(This award was offered every other year, in odd-numbered years.)

1971  Fran McCullough (Harper & Row)

1973  James Landis (Morrow)

1975  Michael DiCapua (FSG)

1977  Robert Loomis (Random House)

1979  Joseph Kanon (Coward McCann)

1982  Pat Strachan (FSG)

1984  Jonathan Galassi (FSG)

1986  Ann Freedgood (Random House)

1988  Ileene Smith (Summit)

1990  Bobbi Bristol (Knopf)

1992  Ann Close (Knopf)

1994  Faith Sale (Putnam)

1996  Kate Medina (Random House)

1998  Drenka Willens (Harcourt)

2000  Gerry Howard, Vice-President/Editorial Director of Broadway Books, Executive Editor of Double Day