Thorpe Menn Award
The Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Excellence, 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
2010 – 32nd
Linda Rodriguez
Heart's Migration
2009 – 31st
Donna Trussell
What’s Right About What’s Wrong: Poems
2008 – 30th
Martha McCarty
Five Island Diaries: Stories of Love, Lost and Found
2007 – 29th
Ann Pai
My Other Body: A Memoir of Love, Fat, Life and Death
2006 – 28th
Joel Goldman
Deadlocked
2005 – 27th
Max J. Skidmore
After the White House: Former Presidents as Private Citizens
2004 – 26th
Robert Stewart
Outside Language: Essays
2003 – 25th
Rod Townley
Into the Labyrinth: A Novel
2002 – 24th
Jacqueline Guidry
The Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town
2001 – 23rd
Nancy Pickard
The Whole Truth
2000 – 22nd
Maryfrances Wagner
Red Silk: Poems
1999 – 21st
Michael Farrell
Papabile: The Man Who Would Be Pope
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Cecile M. Franking
From Ink and Sandalwood
1998 – 20th
Debra Di Blasi
Drought & Say What You Like
1997 – 19th
Gordon MacKenzie
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace
1996 – 18th
Thomas C. Fox
Sexuality and Catholicism
1995 – 17th
G. P. Schultz
Incident at Sims Center
1994 – 16th
Gloria Vando
Promesas: Geography of the Impossible
1993 – 15th
J. J. Maloney
The Pariah’s Handbook: A Literary Guide to the Underworld
1992 – 14th
Cathy Johnson
A Naturalist’s Cabin: Constructing a Dream
1991 – 13th
Conger Beasley, Jr.
Sundancers and River Demons: Essays on Landscape and Ritual
1990 – 12th
C. W. Gusewelle
Far From Any Coast: Pieces of America’s Heartland
1989 – 11th
David Perkins
Wrapped Minds and Other Essays, Reviews and Commentaries of Art, Politics and Real Life
1988 – 10th
John M. Swomley
Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context
1987 – 9th
Richard L. Miller
Truman: The Rise to Power
1986 – 8th
Janet Bruce
The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball
1985 – 7th
Robert M. Farnsworth
Melvin B. Tolson, 1898-1996: Plain Talk and Poetic Prophecy
1984 – 6th
Victor Papnek
Design for Human Scale
1983 – 5th
David Ray
A Touched Life: Poems, Selected and New
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
1979 – 1st
David Melton
Theodore: A Novel
1979 - 2000 list compiled by Alice Stewart, Johnson County Public Library.
