Lambda Literary Award Lesbian Memoir/Biography Winners — Complete List (1994–2026)

• Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins by Mary Frances Phillips

  2026LambdaLesbian Memoir

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• My Withered Legs and Other Essays by Sandra Gail Lambert

  2025LambdaLesbian Memoir

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• 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

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  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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Aimee & Jaguar by Erica Fischer

  1996LambdaLesbian Memoir

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  Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures by Renate Stendhal(editor)

  1995LambdaLesbian Memoir

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  Marguerite Yourcenar by Josyane Savigneau

  1994LambdaLesbian Memoir

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