[1] A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole was published in 1980 and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

[4] Three titles have won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: The Flying Change by Henry S. Taylor (1986), Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller (1997), and Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (2006).

[6] Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand- The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism won the 2019 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award from the Library History Round Table.

[7] Kelby Ouchley received the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 2023 for Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist's Memoir of Place.

Gregg Andrews' Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930 published in 2023 won the category of U.S. Maritime History at the John Lyman Book Awards.