Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer of the Year

2023 Joy Harjo
2022 Cynthia Tucker
2021 Angela Johnson
2020 Patti Callahan Henry
2019 Daniel Wallace
2018 Honorée Fannone Jeffers
2017 Brad Watson
2016 E O Wilson
2015 Hank Lazer
2014 Mark Childress
2013 Gay Talese
2012 Fannie Flagg
2011 Winston Groom
2010 Carolyn Haines
2009 Rick Bragg
2008 Rebecca Gilman
2007 William Cobb
2006 Wayne Greenhaw
2005 Andrew Highway
2004 Sonia Sanchez
2003 Rodney Jones
2002 Mary Ward Brown
2001 Sena Jeter Naslund
2000 Helen Norris
1999 Madison Jones
1998 Albert Murray