- Not to be confused with the Sierra Club William E. Colby Award
The
William E. Colby Military Writers' Award was established in 1999 by the William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium at
Norwich University in
Vermont in order to recognize "a first work of fiction or non-fiction that has made a major contribution to the understanding of intelligence operations, military history, or international affairs." It is named in honor of
William Egan Colby.