Writing Award Winners 1980-1989
Past Writing Award Winners
1980-1989
1989 Winners
Outstanding Author
1989
Jonathan Kozol
Rachel and her Children
Outstanding Article
1989 General
Robert Kanigel
An Ordinary Miracle
Hippocrates
One Small Step
1989
McGraw-Hill
Magazine of the Year
1989
Connoisseur
Open Book
1989
Viking Penguin
1989
American Library Association
1988 Winners
Outstanding Author
1988
Randy Shilts
And the Band Played On: People, Politics and the AIDS Epidemic
Outstanding Article
1988 General
Laurence B. Cherry
My Father’s Last Year
Glamour
1988 General
Kenneth F. Englade
The Battle Over Secular Humanism
Southern
Magazine of the Year
1988
New Yorker
1987 Winners
Outstanding Author
1987
Kitty Kelley
His Way
Outstanding Article
1987 General
Rena Dictor LeBlanc
The Mechanical Boy Who Found His Heart
Reader’s Digest
1987 General
Claudia Dreifus
Rodrigo’s Last Trip: The Fiery Death of a Young Chilean Exile
Mother Jones
One Small Step
1987
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Special Awards
1987
Paulette Cooper
1987
Bern Keating
Lifetime
1987
Maurice Zolotow
Magazine of the Year
1987
Glamour, Smithsonian
Special Mention
1987
Southern
1986 Winners
Outstanding Author
1986
John McPhee
Outstanding Article
1986 General
Joan Barthel
Jimmy
McCall’s
Special Awards
1986
Dr. Judith Becker and Ellen Levine
Special Service
1986
Glen Evans
Magazine of the Year
1986
none
Conscience In Media
1986
Jonathan Kozol
1985 Winners
Outstanding Author
1985
Flora Rheta Schreiber
The Shoemaker
Outstanding Article
1985 General
Steve Fishman
Brain Surgery: A Patient’s Story
Science Digest
Special Service
1985
Dorothy Beach
Magazine of the Year
1985
American Way
1984 Winners
Outstanding Author
1984
Isaac Asimov
Outstanding Article
1984 General
Bonnie Remsberg
Beneath the Cloud
Family Circle
Magazine of the Year
1984
Ladies’ Home Journal
Open Book
1984
People for the American Way
1984
Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Associatio
1984
National Coalition Against Censorship
1984
Media Coalition
1983 Winners
Outstanding Author
1983
Alvin Toffler
Outstanding Article
1983 General
Sally Wendkos Olds
Do You want Your Mother to Die?
McCall
1983 General
Morton Hunt
Research Through Deception
New York Times Magazine
1983 General
Gloria Hochman
Living with Alzheimer’s
Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine
1983 General
Claire Safran
The War on Toxic Waste
Woman’s Day
Magazine of the Year
1983
Esquire, Working Mother
Open Book
1983
Teresa Burnau, high-school teacher
1983
Rosanne Stead, bookstore manager
1983
Nat Hentoff, Village Voice columnist
1983
Michael Sheck, high-school student
1983
Leo Melrose, librarian
1983
Faith Brunson, department-store book buyer
1982 Winners
Outstanding Author
1982
Betty Friedan
The Second Stage
Outstanding Article
1982 General
Morton Sontheimer
Memories of a Small Bomb
Newsweek
1981 Winners
Outstanding Author
1981
Norman Cousins
Anatomy of an Illness and body of work
Outstanding Article
1981 General
Michael Frome
The Ungreening of our National Parks
Travel Agent and National Parks
Magazine of the Year
1981
Omni
Conscience In Media
1981
Jacopo Timerman
1981
Erwin Knoll
1980 Winners
Outstanding Author
1980
Barbara Tuchman
A Distant Mirror
Outstanding Article
1980 General
Ted J. Rakstis
The Poisoning of Michigan
Reader’s Digest
Magazine of the Year
1980
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Awards
ASJA relishes in the opportunity to recognize exceptional freelance writing and writers. Our annual awards program highlights stellar nonfiction articles, essays, books, and content marketing writing in a variety of categories.