Past Recipients of the Veritas Award

• 2019: Bim Adewunmi, "Meet the Women Who Are Building a Better Romance Industry," BuzzFeed News
• 2018: award not given
• 2017: Thu-Huong Ha, "Maverick Women Writers are Upending the Book Industry and Selling Millions in the Process," Quartz
• 2016: Kelly Faircloth, "How Harlequin Became the Most Famous Name in Romance," Jezebel.com
• 2015: Joyce Lamb, "6 Things We Love about EW's Spread on Romance Novels," Happy Ever After
• 2014: award not given
• 2013: award not given
• 2012: Denise Schipani, "7 Life Lessons from Romance Novels," Woman's Day
• 2011: award not given
• 2010: Gwenda Bond, "Romancing the Recession," Publishers Weekly
• 2009: Ron Charles, "Heating Up the Stacks," Washington Post
• 2008: award not given
• 2007: award not given
• 2006: Mary Bly, "A Fine Romance," The New York Times

• 2005: Don O'Briant, "Romantic Encounters-Romance Diversifies, Expands," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• 2004: award not given
• 2003: Teri Sprackland, UPI wire correspondent, "Romancing Readers Worth Billions"
• 2002: Nora Schoenberg, "Romance in the Classroom"
• 2001: Patricia McLinn, "Go Ahead, Make Jokes. We'll Be Here with Our Fans," Washington Post
• 2000: John Charles, Shelley Mosley, and Ann Bouricius, "Romance the YA Reader," the Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
• 1999: award not given
• 1998: Lucinda Dyer, "Roundup on Romance: Birds Do It, Bees Do It," Publishers Weekly
• 1996: Betsy Carpenter, "Living the Fantasy - Romance Writers Get Some Respect, Scholarly Interest and Tons of Readers," U.S. News & World Report
• 1995: Shelley Mosley, John Charles, and Julie Havir, "The Librarian as Effete Snob: Why Romance?", Wilson Library Bulletin