Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 1998
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| 1991*
| 1992
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| 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)
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
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).
