F. Paul Wilson is best known for his Repairman Jack series of novels, though those are only a part of his more than 40-book canon. In 1979 he won the first Prometheus Award and claimed a Porgie Award in 1984. He won a Bram Stoker Award in 1999 and has been recognized by the American Library Association and the New York Public Library. He can be found online at RepairmanJack.com.
	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro rose to fame with her vampire hero, Count Saint-Germain. She is the first woman ever to receive the International Horror Guild's Living Legend award. She also was the first woman elected president of the Horror Writers Association. Quinn's novels are notable for laying the groundwork for the recent upsurge of "paranormal romance" and trans-genre fiction. Read more about her at ChelseaQuinnYarbro.net.

The previous winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award are:

2007 -- John Carpenter, Robert Weinberg 2006 -- Thomas Harris 2005 -- Peter Straub 2004 -- Michael Moorcock 2003 -- Anne Rice; Martin H. Greenberg 2002 -- Stephen King; J.N. Williamson 2001 -- John Farris 2000 -- Nigel Kneale 1999 -- Edward Gorey; Charles L. Grant 1998 -- Ramsey Campbell; Roger Corman 1997 -- William Peter Blatty; Jack Williamson 1996 -- Ira Levin; Forrest J. Ackerman 1995 -- Harlan Ellison 1994 -- Christopher Lee 1993 -- Joyce Carol Oates 1992 -- Ray Russell 1991 -- Gahan Wilson 1990 -- Hugh B. Cave; Richard Matheson 1989 -- Robert Bloch 1988 -- Ray Bradbury; Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes 1987 -- Fritz Leiber; Frank Belknap Long; Clifford D. Simak

For more about the Lifetime Achievement Awards, please visit HWA's page on the Stokers.