The Ferro-Grumley Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle and the Ferro-Grumley Foundation to a book deemed the year's best work of LGBT fiction. The award is presented in memory of writers Robert Ferro and Michael Grumley.
First awarded in 1990, separate awards were presented for gay and lesbian fiction until 2008 when the awards were merged into a single award.
On two occasions, the award has been won by works that were not conventional literary fiction. In 1994, journalist John Berendt won the award for his non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and in 2009, cartoonist Alison Bechdel won the award for her comic strip anthology The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For.
1990 — Dennis Cooper, Closer
1991 — Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers
1992 — Melvin Dixon, Vanishing Rooms
1993 — Randall Kenan, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
1994 — John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1995 — Mark Merlis, American Studies
1996 — Felice Picano, Like People in History
1997 — Andrew Holleran, The Beauty of Men
1998 — Colm Tóibín, The Story of the Night
1999 — Michael Cunningham, The Hours
2000 — Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
2001 — Edmund White, The Married Man
2002 — David Ebershoff, The Rose City
2003 — Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys
2004 — Trebor Healey, Through It Came Bright Colors
2005 — Adam Berlin, Belmondo Style
2006 — Barry McCrea, The First Verse
2007 — Christopher Bram, Exiles in America
2008 — Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
1990 — Ruthann Robson, Eye of the Hurricane
1991 — Cherry Muhanji, Her
1992 — Blanche McCrary Boyd, The Revolution of Little Girls
1993 — Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
1994 — Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
1995 — Heather Lewis, House Rules
1996 — Sarah Schulman, Rat Bohemia
1997 — Persimmon Blackbridge, Sunnybrook
1998 — Elana Dykewomon, Beyond the Pale
1999 — Patricia Powell, The Pagoda
2000 — Judy Doenges, What She Left Me
2001 — Sarah Waters, Affinity
2002 — Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
2003 — Carol Anshaw, Lucky in the Corner
2004 — Nina Revoyr, Southland
2005 — Stacey D'Erasmo, A Seahorse Year
2006 — Patricia Grossman, Brian in Three Seasons
2007 — Lisa Carey, Every Visible Thing
2008 — Ali Liebegott, The IHOP Papers
2009 — Alison Bechdel, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
2010 — Sebastian Stuart, The Hour Between
2011 — Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You
2012 — Paul Russell, The Unreal Life of Sergei Nabokov
2013 — Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow
2014 — Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine
2015 — Bernardine Evaristo, Mr. Loverman
2016 — Michael Golding, A Poet of the Invisible World
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