Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature For Young Adults

The Young Adult Library Services Association (American Library Association) presents this award to an author for lifetime achievement in writing for teenagers. It is given to an author whose work helps teenagers to better understand themselves and their world.

2003: Nancy Garden
2002: Paul Zindel
2001: Robert Lipsyte
1999: Anne McCaffrey
1998: Madeleine L'Engle --BookMuse features A Wrinkle in Time
1997: Gary Paulsen --BookMuse features Soldier's Heart
1996: Judy Blume
1995: Cynthia Voigt
1994: Walter Dean Myers
1993: M.E. Kerr
1992: Lois Duncan
1991: Robert Cormier
1990: Richard Peck
1989: No award
1988: S.E. Hinton