1996 AML Awards

Biography

Marian Robertson Wilson for Leroy Robertson: Music Giant from the Rockies (Blue Ribbon)

Children's Literature

Rick Walton for You Don't Always Get What You Hope For (Gibbs Smith)

Criticism

Bruce W. Jorgensen for "Heritage of Hostility: The Mormon Attack on Fiction in the 19th Century" (Wasatch Review International, no. 4 [1996], 74-109)

Drama

Tim Slover for Joyful Noise

Novel

Judith Freeman for A Desert of Pure Feeling (Pantheon)

Personal Essay

Kenneth O. Kemp for "3/4-inch Marine Ply" (Dialogue, no. 29 [summer 1996], 41-53)

Poetry

Leslie Norris for Collected Poems (Poetry Wales Press)

Short Fiction

Paul Rawlins for No Lie Like Love: Stories (University of Georgia Press)

Young Adult Literature

Pat Bezzant for Angie (Fawcett Juniper)