Fifty-seven years after the founding of the Western Literature Association and Western American Literature, scholarship of the literary West is thriving in both quantity and quality. To honor outstanding, single-author scholarly books on the literature and culture of the American West, the Western Literature Association seeks nominations for the annual Thomas J. Lyon Book Award.
TO QUALIFY FOR THIS AWARD, BOOKS MUST
* have a 2022 publication date
* be an outstanding, single-author, book-length study on the literature and culture of the American West
The past presidents of the Western Literature Association sponsor this award and invite you TO NOMINATE A BOOK FOR THIS AWARD.
Readers who want to nominate a book can submit a statement of support to Anne Kaufman by June 1, 2023.
Self-nominating authors and presses, please send books directly to the committee members by June 15:
Susan Bernardin, Chair
TJLyon Book Award 2023
3035 NW McKinley Drive
Corvallis OR 97330
Jada Ach
TJLyon Award 2023
639 S. 35th Pl.
Mesa AZ 85204
Travis Franks
TJLyon Award 2023
Department of English
3200 Old Main Hill
Logan UT 84322-3200
Nominations are due by June 1, 2023
Please contact Anne Kaufman for any questions you might have regarding this award.
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Year | Recipient | Publication |
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2022 | Audrey Goodman | A Planetary Lens: The Photo-Poetics of Western Women’s Writing |
2021 | Susan Nance | Rodeo: An Animal History |
2020 | Cathryn Halverson | Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly |
2019 | Kirby Brown | Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907–1970 |
2018 | Richard Etulain | Ernest Haycox and the Western |
2017 | Priscilla Solis Ybarra | Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment |
2016 | Susan Kollin | Captivating Westerns |
2015 | Lisa Tatonetti | The Queerness of Native American Literature |
2014 | Christine Bold | The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924 |
2013 | Annette Kolodny | In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery |
2012 | Daniel Worden | Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism |
2011 | Krista Comer | Surfer Girls in the New World Order |
2010 | John Beck | Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature |
2009 | Tom Lynch | Xerophelia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature |
2008 | Robert McKee Irwin | Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico's Northwest Borderlands |
2007 | John-Michael Rivera | The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in US Culture |
2006 | David Dorado Romo | Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juárez 1893-1923 |
2005 | Stephanie LeMenager | Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States (University of Nebraska Press, 2004) |
2004 | Nathaniel Lewis | Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship (University of Nebraska Press, 2003) |
2003 | Audrey Goodman | Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region (University of Arizona Press, 2002) |
2002 | James M. Cahalan | Edward Abbey: A Life (University of Arizona Press, 2001) |
2001 | Gary Scharnhorst | Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000) |
2000 | Susan Rosowski | Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 1999) |
1999 | Thomas Pilkington | State of Mind: Texas Literature and Culture (Texas A&M University Press, 1998) |
1998 | Andrew Elkins | The Great Poem of the Earth: A Study of the Poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril (University of Idaho Press, 1997) |
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