AML Awards: Criticism

1977  Clifton Holt Jolley for "The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith: An Archetypal Study"
1978  Steven P. Sondrup for "Literary Dimensions of Mormon Autobiography"
1979  Cindy Lesser Larsen for "Whoever Heard of a Utah Poet?: An Overview of Poetry in the Early Church"
1980  Linda Sillitoe for "New Voices, New Songs: Contemporary Poems by Mormon Women"
1981  George S. Tate for "The Typology of the Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon"
1983  Eugene England (honorable mention) for "The Dawning of a Brighter Day: Mormon Literature after 150 Years"
1985  Steven Walker for Seven Ways of Looking at Susanna
1987  Bruce W. Jorgensen for "Romantic Lyric Form and Western Mormon Experience in the Stories of Douglas Thayer"
1988  Wayne C. Booth for The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction
1989  Michael Hicks for Mormonism and Music: A History
1989  Dennis Clark for "Mormon Poetry Now!: The State of the Art"
1990  William A. Wilson for "In Praise of Ourselves: Stories to Tell"
1994  Gideon O. Burton
1995  Michael Austin for "How to Be a Mormo-American; Or, The Function of Mormon Criticism at the Present Time"
1996  Bruce W. Jorgensen for "Heritage of Hostility: The Mormon Attack on Fiction in the 19th Century";"Roughly One of the R's: Some Notes of a BYU Fiction Teacher (with a Pedantry of Endnotes)"
1997  Richard Dilworth Rust for Feasting on the Word: The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon
2000  Benson Parkinson
2001  Dian Saderup Monson for "Believing in the Word"
2004  Meridian Magazine for
2005  William MorrisP. G. Karamesines,Kent Larsen,and Eric Russell for A Motley Vision
2006  Patricia Karamesines for "The Rhetoric of Stealing God"
2007  Terryl L. Givens for People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture
2010  Grant Hardy for Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide
2011  Brant A. Gardner for The Gift and Power: Translating the Book of Mormon