Year

Place

Speaker

1988

Washington, D.C.

I.F. Stone, journalist and author of The Trial of Socrates

1989

Washington, D.C.

Richard Jackson, publisher, Bradbury Press

1990

San Francisco

Joe Kane, author of Running the Amazon

1991

St. Louis

Glen Savan, author of White Palace

1992

Washington, D.C.

Michael Dirda, editor of The Washington Post’s “Book World”

1993

Los Angeles

Rebecca Rothenberg, author of The Bullrush Murders

1994

Boston

Robert Cormier, author

1995

Denver

David Loertscher, AASL President

1996

Washington, D.C.

David Maraniss, author of First in His Class

1997

Baltimore

Taylor Branch, author of Parting the Waters

1998

Portland, OR

Chet Orloff, Director of the Oregon Historical Society

1999

Winston-Salem, NC

Jill McCorkle, author of The Cheerleader

2000

Washington, D.C.

Diane Rehm, National Public Radio journalist

2001

New England

James Gurney, author of Dinotopia

2002

Pasadena

Robin Rector Rupp, author and illustrator

2003

Charlottesville

John Cole, Director of The Center for the Book at the Library of Congress

2004

Dallas

Naomi Shihab Nye, poet and anthologist

2005

New York

Richard Peck, author

2006

Atlanta

Terry Kay, author of To Dance with the White Dog

2007

Philadelphia

Terry Gross, National Public Radio journalist

2008

Toronto

Deborah Ellis, author and activist

2009

Las Vegas

Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple

2010

Nashville

Robert Hicks author of The Widow of the South

2011

San Francisco

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