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Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 1999
1988 | 1989 | 1991* | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
*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)
1999 Picture Books - Author
Elizabeti's Doll
Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
Lee & Low Publishing, Inc.
Rupa Raises the Sun
Marsha Wilson Chall
DK Ink Publishing
I Need a Snake
Lynne Jonell
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Letter to the Lake
Susan Marie Swanson
DK Publishing, Inc.
Making the World
Douglas Wood
Simon & Schuster
1999 Picture Books - Illustrator
Out of the Ocean
Debra Frasier
Harcourt Brace & Company
M is for Minnesota
Dori Hillestad Butler
Janice Lee Porter, illustrator
University of Minnesota Press
Coppelia
Margot Fonteyn
Steve Johnson, illustrator
Lou Fancher, illustrator
Harcourt Brace & Company
Music Over Manhattan
Mark Karlins
Jack E. Davis, illustrator
Bantam, Doubleday, Dell
Scarecrow
Cynthia Ryland
Lauren Stringer, illustrator
Harcourt Brace & Company
1999 Children's Non-Fiction
Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I
Jane Resh Thomas
Clarion Books
Gloria Steinem, Feminist Extraordinaire
Caroline Evensen Lazo
Lerner Publications Company
Jane Gibbs: Little Bird That Was Caught
Anne E. Neuberger
Ramsey County Historical Society
1999 Young People's Fiction
Soldier's Heart
Gary Paulsen
Delacorte Press
Sooner
Patricia Calvert
Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster
Hard Ball
Will Weaver
HarperCollins
1999 Information
Hiking Minnesota
John Pukite
Falcon
Bicycle Vacation Guide: Minnesota & Wisconsin
Doug Shidell and Vicky Vogels
Little Transport Press
Birds of Minnesota Field Guide
Stan Tekiela
Adventure Publications
1999 Help and Guidance
Raising Nonviolent Children in a Violent World
Michael Obsatz
Augsburg/Augsburg Fortress
What Teens Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future
Peter L. Benson
Judy Galbraith
Pamela Espeland
Free Spirit Publishing
Sports Medicine for Young Athletes: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Coaches
Institute for Athletic Medicine
Scott Kulstad, editor
Fairview Press
1999 Non-Fiction
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
Sarah Susanka
Kira Obolensky
The Taunton Press, Inc.
Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-sex Relations and the YMCA
John Donald Gustav-Wrathall
The University of Chicago Press
No-Fault Politics: Modern Presidents, The Press, and Reformers
Eugene McCarthy
Times Books/Random House
1999 Creative Non-Fiction
Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map
Barton Sutter
University of Minnesota Press
The Cold-and-Hunger Dance
Diane Glancy
University of Nebraska Press
Arousal: Bodies and Pleasures
Martha Roth
Milkweed Editions
The Ice Palace That Melted Away; Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues to Everyday Life
Bill (William) Stumpf
Pantheon Books/Random House
1999 Nature
Valley of Grass: Tallgrass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Region
Kim Alan Chapman
Adelheid Fischer
Mary Kinsella Ziegenhagen
North Star Press of St. Cloud
Black Bear Country
Michael Furtman
NorthWord Press
Winter Sign
Jim Dale Huot-Vickery
University of Minnesota Press
The Wolves of Denali
L.David Mech
Layne G. Adams
Thomas J. Meier
John W. Burch
Bruce W. Dale
University of Minnesota Press
1999 Illustrated Book
Chased by the Light: A 90-Day Journey
Jim Brandenburg
NorthWord Press
Born to Pull
Gail de Marcken, illustrator
Bob Cary, author
Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers
Toy Farm Tractors
Bill Vossler
Andy Kraushaar, photography
Voyageur Press
1999 History
Building Community, Keeping the Faith: German Catholic Vernacular Architecture in a Rural Minnesota Parish
Fred W. Peterson
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940
Brenda J .Child
University of Nebraska Press
A Place at the Lake
Paul Clifford Larson
Afton Historical Society Press
The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today
Odd S. Lovoll
University of Minnesota Press
Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
Ivan Musicant
Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
1999 Biography
A Lake Superior Lawyer: A Biography of Chester Adgate Congdon
Roy O. Hoover
Superior Partners
Louise's Legacy: Hamm Family Stories
Moira F. Harris, ed.
Pogo Press
Breaking Trail
Edgar E. Hetteen
Jay M. Lemke
Focus Publishing, Inc.
1999 Collected Works
The Talking of Hands: Unpublished Writing by New Rivers Press Authors
New Rivers Press
New Rivers Press
Minnesota Seasons: Classic Tales of Life Outdoors
Scott Bestul, editor
The Cabin Bookshelf
Welcome to Your Life; Writings for the Heart of Young America
David Haynes, editor
Julie Landsman, editor
Milkweed Editions
1999 Fantasy & Science Fiction
Komarr: A Miles Vorkosigan Adventure
Lois McMaster Bujold
Baen Books
Dragon
Steven Brust
Tor Books
Juniper, Gentian, & Rosemary
Pamela Dean
Tor Books
1999 Memoir
The Witness of Combines
Kent Meyers
University of Minnesota Press
Barefoot on Crane Island
Marjorie Myers Douglas
Minnesota Historical Society Press
A Finntown of the Heart
Patricia Johnson Eilola
North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc.
Turning the Feather Around: My Life in Art
George Morrison
as told to Margot Fortunato Galt
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Reluctant Dissenter: An Autobiography
James Patrick Shannon
The Crossroad Publishing Company
1999 Mystery
Iron Lake
William Kent Krueger
Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster Inc.
Closed in Silence
Joan M. Drury
Spinsters Ink
The Big Law
Chuck Logan
HarperCollins
Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders: From the American Chronicles of John H. Watson, M.D.
Larry Millett
Viking
1999 Novels and Short Stories
Rainlight
Alison McGhee
Papier-Mache Press
How the Dead Live: Stories
Alvin Greenberg
Graywolf Press
Trip Sheets
Ellen Hawley
Milkweed Editions
Our Sometime Sister: A Novel
Norah Labiner
Coffee House Press
Range of Light: A Novel
Valerie Miner
Zoland Books, Inc.
Blue Bossa
Bart Schneider
Viking Penguin
1999 Poetry
The Green Tuxedo
Janet A. Holmes
University of Notre Dame Press
Sermon on a Perfect Spring Day: Poems
Philip Bryant
New Rivers Press
Temporary Help: Poems
John Engman [Minneapolis, d. 1996]
Holy Cow! Press
The Old Liberators: New and Selected Poems and Translations
Robert Hedin
Holy Cow! Press
Yesterday Had a Man in It
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Carnegie Mellon University Press
Sacred Vows
U Sam Oeur
Coffee House Press
1999 Fine Press
Roar Shocks
David Rathman
Hermetic Press
Waterfalls of the Mississippi
Richard Fred Arey
Color engravings by Gaylord Schanilec
Minnesota Outdoors Press
*Winner of the 1999 John T. Flanagan Award
The Everyday Magic of Walterlee Higgins
David Haynes
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
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