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2017     No prize awarded.
2015     Saint Monkey : a novel by Jacinda Townsend
2013     Remember Ben Clayton : a novel by Stephen Harrigan
2011     Matterhorn : a novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
2009     Loving Frank : a novel by Nancy Horan
2007     The last town on earth : a novel by Thomas Mullen
2005     The plot against America by Philip Roth
2003     Paradise Alley : a novel by Kevin Baker
2001     A dangerous friend by Ward Just; Bone by bone : a novel by Peter Matthiessen
1999     Gain by Richard Powers
1997     The cattle killing by John Edgar Wideman
1995     In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
1993     Shaman by Noah Gordon