Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 1996
1988
| 1989
| 1991*
| 1992
| 1993
| 1994
| 1995
| 1996
| 1997
| 1998
| 1999 | 2000
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012
*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)
1996 Biography
- Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust
Story of Love and Resistance
- Jack Sutin
- Rochelle Sutin
- Lawrence Sutin, editor
- Graywolf Press
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Sandy Berman But Were Afraid To Ask
- Chris Dodge, editor
- Jan DeSirey, editor
- McFarland
- Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist
- Philip Furia
- Oxford University Press
- Norwegian Yankee: Knute Nelson and the Failure of American Politics, 1860-1923
- Millard L. Gieske
- Steven J. Keillor
- The Norwegian-American Historical Association
1996 Children's Non-Fiction
- Bookworks: Making Books by Hand
- Gwenyth Swain, author
- with Minnesota Center for Book Arts
- Jennifer Hagerman, illustrator
- Carolrhoda Books
- A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction
- Marion Dane Bauer
- Clarion Books
- Kwanzaa Karamu: Cooking and Crafts for a Kwanzaan Feast
- Maryann N. Brady
- Barbara Knutson, illustrator
- Robert L. Wolfe, photographer
- Diane Wolfe. photographer
- Carolrhoda Books
- A Drummer-Boy's Diary: Comprising Four Years of Service with the Second Regiment Minnesota Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865
- Newell L. Chester, editor
- North Star Press of Saint Cloud
- Up to the Plate: The All American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Margot Fortunato Galt
- Lerner Publications
- Electrifying Medicine: How Electricity Sparked a Medical Revolution
- Brenda L. Himrich
- Stew Thornley
- Lerner Publications
1996 Collected Works
- Imagining Home: Writing from the
Midwest
- Mark Vinz, editor
- Thom Tammaro, editor
- University of Minnesota Press
- Ringing in the Wilderness: Selections from the North Country Anvil
- Rhoda R. Gilman, editor
- Holy Cow! Press
- Twenty-six Minnesota Writers
- Monica DeGrazia
- Emilio DeGrazia
- Nodin Press
1996 Fantasy & Science Fiction
- Eagan The Unnatural
- David Prill
- St. Martins Press
- Oakdale Headcrash
- Bruce Bethke
- Aspect Warner
- Cat's Paw
- L. A. Taylor
- Ace
1996 Help & Guidance
- Realistic Oil Painting Techniques
- Kurt Anderson
- North Light Books
- Making Sense of Adolescence: How to Parent from the Heart
- John Crudele
- Richard A. Erickson
- Triumph Books
- England as You Like It: An Independent Traveler's Companion
- Susan Allen Toth
- Ballantine Books
1996 History
- Professor Wellstone Goes to Washington
- Dennis J. McGrath
- Dane Smith
- University of Minnesota Press
- Upper Mississippi River History: Fact, Fiction, Legend
- Ron Larson
- Steamboat Press
- Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War
- Ivan Musicant
- HarperCollins
- Gentle Warriors: Clara Ueland and the Minnesota Struggle for Woman Suffrage
- Barbara Stuhler
- Minnesota Historical Society Press
1996 Illustrated Book
- The Architecture of Edwin Lunde
- Dale Mulfinger
- Peter Kerze, photographer
- Eveleth Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Duluth Portfolio
- Craig Blacklock
- Nadine Blacklock
- Pfeifer-Hamilton
- Minnesota, the Spirit of the Land
- Douglas Wood
- Greg Ryan, photographer
- Saint Paul Voyageur Press
1996 Information
- A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota
Ojibwe
- Earl Nyholm
- University of Minnesota Press
- Twin Cities Bicycling
- Richard 'Fred' Arey
- Minnesota Outdoor Press
- Twin Cities Family Fun Spots
- Lisa Sabroski
- Blue Sky Marketing
1996 Minnesota
- Minnesota Gardens: An Illustrated
History
- Susan Davis Price
- Afton Historical Society Press
- At the Headwaters: The 1993 Flood in Southwestern Minnesota: 40 Photos and 40 Essays
- Joseph Amato, editor
- Janet Timmerman, editor
- Southwest State University Press
- Gopher Glory: 100 Years of University of Minnesota Basketball
- Steve Perlstein
- Layers Publishing
1996 Mystery & Detective
- Faint Praise: A Jane Lawless
Mystery
- Ellen Hart
- Seal Press
- The Ditched Blond
- Harold Adams
- Walker Publishing
- Grave Choices
- M. D. Lake, pseudonym for Allen Simpson
- Avon Books
- The Weatherman
- Steve Thayer
- Viking Press
1996 Nature
- Minnesota's Natural Heritage
- John R. Tester
- University of Minnesota Press
- Upland Game Birds
- Dick Sternberg
- Cy Decosse
- Nature Smart: A Family Guide to Nature
- Stan Tekiela
- Karen Shanberg
- Julie Janke, illustrator
- Afton Adventure Publications
- Minnesota's Saint Croix River Valley and Anoka Sandplain
- Daniel Wovcha
- Barbara C. Delaney
- Gerda E. Nordquist
- University of Minnesota Press
1996 Non-Fiction
- Grass Roots: The Universe of Home
- Paul Gruchow
- Milkweed Editions
- Dahcotah; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling
- Barbara J. Arney, designer
- Mary Henderson Eastman, author
- Afton Historical Society Press
- Law v. Life: What Lawyers Are Afraid to Say About the Legal Profession
- Walt Bachman
- Four Directions Press
- Passages of Pride: Lesbian and Gay Youth Come of Age
- Kurt Chandler
- Times Books
1996 Novel
Little
David Treuer
Graywolf Press- Rookery Blues
- Jon Hassler
- Ballantine Books
- Somebody Else's Mama
- David Haynes
- Milkweed Editions
- Patty Jane's House of Curl
- Lorna Landvik
- Bridge Works Publishing
- The Body is Water
- Julie Schumacher
- Soho Press
1996 Personal Voices
- Shepherdess: Notes from the Field
- Joan Jarvis Ellison
- Purdue University Press
- Tales from Jackpine Bob
- Bob Cary
- Pfeifer-Hamilton
- "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor": Humorous Second Opinions for Everyday Life
- Mark DePaolis
- Fairview Press
1996 Poetry
- The Long Experience of Love
- Jim Moore
- Milkweed Editions
- What They Always Were: Poems
- Norita Dittberner-Jax
- New Rivers Press
- Happiness: Poems
- Deborah Keenan
- Coffee House Press
- Silver Dollar: Poems
- CarolAnn Russell
- West End Press
- When the Italians Came to My Town
- Thom Tammaro
- Spoon River Poetry Press
1996 Short Stories
- Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers:
Stories
- Ann Lundberg Grunke
- New Rivers Press
- A .38 Special and a Broken Heart: Short Stories
- Jonis Agee
- Coffee House Press
- Leech Lake When Beaver Was Very Great: Stories to Live By
- Anne M. Dunn
- Sharon L. White, illustrator
- Midwest Traditions
1996 Young Adult Fiction
- Hometown
- Marsha Qualey
- Houghton Mifflin
- River of Champions
- Mary Halvorson
- New Directions Press
- Farm Team
- Will Weaver
- HarperCollins
1996 Younger Children
- Ellis Island: Doorway to Freedom [Winner
for illustrator]
- Karen Ritz, illustrator
- Steven Kroll, author
- Holiday House
- Daddy Played Music for the Cows [Winner
for author]
- Maryann N. Weidt
- Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
- When I Go Camping with Grandma
- Marion Dane Bauer
- Bridgewater Books
- Gathering: A Northwoods Counting Book
- Betsy Bowen
- Little, Brown
- Dance with Me
- Barbara Juster Esbensen
- HarperCollins
- Cat, You Better Come Home
- Steve Johnson, illustrator
- Lou Fancher, illustrator
- Garrison Keillor, author
- Viking
- Snail and Buffalo
- Jim Latimer
- Orchard Books
The Minnesota Book Awards is a Capital City project, led by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, in consortium with the Saint Paul Public Library and the Mayor’s office in the City of Saint Paul. Outreach partners for the Book Awards include the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) and the Minnesota Library Association (MLA).
