Previous winners of MPIBA Regional Book Awards include Kent Meyers, Lee Marmon, Hannah Hinchman, Rick Bass, Cormac McCarthy, James Galvin, Joy Harjo, Stephen Ambrose, Wallace Stegner, William Least Heat-Moon, Debra Magpie Earling, Barbara Kingsolver, Win Blevins, Judy Blunt, Kent Haruf, Mark Spragg, Pam Houston, Sandra Cisneros, Pat Mora and Joseph M. Marshall III.
The Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association is a non-profit association formed over 40 years ago with the primary purpose of supporting independent bookstores and raising awareness of the value of independent businesses within our communities. The Regional Book Awards were instituted in 1990.
The 2009 Regional Book Award winners (for books published in 2008), pictured in order at left are:
Adult Fiction: ANOTHER MAN'S MOCCASINS: A Walt Longmire Mystery by Craig Johnson, Penguin Group USA
Adult Nonfiction: AMERICAN BUFFALO: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella, Random House
The Arts: COLORADO'S WILD HORSES by Claude Steelman, Wildshots, Inc.
Regional Reference: STAKING HER CLAIM: Women Homesteading the West by Marcia Meredith Hensley, High Plains Press
Children's Chapter Book: GO BIG OR GO HOME by Will Hobbs, HarperCollins Publishers
Children's Picture Book: THE ILLUMINATED DESERT, text by Terry Tempest Williams and illustrations by Chloe Hedden, Canyonlands Natural History Association.
The Awards will be presented at a luncheon at the MPIBA Trade Show in Denver on Friday, September 25, 2009.
For more information, visit the Regional Book Awards page on the MPIBA website or contact Lisa Knudsen at 1-800-752-0249 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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