About the Book Prizes

Chera Hammons, Maps of Injury, 2020

Matt Morton, Improvisation Without Accompaniment, 2020

Don Carleton, The Governor and the Colonel: A Dual Biography of William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby, 2020

Carl H. Moneyhon, George T. Ruby: Champion of Civil Rights in Reconstruction Texas, 2020

Gregg Cantrell, The People's Revolt: Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism, 2020

Elizabeth Wetnore, Valentine, 2020

Lawrence Wright, The End of October, 2020

Paulette Jiles, Simon the Fiddler, 2020

Edward Vidaurre, JazzHouse, 2019

Ron Tyler, The Art of Texas, 150 Years, 2019

Stephen Harrigan, Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas, 2019

Thomas Zigal, Outcry Witness, 2019

Leila Meachan, Dragonfly, 2019

Megan Peak, Girldom, 2018

Andrew Sansom, Seasons at Selah: The Legacy of the Bamberger Ranch Preserve, 2018

Elizabeth Crook, The Which Way Tree, 2018

Dan Williams, Past Purgatory, a Distant Paradise, 2017

Andrew Sansom and William E. Reaves Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, 2017

Chanelle Benz, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, 2017

Jonathan Fink, Barbarossa, 2016

Kenneth Hafertepe, The Material Culture of German Texans, 2016

Dominic Smith, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, 2016

James Hoggard, James Hoggard: New and Selected Poems 2015

Ron J. Jackson Jr. and Lee Spencer White, Joe: The Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend 2015

Sanderia Faye, Mourner's Bench: A Novel 2015

Christian Wiman, Once in the West 2014

Katie Robinson Edwards, Midcentury Modern Art in Texas 2014

James Magnuson, Famous Writers I Have Known: A Novel 2014

Sarah Bird, Above the East China Sea 2014

Raúl Coronado, A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture 2013

Thomas Zigal, Many Rivers to Cross 2013

Jan Reid, Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards, University of Texas Press, 2012

Ben Rehder, The Chicken Hanger: A Novel, Texas Christian University Press, 2012

Michael Berryhill, The Trials of Eroy Brown:The Murder Case that Shook the Texas Prison System, University of Texas Press, 2011

Gerald Duff, Blue Sabine, 2011

Dan K. Utley and Cynthia J. Beeman, History Ahead: Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers, Texas A&M University Press, 2010.

Emilio Zamora, Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II, Texas A&M University Press, 2009

Pekka Hämäläinen, Comanche Empire, Yale University Press, 2008

Stephen Fox, The Country Houses of John F. Staub, Texas A&M University Press, 2007

Richard B. McCaslin, At the Heart of Texas, 100 Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997, Texas State Historical Association Press, 2006

Mavis P. Kelsey Sr. and Robin Brandt Hutchinon, Engraved Prints of Texas, 1554-1900. Texas A&M University Press, 2005

David La Vere, The Texas Indians, Texas A&M University Press, 2004

Randolph B. Campbell, Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State, Oxford University Press, 2003

James L. Haley, Sam Houston, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002

Hal K. Rothman, LBJ's Texas White House: "Our Heart's Home," Texas A&M University Press, 2001

Frank D. Welch, Philip Johnson & Texas, University of Texas Press, 2000