36th
Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards
Year 2000
Nominations List
(for books published in calendar 1999)
Creative Non Fiction
Judge: Donna Gessell
Memoir Style Division
Philip Lee Williams - Crossing Wildcat Ridge
Eva Rita Koch - Growing Into My Soul
Rosemary Daniell - Fatal Flowers: On Sin,
Sex, and Suicide in the Deep South
James Kilgo - The Hand-Carved Creche and Other Christmas Stories
John Head - We Were the Land's
Janisse Ray - Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Essay Style Division
Dexter Weaver - Automatic Y'All
Ronda Rich - What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should)
Jimmy Carter - Sources of Strength
Bill Boyd - Fat, Dumb, and Happy Down in Georgia
Biography Style Division
June Hopkins - Harry Hopkins
Reg Murphy - Uncommon Sense: The Achievement of Griffin Bell
Richard Hyatt - Mr. Speaker: The Biography of Tom Murphy
Bob Short - Everything is Pickrick: The Life of Lester Maddox
Andrew M. Manis - A Fire You Can't Put Out
Historical Style Division
Thomas Dyer - Secret Yankees
Kristen Smith - The Lines Are Drawn: Political Cartoons
Patrick Allen - Literary Savannah
John Lewis - Walking
With The Wind
Jaclyn W. White - Whisper To The Black Candle
Mike Cheatham - Your Friendly Neighbor
Herb Bridges - Gone With the Wind: A Three Day Premier
Lynn Willoughby - Flowing Through Time
W. Warren Rogers, Jr. - Confederate Home Front
Harvey K. Newman - Southern Hospitality
Self-Help Division
Michelle Casto - Get Smart! About Modern
Romantic Relationships
Max Carey - The Superman Complex: Achieving The Balance That Leads To True
Success
Lyndon D. Waugh, M.D. and Letitia Sweitzer - Tired of Yelling:Teaching Our
Children to Resolve Conflict
Poetry
Judge: Dr. Bettie Sellers
Linda Lee Harper - Blue Flute
Linda Lee Harper - Buckeye
Neca Stoller - Bound By Red Clay
Rodriquez L. Hollimon - The Coming of Dawn
Veronica Brooks - A New Beginning
Stephen Corey - Mortal Fathers & Daughters
Sarah Gordon - Distances
David Bottoms - Vagrant Grace
Fiction
Judge: Thomas Fortenberry
Jim Grimsley - Comfort & Joy
Augusta Trobaugh - Resting in the Bosom of the Lamb
Margaret Johnson-Hodge - A New Day
Beverly Connor - Skeleton Crew
Janice Daugharty - Like a Sister
Ha Jin - Waiting
JoAllen Bradham - Some Personal Papers
Judy & Takis Iakovou - There Lies A Hidden Scorpion
First Novel
Judge: Phyllis Alesia Perry
Maria Hodges - The Promise
Annabel Alderman - Family Man
Milam Propst - A Flower Blooms on Charlotte Street
William C. Harris - Delirium of the Brave
Children's and Young Adult
Literature
Judge: Charles Ghigna
Picture Book Division
Susan Stockdale - Nature's Paintbrush
Kim L. Seigelson - In the Time of the Drums
Middle Reader Division
Betsey Duffey - Alien For Rent
Sandra Markle - Outside and Inside Kangaroos
Rick Lindner - Up In Front: Public Speaking for Grades 4-6
Young Adult Division
Gail Karwoski - Seaman: The Dog Who Explored
the West with Lewis & Clark
Stan Applegate - Natchez Under-the-Hill
Sara Harrell Banks - Abraham's Battle