The following winners have Maine roots from birth or residence.
| Author | Year | Category | Title |
| Laura E. Richards | 1917 | Biography | Julia Ward Howe |
| Booth Tarkington | 1919 | Literature | The Magnificent Ambersons |
| Booth Tarkington | 1922 | Literature | Alice Adams |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | 1922 | Poetry | Collected Poems |
| Owen Davis | 1923 | Drama | Icebound |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1923 | Poetry | The Harp Weaver and Other Poems |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | 1925 | Poetry | The Man Who Died Twice |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | 1928 | Poetry | Tristram |
| Robert P. Tristram Coffin | 1936 | Poetry | Strange Holiness |
| James Phinney Baxter III | 1947 | History | Scientists Against Time |
| Roberts, Kenneth L. | 1957 | Special | Historical novels creating interest in history |
| E. B. White | 1978 | Special | Special citation for his writings |
| Henry Taylor | 1986 | Poetry | The Flying Change |
| Alan Taylor | 1996 | History | William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic |
| Richard Russo | 2002 | Fiction | Empire Falls |
| Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan | 2003 | International Reporting | Reporting on Mexico’s justice system |