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2008
 A. Manette Ansay
(1964- )
Raised in Port Washington, studied at the University of Wisconsin.
Ansay’s experiences in Midwestern farm life are incorporated into her fiction. Novels like the Oprah selection Vinegar Hill and Midnight Champagne are infused with the rhythm of rural Wisconsin. In her memoir Limbo, Ansay relates her struggle with the debilitating disease that redirected her musical career towards that of the written word. She has received the Nelson Algren Prize for the title story of Read This and Tell Me What It Says, the Pushcart Prize, the Friends of American Writers Prize, and the Great Lakes Book Award.
 Margot Peters
(1933- )
Resides in Lake Mills.
Born in Wausau and educated at the University of Wisconsin, Peters is the author of celebrated biographies including Design for Living, a biography of Lunt and Fontanne, two books on Charlotte Bronte: Style in the Novel and the biography Unquiet Soul, as well as books on Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the Barrymores, and May Sarton. She received the George M. Freedly, Banta, and Council of Wisconsin Writers awards all for Bernard Shaw and the Actresses.
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