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Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 1998
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)
1998 Autobiography & Biography
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life
Paul C. Nagel
Knopf
Minstrel: My Adventures in Newspapering
Jim Klobuchar
University of Minnesota Press
Romanoff--Prince of Rogues: The Life & Times of a Hollywood Icon
Jane Pejsa
Kenwood Publishing
1998 Children's Non-Fiction
Stolen Dreams: Portraits of Working Children
David L. Parker
Lerner Publishing Group
Afrikatrek: A Journey by Bicycle Through Africa
Dan Buettner
Lerner Publishing Group
Great Lives: The American Frontier
Patricia Calvert
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Tomatoes, Potatoes, Corn, and Beans: How the Foods of the Americas Changed Eating Around the World
Sylvia A. Johnson
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Horsepower: The Wonder of Draft Horses
Cris Peterson
Alvis Upitis, illustrator
Boyds Mills Press
1998 Collected Works
Tanzania on Tuesday: Writing by American Women Abroad
Kathleen Coskran, editor
C.W. Truesdale, editor
New Rivers Press
North Writers II: Our Place in the Woods
John Henricksson, editor
University of Minnesota Press
The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading
Michael Dorris, editor
Emilie Buchwald, editors
Milkweed Editions
1998 Creative Non-Fiction
North Enough: Aids and Other Clear-Cuts
Jan Zita Grover
Graywolf Press
The West Pole
Diane Glancy
University of Minnesota Press
The Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets
Jim Northrup
Kodansha
1998 Fantasy & Science Fiction
From the End of the Twentieth Century
John M. Ford
NESFA Press
Freedom and Necessity
Stephen Brust
Emma Bull
TOR
Emerald House Rising
Peg Kerr
Warner Books
1998 Fun & Humor
Growing Up Lutheran: What Does This Mean?
Janet Letnes Martin
Suzann Johnson Nelson
Caranga Press
Having Fun with Baseball Nicknames
Phil Blazovich
MLC Publications
Burma-Shave: The Rhymes, the Signs, the Times
Bill Vossler
North Star Press of St. Cloud
1998 Help & Guidance
Taking Charge of My Mind and Body: A Girl's Guide to Outstmarting Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking, and Eating Problems
Gladys Folkers
Jeanne Engelmann
Marie Olofsdotter, illustrator
Free Spirit Publishing
Brave New Girls: Creative Ideas to Help Girls Be Confident, Healthy, & Happy
Jeanette Gadeberg
Fairview Press
The Therapy Answer Book: Getting the Most Out of Counseling
Kathleen J. Papatola
Fairview Press
1998 History
Icy Pleasures: Minnesota Celebrates Winter
Paul Clifford Larson
Afton Historical Society
The Loaf that Became a Legend: A History of Saint John's Bread
Kenneth M. Jones
Diane Deale Jones
North Star Press of St. Cloud
Salt Lantern: Traces of an American Family
William Towner Morgan
University of Iowa Press
1998 Illustrated Books
Connections & Reflections: Mothers & Daughters in Their Own Light, in Their Own Words
Catherine Koemptgen
Pfeifer Hamilton
15 Years in a Photographer's Life
Nadine Blacklock
Blacklock Nature Photography
Death of the Dream: Classic Minnesota Farmhouses
William G. Gabler
Afton Historical Society Press
1998 Information
Minnesota Business Almanac: Minnesota's Guide to Business, 1997-1998 edition, A publication of Twin Cities Business Monthly, MSP Communications
Greg Breining
Fodor's Travel Publications/Compass American Guides
36 One-Day Discovery Tours: Fun Places to Drive Within and From Minneapolis and St. Paul, new and expanded edition
Carvel Lee
Nodin Press
1998 Mystery & Detective
Practice to Deceive
David Housewright
Norton
Term Limits
Vince Flynn
Cloak & Dagger Press
Murder in the Air
Ellen Hart
Ballantine Books
1998 Nature
A Wild Neighborhood
John Henricksson
Betsy Bowen, illustrator
University of Minnesota Press
Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild
Paul Gruchow
Milkweed Editions
*Winner of the 1998 John T. Flanagan Award
Sugartime: The Hidden Pleasures of Making Maple Syrup with a Primer for the Novice Sugarer
Susan Carol Hauser
The Lyons Press
1998 Non-Fiction
Cleaning Up: The Story Behind the Biggest Legal Bonanza of Our Time
David Lebedoff
The Free Press
Golf Beats Us All (and So We Love It)
Joseph A. Amato
Johnson Books
Death in the Dark: Midnight Executions in America
John D. Bessler
Northeastern University Press
The Spirit of the Sixties: The Making of Postwar Radicalism
James J. Farrell
Routledge
The History of Money: From Sandstone to Cyberspace
Jack Weatherford
Crown Publishers
1998 Novel
Floating Kingdom: A Novel
George Rabasa
Coffee House Press
Bitter Grounds
Sandra Benitez
Hyperion
Errands
Judith Guest
Ballantine Books
The Dean's List
Jon Hassler
Ballantine Books
All American Dream Dolls
David Haynes
Milkweed Editions
Your Oasis on Fame Lake
Lorna Landvik
Fawcett Columbine
1998 Personal Papers
The Far Islands and Other Cold Places: Travel Essays of a Victorian Lady
Elizabeth Taylor
James Taylor Dunn, editor
Pogo Press
Dear Poppa: The World War II Berman Family Letters
Compiled by Ruth Berman
udy Barett Litoff, editor
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Views from the Publisher's Desk: Editorials by Elmer L. Andersen, Former Governor of Minnesota
Elmer L. Andersen
Nodin Press
1998 Picture Books
If You Were Born a Kitten
Marion Dane Bauer
Simon & Schuster Books for Younger Readers
Is That You, Winter?: A Story
Stephen Gammell
Harcourt, Brace & Company/Silver Whistle
Shingebiss: An Ojibwe Legend Retold
Betsy Bowen, illustrator
Nancy Van Laan, author
Houghton Mifflin
The Lost and Found House
Steve Johnson, illustrator
Lou Fancher, illustrator
Michael Cadnum, author
Viking
The Year of the Ranch
Alice McLeran
Viking
Wanted: Best Friend
A.M. Monson
Dial Books for Young Readers
Rosie's Fiddle
Phyllis Root
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Celebration!
Jane Resh Thomas
Hyperion Books for Children
1998 Poetry
Selected Poems, 1965-1995
Michael Dennis Browne
Carnegie Mellon Press
Morning Poems
Robert Bly
HarperCollins
Faith in Ice Times: Poems
Mark Christensen
Loonfeather Press
Home from the Field: Collected Poems
Leo Dangle
Spoon River Poetry Press
Fishing for Myth
Heid E. Erdrich
New Rivers Press
Bonfire: Poems
Connie Wanek
New Rivers Press
1998 Short Stories
Small Invasions: Stories
Beth Weatherby
Plains Press
Grandmother's Gift: Stories from the Anishinabeg
Anne M. Dunn
Holy Cow! Press
The Natural Father
Robert Lacy
New Rivers Press
Crowning the Queen of Love: Short Stories
Susan Welch
Coffee House Press
1998 Young Adult Fiction
The Broken Blade
William Durbin
Delacorte Press
Wolf Shadows
Mary Casanova
Hyperion Books for Children
Lone Wolf
Kristine L. Franklin
Candlewick Press
Thin Ice
Marsha Qualey
Delacorte Publishing
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