Lambda Literary Awards — Lesbian Memoir/Biography

• Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza

  2024LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness by Kathryn Schulz

  2023LambdaLesbian Memoir
• The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had) by Sophie Santos

  2022LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

  2021LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

  2020LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Chronology by Zahra Patterson

  2019LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

  2018LambdaLesbian Memoir
• ody, Undone: Living On After Great Pain by Gloria Joseph

  2017LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear by Kate Carroll de Gutes

  2016LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith by Alethia JonesandVirginia Eubanks, withBarbara Smith

  2015LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Body Geographic by Barrie Jean Borich

  2014LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

  2013LambdaLesbian Memoir
• When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution by Jeanne Córdova

  2012LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Hammer!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life by Barbara Hammer

  2011LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar

  2010LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir by Maureen Seaton

  2009LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  And Now We Are Going to Have a Party by Nicola Griffith

  2008LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

  2007LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Lifesaving by Judith Barrington

  2001LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami

  2000LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  The Indelible Alison Bechdel; Confessions, Comix, and Miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out for by Alison Bechdel

  1999LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Blue Windows: a Christian Science Childhood by Barbara Wilson

  1998LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach

  1997LambdaLesbian Memoir
• Aimee & Jaguar by Erica Fischer

  1996LambdaLesbian Memoir
• Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures by Renate Stendhal(editor)

  1995LambdaLesbian Memoir
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  Marguerite Yourcenar by Josyane Savigneau

  1994LambdaLesbian Memoir