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