Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 1999
*Note: No awards were held in 1990.
Please also note that the award winners listed for each year were awarded in the year following publication (i.e. winners published in 2007 were announced in 2008 at the 20th Annual Minnesota Book Awards).
(Winners indicated by the 
icon; all others are Finalists)
1999 Picture Books - Author
- Elizabeti's Doll
- Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
- Lee & Low Publishing, Inc.
- Rupa Raises the Sun
- Marsha Wilson Chall
- DK Ink Publishing
- I Need a Snake
- Lynne Jonell
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Letter to the Lake
- Susan Marie Swanson
- DK Publishing, Inc.
- Making the World
- Douglas Wood
- Simon & Schuster
1999 Picture Books - Illustrator
- Out of the Ocean
- Debra Frasier
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- M is for Minnesota
- Dori Hillestad Butler
- Janice Lee Porter, illustrator
- University of Minnesota Press
- Coppelia
- Margot Fonteyn
- Steve Johnson, illustrator
- Lou Fancher, illustrator
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Music Over Manhattan
- Mark Karlins
- Jack E. Davis, illustrator
- Bantam, Doubleday, Dell
- Scarecrow
- Cynthia Ryland
- Lauren Stringer, illustrator
- Harcourt Brace & Company
1999 Children's Non-Fiction
- Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen
Elizabeth I
- Jane Resh Thomas
- Clarion Books
- Gloria Steinem, Feminist Extraordinaire
- Caroline Evensen Lazo
- Lerner Publications Company
- Jane Gibbs: Little Bird That Was Caught
- Anne E. Neuberger
- Ramsey County Historical Society
1999 Young People's Fiction
- Soldier's Heart
- Gary Paulsen
- Delacorte Press
- Sooner
- Patricia Calvert
- Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster
- Hard Ball
- Will Weaver
- HarperCollins
1999 Information
- Hiking Minnesota
- John Pukite
- Falcon
- Bicycle Vacation Guide: Minnesota & Wisconsin
- Doug Shidell and Vicky Vogels
- Little Transport Press
- Birds of Minnesota Field Guide
- Stan Tekiela
- Adventure Publications
1999 Help and Guidance
- Raising Nonviolent Children in a Violent
World
- Michael Obsatz
- Augsburg/Augsburg Fortress
- What Teens Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Shape Your Own Future
- Peter L. Benson
- Judy Galbraith
- Pamela Espeland
- Free Spirit Publishing
- Sports Medicine for Young Athletes: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Coaches
- Institute for Athletic Medicine
- Scott Kulstad, editor
- Fairview Press
1999 Non-Fiction
- The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the
Way We Really Live
- Sarah Susanka
- Kira Obolensky
- The Taunton Press, Inc.
- Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-sex Relations and the YMCA
- John Donald Gustav-Wrathall
- The University of Chicago Press
- No-Fault Politics: Modern Presidents, The Press, and Reformers
- Eugene McCarthy
- Times Books/Random House
1999 Creative Non-Fiction
- Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map
- Barton Sutter
- University of Minnesota Press
- The Cold-and-Hunger Dance
- Diane Glancy
- University of Nebraska Press
- Arousal: Bodies and Pleasures
- Martha Roth
- Milkweed Editions
- The Ice Palace That Melted Away; Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues to Everyday Life
- Bill (William) Stumpf
- Pantheon Books/Random House
1999 Nature
- Valley of Grass: Tallgrass Prairie and
Parkland of the Red River Region
- Kim Alan Chapman
- Adelheid Fischer
- Mary Kinsella Ziegenhagen
- North Star Press of St. Cloud
- Black Bear Country
- Michael Furtman
- NorthWord Press
- Winter Sign
- Jim Dale Huot-Vickery
- University of Minnesota Press
- The Wolves of Denali
- L.David Mech
- Layne G. Adams
- Thomas J. Meier
- John W. Burch
- Bruce W. Dale
- University of Minnesota Press
1999 Illustrated Book
- Chased by the Light: A 90-Day Journey
- Jim Brandenburg
- NorthWord Press
- Born to Pull
- Gail de Marcken, illustrator
- Bob Cary, author
- Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers
- Toy Farm Tractors
- Bill Vossler
- Andy Kraushaar, photography
- Voyageur Press
1999 History
- Building Community, Keeping the Faith:
German Catholic Vernacular Architecture in a Rural Minnesota Parish
- Fred W. Peterson
- Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940
- Brenda J .Child
- University of Nebraska Press
- A Place at the Lake
- Paul Clifford Larson
- Afton Historical Society Press
- The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today
- Odd S. Lovoll
- University of Minnesota Press
- Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
- Ivan Musicant
- Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
1999 Biography
- A Lake Superior Lawyer: A Biography of
Chester Adgate Congdon
- Roy O. Hoover
- Superior Partners
- Louise's Legacy: Hamm Family Stories
- Moira F. Harris, ed.
- Pogo Press
- Breaking Trail
- Edgar E. Hetteen
- Jay M. Lemke
- Focus Publishing, Inc.
1999 Collected Works
- The Talking of Hands: Unpublished Writing
by New Rivers Press Authors
- New Rivers Press
- New Rivers Press
- Minnesota Seasons: Classic Tales of Life Outdoors
- Scott Bestul, editor
- The Cabin Bookshelf
- Welcome to Your Life; Writings for the Heart of Young America
- David Haynes, editor
- Julie Landsman, editor
- Milkweed Editions
1999 Fantasy & Science Fiction
- Komarr: A Miles Vorkosigan Adventure
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Baen Books
- Dragon
- Steven Brust
- Tor Books
- Juniper, Gentian, & Rosemary
- Pamela Dean
- Tor Books
1999 Memoir
- The Witness of Combines
- Kent Meyers
- University of Minnesota Press
- Barefoot on Crane Island
- Marjorie Myers Douglas
- Minnesota Historical Society Press
- A Finntown of the Heart
- Patricia Johnson Eilola
- North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc.
- Turning the Feather Around: My Life in Art
- George Morrison
- as told to Margot Fortunato Galt
- Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Reluctant Dissenter: An Autobiography
- James Patrick Shannon
- The Crossroad Publishing Company
1999 Mystery
- Iron Lake
- William Kent Krueger
- Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster Inc.
- Closed in Silence
- Joan M. Drury
- Spinsters Ink
- The Big Law
- Chuck Logan
- HarperCollins
- Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders: From the American Chronicles of John H. Watson, M.D.
- Larry Millett
- Viking
1999 Novels and Short Stories
- Rainlight
- Alison McGhee
- Papier-Mache Press
- How the Dead Live: Stories
- Alvin Greenberg
- Graywolf Press
- Trip Sheets
- Ellen Hawley
- Milkweed Editions
- Our Sometime Sister: A Novel
- Norah Labiner
- Coffee House Press
- Range of Light: A Novel
- Valerie Miner
- Zoland Books, Inc.
- Blue Bossa
- Bart Schneider
- Viking Penguin
1999 Poetry
- The Green Tuxedo
- Janet A. Holmes
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Sermon on a Perfect Spring Day: Poems
- Philip Bryant
- New Rivers Press
- Temporary Help: Poems
- John Engman [Minneapolis, d. 1996]
- Holy Cow! Press
- The Old Liberators: New and Selected Poems and Translations
- Robert Hedin
- Holy Cow! Press
- Yesterday Had a Man in It
- Leslie Adrienne Miller
- Carnegie Mellon University Press
- Sacred Vows
- U Sam Oeur
- Coffee House Press
1999 Fine Press
- Roar Shocks
- David Rathman
- Hermetic Press
- Waterfalls of the Mississippi
- Richard Fred Arey
- Color engravings by Gaylord Schanilec
- Minnesota Outdoors Press
- *Winner of the 1999 John T. Flanagan Award
- The Everyday Magic of Walterlee Higgins
- David Haynes
- Minnesota Center for Book Arts
The Minnesota Book Awards is a Capital City project, led by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, in consortium with the Saint Paul Public Library and the Mayor’s office in the City of Saint Paul. Outreach partners for the Book Awards include the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) and the Minnesota Library Association (MLA).
