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The J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award was established by Mrs. Bertha Coffin to honor the memory of her husband, a long-time member and officer of KAC, after his death on September 6, 1978. An award of $100.00 will be given each year to a KAC member according to the rules printed below. The J. Donald Coffin Award is intended to honor the best published book (excluding history and poetry, which have their own contests) written by a member of Kansas Authors Club. 

J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award Winners
 
2021 They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastman's Story, by Gretchen Cassel Eick, Wichita, D5

2020    
All Hallows' Shadows, by Michael D. Graves, Emporia, D2

2019   The Real Education of TJ Crowley, by Grant Overstake, Wichita, D5

2018   Flight: A Novel of Beirut and the French Countryside, Jean Grant, Lawrence, D2

2017   Hush Girl: It’s Only a Dream, Gloria Zachgo, Wichita, D5

2016   Sundrop Sonata: A Novel of Suspense, Ann Christine Fell, Winfield, D3

2015   In the Shadow of the Wind, Ann Christine Fell, Winfield, D3

2014   Maid Merrian and the Lawman, Deb Stover, Wichita, D5

2013   Tiger Hunting, Tracy Million Simmons, Emporia, D2

2012   Gary Clarke's Africa, Gary Clarke, Topeka, D1

2011   Feisty Family Values, B.D. Tharp, Wichita, D. 5

2010 Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate, by Cynthia Harris & Kelly Alexander

2009 Ride a Shadowed Trail, Eunice Boeve, Phillipsburg. D6

2008 Targets of Rage, Sam Pierson, Lebo. D2

2007 The Moon Butter Route, Max Yoho, Topeka. D1

2006 Diary of a German War Bride, Trudy McFarland, Topeka. D1

2005 Life, I Think, Is Like a Watermelon, LeNore Stumpf, Axtell. D4

2004 Max Conquers the Cosmos, Mark Bouton, Carbondale. D2.

2003 Sissy, Tom Mach, Lawrence. D2

2002 The Revival, Max Yoho, Topeka. D1

2001 Summer of The Crow, Eunice Boeve, Phillipsburg. D6.

2000 Freedom Ships, Robert D. Carey, Topeka. D1.

​1999 
The Lie, Lloyd Ballhagen, Hutchinson. D6

1998 
A Backward View, Mark Scheel, Mission. D2

1997 
Small Towns, Dark Secrets, Lloyd Ballhagen, Hutchinson. D6

1996 
Gathering Reunion, David Tangeman, Topeka. D1

1995 
Wind Songs in the Wheat, V.3, Ruth Ebberts, Eureka. D3

1994 
Sarah of the Border Wars, Dr. James Yoder, Hesston. D5.

1993 
The Potsdam Protocol, Al Clovis, Topeka. D1.

1992 
The Enchanted Prairie, Esther Loewen Vogt, Hillsboro. D4

1991 
Cloud of Darkness, Emanuela O’Malley, Salina. D4

1990 
Worker in Wood, Leland R. Johnson, Wichita, D5

1989 Sandscript, W.L. Lambert, Liberal. D7

1988 
Flame in the Wind, Enola V. Feldman, Garden City. D7

1987 
The Preacher’s Kid, G. Robert Haywood, Topeka. D1

1986 
Passes At The Moon, Thomas Fox Averill, Topeka. D1

1985 
Lady Sheilla’s Groom, Monette Cummings, Lawrence, D2

1984 
ABC’s from Dugout to Astronaut, Floyd E. Pope, Wichita. D5

1983 Jayhawk Children, Blanch Carroll Rush, Winfield. D3

1982 
Not by Bread Alone, Raymond S. Nelson, Wichita. D5

1981 
Red are the Embers, Guanetta Gordon, Sun City, AZ. D2

1980 
A History of Kiowa, Old and New, on the Cowboy-Indian Frontier, Jean M. Brown, Kiowa. D6

1979 
True Tales of the Old Time Plains, David Dary, Lawrence. D2

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