Awards & Winners

1998 Spur Award

Check winners and nominations of 1998 Spur Award. Check awards winners of 1998 Spur Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Spur Award for Best Short Fiction

Judy Alter

Honored for : Sue Ellen Learns to Dance and Other Stories
Spur Award for Best Western Novel

Cynthia Haseloff

Honored for : The Kiowa verdict
Spur Award for Best Novel of the West

Larry McMurtry

Honored for : Comanche Moon
Spur Award for Best Original Paperback Novel

Ellen Recknor

Honored for : Leaving Missouri
Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Historical

John Morris

Honored for : El Llano Estacado
Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Contemporary

J. Anthony Lukas

Honored for : Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
Spur Award for Best Nonfiction Biography

Lynn Bridgers

Honored for : Death's Deceiver
Spur Award for Best Juvenile Fiction

Patricia Willis

Honored for : Danger Along the Ohio
Spur Award for Best Juvenile Nonfiction

Jennifer Dewey

Honored for : Rattlesnake dance
Spur Award for Best Short Nonfiction

Jake Page

Honored for : Ranchers form Radical Center to Protect Wide-Open Spaces
Storyteller Award

Susan Lowell

Honored for : Bootmaker and the Elves, story
Medicine Pipe Bearer Award

LaVerne Clark

Honored for : Keepers of the earth