Two Missouri authors have been honored for their books involving history.

Harper Barnes won a The Truth About the Fact Award for “Never Been a Time,” an account of the 1917 East St. Louis race riot.

The award is given by The Truth About The Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction, which is published in California in partnership with Loyola Marymount University. “Never Been a Time”  was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 2008.

Barnes lives in St. Louis.

Another author, Shannon L. Fogg, assistant professor of history and political science at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, recently received the 2009 Missouri Conference on History Book Award.

The award goes to the best book on any historical topic written by a Missouri resident published in 2008, and is given by the State Historical Society of Missouri. Fogg was honored for “The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France: Foreigners, Undesirables, and Strangers.”