Janis P. Stout won the C. Hugh Holman Award for the Study of Southern Literature for her biography, "Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times".

A biography of Willa Cather, presenting a writer whose life and quietly modernist work reflected the artistic and cultural tensions of her day. It seeks to portray a woman and an artist who exemplifies the ambivalence, foreboding and complexity which we associate with the 20th-century mind.