38th
Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards
Official Nominations List
(for books published
in calendar 2001)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Dwight E. Humphries
1952-1002
Also, please see event
honoring Mr. Humphries
First Novel
Judge: Angela Harrington Rice
Jeanne Braselton - A False Sense of Well
Being
Julie Cannon - Truelove and Homegrown Tomatoes
Trish Carter - Linger: Lust is Surface
Steven Cowan - GOTHICA: Romance of the Immortals
Estelle Ford-Williamson - Abbeville Farewell
Donna Grice - Sins of the Children
Anthony Grooms - Bombingham
Larry Hand - Whiskers on Pine
J. L. Miles - Roseflower Creek
Deardria Nesbitt - Drama: Where It All Begins
Betty Oglseby Payne - Shine Annie
Karin Slaughter - Blindsighted
Rick Turnbull - Gum's Story
Bill York - Fatal Encounters
Fiction
Judge: Jim Grimsley
Pearl Cleage - I Wish I Had a Red Dress
Brian Egeston - Granddaddy's Dirt
Teri Holbrook - The Mother Tongue
Greg Johnson - Sticky Kisses
Milam Propst - It May Not Leave a Scar
Augusta Trobaugh - Sophie and the Rising Sun
Short Stories
Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur - Discovering the
World: Collected Stories
Creative Nonfiction
Judge: Dr. Jim Bynum
Essays
E. Jean Alexander - Bloody Monday: Fibroid
Tumors... My Ordeal
Thomas Carl Austenfeld - American Women Writers and the Nazis
Jim Brown - Sports Talent: How to Identify and Develop Outstanding Athletes
Jackie K. Cooper - Chances and Choices: Further Tales of a Gentle Southern
Man
Rosemary Daniell - Confessions of a (Female) Chauvinist
Chuck Leavell - Forever Green: The History and Hope of the American Forest
Jack Llewellyn, Ph.D. - Let 'Em Play: What Parents, Coaches & Kids
Need to Know About Youth Baseball
James Nagel - The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle
Kathleen Neal - A Primer of Nonprofit PR
Randolph Loney - A Dream of the Tattered Man
Alan Rauch, Ph.D. - Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality and
the March of Intellect
Biographies
Betty Jean Craige - Eugene Odum: Ecosystem
Ecologist and Environmentalist
Richard L. Eldredge - Celestine Sibley, Reporter
Noel Griese - Arthur W. Page: Publisher, Public Relations Pioneer, Patriot
F. Stuart Gulley - The Academic President as Moral Leader: James T. Laney
at Emory University, 1977–1993
Hubert H. McAlexander - Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life
Leonard Ray Teel - Ralph Emerson McGill:
Voice of the Southern Conscience
Memoirs
Cantor Isaac Goodfriend
- By Fate or By Faith: The Saga of a Survivor
Donna T. Green - Best Reunion
Christi Hai - In the Arms of Grace
Mary N. Johnson - Tar Heels, Red Clay and Antidotes
J. Gordon Long, Ph.D. - Livin' PO in Sandbed Hell
Nanchu Li - Red Sorrow: A Memoir
Henry Dozier Russell (posthumous) - Pearl Harbor Story
Sally Russell - Shatter Me with Dawn
History
Wilbur W. "Pete" Caldwell - The
Courthouse and Depot in Georgia, 1833-1910:
The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair
Edward J. Cashin - Beloved Bethesda: A History of George Whitefield’s
Home for Boys, 1740-2000
Jaclyn Weldon White - The Empty Nursery: The Disappearance
of Haley Hardwick
Self-Help
Jennifer Babbit & Samantha Bank - A
Girl's Guide to a Guy's World
Daniel H. Johnston, Ph.D. - Lessons for Living: Simple Solutions for Life's
Problems
Arline S. Kerman, J.D., Ph.D.- Do You REALLY Want to Be a Stepparent?
Barbara LeBey - Family Estrangements: How they Begin, How to Mend Them,
How to Cope With Them
Cindy R. Mogil - Swallowing a Bitter Pill:How Prescription and Over-the-Counter
Drug
Abuse is Ruining Lives—My Story
Roger Scovil - Get Ahead: Scovil's 7 Rules for Success in Management
Robyn Spizman - The Thank You Book
Bruce Wilkinson - Secrets of The Vine: Breaking Through to Abundance
Inspiration
Judy P. Davis - Discipling A Community
Bruce Feiler - Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books
of Moses
Gloria Langford - Living Water of the 3rd Dimension
Robert Mack - I Believe in Miracles
Consuella C. Newton - The Inner Quest
Cathy Lee Phillips - Gutsy Little Flowers
Marjorie Simon - Now That the Storm is Over
Cookbooks
Tammie Clarke Gibbs - Recipes for Romance
Ted Hafer & Jessica Greene - The Grit Cookbook
Melissa Libby, Editor - Atlanta Cooks
Specialty Books
Al Dixon - The Quotable
South
Steve Penley - Penley
Carol Nourse & Hugh Nourse - The State Botanical Garden of Georgia
Gerald Sweitzer & Kathy Fields - 50 Best Small Southern Towns
Children's and Young Adult
Literature
Judge: Dr. Brad Strickland
Picture Book Division
Joan Anson-Weber - Snuffles Goes to Scotland
Yard
Cathy Goldberg Fishman - On Shabbat
Kay Helgerson - Crinkles the Cricket
Danny Schnitzlein - The Monster Who Ate My Peas
Nonfiction
Judy Cutchins & Ginny Johnston - Giant Predators of
the Ancient Seas
Rabbi Arnold Goodman - Sweet Words to God: A Child's Book of Jewish
Prayers
Dr. Donald A. Harp, Jr. - Small Blessings: A Book of Prayers for Children
Mid-Reader/Young Adult Division
Teri Abrams - Girls Like Me
Evelyn Coleman - Born in Sin
Evelyn Coleman - Circle of Fire
Gail Karwoski - Surviving Jamestown
René Saldaña, Jr. - The Jumping Tree
Ali Spizman - The Thank You Book for Kids
Poetry
Judge: Dr. Cecilia Woloch
Dr. Ted Ary - Grace Freely Given
David Bottoms - Oglethorpe's Dream
Steven Croft - Coastal Scenes
H. Michael Henderson - People Make My World Go Around
Sandra Meek - The Circumference of Arrival
Robin G. White - Resurrection: A Collection of Work
Ralph Tejeda Wilson - A Black Bridge
Stephen Wing - Crossing the Expressway