The Winners
35th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards
presented Saturday, March 13, 1999
Mercer University
Macon, Georgia.
Poetry Category
Judge: Dr. Laurie O'Brien
Barbara Ras for: Bite Every Sorrow
Fiction Category
Judge: Dr. Ha Jin
Frank Manley for: The Cockfighter
First Novel Category
Judge: Phillip DePoy
Phyllis Alesia Perry for: Stigmata
Creative Non Fiction Category
Judges: Dr. Donna Gessell and Dr, Robert Hill
Category Winner: Jimmy Carter for The Virtues of Aging
Best of Memoir Style Division - John Lewis for Walking With the Wind
Best of Biography Style Division - Mauriel Phillips Joslyn - A Meteor
Shining Brightly
Best of Essay Style Division - Jimmy Carter for The Virtues of Aging
Best of Historical Style Division - Lewis Larson for The Georgia and
South Carolina Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Best of Nature Writing Division - Linton Wright McKnight for Birthflowers
of the Landscape
Best of Cookbook Division - Clara Bell Hooks Eschmann for Remember
When, Family, Friends, Recipes
Children's and Young Adult Literature Category
Judge: Sara Harrell Banks
Category Winner: Lynn Cullen for The Mightiest Heart
Best of Picture Book Division - Lynn Cullen for The Mightiest Heart
Best of Middle Reader Division - Stan Applegate for The Devil's Highway
Best of Young Adult Novel Division - Brad Strickland for The Spectre
from the Magician's Museum
Best of Children's Nonfiction Division - Sandra Markle for Outside
and Inside Allifgators
Barry L. Taran Memorial Award - In this inaugural year the award was given for Junior Achievement in Writing.
Naomi Shavin, 7 years old, for Naomi Wants to Know
Crystaline Joi Prothro, 14 years old, for I'm a Kid But I'm Not Kiddin'
Lifetime Achievement Award
Edmon L. Rowell, Jr., Senior Editor, Mercer University Press since 1980
