Virginia Literary Awards for Lifetime Achievement

2017 David Baldacci
2016 Nikki Giovanni
2015 Jan Karon
2014 Barbara Kingsolver
2013 Charles Wright
2012 Tom Robbins
2011 Earl Hamner
2010 Lee Smith
2009 John Grisham
2008 Rita Dove
2007 Tom Wolfe
2006 William Styron
2005 Merrill D Peterson
2004 George Garrett
2003 Louis D Rubin Jr
2002 Mary Lee Settle
2001 Booker T Washington
2000 Anne Spencer
1999 Edgar Allan Poe
1998 Ellen Glasgow