
Kangaroo Notebook by Maryellen Toman Mori

1996
Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom by Red Pine

1995
Collected Novellas of Arno Schmidt by John E. Woods

1994
Poems Performance Pieces Proses Plays Poetics by Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg

1993
Still Life and Other Stories by Wayne Lammers

1992
Gustave Flaubert, Early Writings by Robert Griffin

1991
Niels Lyhne by Tina Nunnally

1990
The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata by Suzanne Jill Levine