|  grand master of fantasy  | |
| 1981 | C. L. Moore | 
| 1980 | Ray Bradbury | 
| 1979 | Ursula K. Le Guin | 
| 1978 | Poul Anderson | 
| 1977 | Andre Norton | 
| 1976 | L. Sprague de Camp | 
| 1975 | Fritz Leiber | 
| 1974 | J. R. R. Tolkien | 
|  book-length fantasy  | |
| 1979 | The White Dragon, Anne McCaffrey | 
| 1978 | The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien |