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Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 2001
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)
A Man's Reach
Gov. Elmer L. Andersen, author and Lori Sturdevant, editor
University of Minnesota Press
2001 Anthology & Collections
Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson
Sheila Coghill, co-editor
Thom Tammaro, co-editor
University of Iowa Press
33 Minnesota Poets
Emilio DeGrazia, co-editor
Monica DeGrazia, co-editor
Nodin Press
100 Years of Vintage Farm Tractors
Michael Dregni, editor
Voyageur Press
2001 Autobiography & Memoir
Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
Cheri Register
Minnesota Historical Society Press
The Barn at the End of the World
Mary Rose O'Reilley
Milkweed Editions
Eccentric Islands
Bill Holm
Milkweed Editions
Honor the Grandmothers: Dakota and Lakota Women Tell Their Stories
Sarah Penman, editor
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Places in the World a Person Could Walk
David Syring
University of Texas Press
2001 Children
The Hunter
Mary Casanova, author
Ed Young, illustrator
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Bonaparte
Marsha Wilson Chall, author
Wendy Anderson Halperin, illustrator
DK Publishing
Everything I Know About Pirates
Tom Lichtenheld, author & illustrator
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Grandma's Gone to Live in the Stars
Max Haynes, author & illustrator
Albert Whitman
2001 Fine Press
The Summer House
Patricia Hampl, author
Harold Kyle, book artist
Michael Lizama, book artist
Mary Jo Pauly, book artist
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Emerson Wulling: Printer for Pleasure
Gaylord Schanilec, author & book artist
Midnight Paper Sales Press
Gatherin Black Walnuts
Robert Coats, author
Regula Russelle, book artist
Cedar Fence Press
May 31, 1944
Isabella Leitner, author
Gerson Leiber, book artist
Philip Gallo, book artist
Hermetic Press/Oil Creek Press
Velocities of the Possible
Gonzalo Rojas, author
John Oliver Simon, translator
Scott King, book artist
Red Dragonfly Press
2001 History and Biography
The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families
Steven R. Hoffbeck
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China
Wang Ping
University of Minnesota Press
Classic Fishing Lures and Tackle
Eric L. Sorenson
Voyageur Press
Cooperative Commonwealth: Co-ops in Rural Minnesota, 1859-1939
Steven J. Keillor
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Dust: A History of the Small and Invisible
Joseph Amato
University of California Press
2001 Nature & Minnesota
Wild Rice Cooking: History, Natural History, Harvesting, and Lore
Susan Carol Hauser
Lyons Press
Growing Home: Stories of Ethnic Gardening
Susan Davis Price
University of Minnesota Press
A Plague of Frogs
William Souder
Hyperion Books
The Wolves of Minnesota
L. David Mech, editor
Voyageur Press
2001 Novel & Short Story
Shadow Baby
Alison McGhee
Harmony Books
Glory Goes and Gets Some
Emily Carter
Coffee House Press
The Pact
Walter J. Roers
New Rivers Press
Revenge of Underwater Man
Jarda Cervenka
University of Notre Dame Press
Welcome to My Planet: Where English Is Sometimes Spoken
Shannon Olson
Viking
2001 Poetry
Turtle Pictures
Ray Gonzalez
University of Arizona Press
Coming Back to the Body
Joyce Sutphen
Holy Cow! Press
Rafting on the Water Table
Susan Steger Welsh
New Rivers Press
The Winter Keeper
Eva Hooker
Chapiteau Press
The Winter Road
Louis Jenkins
Holy Cow! Press
2001 Popular Fiction
Dark Coulee
Mary Logue
Walker and Company
Easy Prey
John Sandford
G. P. Putnam's Sons
The Last Good Man
Kathleen Eagle
William Morrow
Six Crooked Highways: A Novel
Wayne Johnson
Harmony Books
2001 Young Adult
Curse of a Winter Moon
Mary Casanova
Hyperion Books for Children
Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick Press
Girls Think of Everything
Catherine Thimmesh
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Journal of Otto Peltonen
William Durbin
Scholastic
Mummies, Bones and Body Parts
Charlotte Wilcox
Lerner Publishing Group
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