ALAN Award

The ALAN Award is a literary prize with which the A ssembly on L iterature for A dolescents of American English Teachers Association N ational Council of Teachers of English distinguishes each year those persons who with their life's work to the American youth literature have rendered outstanding services.

In addition to the Margaret Edwards Award , established in 1988, the ALAN Award is one of the most important prizes that American authors of young books can receive for their complete works, and the most important that can be given to experts in the field of youth literature (scholars, publicists, librarians).

Award winners

• 1974 - Stephen Judy and G. Robert Carlsen
• 1975 - Margaret Edwards
• 1976 - Margaret McElderry and M. Jerry Weiss , literary scholars
• 1977 - Marguerite Archer
• 1978 - Mary Seeker
• 1979 - Gerri LaRocque
• 1980 - Dwight Burton , literary scholar
• 1981 - Sheila Schwartz , literary scholar
• 1982 - Robert Cormier , author of The Chocolate War (1974)
• 1983 - Ken Donelson , literary scholar
• 1984 - Louise Rosenblatt , literary scholar
• 1985 - Sue Ellen Bridgers , author of Notes for Another Life (1981)
• 1986 - Madeleine L'Engle , author of A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
• 1987 - Katherine Paterson , author of Jacob have I loved (1980), and Allene Pace Nilsen , literary scholar
• 1988 - Ted Hipple , educationalist, ALAN chairman
• 1989 - Cynthia Voigt , author of Homecoming (1981)
• 1990 - Richard Peck , author of Don't Look and It Won't Hurt (1972)
• 1991 - Gary Paulsen , author of Hatchet (1987)
• 1992 - Don Gallo , literary scholar and editor
• 1993 - Chris Crutcher , author of Whale Talk (2001)
• 1994 - Walter Dean Myers , author of Hoops (1981)
• 1995 - Robert C. Small , literary scholar
• 1996 - William Morris , publicist
• 1997 - Mildred D. Taylor , author of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976)
• 1998 - Susan E. Hinton , author of The Outsiders (1967)
• 1999 - Robert Lipsyte , author of The Contender (1967)
• 2000 - Marijane Meaker aka ME Kerr, author of Dinky stool Shoots Smack! (1972)
• 2001 - Patty Campbell , literary critic
• 2002 - Paul Zindel , author of The Pigman (1968)
• 2003 - Norma Fox Mazer , author of After the Rain (1987), and Harry Mazer , author of A Boy at War (2001)
• 2004 - Jacqueline Woodson , author of From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (1995)
• 2005 - Jerry Spinelli , author of Stargirl (2000)
• 2006 - Virginia Monseau , literary scholar, and Marc Aronson , historical scholar
• 2007 - Teri Lesesne , library scientist
• 2008 - Laurie Halse Anderson , author of Speak (1999)
• 2009 - Naomi Shihab Nye , poet, author of A Maze Me: Poems for Girls (2005)
• 2010 - Jack Gantos , author of Hole in My Life (2002)
• 2011 - Sharon Draper , author of Tears of a Tiger (1994)
• 2012 - George Nicholson , publicist
• 2013 - Judy Blume , author of Forever , 1975
• 2014 - David Levithan , author of Boy Meets Boy (2003)
• 2015 - Lois Lowry , author of The Giver (1993)
• 2016 - Gary Salvner , university professor
• 2017 - Neal Shusterman , author of Challenger Deep (2015)
• 2018 - Michael Cart , journalist

Web links

• ALAN Award Official Website