Past Recipients of the Veritas Award

2010 — Gwenda Bond, for her article "Romancing the Recession" in Publishers Weekly
2009 — Ron Charles, for his article "Heating Up the Stacks" in the Washington Post
2008 — award not given
2007 — award not given
2006 — Mary Bly, for her article "A Fine Romance" published in the New York Times.
2005 — Don O'Briant, for his article "Romantic Encounters-Romance Diversifies, Expands" in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2004 — award not given
2003 — Teri Sprackland, UPI wire correspondent, for her article "Romancing Readers Worth Billions"
2002 — Nora Schoenberg for her article "Romance in the Classroom"
2001 — Patricia McLinn, for her July 26, 2001 article in the Washington Post, "Go Ahead, Make Jokes. We'll Be Here with Our Fans."
2000 — John Charles, Shelley Mosley, and Ann Bouricius for their February 1999 article in the Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA), "Romance the YA Reader."
1999 — award not given
1998 — Lucinda Dyer, for her article "Roundup on Romance: Birds Do It, Bees Do It" which appeared in the November 10, 1997, edition of Publishers Weekly
1996 — Betsy Carpenter, for her article "Living the Fantasy - Romance Writers Get Some Respect, Scholarly Interest and Tons of Readers" published in the November 6, 1995, edition of U.S. News & World Report
1995 — Shelley Mosley, John Charles, and Julie Havir for their article "The Librarian as Effete Snob: Why Romance?", which appeared in the May 1995 edition of Wilson Library Bulletin.