9th Lambda Literary Awards

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

Special awards

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Category Winner
Editor's Choice Donald Windham, Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965
Pioneer Award Helaine Harris, Daedalus Books
Publishers Service Award Norman Laurila, A Different Light

Nominees and winners

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9th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists
Category Author/Editor Title Result
Anthologies (Fiction) Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch (eds.) Women on Women 3 Winner
David Bergman (ed.) Men on Men 6 Finalist
Victoria Brownworth Night Bites Finalist
Bruce Morrow and Charles H. Rowell (eds.) Shade Finalist
Shawn Stewart Ruff (ed.) Go the Way Your Blood Beats Finalist
Anthologies (Nonfiction Fiction) Michael Bronski (ed.) Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, & Sex Winner
Bruce Bawer (ed.) Beyond Queer Finalist
Robin Bernstein and Seth Clark Silberman (eds.) Generation Q Finalist
Lee Lynch and Akia Woods (eds.) Off the Rag Finalist
Patrick Merla (ed.) Boys Like Us Finalist
Children's and Young Adult Nancy Garden Good Moon Rising Winner
Earl Alexander, Sheila Rudin, and Pam Sejkora My Dad Has HIV Finalist
Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman Free Your Mind Finalist
Michael Thomas Ford The World Out There Finalist
Michael Willhoite Daddy’s Wedding Finalist
Drama Sue-Ellen Case Split Britches Winner
Mart Crowley Three Plays by Crowley Finalist
Rosemary Keefe Curb Amazon All-Stars Finalist
Holly Hughes Clit Notes Finalist
Michael Kearns Acting=Life Finalist
Gay Biography and Autobiography Fenton Johnson Geography of the Heart Winner
Bernard Cooper Truth Serum Finalist
Mark Doty Heaven’s Coast Finalist
David Hajdu Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn Finalist
Assotto Saint Spells of a Voodoo Doll Finalist
Gay Fiction Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy Winner
Michael Arditti Pagan’s Father Finalist
Andrew Holleran The Beauty of Men Finalist
Patrick Moore Iowa Finalist
Dale Peck The Law of Enclosures Finalist
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery Michael Nava The Death of Friends Winner
Grant Michaels Time to Check Out Finalist
Steven Saylor Murder on the Appian Way Finalist
John Morgan Wilson Simple Justice Finalist
R. D. Zimmerman Tribe Finalist
Gay Poetry Rafael Campo What the Body Told Winner
Kenny Fries Anesthesia Finalist
Michael Lassell Eros in Boystown Finalist
Jaime Manrique My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca Finalist
Reginald Shepherd Angel, Interrupted Finalist
Gay Studies Patrick Merla (ed.) Boys Like Us Winner
Keith Boykin One More River to Cross Finalist
Will Fellows Farm Boys Finalist
Harry Hay and Will Roscoe Radically Gay Finalist
David Tuller Cracks in the Iron Closet Finalist
Humor Judy Carter The Homo Handbook Winner
Tim Barela Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead Finalist
Mary Dugger History of Lesbian Hair Finalist
Helen Eisenbach Lesbianism Made Easy Finalist
Liz Tracey and Sydney Pokorny So You Want to Be a Lesbian? Finalist
Lesbian Memoir or Biography Doris Grumbach Life in a Day Winner
Candace Gingrich Accidental Activist Finalist
Honor Moore The White Blackbird Finalist
Torie Osborn Coming Home to America Finalist
Helen Sheehy Eva Le Gallienne Finalist
Lesbian Fiction Achy Obejas Memory Mambo Winner
Carol Anshaw Seven Moves Finalist
Rebecca Brown What Keeps Me Here Finalist
Sarah Van Arsdale Toward Amnesia Finalist
Barbara Wilson If You Had a Family Finalist
Lesbian Mystery Ellen Hart Robber's Wine Winner
Katherine V. Forrest Liberty Square Finalist
Jaye Maiman Baby, It’s Cold Finalist
Jackie Manthorne Final Take Finalist
Claire McNab Inner Circle Finalist
Lesbian Poetry Robin Becker All-American Girl Winner
Maureen Seaton Furious Cooking Winner
Clare Coss Arc of Love Finalist
Jeredith Merrin Shift Finalist
Linda Smukler Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash. Finalist
Lesbian Studies Bernadette J. Brooten Love Between Women Winner
Victoria Brownworth Too Queer Finalist
Meg Daly Surface Tension Finalist
Lindsay Van Gelder and Pamela Brandt Girls Next Door Finalist
Ruth Vanita Sappho and the Virgin Mary Finalist
Photography and Visual Arts Susie Bright and Jill Posener Nothing But the Girl Winner
Persimmon Blackbridge Sunnybrook Finalist
Loren Cameron Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits Finalist
Derek Jarman Derek Jarman’s Garden Finalist
Susan Stryker and Jim Van Buskirk Gay by the Bay Finalist
Science fiction, fantasy or horror Clive Barker Sacrament Winner
Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez Swords of the Rainbow Finalist
Pam Keesey Women Who Run With Werewolves Finalist
Rachel Pollack Godmother Night Finalist
Michael Rowe and Thomas S. Roche Sons of Darkness Finalist
Small Press Loren Cameron Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits Winner
Victoria Brownworth Too Queer Finalist
Diamanda Galas Shit of God Finalist
Bernard Welt Mythomania Finalist
Celeste West Lesbian Polyfidelity Finalist
Spirituality Peter Gomes The Good Book Winner
Marc Adams The Preacher’s Son Finalist
Marilyn Alexander and James Preston We Were Baptized Too Finalist
Keith Hartman Congregations in Conflict Finalist
Lev Raphael Journeys & Arrivals Finalist
Transgender Loren Cameron Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits Winner
Phyllis Burke Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female Finalist
Catalina de Erauso Lieutenant Nun Finalist
Leslie Feinberg Transgender Warriors Finalist
Leon E. Pettiway Honey, Honey Miss Thang Finalist
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