1990 RITA® Winners

In 1990, RWA changed the named of its premier award to the RITA® in honor of founding member Rita Clay Estrada. 1990 also saw other change to the award: the introduction of the Best Romance of the year category, the best First Book category, the return of the Historical Series (formerly known as Category Historical), the new Historical Single Title (formerly Historical), the changing of the name of a category from Suspense to Romantic Suspense, and another change for the Single Title category, this to Single Title Contemporary. It was clearly a busy year.

• Best Romance of 1989: Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer
• First Book: Out Of The Blue by Alaina Hawthorne
• Historical Series: Silver Noose by Patricia Gardner Evans
• Historical Single Title: The Bride by Julie Garwood
• Long Contemporary: The Ice Cream Man by Kathleen Korbel
• Regency: The Rake And The Reformer by Mary Jo Putney
• Romantic Suspense: Perchance To Dream by Kathleen Korbel
• Short Contemporary: Night Of The Hunter by Jennifer Greene
• Single Title Contemporary: Private Relations by Diane Chamberlain
• Traditional: Rhapsody In Bloom by Mona Van Wieren
• Young Adult: Renee by Vivan Schurfranz