Benjamin Franklin Award Winners Historical Fiction

Awards List

2022

Lady Be Good (Gold Winner)
Pamela Hamilton

Apr-2021
/ Literary

Tears of Honor (Silver Winner)
James A. Ardaiz

Feb-2021
/ Historical

The Girl in the Triangle (Silver Winner)
Joyana Peters

Jul-2021
/ General Fiction

2021

Freedom Dues (Gold Winner)
Indra Zuno

Nov-2021
/ General Fiction

Copy Boy (Silver Winner)
Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Jun-2020
/ Historical

It Happened in Silence (Silver Winner)
Karla Jay

Oct-2020
/ General Fiction

2020

Moccasin Tracks (Gold Winner)
Reid Lance Rosenthal

Sep-2014
/ Historical Romance

General Meade (Silver Winner)
Robert Kofman

2020
/ General Fiction

Breaking Point (Silver Winner)
John Rhodes

Sep-2019
/ Historical

2019

Deep Grass Roots: The Adventures and Challenges of Two Women Homesteaders (Gold Winner)
Marcia Neely

2019
/ General Fiction

House of Rougeaux (Silver Winner)
Jenny Jaeckel

Apr-2018
/ Historical

The Viking Priest (Silver Winner)
Linda Kay Dahlen

May-2018
/ Christian

In the Company of Like-Minded Women (Silver Winner)
Elaine Russell

Oct-2018
/ General Fiction

2018

Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper (Gold Winner)
Ana Brazil

Oct-2017
/ Historical Mystery

Man at the Cross Road (Silver Winner)
Jeanne Blanchet

Sep-2016
/ Historical

A Call to China (Silver Winner)
Jeffrey Meyer

Aug-2017
/ Historical

When It's Over (Silver Winner)
Barbara Ridley

Oct-2017
/ Historical

2017

Iron O'Brian (Gold Medal Winner)
M.L. Becker

Feb-2016
/ Historical

2015

The Shakespeare Mask (Gold Medal Winner)
Newton Frohlich

Jul-2014
/ Historical

When Dreams Touch (Silver Medal Winner)
Rosemary Hanrahan

Apr-2014
/ Historical

2014

The Last Perfect Summer (Silver Medal Winner)
Ed Prence

Nov-2012
/ General Fiction

The Fig Orchard (Silver Medal Winner)
Layla Fiske

Jul-2013
/ General Fiction

2013

The Raven's Heart: A Story of a Quest, a Castle and Mary Queen of Scots (Gold Medal Winner)
Jesse Blackadder

Sep-2012
/ Historical

Chojun (Silver Medal Winner)
Goran Powell

Dec-2012
/ Action Adventure

2012

Emeralds Never Fade (Winner)
Stephen Maitland-Lewis

Dec-2011
/ Historical

2010

Dead Weight (Winner)
Batt Humphreys

Sep-2009
/ Historical

Falling from the Moon (Finalist)
Lise Marinelli

Jun-2009
/ Historical

2009

The Long Knives Are Crying (Winner)
Joseph M. Marshall III

Aug-2008
/ Historical

Jasper Mountain (Finalist)
Kathy Steffen

Nov-2008
/ Historical Romance

Award Categories

Boty-Budget Under 10k

Children's Book W/Audio

Children's Picture Book (0-3 Years)

Children's Picture Book (4-7 Years)

Cover Design (Small)

Cover Design-1-2 Color

Cover Design-3 + Color

Cover Design-3+child-Y/A

Cover Design-3+color Lg

Cover Design-3+color SM

Cover Design-Child & Y/A

Award Years

Romance

Mystery/Thriller

Speculative

Younger Readers

Benjamin Franklin Award - Historical Fiction (Awarded by Independent Book Publishers Association)

Awards List

Award Categories

Award Years