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Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 1994
1988 | 1989 | 1991* | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
*Note: No awards were held in 1990.
Please also note that the award winners listed for each year were awarded in the year following publication (i.e. winners published in 2007 were announced in 2008 at the 20th Annual Minnesota Book Awards).
(Winners indicated by the 
icon; all others are Finalists)
1994 Minnesota Community of the Book Special Award Honorees
A Guide to Minnesota Writers: Expanded and Revised
Ron Barron
Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, 1993
Burgess International Group, distributor
Minnesota's Literary Visitors
John Theodore Flanagan
Moira F. Harris
Pogo Press
Discover Minnesota: An Annotated Bibliography of Books for Children in Grades K-9
Marianne Miller Hudec
Burgess International Group
1994 Collected Works
Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest
Mark Vinz, editor
Thom Tammaro, editor
University of Minnesota Press
Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories
Pam Keesey, editor
Cleis Press
Do You Know Me Now?
Elisabeth Rosenberg, editor
Andreas Rosenberg, illustrator
Megan O'Leary, illustrator
Normandale Community College
What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread: Poems
Alden Nowlan
Thomas R. Smith, editor
Nineties Press
Aly Press Center, distributor
1994 Fantasy & Science Fiction
Ring of Swords
Eleanor Arnason
TOR Books
Agyar
Steven Brust
TOR, 1993
Growing Up Weightless
John M. Ford
Bantam Books/Spectra
Nevernever
Will P.J.F. Shetterley
Jane Yolen Books
Calling on Dragons
Patricia C. Wrede
Jane Yolen Books
1994 Fiction
A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Sandra Benitez
Coffee House Press
Strange Angels
Jonis Agee
Ticknor & Fields
Dear James
Jon Hassler
Ballantine Books
Right By My Side: A Novel
David Haynes
New Rivers Press
Blue Bel Air
Brett Laidlaw
W.W. Norton
No Matter What
Mary Saracino
Spinsters Ink
1994 History
The Hike Into the Sun: Memoir of an American Soldier Captured on Bataan in 1942 and Imprisoned by the Japanese until 1945
Bernard T. FitzPatrick
John A. and Sweetser
McFarland & Company
White-Man-Runs-Him (Crow Scout with Custer)
Dennis W. Harcey
Brian R. Croone
with Joe Medicine Crow
Evanston Publishing
Snelling: Minnesota's First Family
Barbara K. Luecke
John C. Luecke
Egan, Grenadier
Clare of Assisi: A Biographical Study
Ingrid J. Peterson
Franciscan Press
What This Awl Means: Feminist Archeology of a Wahpeton Dakota Village
Janet D. Spector
Chris C. Cavender, contributor
Diane M. Stolen, contributor
Mary K. Whelan, contributor
Randall M. Withrow, contributor
Minnesota Historical Society Press
1994 Illustrated Book
Lake Superior Images
Craig Blacklock
Blacklock Nature Photography
Brother Wolf: A Forgotten Promise
Jim Brandenburg
NorthWord Press
Native Nations: First Americans as Seen by Edward S. Curtis
Christopher Cardozo, editor
George P. Horse Capture, foreword
Little Brown & Company: A Bullfinch Press Book
Landscape of Ghosts
Bill Holm
Bob Firth, photographer
Voyageur Press
1994 Information
Writing for Business: Helpful, Easy-to-Apply Advice for Everyone Who Writes on the Job
Stephen Wilbers
The Good Writing Press
Minneapolis-St. Paul: People Place and Public Life
John S. Adams
Barbara J. VanDrasek
University of Minnesota Press
30 Steps to Becoming a Writer--and Getting Published: The Complete Starter Kit for Aspiring Writers
Scott Edelstein
Writer's Digest Books
Bringing Baby Home: An Owner's Manual
Laura Zahn
Down to Earth
1994 Minnesota
Basic Needs: A Year with Street Kids in a City School
Julie Landsman
Milkweed Editions
The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus: The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream
Joseph Anthony Amato
University of Minnesota Press
Knowing Where the Fountains Are: Stories and Stark Realities of Homeless Youth
Kevin Cwayna
Deaconess Press
Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of Labor Movement
Peter Rachleff
SouthEnd Press
1994 Mystery & Detective
Black Dreams
Kate Green
HarperCollins
The Other Side of Silence
Joan Drury
Spinsters Ink
Cry Vengeance
Ron Handberg
Carol Publishing Group
A Killing Cure: A Jane Lawless Mystery
Ellen Hart
Seal Press
Drawing Dead
Pete Hautman
Simon & Schuster
Still Explosion
Mary Logue
Seal Press
1994 Non-Fiction
News From the Border--A Mother's Memoir of her Autistic Son
Jane Taylor McDonnell
Paul McDonnell, afterword
Tickner & Fields
Transforming a Rape Culture
Emilie Buchwald, editor
Pamela Fletcher, editor
Martha Roth, editor
Milkweed Editions
How to Stop Crime
Anthony V. Bouza
Plenum Press
Birth of a New World: An Open Moment for International Leadership
Harlan Cleveland
Robert S. McNamara, foreword
Jossey-Bass
Medical Cost Crisis: A Common-Sense Solution
Don W. Larson
Bond Publishing
1994 Older Children's Fiction
Revolutions of the Heart
Marsha Qualey
Houghton-Mifflin
A Taste of Smoke
Marion Dane Bauer
Clarion Books
Champ Hobarth
Judith Bernie Strommen
Henry Holt
Striking Out
Will Weaver
HarperCollins
1994 Older Children's Non-Fiction
To the Top of the World: Adventures with Arctic Wolves
Jim Brandenburg
JoAnn Bren Guernsey, editor
Walker
Hillary Rodham Clinton: A New Kind of First Lady
JoAnn Bren Guernsey
Lerner Publications
American Woman: Hidden in History, Forging the Future, 2nd ed.
Roger A. Hammer
Island-in-the-Universe Woman, editing and foreword
Christie Nelson-Weyh, principal illustrator
Britta Hallin, illustrator
Paul Moran, illustrator
Ta-coumba Aiken, illustrator
Place in the Woods
Ininatig's Gift of Sugar: Traditional Native Sugarmaking
Laura Waterman Wittstock
Dale Kakkak, photographer
Michael Dorris, foreword
Lerner Publications
1994 Personal Voices
Walking the Rez Road
Jim Northrup
Med Aerol, foreword
Voyageur Press
Firesticks: A Collection of Stories
Diane Glancy
University of Oklahoma Press
Bumming with the Furies: Out on the Trail of Experience
Peter M. Leschak
Mark Coyle, illustrator
Fred Yiran, illustrator
Patrick Dwyer, illustrator
North Star Press of Saint Cloud
Meeting the Neighbors: Sketches of Life on the Northern Prairie
W. Scott Olsen
North Star Press of Saint Cloud
1994 Poetry
The Book of Names
Barton Sutter
BOA Editions
The Second Thing I Remember: A Collection of Poems
Judith Hougen
New Rivers Press
Boars' Dance: Poems
Joe Paddock
Holy Cow! Press
Feast
CarolAnn Russell
Marce Wood, illustrator
Loonfeather Press
Caution, Thin Ice: Poems
Larry Schug
NorthStar Press of Saint Cloud
The Book of Hearts
Karen Herseth Wee
Black Hat Press
1994 Younger Children
Tracks in the Wild
Betsy Bowen
Little, Brown
Sungura and Leopard: A Swahili Trickster Tale
Barbara Knutson
Little, Brown
Playful Slider: The North American River Otter
Barbara Juster Esbensen
Mary Barnett Brown. illustrator
Little, Brown
Monster Mama
Liz Rosenberg
Stephen Gammell, illustrator
Philomel
Sato and the Elephants
Juanita Havill
Jean Tseng, illustrator
Mou-sien Tseng, illustrator
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Moose and Friends
Jim Latimer
Carolyn Ewing, illustrator
Scribner
A Picture Book of Anne Frank
David Adler
Karen Ritz, illustrator
Holiday House
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