Arizona Author of the Year Awards
Past Arizona State Library Association/Judy Goddard-Libraries Limited Children’s Author/Illustrator Award Winners
2005 Alice McLerran (Bellport, NY)
2004 Joan Sandin (Tucson, AZ)
2003 Jean Ekman Adams (Paradise Valley, AZ)
2002 Sylvia Long (Scottsdale, AZ)
2001 Conrad Storad (Tempe, AZ)
2000 Ruth Covault (Peoria, AZ)
1999 Joyce Rossi (Reno, NV)
1998 Jan Romero Stevens (Flagstaff, AZ)
1997 Ron Himler (Tucson, AZ)
1996 Baje Whitehorne (Flagstaff, AZ)
1995 Joe Hayes (Santa Fe, NM) & Kay Sather (Tucson, AZ)
1994 Susan Lowell (Tucson, AZ)
1993 Shonto Begay (Flagstaff, AZ)
1992 Ken Buchanan (Arivaca, AZ)
1991 Michael Lacapa (Taylor, AZ)
1990 Gisela and E. Wesley Jernigan (Tucson and Pima, AZ)
1989 Elizabeth Polingaysi Qoyawayma (Elizabeth Q. White) (Old Oraibi, Arizona)
1988 Betty Baker (Tucson, AZ)
1987 Lynn Gessner (Scottsdale, AZ)
1986 Don Schellie (Tucson, AZ)
1985 Byrd Baylor (Tucson, AZ and New Mexico)
1984 Ann Nolan Clark (Tucson, AZ)
1983 Eulalia Bourne (Mammoth, AZ)
The winner of the Children's Author/Illustrator award for 2003 is Jean Ekman Adams, author and illustrator of the Clarence books.
Valeri Hobbs, author of chapter book fiction for intermediate and middle grade readers won the Young Adult award.