Lifetime Achievement Award

The Romance Writers of America present the Lifetime Achievement Award to one writer to honor an author's body of work and contributions to the romance genre. Historical Note: from 1983 through 1989 the award was called the Golden Treasure. In 1990 it was changed to the Lifetime Achievement Award. The award was renamed the "Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award" in 2008.

Lifetime Achievement Award/Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award recipients are:

• 2021 - no award given
• 2020 - no award given
• 2019 - no award given
• 2018 - Suzanne Brockmann
• 2017 - Beverly Jenkins
• 2016 - Robyn Carr
• 2015 - Carole Mortimer
• 2014 - Bertrice Small
• 2013 - Mary Jo Putney
• 2012 - Brenda Jackson
• 2011 - Sharon Sala
• 2010 - Debbie Macomber
• 2009 - Alison Hart
• 2008 - Vicki Lewis Thompson
• 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 aka Barbara Michaels / Elizabeth Peters
• 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