Twenty Years of theMargaret A. Edwards Award
In honor of Margaret A. Edwards birthday
Margaret A. Edwards Award
YALSA presents twenty years of Margaret A. Edwards Award interviews &
coverage from award sponsor School Library Journal
1988S.E. Hinton
for The Outsiders; That Was Then, This Is Now; Rumble Fish; and Tex
1990Richard Peck
for Are You in the House Alone?, Father Figure, The Ghost Belonged to Me, Ghosts I Have Been,
Remembering the Good Times, and Secrets of the Shopping Mall
1991Robert Cormier
for After the First Death, The Chocolate War, and I Am the Cheese
1992Lois Duncan
for Chapters: My Growth as a Writer, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin,
Ransom, Summer of Fear and The Twisted Window
1993M.E. Kerr
for Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, Gentlehands Me Me Me Me Me: Not a Novel, and Night Kites
1994Walter Dean Meyersfor Hoops, Motown & Didi,
Fallen Angels, and Scorpions
1995Cynthia Voigt
for Homecoming, Dicey's Song, Solitary Blue, Building Blocks, The Runner, Jackaroo, and Izzy,
Willy-Nilly
1996Judy Blume
for Forever
1997Gary Paulsen
for Dancing Carl, Hatchet, The Crossing, The Winter Room, Woodsong, and Canyons
1998 Madeleine L’Engle
for Meet the Austins, The Moon by Night, The Young Unicorns, A Ring of Endless Light, A Wrinkle in Time, A
Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters
1999Anne McCaffrey
Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon, The Ship Who Sang and Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and
Dragondrums
2000Chris Crutcher
for Athletic Shorts, Chinese Handcuffs, The Crazy Horse Electric Game, Stotan and
Running Loose
2001Robert Lipsyte
for The Contender, The Brave, The Chiefand One Fat Summer
2002Paul Zindel
The Pigman, The Pigman's Legacy, The Pigman & Me, My Darling, My Hamburger and
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
2003Nancy Gardenfor Annie on My Mind
2004Ursula K. Leguin
for A Wizard of Earthsea, The Farthest Shore, Tombs of Atuan; Tehanu, The Left Hand of Darkness,
and The Beginning Place
2005 Francesca Lia Block
for Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan,
and Baby Be—Bop
2006Jacqueline Woodson
for I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This, Lena, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun,
If You Come Softly, and Miracle’s Boys.
2007Lois Lowryfor The Giver
2008Orson Scott Card
for Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow