Comments: For no real apparent reason, in 1997 the Mythopoeic Awards temporarily merged the Best Children's Fantasy Literature category with the Best Adult Fantasy Literature category. There doesn't seem to have been any particular shortage of fantasy literature published in 1997 that would have spurred such a change, but all the same the Mythopoeic Society seems to have decided that having two categories was just too much trouble for this year, and condensed them into a single one.
The other unusual element of the 1997 Mythopoeic Awards is that the Inklings Studies category was won by a book about Charles Williams, breaking the long string of wins by books about Tolkien and Lewis. This year was sort of a high-water mark for non-Lewis and Tolkien books, as one of the three non-winning nominees was also about Williams.
Best Adult Fantasy Literature
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
Other Nominees:
The Book of the Long Sun (Nightside of the Long Sun, Lake of the Long Sun, Caldé of the Long Sun, and Exodus from the Long Sun) by Gene Wolfe
Fair Peril by Nancy SpringerOne for the Morning Glory by John Barnes
Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip
Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams edited by Charles A. Huttar and Peter Schakel
Other Nominees:
C.S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper
Charles Williams: A Celebration edited by Brian Horne
The Hobbit: A Journey Into Maturity by William H. Green
Myth and Fantasy Studies
When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development by Lois Rostow Kuznets
Other Nominees:
Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination by S.T. Joshi
The Supernatural and English Fiction by Glen Cavaliero
The Water of the Wondrous Isles edited by William Morris with notes by Norman Talbot
Go to previous year's nominees: 1996
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 1998
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