2016

Elizabeth Crook - Author of Monday Monday

James Magnuson - Author of Famous Writers I have Known

Lawrence Wright - Author of Thirteen Days in September

Chris Tomlinson - Author of Tomlinson Hill

Dominic Smith - Author of The last Painting of Sarah De Vos

Sarah Bird - Author of A Love Letter to Texas Women

H.W. Brands - Author of The General and The President

James D. Hornfischer - Author of The Fleet at Flood Tide

 

2017

Stephen Harrigan - Author of A Friend of Mr. Lincoln

Bill Wittliff - Author of The Devil’s Backbone

Brittani Sonnenberg - Author of Home Leave

David Eric Tomlinson - Author of The Midnight Man

J.K. George - Author of Contact Sport

Donna Marie Miller - Author of The Broken Spoke

Kristin Schell - Author of The Turquoise Table

Annette McGivney - Author of Pure Land

Babette Hughes - Author of The Secret of Happiness

 

2018

S.C. Gwynne - Author of Empire of the Summer Moon

Kate Winkler Dawson - Author of Death in the Air

Matthew Dowd - Author of A New Way

Victoria Price - Author of The Way of Being Lost

Sarah Bird - Author of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen

Gay Gaddis - Author of Cowgirl Power

 

2019

Joy Selak - Author of Cee Gee’s Gift

Jan Jarboe Russell - Author of The Train to Crystal City

Bill Wittliff - Author of The Devil’s Sinkhole

Elizabeth Crook - Author of The Which Way Tree

Wyatt McSpadden - Author of Texas BBQ Small Town to Downtown

E. Lee Walker - Author of Imagination House

Joe Nick Patoski - Author of Austin to ATX

Aaron Franklin - Author of Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto
 

2020

S.C Gwynne - Author of Hymns of the Republic

Lara Prescott - Author of The Secrets We Kept

Tim O’Brien - Author of Dad’s Maybe Book

Peniel E. Joseph - Author of The Sword and the Shield

John Taliaferro - Author of Grinnell

Kathy Valentine - Author of All I Ever Wanted
 

2021

Amy Gentry - Author of Bad Habits

John Lee - Author of When Buddha Met Bubba

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2022

Naomi Shihab Nye - Author of Everything Comes Next

Chris Tomlinson - Author of Forget the Alamo

Stephen Harrigan - Author of The Leopard is Loose

Sarah Bird - Author of Last Dance on the Starlight Pier

Darden Smith - Author of Western Skies

Neal Spelce - Author of With the Bark Off

 

2023

Peniel E. Joseph - Author of The Third Reconstruction

Kristin Neff - Author of Self-Compassion

Elizabeth McCracken - Author of The Hero of This Book

Jolynn Free - Author of YaHa Lost and Found

Mark Pryor - Author of The French Widow

Lisa Doggett - Author of Up the Down Escalator

Jeff Goodell - Author of The Heat Will Kill You First

Kevin Powers - Author of A Line in the Sand

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2024

Ben Fountain - Devil Makes Three

Michael Webber - The Story of Energy

Alan Graham - Welcome Homeless

Rena Pederson - The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief

Jeff Kerr - Murder Creek, Lamar's Folly's and Seat of Empire