AML Awards: Personal Essay

1984  Eugene England for A Dialogue with Myself: Personal Essays on Mormon Experience
1985  Edward Geary for Goodbye to Poplarhaven
1986  Susan Taber for "In Jeopardy Every Hour" (Dialogue)
1987  Mary Lythgoe Bradford for Leaving Home
1988  Karin Anderson England for "The Man at the Chapel"
1989  Emma Lou Thayne for As for Me and My House
1990  Elouise Bell for Only When I Laugh
1991  Terry Tempest Williams for Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
1992  Marden J. Clark for Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature
1993  Eugene England for "Monte Cristo"
1994  Richard D. Poll for "A Liahona Latter-day Saint"
1995  Terry Tempest Williams for Desert Quartet
1996  Kenneth O. Kemp for "3/4-inch Marine Ply"
1997  Holly Welker for "What You Walk Away From"
1998  Tom Plummer for Eating Chocolates and Dancing in the Kitchen: Sketches of Marriage and Family
1999  Martha Beck for Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
2000  Gordon B. Hinckley for Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
2006  John Bennion for 'Like the Lilies of the Field'
2006  Wilfried Decoo (honorable mention) for "The Unspeakable"
2006  Patricia Karamesines (honorable mention) for "The Birds of Summer"
2008  Patrick Madden for “A Sudden Pull behind the Heart” Best Literary Non-fiction, vol. 2
2008  Stephen Carter for "Calling" (Sunstone)
2010  Patrick Madden for Quotidiana