Year
|
Author
|
Work
|
Result
|
Ref.
|
1994
|
Josyane Savigneau
|
Marguerite Yourcenar
|
Winner
|
[2]
|
Phyllis Burke
|
Family Values
|
Finalist
|
[2]
|
Jewelle Gomez
|
Forty-Three Septembers
|
Rose Gladney (editor)
|
How Am I To Be Heard: Letters of Lillian Smith
|
David Sweetman
|
Mary Renault
|
1995
|
Renate Stendhal (editor)
|
Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
Mab Segrest
|
Memoir of a Race Traitor
|
Finalist
|
[3]
|
Elizabeth Bishop
|
One Art: Letters
|
Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer and Chris Fisher
|
Serving in Silence
|
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
|
The Power and the Passion of M. Carey Thomas
|
1996
|
Erica Fischer
|
Aimee & Jaguar
|
Winner
|
[4]
|
Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch
|
And Say Hi to Joyce
|
Finalist
|
[4]
|
Susan E. Cayliff
|
Babe
|
Claudia Brenner with Hannah Ashley
|
Eight Bullets
|
Dorothy Allison
|
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
|
1997
|
Doris Grumbach
|
Life in a Day
|
Winner
|
[5]
|
Candace Gingrich
|
Accidental Activist
|
Finalist
|
[5]
|
Torie Osborn
|
Coming Home to America
|
Helen Sheehy
|
Eva Le Gallienne
|
Honor Moore
|
The White Blackbird
|
1998
|
Barbara Wilson
|
Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood
|
Winner
|
[6]
|
Margot Peters
|
May Sarton: a Biography
|
Finalist
|
[6]
|
Kim Chernin
|
My Life as a Boy
|
Daphne Scholinski and Jane Meredith Adams
|
The Last Time I Wore a Dress
|
Hermione Lee
|
Virginia Woolf
|
1999
|
Alison Bechdel
|
The Indelible Alison Bechdel; Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for
|
Winner
|
[7]
|
Joan Nestle
|
A Fragile Union
|
Finalist
|
[7]
|
Rodger Streitmatter
|
Empty Without You
|
Sally Cline
|
Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John
|
Kate Summerscale
|
The Queen of Whale Cay
|
2000
|
Diana Souhami
|
The Trials of Radclyffe Hall
|
Winner
|
[8]
|
Kay Turner
|
Baby Precious Always Shines
|
Finalist
|
[8]
|
Blanche Wiesen Cook
|
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2: 1933–1938
|
Barrie Jean Borich
|
My Lesbian Husband
|
Karla Jay
|
Tales of the Lavender Menace
|
2001
|
Judith Barrington
|
Lifesaving
|
Winner
|
[9]
|
Amber Hollibaugh
|
My Dangerous Desires
|
Finalist
|
[9]
|
June Jordan
|
Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood
|
Carole Maso
|
The Room Lit by Roses
|
Joan Schenkar
|
Truly Wilde
|
2007
|
Alison Bechdel
|
Fun Home
|
Winner
|
[10]
|
Barbara Sjoholm
|
Incognito Street
|
Finalist
|
[10]
|
Bettina Aptheker
|
Intimate Politics
|
Hilary Carlip
|
Queen of the Oddballs
|
Catherine Friend
|
Hit by a Farm
|
2008
|
Nicola Griffith
|
And Now We Are Going to Have a Party
|
Winner
|
[11][12]
|
Marusya Bociurkiw
|
Comfort Food for Breakups
|
Finalist
|
[12]
|
Amy Hoffman
|
An Army of Ex-Lovers
|
Janet Malcolm
|
Two Lives: Gertrude & Alice
|
Jacqueline Taylor
|
Waiting for the Call
|
2009
|
Maureen Seaton
|
Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir
|
Winner
|
[13]
|
Susan Griffin
|
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy
|
Finalist
|
[13]
|
Thea Hillman
|
Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)
|
Joanne Passet
|
Sex Variant Woman
|
Abbe Smith
|
Case of a Lifetime
|
2010
|
Joan Schenkar
|
The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
|
Winner
|
[14]
|
Alix Dobkin
|
My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement
|
Finalist
|
[14]
|
Ariel Schrag
|
Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
|
Mary Cappello
|
Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life
|
Terry Galloway
|
Mean Little deaf Queer
|
2011
|
Barbara Hammer
|
Hammer!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
|
Winner (tie)
|
[15]
|
Julie Marie Wade
|
Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures
|
Katherine A. Briccetti
|
Blood Strangers: A Memoir
|
Finalist
|
[16]
|
Chely Wright
|
Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer
|
Amie Klempnauer Miller
|
She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood
|
2012
|
Jeanne Córdova
|
When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution
|
Winner
|
[17]
|
Karleen Pendleton Jimenez
|
How to Get a Girl Pregnant
|
Finalist
|
|
Catherine Friend
|
Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet
|
|
Julie Marie Wade
|
Small Fires: Essays
|
[18]
|
Jane Rule
|
Taking My Life
|
|
2013
|
Jeanette Winterson
|
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
|
Winner
|
[19][20]
|
Judy Grahn
|
A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet
|
Finalist
|
[19]
|
Lisa Cohen
|
All We Know: Three Lives
|
Alison Bechdel
|
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
|
Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
|
Before the Rain
|
Sarah Schulman
|
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
|
2014
|
Barrie Jean Borich
|
Body Geographic
|
Winner
|
[21][22]
|
Donna Minkowitz
|
Growing up Golem
|
Finalist
|
[21]
|
Annie Lanzillotto
|
L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir
|
Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton
|
Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology
|
2015
|
AlethEa Jones and Virginia Eubanks, with Barbara Smith
|
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith
|
Winner
|
[23]
|
Lynette Loeppky
|
Cease – a memoir of love, loss and desire
|
Finalist
|
[24]
|
Kelly Cogswell
|
Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
|
Ariel Gore
|
The End of Eve
|
Terry Mutchler
|
Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America
|
2016
|
Kate Carroll de Gutes
|
Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
|
Winner
|
[25][26][27]
|
Cat Cora
|
Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
|
Finalist
|
[28]
|
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
|
Dirty River
|
Carrie Brownstein
|
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
|
Allison Gruber
|
You’re Not Edith
|
2017
|
Gloria Joseph
|
ody, Undone: Living On After Great Pain
|
Winner
|
[29]
|
Ma-Nee Chacaby
|
A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
|
Finalist
|
[29]
|
Tig Notaro
|
I’m Just a Person
|
Joanne Passet
|
Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier
|
2018
|
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
|
The Fact of a Body
|
Winner
|
[30][31]
|
Melissa Febos
|
Abandon Me: Memoirs
|
Finalist
|
[32]
|
Eileen Myles
|
Afterglow
|
Renate Stendhal
|
Kiss Me Again, Paris: A Memoir
|
Anne-christine d'Adesky
|
The Pox Lover: An Activist’s Decade in New York and Paris
|
2019
|
Zahra Patterson
|
Chronology
|
Winner
|
[33]
|
Barrie Jean Borich
|
Apocalypse, Darling
|
Finalist
|
[34]
|
Julia Van Haaften
|
Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography
|
Sandra Gail Lambert
|
A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir
|
Marusya Bociurkiw
|
Food Was Her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter
|
Sarah Viren
|
MINE: Essays
|
Esther Newton
|
My Butch Career: A Memoir
|
Lindsay Nixon
|
nîtisânak
|
2020
|
Samra Habib
|
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
|
Winner
|
[35][36]
|
Benjamin Moser
|
Sontag: Her Life and Work
|
Finalist
|
[37][38]
|
Saidiya Hartman
|
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
|
Edie Windsor with Joshua Lyon
|
A Wild and Precious Life
|
Jaquira Díaz
|
Ordinary Girls
|
Julia Koets
|
The Rib Joint: A Memoir In Essays
|
T Kira Madden
|
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
|
Elissa Altman
|
Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
|
2021
|
Jenn Shapland
|
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
|
Winner
|
[39][40][41]
|
Tania De Rozario
|
And The Walls Come Crumbling Down
|
Finalist
|
[42]
|
Tana Wojczuk
|
Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity
|
Nina Kennedy
|
Practicing for Love: A Memoir
|
Lori Soderlind
|
The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour
|
2022
|
Sophie Santos
|
The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had)
|
Winner
|
[43][44]
|
Grace Perry
|
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
|
Finalist
|
[45]
|
Leslie Cohen
|
The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation
|
Jonathan Ned Katz
|
The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams
|
Adele Bertei
|
Why Labelle Matters
|
2023
|
Kathryn Schulz
|
Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness
|
Winner
|
[46]
|
Raquel Gutiérrez
|
Brown Neon
|
Finalist
|
[47]
|
Putsata Reang
|
Ma and Me
|
Chris Belcher
|
Pretty Baby: A Memoir
|
Neema Avashia
|
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
|
2024
|
Amelia Possanza
|
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives
|
Winner
|
[48]
|
Lamya H
|
Hijab Butch Blues
|
Finalist
|
[49]
|
Vi Khi Nao
|
Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche
|
Sarah Viren
|
To Name the Bigger Lie
|
Lynnée Denise
|
Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
|