# 9th Lambda Literary Awards

The 9th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 1997 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 1996.

## Special awards

| Category | Winner |
| Editor's Choice | Donald Windham, Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965 |
| Pioneer Award | Helaine Harris, Daedalus Books |
| Publishers Service Award | Norman Laurila, A Different Light |

## Nominees and winners

9th Lambda Literary Awards winners and finalists :
| Category | Author/Editor | Title | Result |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Joan Nestle and Naomi Holoch (eds.) | Women on Women 3 | Winner |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | David Bergman (ed.) | Men on Men 6 | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Victoria Brownworth | Night Bites | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Bruce Morrow and Charles H. Rowell (eds.) | Shade | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Fiction) | Shawn Stewart Ruff (ed.) | Go the Way Your Blood Beats | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction Fiction) | Michael Bronski (ed.) | Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, & Sex | Winner |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction Fiction) | Bruce Bawer (ed.) | Beyond Queer | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction Fiction) | Robin Bernstein and Seth Clark Silberman (eds.) | Generation Q | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction Fiction) | Lee Lynch and Akia Woods (eds.) | Off the Rag | Finalist |
| Anthologies (Nonfiction Fiction) | Patrick Merla (ed.) | Boys Like Us | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Nancy Garden | Good Moon Rising | Winner |
| Children's and Young Adult | Earl Alexander, Sheila Rudin, and Pam Sejkora | My Dad Has HIV | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman | Free Your Mind | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Michael Thomas Ford | The World Out There | Finalist |
| Children's and Young Adult | Michael Willhoite | Daddy’s Wedding | Finalist |
| Drama | Sue-Ellen Case | Split Britches | Winner |
| Drama | Mart Crowley | Three Plays by Crowley | Finalist |
| Drama | Rosemary Keefe Curb | Amazon All-Stars | Finalist |
| Drama | Holly Hughes | Clit Notes | Finalist |
| Drama | Michael Kearns | Acting=Life | Finalist |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Fenton Johnson | Geography of the Heart | Winner |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Bernard Cooper | Truth Serum | Finalist |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Mark Doty | Heaven’s Coast | Finalist |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | David Hajdu | Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn | Finalist |
| Gay Biography and Autobiography | Assotto Saint | Spells of a Voodoo Doll | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Shyam Selvadurai | Funny Boy | Winner |
| Gay Fiction | Michael Arditti | Pagan’s Father | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Andrew Holleran | The Beauty of Men | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Patrick Moore | Iowa | Finalist |
| Gay Fiction | Dale Peck | The Law of Enclosures | Finalist |
| Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery | Michael Nava | The Death of Friends | Winner |
| Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery | Grant Michaels | Time to Check Out | Finalist |
| Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery | Steven Saylor | Murder on the Appian Way | Finalist |
| Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery | John Morgan Wilson | Simple Justice | Finalist |
| Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery | R. D. Zimmerman | Tribe | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Rafael Campo | What the Body Told | Winner |
| Gay Poetry | Kenny Fries | Anesthesia | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Michael Lassell | Eros in Boystown | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Jaime Manrique | My Night With Federico Garcia Lorca | Finalist |
| Gay Poetry | Reginald Shepherd | Angel, Interrupted | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Patrick Merla (ed.) | Boys Like Us | Winner |
| Gay Studies | Keith Boykin | One More River to Cross | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Will Fellows | Farm Boys | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | Harry Hay and Will Roscoe | Radically Gay | Finalist |
| Gay Studies | David Tuller | Cracks in the Iron Closet | Finalist |
| Humor | Judy Carter | The Homo Handbook | Winner |
| Humor | Tim Barela | Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead | Finalist |
| Humor | Mary Dugger | History of Lesbian Hair | Finalist |
| Humor | Helen Eisenbach | Lesbianism Made Easy | Finalist |
| Humor | Liz Tracey and Sydney Pokorny | So You Want to Be a Lesbian? | Finalist |
| Lesbian Memoir or Biography | Doris Grumbach | Life in a Day | Winner |
| Lesbian Memoir or Biography | Candace Gingrich | Accidental Activist | Finalist |
| Lesbian Memoir or Biography | Honor Moore | The White Blackbird | Finalist |
| Lesbian Memoir or Biography | Torie Osborn | Coming Home to America | Finalist |
| Lesbian Memoir or Biography | Helen Sheehy | Eva Le Gallienne | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Achy Obejas | Memory Mambo | Winner |
| Lesbian Fiction | Carol Anshaw | Seven Moves | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Rebecca Brown | What Keeps Me Here | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Sarah Van Arsdale | Toward Amnesia | Finalist |
| Lesbian Fiction | Barbara Wilson | If You Had a Family | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Ellen Hart | Robber's Wine | Winner |
| Lesbian Mystery | Katherine V. Forrest | Liberty Square | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Jaye Maiman | Baby, It’s Cold | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Jackie Manthorne | Final Take | Finalist |
| Lesbian Mystery | Claire McNab | Inner Circle | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Robin Becker | All-American Girl | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | Maureen Seaton | Furious Cooking | Winner |
| Lesbian Poetry | Clare Coss | Arc of Love | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Jeredith Merrin | Shift | Finalist |
| Lesbian Poetry | Linda Smukler | Home in Three Days. Don’t Wash. | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Bernadette J. Brooten | Love Between Women | Winner |
| Lesbian Studies | Victoria Brownworth | Too Queer | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Meg Daly | Surface Tension | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Lindsay Van Gelder and Pamela Brandt | Girls Next Door | Finalist |
| Lesbian Studies | Ruth Vanita | Sappho and the Virgin Mary | Finalist |
| Photography and Visual Arts | Susie Bright and Jill Posener | Nothing But the Girl | Winner |
| Photography and Visual Arts | Persimmon Blackbridge | Sunnybrook | Finalist |
| Photography and Visual Arts | Loren Cameron | Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits | Finalist |
| Photography and Visual Arts | Derek Jarman | Derek Jarman’s Garden | Finalist |
| Photography and Visual Arts | Susan Stryker and Jim Van Buskirk | Gay by the Bay | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Clive Barker | Sacrament | Winner |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez | Swords of the Rainbow | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Pam Keesey | Women Who Run With Werewolves | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Rachel Pollack | Godmother Night | Finalist |
| Science fiction, fantasy or horror | Michael Rowe and Thomas S. Roche | Sons of Darkness | Finalist |
| Small Press | Loren Cameron | Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits | Winner |
| Small Press | Victoria Brownworth | Too Queer | Finalist |
| Small Press | Diamanda Galas | Shit of God | Finalist |
| Small Press | Bernard Welt | Mythomania | Finalist |
| Small Press | Celeste West | Lesbian Polyfidelity | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Peter Gomes | The Good Book | Winner |
| Spirituality | Marc Adams | The Preacher’s Son | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Marilyn Alexander and James Preston | We Were Baptized Too | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Keith Hartman | Congregations in Conflict | Finalist |
| Spirituality | Lev Raphael | Journeys & Arrivals | Finalist |
| Transgender | Loren Cameron | Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits | Winner |
| Transgender | Phyllis Burke | Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male and Female | Finalist |
| Transgender | Catalina de Erauso | Lieutenant Nun | Finalist |
| Transgender | Leslie Feinberg | Transgender Warriors | Finalist |
| Transgender | Leon E. Pettiway | Honey, Honey Miss Thang | Finalist |