The Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Excellence [1], sponsored by the Kansas City Branch of the American Association of University Women, is presented to give recognition for excellence in writing by local authors.
2011 – 33rd
Christie Hodgen
Elegies for the Brokenhearted [2]
2010 – 32nd
Linda Rodriguez
Heart's Migration [3]
2009 – 31st
Donna Trussell
What’s Right About What’s Wrong: Poems [4]
2008 – 30th
Martha McCarty
Five Island Diaries: Stories of Love, Lost and Found [5]
2007 – 29th
Ann Pai
My Other Body: A Memoir of Love, Fat, Life and Death [6]
2006 – 28th
Joel Goldman
Deadlocked [7]
2005 – 27th
Max J. Skidmore
After the White House: Former Presidents as Private Citizens [8]
2004 – 26th
Robert Stewart
Outside Language: Essays [9]
2003 – 25th
Rod Townley
Into the Labyrinth: A Novel [10]
2002 – 24th
Jacqueline Guidry
The Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town [11]
2001 – 23rd
Nancy Pickard
The Whole Truth [12]
2000 – 22nd
Maryfrances Wagner
Red Silk: Poems
1999 – 21st
Michael Farrell
Papabile: The Man Who Would Be Pope
and
Cecile M. Franking
From Ink and Sandalwood [13]
1998 – 20th
Debra Di Blasi
Drought & Say What You Like [14]
1997 – 19th
Gordon MacKenzie
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace [15]
1996 – 18th
Thomas C. Fox
Sexuality and Catholicism [16]
1995 – 17th
G. P. Schultz
Incident at Sims Center
1994 – 16th
Gloria Vando
Promesas: Geography of the Impossible [17]
1993 – 15th
J. J. Maloney
The Pariah’s Handbook: A Literary Guide to the Underworld [18]
1992 – 14th
Cathy Johnson
A Naturalist’s Cabin: Constructing a Dream [19]
1991 – 13th
Conger Beasley, Jr.
Sundancers and River Demons: Essays on Landscape and Ritual [20]
1990 – 12th
C. W. Gusewelle
Far From Any Coast: Pieces of America’s Heartland [21]
1989 – 11th
David Perkins
Wrapped Minds and Other Essays, Reviews and Commentaries of Art, Politics and Real Life [22]
1988 – 10th
John M. Swomley
Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context [23]
1987 – 9th
Richard L. Miller
Truman: The Rise to Power [24]
1986 – 8th
Janet Bruce
The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball [25]
1985 – 7th
Robert M. Farnsworth
Melvin B. Tolson, 1898-1996: Plain Talk and Poetic Prophecy [26]
1984 – 6th
Victor Papnek
Design for Human Scale
1983 – 5th
David Ray
A Touched Life: Poems, Selected and New [27]
1982 – 4th
Janice Young Brooks
Seventrees
1981 – 3rd
W. R. “Doc” Wilson
Fur, Feathers, and Scalps: A Collection of Short Stories
1980 – 2nd
Richard Rhodes
Looking for America: A Writer’s Odyssey [28]
1979 – 1st
David Melton
Theodore: A Novel [29]
1979 - 2000 list compiled by Alice Stewart, Johnson County Public Library.
Links:
[1] http://www.aauwkc.org/ThorpeMenn.html
[2] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22book%22+author:%22Christie+Hodgen%22+title:%22Elegies+for+the+Brokenhearted%22
[3] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Linda+Rodriguez%22+title:%22Heart%92s+Migration%22
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22What%27s+right+about+what%27s+wrong%22+author:%22Trussell+%22
[5] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Five+Island+Diaries%22+author:%22McCarty%22
[6] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22My+Other+Body%22+author:%22Pai%22
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Deadlocked%22+author:%22Goldman%22
[8] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22After+the+White+House%22+author:%22Skidmore%22
[9] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Outside+Language%22+author:%22Stewart%22
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Into+the+Labyrinth%22+author:%22Townley%22
[11] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22The+Year+the+Colored+Sisters+Came+to+Town%22+author:%22Guidry%22
[12] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22The+Whole+Truth%22+author:%22Pickard%22
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22From+Ink+and+Sandalwood%22+author:%22Franking%22
[14] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Drought%22+author:%22di+Blasi%22
[15] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Orbiting+the+Giant+Hairball%22+author:%22MacKenzie%22
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Sexuality+and+Catholicism%22+author:%22Fox%22
[17] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Promesas%22+author:%22Vando%22
[18] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22The+Pariah%E2%80%99s+Handbook%22+author:%22Maloney%22
[19] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22A+Naturalist%E2%80%99s+Cabin%22+author:%22Johnson%22
[20] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Sundancers+and+River+Demons%22+author:%22Beasley%22
[21] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Far+From+Any+Coast%22+author:%22Gusewelle%22
[22] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Wrapped+Minds+and+Other+Essays%22+author:%22Perkins%22
[23] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Religious+Liberty+and+the+Secular+State%22+author:%22Swomley%22
[24] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Truman%22+author:%22Richard+Miller%22
[25] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22The+Kansas+City+Monarchs%22+author:%22Bruce%22
[26] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Melvin+B%2e+Tolson%22+author:%22Farnsworth%22
[27] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22A+Touched+Life%22+author:%22Ray%22
[28] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Looking+for+America%22+author:%22Rhodes%22
[29] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Theodore%22+author:%22Melton%22