Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature For Young Adults

Awarded 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.

1999 - Anne McCaffrey

1998 - Madeleine L'Engle

1997 - Gary Paulsen

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