I thought it would be interesting to see an author list for multiple book awards. These are authors who have won at least two awards (going back to 1975 only).
Winning one award would be great and career-enhancing for any author ... but winning two or three or more means she or he is consistent. And coming up with books that people are reading ... and collecting.
Literature Authors
This author list is from a data base of the six awards shown on the Literature Award page.
Mystery Authors
This author list is from a data base of the seven awards shown on the Mystery Award page.
Science Fiction Authors
This author list is from a data base of the five awards shown on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Award page.
Literature Authors
No. of Awards
Mystery Authors
No. of Awards
Science FictionAuthors
No. of Awards
E.L. Doctorow
6
Michael Connelly
9
Lois Mcmaster Bujold
6
John Updike
6
Laura Lippman
7
Joe Haldeman
5
Philip Roth
6
Margaret Maron
6
Orson Scott Card
5
Annie Proulx
3
Nancy Pickard
6
C. J. Cherryh
3
Cormac McCarthy
3
Mary Willis Walker
5
Connie Willis
3
Ha Jin
3
S. J. Rozan
5
David Brin
3
John Cheever
3
Sharyn McCrumb
5
Frederik Pohl
3
Michael Chabon
3
Carolyn G. Hart
4
Kim Stanley Robinson
3
Anne Tyler
2
Dennis Lehane
4
Vernor Vinge
3
Carol Shields
2
Donna Andrews
4
Vonda N. Mcintyre
3
DBC Pierre
2
Julia Spencer-Fleming
4
Ursula K. Le Guin
3
Don DeLillo
2
Tana French
4
Gene Wolfe
2
Edward P. Jones
2
Patricia D. Cornwell
4
Arthur C. Clarke
2
Gina Berriault
2
Peter Lovesey
4
Greg Bear
2
Ian McEwan
2
Sue Grafton
4
Neil Gaiman
2
J M Coetzee
2
William Kent Krueger
4
Robert J. Sawyer
2
Jane Smiley
2
Louise Penny
4
Dan Simmons
2
Jeff Torrington
2
C. J. Box
3
Jim Crace
2
David Liss
3
John Edgar Wideman
2
Harley Jane Kozak
3
Kate Atkinson
2
Jacqueline Winspear
3
Kazuo Ishiguro
2
Katherine Hall Page
3
Kiran Desai
2
Ken Bruen
3
Marilynne Robinson
2
Lee Child
3
Michael Cunningham
2
Minette Walters
3
Paul Sayer
2
Nevada Barr
3
Penelope Fitzgerald
2
Barbara Neely
3
Peter Carey
2
Dick Francis
2
Peter Taylor
2
Elizabeth George
2
Richard Ford
2
James Lee Burke
2
Seamus Heaney
2
Jeff Abbott
2
Shirley Hazzard
2
Jill Churchill
2
Stanley Elkin
2
Jonathan Kellerman
2
Stef Penney
2
Laurie R. King
2
Ted Hughes
2
Dale Furutani
2
Toni Morrison
2
P. J. Tracy
2
William Gaddis
2
Peter Robinson
2
William Kennedy
2
Robert Crais
2
Junot Diaz
2
Steve Hamilton
2
Alice Walker
2
Sue Henry
2
Sujata Massey
2
TonyHillerman
2
ValMcDermid
2
Below is a link to a spreadsheet that Andy Lewicki put together to show the literature award winners alphabetically.
You can then print it out to use next time you go to the book store.