Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography | |
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Awarded for | Literary award |
Sponsored by | Lambda Literary Foundation |
Date | Annual |
Website | lambdaliterary |
The Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography is an annual literary award established in 1994, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, to a memoir, biography, autobiography, or works of creative nonfiction by or about lesbians. Works published posthumously and/or written with co-authors are eligible, but anthologies are not. [1]
Year | Author | Work | Result | Ref. |
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1994 | Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | Winner | [2] |
Phyllis Burke | Family Values | Finalist | [2] | |
Jewelle Gomez | Forty-Three Septembers | |||
Rose Gladney (editor) | How Am I To Be Heard: Letters of Lillian Smith | |||
David Sweetman | Mary Renault | |||
1995 | Renate Stendhal (editor) | Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures | Winner | [3] |
Mab Segrest | Memoir of a Race Traitor | Finalist | [3] | |
Elizabeth Bishop | One Art: Letters | |||
Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer and Chris Fisher | Serving in Silence | |||
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz | The Power and the Passion of M. Carey Thomas | |||
1996 | Erica Fischer | Aimee & Jaguar | Winner | [4] |
Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch | And Say Hi to Joyce | Finalist | [4] | |
Susan E. Cayliff | Babe | |||
Claudia Brenner with Hannah Ashley | Eight Bullets | |||
Dorothy Allison | Two or Three Things I Know for Sure | |||
1997 | Doris Grumbach | Life in a Day | Winner | [5] |
Candace Gingrich | Accidental Activist | Finalist | [5] | |
Torie Osborn | Coming Home to America | |||
Helen Sheehy | Eva Le Gallienne | |||
Honor Moore | The White Blackbird | |||
1998 | Barbara Wilson | Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood | Winner | [6] |
Margot Peters | May Sarton: a Biography | Finalist | [6] | |
Kim Chernin | My Life as a Boy | |||
Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams | The Last Time I Wore a Dress | |||
Hermione Lee | Virginia Woolf | |||
1999 | Alison Bechdel | The Indelible Alison Bechdel; Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for | Winner | [7] |
Joan Nestle | A Fragile Union | Finalist | [7] | |
Rodger Streitmatter | Empty Without You | |||
Sally Cline | Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John | |||
Kate Summerscale | The Queen of Whale Cay | |||
2000 | Diana Souhami | The Trials of Radclyffe Hall | Winner | [8] |
Kay Turner | Baby Precious Always Shines | Finalist | [8] | |
Blanche Wiesen Cook | Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2: 1933–1938 | |||
Barrie Jean Borich | My Lesbian Husband | |||
Karla Jay | Tales of the Lavender Menace | |||
2001 | Judith Barrington | Lifesaving | Winner | [9] |
Amber Hollibaugh | My Dangerous Desires | Finalist | [9] | |
June Jordan | Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood | |||
Carole Maso | The Room Lit by Roses | |||
Joan Schenkar | Truly Wilde | |||
2007 | Alison Bechdel | Fun Home | Winner | [10] |
Barbara Sjoholm | Incognito Street | Finalist | [10] | |
Bettina Aptheker | Intimate Politics | |||
Hilary Carlip | Queen of the Oddballs | |||
Catherine Friend | Hit by a Farm | |||
2008 | Nicola Griffith | And Now We Are Going to Have a Party | Winner | [11] [12] |
Marusya Bociurkiw | Comfort Food for Breakups | Finalist | [12] | |
Amy Hoffman | An Army of Ex-Lovers | |||
Janet Malcolm | Two Lives: Gertrude & Alice | |||
Jacqueline Taylor | Waiting for the Call | |||
2009 | Maureen Seaton | Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir | Winner | [13] |
Susan Griffin | Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy | Finalist | [13] | |
Thea Hillman | Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) | |||
Joanne Passet | Sex Variant Woman | |||
Abbe Smith | Case of a Lifetime | |||
2010 | Joan Schenkar | The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith | Winner | [14] |
Alix Dobkin | My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement | Finalist | [14] | |
Ariel Schrag | Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag | |||
Mary Cappello | Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life | |||
Terry Galloway | Mean Little deaf Queer | |||
2011 | Barbara Hammer | Hammer!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life | Winner (tie) | [15] |
Julie Marie Wade | Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures | |||
Katherine A. Briccetti | Blood Strangers: A Memoir | Finalist | [16] | |
Chely Wright | Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer | |||
Amie Klempnauer Miller | She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood | |||
2012 | Jeanne Córdova | When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution | Winner | [17] |
Karleen Pendleton Jimenez | How to Get a Girl Pregnant | Finalist | ||
Catherine Friend | Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet | |||
Julie Marie Wade | Small Fires: Essays | [18] | ||
Jane Rule | Taking My Life | |||
2013 | Jeanette Winterson | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? | Winner | [19] [20] |
Judy Grahn | A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet | Finalist | [19] | |
Lisa Cohen | All We Know: Three Lives | |||
Alison Bechdel | Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama | |||
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa | Before the Rain | |||
Sarah Schulman | The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination | |||
2014 | Barrie Jean Borich | Body Geographic | Winner | [21] [22] |
Donna Minkowitz | Growing up Golem | Finalist | [21] | |
Annie Lanzillotto | L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir | |||
Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton | Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology | |||
2015 | AlethEa Jones and Virginia Eubanks, with Barbara Smith | Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith | Winner | [23] |
Lynette Loeppky | Cease – a memoir of love, loss and desire | Finalist | [24] | |
Kelly Cogswell | Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger | |||
Ariel Gore | The End of Eve | |||
Terry Mutchler | Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America | |||
2016 | Kate Carroll de Gutes | Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear | Winner | [25] [26] [27] |
Cat Cora | Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness | Finalist | [28] | |
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Dirty River | |||
Carrie Brownstein | Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl | |||
Allison Gruber | You’re Not Edith | |||
2017 | Gloria Joseph | ody, Undone: Living On After Great Pain | Winner | [29] |
Ma-Nee Chacaby | A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder | Finalist | [29] | |
Tig Notaro | I’m Just a Person | |||
Joanne Passet | Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier | |||
2018 | Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich | The Fact of a Body | Winner | [30] [31] |
Melissa Febos | Abandon Me: Memoirs | Finalist | [32] | |
Eileen Myles | Afterglow | |||
Renate Stendhal | Kiss Me Again, Paris: A Memoir | |||
Anne-christine d'Adesky | The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris | |||
2019 | Zahra Patterson | Chronology | Winner | [33] |
Barrie Jean Borich | Apocalypse, Darling | Finalist | [34] | |
Julia Van Haaften | Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography | |||
Sandra Gail Lambert | A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir | |||
Marusya Bociurkiw | Food Was Her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter | |||
Sarah Viren | MINE: Essays | |||
Esther Newton | My Butch Career: A Memoir | |||
Lindsay Nixon | nîtisânak | |||
2020 | Samra Habib | We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir | Winner | [35] [36] |
Benjamin Moser | Sontag: Her Life and Work | Finalist | [37] [38] | |
Saidiya Hartman | Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval | |||
Edie Windsor with Joshua Lyon | A Wild and Precious Life | |||
Jaquira Díaz | Ordinary Girls | |||
Julia Koets | The Rib Joint: A Memoir In Essays | |||
T Kira Madden | Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls | |||
Elissa Altman | Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing | |||
2021 | Jenn Shapland | My Autobiography of Carson McCullers | Winner | [39] [40] [41] |
Tania De Rozario | And The Walls Come Crumbling Down | Finalist | [42] | |
Tana Wojczuk | Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity | |||
Nina Kennedy | Practicing for Love: A Memoir | |||
Lori Soderlind | The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour | |||
2022 | Sophie Santos | The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had) | Winner | [43] [44] |
Grace Perry | The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture | Finalist | [45] | |
Leslie Cohen | The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation | |||
Jonathan Ned Katz | The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams | |||
Adele Bertei | Why Labelle Matters | |||
2023 | Kathryn Schulz | Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness | Winner | [46] |
Raquel Gutiérrez | Brown Neon | Finalist | [47] | |
Putsata Reang | Ma and Me | |||
Chris Belcher | Pretty Baby: A Memoir | |||
Neema Avashia | Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place | |||
2024 | Amelia Possanza | Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives | Winner | [48] |
Lamya H | Hijab Butch Blues | Finalist | [49] | |
Vi Khi Nao | Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche | |||
Sarah Viren | To Name the Bigger Lie | |||
Lynnée Denise | Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters |
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