Lambda Literary Awards
Biographies/Memoirs (As presented by the LAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION.)
Anthologies   Arts and Culture   Autobiography/Memoir   Belle Lettres  Biography   Children/Young Adult   Drama   Erotica   Fiction (Anthology, Gay Male, Lesbian)   Fiction Debut  (Gay Male, Lesbian)   Humor   Mystery (Gay Male, Lesbian)   Nonfiction   Photography/Visual Arts   Poetry (Gay Male, Lesbian)   Religion/Spirituality   Romance   SF/Fantasy/Horror   Small Press   Studies (GLBT)   Transgender/Bisexual   Editor's Choice and Other Awards
1993   1994   1995   1996   1997   1998   2000   2001   2002   2004   2005 2006 (Gay, Lesbian)  2007 (Gay, Lesbian)  2008 (Gay, Lesbian)
2008 Gay (Finalists/Nominations) Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Finalists Sheila Rowbotham (Winner) Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love Nominees 2008 Lesbian (Finalists/Nominations) Finalists Maureen Seaton (Winner) Sex Talks to Girls Nominees 2007 Gay (Finalists/Nominations) Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Finalists Kevin Sessums (Winner) Mississippi Sissy   Aaron Raz Link with Hilda Raz What Becomes You Kenny Fries The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory Mark Doty Dog Years Martin Duberman The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein Thom Bierdz Forgiving Troy Nominees Arnoldo Cruz-Malave with Juanito Hernandez and Keith Haringand Queer Latino Testimonio Charles Suhor, ed. with Stephen Sure The Book of Rude Corey Taylor Naked David M. Gross Fast Company David Valdes Homo Domesticus Eduardo Machado Tastes Like Cuba Eugene Hayworth Fever Vision Julie Kavanaugh Nureyev Len Richmond Naked in Paradise Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster Brian Howard: Portrait of a Failure N.A. Diaman Following My Heart Randall Kenan The Fire This Time Randall Neece Gone Today, Here Tomorrow Robert A. Hoffman Surrounded By Insanity Robert Julian Postcards from Palm Springs Robert Klitzman When Doctors Become Patients Rodney Lofton The Day I Stopped Being Pretty Timothy Conigrave  Holding the Man Troy Carlyle  The Remainder of My Life Wade Rouse Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler 2007 Lesbian (Finalists/Nominations) Finalists Nicola Griffith (Winner) And Now We Are Going to Have a Party   Amy Hoffman  An Army of Ex-Lovers Janet Malcolm Two Lives: Gertrude & Alice Jaqueline Taylor  Waiting for the Call Marusya Bocurkiuw  Comfort Food for Breakups Nominees Beren de Motier The Brides of March Carol Curoe and Robert Curoe  Are There Closets in Heaven Fay Jacobs Fried & True Janine Avril  Nightlight Judy Gold and Kate Moira Ryan  25 Questions for a Jewish Mother Sheila R. Morris Deep in the Heart Susan Sherman  America's Child 2006 Gay (Finalists/Nominations) Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Finalists Bernard Cooper (Winner) The Bill from My Father: A Memoir   Alan Bennett Untold Stories Jonathan G. Silin My Father's Keeper: The Story of a Gay Son and His Aging Parents Kim Powers The History of Swimming: A Memoir Patrick Moore Tweaked: A Crystal Memoir  Nominees Aiden Shaw My Undoing Anthony Rapp Without You Bruce Benderson The Romanian Dave White Exile in Guyville Edmund White My Lives Edward Field The Man Who Married Susan Sontag Elizabeth Adams Going to Heaven James McGreevey The Confession James T. Sears Behind the Mask of the Mattachine John Carlyle Under the Rainbow Josh Kilmer-Purcell I Am Not Myself These Days Kevin Jennings Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son Leonard Barkan Satyr Square Lev Raphael Writing a Jewish Life Matty Lee 35 Cents Reichen Lehmkuhl Here's What We'll Say Rigoberto Gonzalez Butterfly Boy Roy Simmons and Damon Dimarco Out of Bounds Sylvere Lotringer David Wojnarowicz T. J. Parsell Fish 2006 Lesbian (Finalists/Nominations) Finalists Alison Bechdel (Winner) Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic   Barbara Sjoholm Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer Bettina Aptheker Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel Catherine Friend Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn Hillary Carlip Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan Nominees Carol Schmidt and Norma Hair Falling in Love with San Miguel Catherine McCall Lifeguarding Gillian Kendall Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet Giti Thadani Mobius Trip J. David Riva A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Lori Soderlind Chasing Montana Norma Posy Norma's Voice Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio Eros William J. Mann Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn 2005 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Sherill Tippins (Winner) February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof In Wartime America   Diana Souhami Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art John Geiger Nothing Is True - Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin Joshua Gamson The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco Mary Meigs and Lise Weil Beyond Recall 2004 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Alexis De Veaux (Winner) Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde    David P. Keys, John F. Galliher, and Wayne H. Brekhus Laud Humphreys: Prophet Of Homosexuality And Sociology Deborah Jowitt Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance Douglas Crase Both: A Portrait in Two Parts Evelyn C. White Alice Walker: A Life 2003 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Andrew Wilson (winner) Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith   John D'Emilio Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin Keith Fleming Original Youth: The Real Story of Edmund White's Boyhood Lois W. Banner Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle Robert A. Schanke That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes De Acosta 2002 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. David Kaufman (winner) Ridiculous: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam   Carmen L. Oliveira Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota De Macedo Soares Suzanne Rodriguez Wild Heart: A Life : Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris Jerry Rosco Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography Thomas Wirth, ed. Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent 2001 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Barry Werth (winner) The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal   Alison Lurie Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson Nancy Milford Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay Margaret Reynolds, ed. The Sappho Companion Caroline Zilboorg The Masks of Mary Renault: A Literary Biography 2000 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Douglas Murray (winner, gay men's) Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas Judith Barrington (winner, lesbian) Lifesaving: A Memoir 1999 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Jesse Green (winner, gay men's) The Velveteen Father: An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood Diana Souhamii (winner, lesbian) The Trials of Radclyffe Hall 1998 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. William J. Mann (winner, gay men's) Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star Alison Bechdell (winner, lesbian) The Indelible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for 1997 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Rafael Campo (winner, gay men's) The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire Barbara J. Wilson (winner, lesbian) Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood 1996 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Fenton Johnson (winner, gay men's) Geography of the Heart: A Memoir Doris Grumbach (winner, lesbian) Life in a Day 1995 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Lyle Leverich (winner, gay men's) Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams Erica Fischer, Edna McCown (Translator) (winner, lesbian) Aimee and Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 1994 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Abraham Verghese (winner, gay men's) My Own Country: A Doctor's Story Renate Stendahl (winner, lesbian) Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures: A Photobiography 1993 Click on author's name to see DREAMWalker Group profile. Click on book title to purchase from Amazon.com or use store banners at right to purchase from other vendors. Edmund White (winner, gay men's) Genet: A Biography Josyanne Savigneau (winner, lesbian) Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life