Previous Winners

Previous Winners (you may click on the titles to purchase copies).

2007 - The Judas Field
Author: Howard Bahr
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, L.L.C.
Published: 2006

2006 - The March
Author: E.L. Doctorow
Publisher: Random House
Published: September 20, 2005

2005 - No Award Given

2004 - A Distant Flame
Author: Philip Lee Williams
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: August 26, 2004

2003 - No Award Given

2002 - Only Call Us Faithful
Author: Marie Jakober
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: December 1st, 2002

2001 - The Wolf Pit
Author: Marly Youmans
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: October 3, 2001

2000 - Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln
Author: Richard Slotkin
Publisher:John MacRae Books
Published: February, 2000

1999 - Stonewall's Gold
Author: Robert J. Mrazek
Publisher: St. Martin's
Published: January, 1999

1998 - Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the Civil War
Author: Donald McCaig
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: April, 1998

1997 - Nashville 1864
Author: Madison Jones
Publisher: J.S. Sanders & Co
Published: June, 1997

The award of $5,000 will be awarded annually to honor a novel about the Civil War published in the current calendar year to "encourage fresh approaches to Civil War fiction." Publishers, critics, and authors may submit books published in 2007 by December 31. There is no entry fee.

Send ten (10) copies of the nominated work to:

The Michael Shaara Book Prize
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
300 N. Washington Street, Campus Box 435
Gettysburg, PA 17325.