Margaret A. Edwards Award (1988-2007)

This Award is given to an author for lifetime achievement in writing outstanding literature for young adults. It is given to an author whose work helps teenagers to better understand themselves and their world.

Click on the author's name to see what they have written, and to place a hold on any of their books.

The number in parentheses after each author is the year in which he or she was awarded the Margaret A. Edwards Award.

Lois Lowry (2007)

Jacqueline Woodson (2006)

Francesca Lia Block (2005)

Ursula K. Le Guin (2004)

Nancy Garden (2003)

Paul Zindel (2002)

Robert Lipsyte (2001)

Chris Crutcher (2000)

Anne McCaffrey (1999)

Madeleine L'Engle (1998)

Gary Paulsen (1997)

Judy Blume (1996)

Cynthia Voigt (1995)

Walter Dean Myers (1994)

M.E. Kerr (1993)

Lois Duncan (1992)

Robert Cormier (1991)

Richard Peck (1990)

Note: for the year 1989, no Margaret A. Edwards Award was given

S.E. Hinton (1988)