| Year
|
Author
|
Work
|
Result
|
Ref.
|
| 1994
|
Josyane Savigneau
|
Marguerite Yourcenar
|
Winner
|
|
| Phyllis Burke
|
Family Values
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Mab Segrest
|
Memoir of a Race Traitor
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch
|
And Say Hi to Joyce
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Candace Gingrich
|
Accidental Activist
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Margot Peters
|
May Sarton: a Biography
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Joan Nestle
|
A Fragile Union
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Kay Turner
|
Baby Precious Always Shines
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Amber Hollibaugh
|
My Dangerous Desires
|
Finalist
|
|
| June Jordan
|
Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood
|
| Carole Maso
|
The Room Lit by Roses
|
| Joan Schenkar
|
Truly Wilde
|
| 2007
|
Alison Bechdel
|
Fun Home
|
Winner
|
|
| Barbara Sjoholm
|
Incognito Street
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Marusya Bociurkiw
|
Comfort Food for Breakups
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Susan Griffin
|
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| 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
|
|
| 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)
|
|
| Julie Marie Wade
|
Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures
|
| Katherine A. Briccetti
|
Blood Strangers: A Memoir
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Jane Rule
|
Taking My Life
|
|
| 2013
|
Jeanette Winterson
|
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
|
Winner
|
|
| Judy Grahn
|
A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Donna Minkowitz
|
Growing up Golem
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Lynette Loeppky
|
Cease – a memoir of love, loss and desire
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Cat Cora
|
Cooking as Fast as I Can: A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Ma-Nee Chacaby
|
A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Melissa Febos
|
Abandon Me: Memoirs
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Barrie Jean Borich
|
Apocalypse, Darling
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Benjamin Moser
|
Sontag: Her Life and Work
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Tania De Rozario
|
And The Walls Come Crumbling Down
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Grace Perry
|
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture
|
Finalist
|
|
| 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
|
|
| Raquel Gutiérrez
|
Brown Neon
|
Finalist
|
|
| Putsata Reang
|
Ma and Me
|
| Chris Belcher
|
Pretty Baby: A Memoir
|
| Neema Avashia
|
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
|