Bill Whitehead Award

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The Bill Whitehead Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour lifetime achievement by writers within the LGBT community. First presented in 1989, the award was named in honour of Bill Whitehead, an editor with E. P. Dutton and Macmillan Publishers who died in 1987.[1] The award is given to a woman in even-numbered years and a man in odd-numbered years.

Winners[]

Bill Whitehead Award winners
Year Winner Ref.
1989 Edmund White
1990 Adrienne Rich
1991 James Purdy
1992 Audre Lorde
1993 Samuel R. Delany
1994 Judy Grahn
1995 Jonathan Ned Katz
1996 Joan Nestle
1997 Armistead Maupin
1998 M. E. Kerr
1999 John Rechy
2000 Doris Grumbach
2001 Michael Nava
2002 Jane Rule
2003 Christopher Bram
2004 Lillian Faderman
2005 Edward Field
2006 Karla Jay
2007 Andrew Holleran
2008 Katherine V. Forrest
2009 Martin Duberman
2010 Blanche Wiesen Cook
2011 Alan Hollinghurst
2012 Alison Bechdel
2013 John D'Emilio [2]
2014 Maria Irene Fornes
2015 Rigoberto González
2016 Eloise Klein Healy
2017 Michael Bronski
2018 Sarah Schulman
2019 Jaime Manrique [3]
2020 Eileen Myles [4][5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Awards".
  2. ^ Bookey, Seth J. "Going for the Silver – Gay City News". Gay City News. Retrieved 2022-02-05.
  3. ^ Maher |, John (2019-04-26). "This Year's Triangle Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-02-05.
  4. ^ "Eileen Myles Receives Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award". The Publishing Triangle. 2020-03-16. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  5. ^ "Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists, Yiyun Li's Virtual Book Club, and More". Poets & Writers. 2020-03-17. Retrieved 2020-03-18.

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