Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir or Biography
| Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Literary award |
| Sponsored by | Lambda Literary Foundation |
| Date | Annual |
| Website | lambdaliterary |
The Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, to a memoir, biography, autobiography, or works of creative nonfiction by or about gay men. Works published posthumously and/or written with co-authors are eligible, but anthologies are not.[1]
Between 1994 and 2000, the award was given for gay biography/autobiography.[2] From 2002–2006 there was no gay biography/autobiography category (and also no lesbian biography/autobiography category) but rather separate categories for biography and for autobiography/memoir. In 2007 the gay memoir/autobiography category was created (as was the lesbian memoir/autobiography category).[2]
Recipients
[edit]| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Edmund White | Genet | Winner | [3] |
| Brad Gooch | City Poet:The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara | Finalist | [3] | |
| Lars Eighner | Travels With Lizbeth | |||
| Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls | |||
| James Broughton | Coming Unbuttoned | |||
| 1995 | Abraham Verghese | My Own Country | Winner | [4] |
| Ned Rorem | Knowing When to Stop | Finalist | [4] | |
| Lawrence Mass | Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite | |||
| Paul Monette | Last Watch of the Night | |||
| John Preston | My Life as a Pornographer | |||
| 1996 | Lyle Leverich | Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams | Winner | [5] |
| Bill T. Jones with Peggy Gillespie | Last Night on Earth | Finalist | [5] | |
| Gore Vidal | Palimpsest | |||
| Edmund White | Our Paris | |||
| Leroy Aarons | Prayers for Bobby | |||
| 1997 | Fenton Johnson | Geography of the Heart | Winner | [6] |
| David Hajdu | Lush Life | Finalist | [6] | |
| Assotto Saint | Spells of a Voodoo Doll | |||
| Bernard Cooper | Truth Serum | |||
| Mark Doty | Heaven’s Coast | |||
| 1998 | Rafael Campo | The Poetry of Healing | Winner | [7] |
| Gary Schmidgall | Walt Whitman: a Gay Life | Finalist | [7] | |
| Felice Picano | A House on the Ocean, A House on the Bay | |||
| Michael Klein | Track Conditions | |||
| Mark Thompson | Gay Body: a Journey Through Shadow to Self | |||
| 1999 | William J. Mann | Wisecracker | Winner | [8] |
| Gavin Geoffrey Dillard | In The Flesh | Finalist | [8] | |
| Norman Page | Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years | |||
| Andrew Tobias | The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up | |||
| Graham Caveney | Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs | |||
| 2000 | Jesse Green | The Velveteen Father | Winner | [9] |
| Gad Beck | An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin | Finalist | [9] | |
| Mark Doty | Firebird: A Memoir | |||
| Fred Kaplan | Gore Vidal | |||
| Martin Duberman | Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion | |||
| 2001 | Douglas Murray | Bosie | Winner | [10] |
| Jean-Yves Tadie | Marcel Proust | Finalist | [10] | |
| David Mixner | Brave Journeys | |||
| Jay Quinn | The Mentor | |||
| Ned Rorem | Lies | |||
| 2007 | Bernard Cooper | The Bill From My Father | Winner | [11] |
| Alan Bennett | Untold Stories | Finalist | [11] | |
| Jonathan Silin | My Father’s Keeper: The Story of a Gay Son and His Aging Parents | |||
| Kim Powers | History of Swimming | |||
| Patrick Moore | Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir | |||
| 2008 | Kevin Sessums | Mississippi Sissy | Winner | [12][13] |
| Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz | What Becomes You | Finalist | [13] | |
| Kenny Fries | The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory | |||
| Mark Doty | Dog Years | |||
| Martin Duberman | The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein | |||
| Thom Bierdz | Forgiving Troy | |||
| 2009 | Sheila Rowbotham | Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love | Winner | [14] |
| Aaron Cooper | Bringing Him Home | Finalist | [14] | |
| Aaron Shurin | King of Shadows | |||
| Bob Morris | Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad | |||
| Joel Derfner | Swish | |||
| 2010 | Reynolds Price | Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back | Winner | [15] |
| David Plante | The Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief | Finalist | [15] | |
| Douglas A. Martin | Once You Go Back | |||
| Edmund White | City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960’s and 70’s | |||
| Jon Ginoli | Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division | |||
| 2011 | Justin Spring | Secret Historian | Winner | [16] |
| Bryan Batt | She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother | Finalist | [17] | |
| Gale Chester Whittington | Beyond Normal: The Birth of Gay Pride | |||
| R. Tripp Evans | Grant Wood: A Life | |||
| Selina Hastings | The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham | |||
| 2012 | Glen Retief | The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood | Winner | [18] |
| Charles Silverstein | For the Ferryman: A Personal History | Finalist | ||
| Michael Schiavi | Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo | |||
| Ryan Van Meter | If You Knew Then What I Know Now | |||
| William E. Jones | Halsted Plays Himself | |||
| 2013 | Cynthia Carr | Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz | Winner | [19] |
| Charles Rowan Beye | My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man’s Odyssey | Finalist | [19] | |
| Kamal Al-Solaylee | Intolerable | |||
| Mutsuo Takahashi with Jeffrey Angles (trans.) | Twelve Views from the Distance | |||
| Reynolds Price | Midstream: An Unfinished Memoir | |||
| Ron Padgett (editor) | The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard | |||
| 2014 | Jerry Rosco (editor) | A Heaven of Words | Winner | [20][21] |
| Alysia Abbott | Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father | Finalist | [20] | |
| Blake Bailey | Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson | |||
| David Margolick | Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns | |||
| Didier Eribon | Returning to Reims | |||
| Hilary Holladay | American Hipster | |||
| Jim Elledge | Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy: The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist | |||
| Perry N. Halkitis | The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience | |||
| Richard Rodriguez | Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography | |||
| Tim Teeman | In Bed With Gore Vidal | |||
| 2015 | John Lahr | Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh | Winner (tie) | [22] |
| Richard Blanco | The Prince of Los Cocuyos | |||
| Alain Mabanckou with Sara Meli Ansari (trans.) | Letter to Jimmy | Finalist | [23] | |
| Brent Phillips | Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance | |||
| Edmund White | Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris | |||
| Philip Gefter | Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe | |||
| Rob Smith | Closets, Combat and Coming Out | |||
| Sean Strub | Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival | |||
| 2016 | Langdon Hammer | James Merrill: Life and Art | Winner | [24] |
| Arsham Parsi and Marc Colbourne | Exiled for Love: The Journey of an Iranian Queer Activist | Finalist | [25] | |
| Bernard Cooper | My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir | |||
| Brad Gooch | Smash Cut | |||
| Jameson Currier | Until My Heart Stops | |||
| Jean Findlay | Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator | |||
| Matthew Spender | A House in St. John’s Wood | |||
| Michael V. Smith | My Body Is Yours | |||
| 2017 | Cleve Jones | When We Rise | Winner | [26] |
| Augusten Burroughs | Lust & Wonder | Finalist | [27] | |
| Brian Blanchfield | Proxies | |||
| Frederic Spotts | Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann | |||
| Garrard Conley | Boy Erased: A Memoir | |||
| Joseph Osmundson | Capsid: A Love Song | |||
| Michael Schreiber | One Man Show: The Life and Art of Bernard Perlin | |||
| Will Schwalbe | Books For Living | |||
| 2018 | Chiké Frankie Edozien | Lives of Great Men | Winner | [28][29] |
| Alan Bennett | Keeping On Keeping On | Finalist | [30] | |
| Bill Goldstein | The World Broke in Two | |||
| Casey Gerald | There Will Be No Miracles Here | |||
| Jonathan Alexander | Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology | |||
| José Antonio Rodríguez | House Built on Ashes | |||
| Kenny Fries | In the Province of the Gods | |||
| Parvez Sharma | A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim’s Hajj of Defiance | |||
| Victor Corona | Night Class | |||
| 2019 | Darnell L. Moore | No Ashes in the Fire | Winner | [31] |
| Alexander Chee | How to Write an Autobiographical Novel | Finalist | [32] | |
| Deray Mckesson | On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope | |||
| Edmund White | The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading | |||
| Jeffrey C. Stewart | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke | |||
| Jerry Torre and Tony Maietta | The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens | |||
| Lillian Faderman | Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death | |||
| 2020 | Saeed Jones | How We Fight for Our Lives | Winner | [33][34] |
| Alvin Orloff | DISASTERAMA! Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977-1997 | Finalist | [35][36] | |
| Chris Rush | The Light Years | |||
| Guy Hocquenghem with Max Fox (trans.) | The Amphitheater of the Dead | |||
| Isaac Mizrahi | I.M. | |||
| James Oseland | Jimmy Neurosis | |||
| Joseph Caldwell | In the Shadow of the Bridge | |||
| Siddharth Dube | An Indefinite Sentence | |||
| 2021 | Mohsin Zaidi | A Dutiful Boy | Winner | [37][38][39] |
| Billy-Ray Belcourt | A History of My Brief Body | Finalist | [40] | |
| François S. Clemmons | Officer Clemmons: A Memoir | |||
| John Birdsall | The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard | |||
| R. Eric Thomas | Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America | |||
| 2022 | Brian Broome | Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir | Winner | [41][42] |
| Rajiv Mohabir | Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir | Finalist | [43] | |
| John Paul Brammer | Hola Papi | |||
| Peter Staley | Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism | |||
| Luis Felipe Fabre with JD Pluecker (trans.) | Writing with Caca / Escribir con Caca | |||
| 2023 | Edgar Gomez | High-Risk Homosexual | Winner | [44] |
| Seán Hewitt | All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir | Finalist | [45] | |
| Jim Elledge | An Angel in Sodom | |||
| Ron Goldberg | Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York | |||
| Jesse Leon | I’m Not Broken | |||
| 2024 | Jason Yamas | Tweakerworld | Winner | [46] |
| Charles Busch | Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy | Finalist | [47] | |
| Greg Marshall | Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It | |||
| Jedidiah Jenkins | Mother, Nature | |||
| Martin Duberman | Reaching Ninety |
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