Past Recipients of the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award

• 2007 — Linda Lael Miller
• 2006 — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
• 2005 — Linda Howard
• 2004 — no award given
• 2003 — Heather Graham
• 2002 — Maggie Osborne
• 2001 — Robin Lee Hatcher
• 2000 — Rita Clay Estrada
• 1999 — Rosalyn Alsobrook
• 1998 — Sandra Brown
• 1997 — Nora Roberts
• 1996 — Anne Stuart
• 1995 — Jayne Ann Krentz
• 1994 — Ann Maxwell, aka Elizabeth Lowell
• 1993 — Janet Dailey
• 1992 — Mary Stewart
• 1991 — Barbera Mertz
• 1990 — Phillis A. Whitney
• 1989 — Elanor Burford Hibbert
• 1988 — Kathleen Woodiwiss
• 1987 — Patricia Maxwell, aka Jennifer Blake
• 1986 — Roberta Gellis
• 1985 — Virginia Myers
• 1984 — Ethel Bangert (Virginia Mann)
• 1983 — Virginia Nielsen McCall