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9th Lambda Literary Awards

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The 9th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1997 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1996.

Special awards

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CategoryWinner
Editor's ChoiceDonald Windham, Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965
Pioneer AwardHelaine Harris, Daedalus Books
Publishers Service AwardNorman Laurila, A Different Light

Nominees and winners

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|+9th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists

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! rowspan="5" |Anthologies (Fiction)

|{{sortname|last=Nestle|first=Joan}} and Naomi Holoch (eds.)

|Women on Women 3

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Bergman|first=David|link=David Bergman (American writer)}} (ed.)

|Men on Men 6

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Brownworth|first=Victoria}}

|Night Bites

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Morrow|first=Bruce|link=Bruce Morrow (writer)}} and Charles H. Rowell (eds.)

|Shade

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Ruff|first=Shawn Stewart}} (ed.)

|Go the Way Your Blood Beats

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Anthologies (Nonfiction Fiction)

|{{sortname|last=Bronski|first=Michael}} (ed.)

|Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, & Sex

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Bawer|first=Bruce}} (ed.)

|Beyond Queer

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Bernstein|first=Robin}} and Seth Clark Silberman (eds.)

|Generation Q

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Lynch|first=Lee|link=Lee Lynch (author)}} and Akia Woods (eds.)

|Off the Rag

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Merla|first=Patrick}} (ed.)

|Boys Like Us

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Children's and Young Adult

|{{sortname|last=Garden|first=Nancy}}

|Good Moon Rising

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Alexander|first=Earl|link=Earl Alexander (writer)}}, Sheila Rudin, and Pam Sejkora

|My Dad Has HIV

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Bass|first=Ellen}} and Kate Kaufman

|Free Your Mind

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Ford|first=Michael Thomas}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=World Out There|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Willhoite|first=Michael}}

|Daddy’s Wedding

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Drama

|{{sortname|last=Case|first=Sue-Ellen}}

|Split Britches

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Crowley|first=Mart}}

|Three Plays by Crowley

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Curb|first=Rosemary Keefe}}

|Amazon All-Stars

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Hughes|first=Holly|link=Holly Hughes (performance artist)}}

|Clit Notes

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Kearns|first=Michael|link=Michael Kearns (actor)}}

|Acting=Life

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Gay Biography and Autobiography

|{{sortname|last=Johnson|first=Fenton}}

|Geography of the Heart

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Cooper|first=Bernard}}

|Truth Serum

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Doty|first=Mark}}

|Heaven’s Coast

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Hajdu|first=David}}

|Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Saint|first=Assotto}}

|Spells of a Voodoo Doll

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Gay Fiction

|{{sortname|last=Selvadurai|first=Shyam}}

|Funny Boy

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Arditti|first=Michael}}

|Pagan’s Father

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Holleran|first=Andrew}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Beauty of Men}}

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Moore|first=Patrick|link=Patrick Moore (writer)}}

|Iowa

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Peck|first=Dale}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Law of Enclosures}}

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery

|{{sortname|last=Nava|first=Michael}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Death of Friends|nolink=1}}

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Michaels|first=Grant}}

|Time to Check Out

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Saylor|first=Steven}}

|Murder on the Appian Way

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Wilson|first=John Morgan}}

|Simple Justice

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Zimmerman|first=R. D.}}

|Tribe

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Gay Poetry

|{{sortname|last=Campo|first=Rafael|link=Rafael Campo (poet)}}

|What the Body Told

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Fries|first=Kenny}}

|Anesthesia

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Lassell|first=Michael}}

|Eros in Boystown

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Manrique|first=Jaime}}

|My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Shepherd|first=Reginald}}

|Angel, Interrupted

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Gay Studies

|{{sortname|last=Merla|first=Patrick}} (ed.)

|Boys Like Us

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Boykin|first=Keith}}

|One More River to Cross

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Fellows|first=Will}}

|Farm Boys

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Hay|first=Harry}} and Will Roscoe

|Radically Gay

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Tuller|first=David}}

|Cracks in the Iron Closet

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Humor

|{{sortname|last=Carter|first=Judy}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Homo Handbook}}

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Barela|first=Tim}}

|Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Dugger|first=Mary}}

|History of Lesbian Hair

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Eisenbach|first=Helen}}

|Lesbianism Made Easy

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Tracey|first=Liz}} and Sydney Pokorny

|So You Want to Be a Lesbian?

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Memoir or Biography

|{{sortname|last=Grumbach|first=Doris}}

|Life in a Day

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Gingrich|first=Candace}}

|Accidental Activist

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Moore|first=Honor}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=White Blackbird|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Osborn|first=Torie}}

|Coming Home to America

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Sheehy|first=Helen}}

|Eva Le Gallienne

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Fiction

|{{sortname|last=Obejas|first=Achy}}

|Memory Mambo

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Anshaw|first=Carol}}

|Seven Moves

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Brown|first=Rebecca|link=Rebecca Brown (author)}}

|What Keeps Me Here

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Van Arsdale|first=Sarah}}

|Toward Amnesia

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Wilson|first=Barbara|link=Barbara Wilson (author)}}

|If You Had a Family

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Mystery

|{{sortname|last=Hart|first=Ellen}}

|Robber's Wine

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Forrest|first=Katherine V.}}

|Liberty Square

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Maiman|first=Jaye}}

|Baby, It’s Cold

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Manthorne|first=Jackie}}

|Final Take

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=McNab|first=Claire}}

|Inner Circle

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Poetry

|{{sortname|last=Becker|first=Robin}}

|All-American Girl

|Winner

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|{{sortname|last=Seaton|first=Maureen}}

|Furious Cooking

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Coss|first=Clare}}

|Arc of Love

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Merrin|first=Jeredith}}

|Shift

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Smukler|first=Linda}}

|Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash.

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Lesbian Studies

|{{sortname|last=Brooten|first=Bernadette J.}}

|Love Between Women

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Brownworth|first=Victoria}}

|Too Queer

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Daly|first=Meg}}

|Surface Tension

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Van Gelder|first=Lindsay}} and Pamela Brandt

|Girls Next Door

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Vanita|first=Ruth}}

|Sappho and the Virgin Mary

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Photography and Visual Arts

|{{sortname|last=Bright|first=Susie}} and Jill Posener

|Nothing But the Girl

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Blackbridge|first=Persimmon}}

|Sunnybrook

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Cameron|first=Loren}}

|Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Jarman|first=Derek}}

|Derek Jarman’s Garden

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Stryker|first=Susan}} and Jim Van Buskirk

|Gay by the Bay

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Science fiction, fantasy or horror

|{{sortname|last=Barker|first=Clive}}

|Sacrament

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Garber|first=Eric}} and Jewelle Gomez

|Swords of the Rainbow

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Keesey|first=Pam}}

|Women Who Run With Werewolves

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Pollack|first=Rachel}}

|Godmother Night

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Rowe|first=Michael|link=Michael Rowe (journalist)}} and Thomas S. Roche

|Sons of Darkness

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Small Press

|{{sortname|last=Cameron|first=Loren}}

|Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Brownworth|first=Victoria}}

|Too Queer

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Galas|first=Diamanda}}

|Shit of God

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Welt|first=Bernard}}

|Mythomania

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=West|first=Celeste}}

|Lesbian Polyfidelity

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Spirituality

|{{sortname|last=Gomes|first=Peter}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Good Book|nolink=1}}

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Adams|first=Marc|link=Marc Adams (writer)}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Preacher’s Son|nolink=1}}

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Alexander|first=Marilyn}} and James Preston

|We Were Baptized Too

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Hartman|first=Keith}}

|Congregations in Conflict

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Raphael|first=Lev}}

|Journeys & Arrivals

|Finalist

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! rowspan="5" |Transgender

|{{sortname|last=Cameron|first=Loren}}

|Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits

|Winner

{{sortname|last=Burke|first=Phyllis}}

|Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=de Erauso|first=Catalina}}

|Lieutenant Nun

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Feinberg|first=Leslie}}

|Transgender Warriors

|Finalist

{{sortname|last=Pettiway|first=Leon E.}}

|Honey, Honey Miss Thang

|Finalist

External links

  • [http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/07/14/lambda-literary-awards-1996/ 9th Lambda Literary Awards]

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