Previous Winners
Evans Biography Awards Winners
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Year | Winner |
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2020 and 2021 | Terryl L. Givens. Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism. The University of North Carolina Press |
2018 and 2019 | James R. Swensen. In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953-1954. The University of Utah Press |
Finalist | Colleen Whitley. Feed My Sheep: The Life of Alberta Henry. The University of Utah Press |
2017 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870. Alfred A. Knopf |
Finalist | Thomas G. Smith. Stewart L. Udall: Steward of the Land. University of New Mexico Press |
2016 | Gregory A. Prince. Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History. The University of Utah Press |
Finalist | Paul Andrew Hutton. The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, The Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History. Crown |
2015 | Angela Pulley Hudson. Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians. The University of North Carolina Press |
2014 | Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey. Gasa Gasa Girl Goes To Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind a World War II Fence. University of Utah Press |
2013 | Todd M. Compton. A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary. University of Utah Press |
2012 | Timothy Egan. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
2011 | William M. Adler. The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon. Bloomsbury |
2009 and 2010 | Matthew J. Grow. Liberty to the Downtrodden: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer. Yale University Press |
2008 | Janet Chapman and Karen Barrie. Kenneth Milton Chapman: A Life Dedicated to Indian Arts and Artists. University of New Mexico Press |
2007 | Frederick H. Swanson. Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons. University of Utah Press |
2006 | Sandra Ailey Petree ed. Recollections of Past Days: The Autobiography of Patience Loader Roxsa Archer. Utah State University Press |
2005 | Richard Lyman Bushman. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. Alfred A. Knopf |
2004 | Eva Tulene Watt with assistance from Keith H. Basso. Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860-1975. University of Arizona Press |
2003 | Virginia Kerns. Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward’s Life and Theory. University of Illinois Press |
2002 | Ronald O. Barney. One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney 1808-1894. Utah State University Press |
2001 | Sally Zanjani. Sarah Winnemucca. University of Nebraska Press |
2000 | Donald Worster. A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell. Oxford University Press |
1999 | Davis Bitton. George Q. Cannon: A Biography. Deseret Book Company |
1998 | Valeen Tippetts Avery. From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet. University of Illinois Press |
1997 | Thomas Toone. Mahonri Young: His Life and Art. Signature Books |
1996 | Jackson J. Benson. Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work. Viking Penguin |
1995 | Mary Lythgoe Bradford. Lowell L. Bennion: Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian. Dialogue Foundation |
1995 | Robert Alan Goldberg. Barry Goldwater. Yale University Press |
1994 | LeRoy Ashby and Rod Gramer. Fighting the Odds: The Life of Senator Frank Church. Washington State University Press |
1993 | Shirley A. Leckie. Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth. University of Oklahoma Press |
1992 | Ivan Doig. Heart Earth. Atheneum/Macmillan |
1991 | Terry Tempest Williams. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Pantheon Books |
1991 | Thomas G. Alexander. Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff. Signature Books |
1990 | William DeBuys and Alex Harris. River of Traps. University of New Mexico Press |
1988 | Roger D. Lanius. Joseph Smith III: Pragmatic Prophet. University of Illinois Press |
1987 | Levi S. Peterson. Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian. University of Utah Press |
1986 | Joseph C. Porter. Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West. University of Oklahoma Press |
1986 | James B. Allen. Trials of Discipleship: The Story of William Clayton, A Mormon. University of Illinois Press |
1985 | Paul Hutton. Phil Sheridan and His Army. University of Nebraska Press |
1984 | Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery. Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith. Doubleday |
1984 | Richard Bushman. Joseph Smith and the Beginning of Mormonism. University of Illinois Press |
1983 | Leonard J. Arrington. Brigham Young: American Moses. Knopf/Random House |
Evans Handcart Awards Winners
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Year | Winner |
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2020 and 2021 | Judy Y. Kawamoto. Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America. University Press of Colorado |
Finalist | Grace Olmstead. Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind. Sentinel |
Finalist | Lisa Hendrickson. Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West. University of Nebraska Press |
2018 and 2019 | Tara Westover. Educated. Random House |
Finalist | Mary Budd Flitner. My Ranch, Too: A Wyoming Memoir. University of Oklahoma Press |
2017 | Rodney Frey. Carry Forth the Stories: An Ethnographer's Journey into Native Oral Tradition. Washington State University Press |
Finalist | Michael Branch. Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness. Roost Books |
2016 | Pete Fromm. The Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds. Thomas Dunne Books |
2015 | James M. Aton. The Art and Life of Jimmie Jones: Landscape Artist of the Canyon Country. Gibbs Smith |
2013 | Evelyn I. Funda. Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament. University of Nebraska Press |
2012 | Erin Ann Thomas. Coal in Our Veins: A Personal Journey. Utah State University Press |
2011 | Alwin J. Girdner . Diné Tah: My Reservation Days 1923-1939. Rio Nuevo Publishers |
2009 and 2010 | Ronald G. Watt. The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt: First British Convert, Scribe for Zion. Utah State University Press |
2008 | William B. Smart. Mormonism’s Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart. Utah State University Press |
2007 | Jedediah Rogers, ed. In the President’s Office. Signature Books |
2006 | Kenneth W. Merrell. Scottish Shepherd: The Life and Times of John Murray Murdoch, Utah Pioneer. University of Utah Press |
2005 | Gregory A. Prince and Wm. Robert Wright. David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism. University of Utah Press |
2004 | Stephen L. Prince. Gathering in Harmony: A Saga of Southern Utah Families, Their Roots and Pioneering Heritage, and the Tale of Atone Prince, Sheriff of Washington County. The Arthur H. Clark Company |
2003 | Ripley Hugo. Writing for Her Life: The Novelist Mildred Walker. The University of Nebraska Press |
2002 | Margaret Bell, ed and afterword by Mary Clearman Blew. When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood. University of Nebraska Press |
2001 | Eilean Adams. Hell or High Water: James White’s Disputed Passage through Grand Canyon, 1867. Utah State University Press |
2000 | Robert S. McPherson, ed. The Journey of Navajo Oshley: An Autobiography and Life History. Utah State University Press |
1999 | Scott R. Christensen. Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887. Utah State University Press |
1998 | Debra Hickenlooper Sowell. The Christensen Brothers: An American Dance Epic. Harwood Academic Publishers |
1997 | Donna Toland Smart, ed. Mormon Midwife: The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions. Utah State University Press |
1996 | Maurine Carr Ward, ed. Winter Quarters: The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards. Utah State University Press |