About Richard J. Margolis Career Highlights selected articles Selected New Leader Columns Reports & Monographs Op-Ed Pieces & Book Reviews Past Winners 2009 Joe Wilkins 2008 Gabriel Thompson 2007 Stephanie Griest 2006 Marie myung-ok lee 2005 Kisha Lewellyn 2004 NeLson smith 2003 John Bowe 2002 Iyesatta Massaquoi 2001 Otis Haschemeyer 2000 Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 1999 Susan Parker 1998 Laura Distelheim 1997 Julie Lasky 1996 E.J. Graff 1995 Josip Novakovich 1994 Maggie Dubris 1993 Judith Levine 1992 Richard Manning

Since winning the Margolis Award in 1996, E.J. Graff has continued to garner accolades and recognition for her writing on the issues of marriage and sexual identity. In the same year that  Ms. Graff was named the winner of our award, the Massachusetts Cultural Council gave her  its Award for Fiction, which carries a $7,500 honorarium. Then, in 1997, she was named a 1997-1998 Visiting Scholar at Radcliffe College's Schlesinger Library.  Since 2001, she has been a Resident Scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center.

Meanwhile, Ms. Graff's work is finding an ever-wider audience. Her first book, What Is Marriage For?, an exploration of the forces that have shaped our century's sexual and family life, was published in 1998 by Beacon Press. Most recently, E.J. Graff collaborated on former Lt. Governor Evelyn Murphy’s book Getting Even: Why Women Still Don't Make As Much As Men--And What To Do So We Will, published by Simon & Schuster/Touchstone in October 2005. The book exposed the fact that the gender wage gap has remained steady for more than a decade, and that much of the gap is due to illegal discrimination.

Ms. Graf's work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Times, Ms., The Nation, The New Republic, Salon.com, Village Voice, Women’s Review of Books, and in more than a dozen anthologies.