| 2007 |
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 2006 |
Neal Gabler, The Triumph of the American Imagination (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 2005 |
Hilary Spurling, Matisse the Master: A Life of
Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 (Alfred
A. Knopf) |
| 2004 |
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens
and Annalyn Swan (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 2003 |
American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer
and the Prelude to Globalization by Neil Smith (University
of California Press) |
| 2002 |
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson,
Vol. 3 by Robert A. Caro (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 2001 |
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (Random House) |
| 2000 |
Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper,
Jr. (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1999 |
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by
Judith Thurman (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1998 |
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (G.P. Putnam's
Sons) |
| 1997 |
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus
(Random House) |
| 1996 |
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
(Scribner) |
| 1995 |
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography,
to 1949 by Doris Lessing (HarperCollins) |
| 1994 |
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore (Doubleday) |
| 1993 |
Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American
Pioneer by John Mack Faragher (Henry Holt) |
| 1992 |
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One 1884-1993 by
Blanche Wiesen Cook (Viking) |
| 1991 |
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold
L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by T.H. Watkins (Henry Holt) |
| 1990 |
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin
Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward (Harper & Row) |
| 1989 |
This Boy's Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff
(Atlantic Monthly Press) |
| 1988 |
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda
Maddox (Houghton Mifflin) |
| 1987 |
Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn (Simon & Schuster) |
| 1986 |
Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack (W.W.
Norton) |
| 1985 |
Solzhenitsyn by Michael Scammell (W.W. Norton) |
| 1984 |
The Nightmare of Reason by Ernst Pawel (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux) |
| 1983 |
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White
House by Seymour Hersh (Summit Books) |
| 1982 |
Waldo Emerson: A Biography by Gay Wilson
Allen (Viking) |
| 1981 |
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
(Simon & Schuster) |
| 1980 |
[Biography award concurrent with this year's History
award] |
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| 2007 |
Elizabeth D. Samet, Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 2006 |
Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
(Penguin Press) |
| 2005 |
Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq's People
in the Shadow of America's War (Henry Holt) |
| 2004 |
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain
America and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright (G.P.
Putnam’s Sons) |
| 2003 |
The New Chinese Empire -- And What It Means for
the United States by Ross Terrill (Basic Books) |
| 2002 |
Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting
Children from Sex by Judith Levine (University
of Minnesota Press) |
| 2001 |
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by
Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt
and Company) |
| 2000 |
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars
and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster) |
| 1999 |
Sidewalk (with Photographs by Ovie Carter)
by Mitchell Duneier (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 1998 |
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be
Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 1997 |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong
Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by
Anne Fadiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 1996 |
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter
Maass (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1995 |
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White
Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams
(Dutton) |
| 1994 |
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger (Simon & Schuster) |
| 1993 |
Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority by
Peter Skerry (The Free Press) |
| 1992 |
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis
Fukuyama (The Free Press) |
| 1991 |
Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the
Democratic Process by E.J. Dionne, Jr. (Simon & Schuster) |
| 1990 |
Disappearing through the Skylight: Culture and
Technology in the Twentieth Century by O.B. Hardison, Jr.
(Viking) |
| 1989 |
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years,
1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster) |
| 1988 |
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve
Runs the Country by William Greider (Simon & Schuster) |
| 1987 |
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins (W.W.
Norton) |
| 1986 |
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by
Joseph Lelyveld (Times Books) |
| 1985 |
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment
in American Life by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William
M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven M. Tipton (University of
California Press) |
| 1984 |
Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane
Jacobs (Random House) |
| 1983 |
Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux) |
| 1982 |
The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
(Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1981 |
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number by
Jacobo Timerman (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1980 |
Without Fear or Favor by Harrison Salisbury
(New York Times Books) [Winner of the General Award--no Current
Interest Award this year] |
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| 2007 |
Andrew O’Hagan, Be Near Me (Harcourt) |
| 2006 |
A.B. Yehoshua, A Woman in Jerusalem [translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin] (Harcourt) |
| 2005 |
Gabriel García Márquez, Memories
of My Melancholy Whores [translated from the Spanish by Edith
Grossman] (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 2004 |
The Master: A Novel by Colm Tóibín
(Scribner) |
| 2003 |
Train: A Novel by Pete Dexter (Doubleday) |
| 2002 |
Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (Nan A.
Talese/Doubleday) |
| 2001 |
Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison (Counterpoint) |
| 2000 |
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means
(Context Books) |
| 1999 |
Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri
(Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1998 |
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald [Translated
from the German by Michael Hulse] (New Directions) |
| 1997 |
In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake
(Avon Books) |
| 1996 |
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Alfred
A. Knopf) |
| 1995 |
The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd (Alfred
A. Knopf) |
| 1994 |
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf (Pantheon
Books) |
| 1993 |
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins) |
| 1992 |
Maus II, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles
Began by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon Books) |
| 1991 |
White People by Allan Gurganus (Alfred A.
Knopf) |
| 1990 |
Lantern Slides by Edna O'Brien (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux) |
| 1989 |
The Heart of the Country by Fay Weldon (Viking) |
| 1988 |
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García
Marquez (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1987 |
Fools Crow by James Welch (Viking) |
| 1986 |
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Houghton
Mifflin) |
| 1985 |
Love Medicine by Louis Erdrich (Holt, Rinehart
and Winston) |
| 1984 |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan
Kundera (Harper & Row) |
| 1983 |
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (Simon & Schuster) |
| 1982 |
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone (Alfred
A. Knopf) |
| 1981 |
The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas (Viking) |
| 1980 |
The Second Coming by Walker Percy (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux) |
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| 2007 |
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday) |
| 2006 |
Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 2005 |
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets
and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (Houghton
Mifflin) |
| 2004 |
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from
the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism by
Geoffrey R. Stone (W.W. Norton & Company) |
| 2003 |
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves,
and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 2002 |
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making
of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren (Oxford University
Press) |
| 2001 |
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking
of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein (Hill and Wang
Division, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 2000 |
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of
Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan (University of Chicago
Press) |
| 1999 |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World
War II by John W. Dower (W.W. Norton) |
| 1998 |
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History
of Humanity by Roy Porter (W.W. Norton) |
| 1997 |
A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian
Revolution by Orlando Figes (Viking) |
| 1996 |
Black Sea by Neal Ascherson (Hill & Wang) |
| 1995 |
Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising
in America by Jackson Lears (Basic Books) |
| 1994 |
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the
Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
(Basic Books) |
| 1993 |
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition
and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton (Harvard University
Press) |
| 1992 |
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish
Families under Fascism by Alexander Stille (Summit) |
| 1991 |
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration
and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann (Alfred A.
Knopf) |
| 1990 |
The Quest for El Cid by Richard Fletcher
(Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1989 |
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented
Hollywood by Neal Gabler (Crown Books) |
| 1988 |
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution,
1863-1877 by Eric Foner (Harper & Row) |
| 1987 |
[No award in 1987] |
| 1986 |
The First Socialist Society: A History of the
Soviet Union from Within by Geoffrey Hosking (Harvard University
Press) |
| 1985 |
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little
Bighorn by Evan S. Connell (North Point Press) |
| 1984 |
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in
French Cultural History by Robert Darnton (Basic Books) |
| 1983 |
The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel
(Harper & Row) |
| 1982 |
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their
Revolution, 1895-1980 by Jonathan D. Spence (Viking) |
| 1981 |
Land of Savagery/Land of Promise by Ray Allen
Billington (W.W. Norton) |
| 1980 |
Walter Lippmann and the American Century by
Ronald Steel (Atlantic/ Little Brown) |
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| Award Added in 2000 |
| 2007 |
Karin Fossum {Translated by Charlotte Barslund} The Indian Bride (Harcourt) |
| 2006 |
Michael Connelly, Echo Park: A Novel (Little, Brown) |
| 2005 |
Robert Littell, Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation (Overlook
Press) |
| 2004 |
Tijuana Straits: A Novel by Kem Nunn (Scribner) |
| 2003 |
Soul Circus: A Novel by George P.
Pelecanos (Little, Brown) |
| 2002 |
Hell to Pay: A Novel by George P. Pelecanos
(Little, Brown and Company) |
| 2001 |
Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker (Hyperion) |
| 2000 |
A Place of Execution: A Novel by Val McDermid
(St. Martin's Press/Minotaur) |
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| 2007 |
Stanley Plumly, Old Heart: Poems (W.W. Norton) |
| 2006 |
Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 2005 |
Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems (Alfred
A. Knopf) |
| 2004 |
Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003 by
Richard Howard (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 2003 |
Collected Later Poems by Anthony Hecht (Alfred
A. Knopf) |
| 2002 |
The Watercourse: Poems by Cynthia Zarin
(Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 2001 |
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay
in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 2000 |
The Throne of Labdacus by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 1999 |
Repair: Poems by C.K. Williams (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux) |
| 1998 |
Mysteries of Small Houses by Alice Notley
(Penguin Books) |
| 1997 |
Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux) |
| 1996 |
Mixed Company by Alan Shapiro (The University
of Chicago Press) |
| 1995 |
The Inferno of Dante by Robert Pinsky (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux) |
| 1994 |
The Angel of History by Carolyn Forché (HarperCollins) |
| 1993 |
My Alexandria by Mark Doty (University of
Illinois Press) |
| 1992 |
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 by
Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton) |
| 1991 |
What Work Is by Phillip Levine (Alfred A.
Knopf) |
| 1990 |
The Color of Mesabi Bones by John Caddy (Milkweed) |
| 1989 |
The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts by Donald
Hall (Ticknor & Fields/ Houghton Mifflin) |
| 1988 |
New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) |
| 1987 |
Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by
William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1986 |
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 1985 |
Cross Ties by X.J. Kennedy (University of
Georgia Press) |
| 1984 |
The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson (University
of California Press) |
| 1983 |
The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill
(Atheneum) |
| 1982 |
Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980 by
Allen Ginsberg (City Lights) |
| 1981 |
Three Pieces by Ntozake Shange (St. Martin's
Press) |
| 1980 |
Kill the Messenger by Robert Kelly (Black
Sparrow) |
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| Award Added in 1989 |
| 2007 |
Douglas Hofstadter, I Am A Strange Loop (Basic Books) |
| 2006 |
Eric R. Kandel, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (W.W. Norton) |
| 2005 |
Diana Preston, Before the Fallout: From Marie
Curie to Hiroshima (Walker & Company) |
| 2004 |
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern
Front of Climate Change by Charles Wohlforth (North
Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 2003 |
Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business,
and One Hundred Years of Regulation by Philip J.
Hilts (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 2002 |
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda
Maddox (HarperCollins Publishers) |
| 2001 |
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist
Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux) |
| 2000 |
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James
Le Fanu, M.D. (Carroll & Graf) |
| 1999 |
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science,
Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel (Walker and Company) |
| 1998 |
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by
Douglas Starr (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1997 |
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (W.W.
Norton) |
| 1996 |
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle
in the Dark by Carl Sagan (Random House) |
| 1995 |
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson (Island Press) |
| 1994 |
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in
Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1993 |
Fuzzy Logic: The Discovery of a Revolutionary
Computer Technology -- and How It Is Changing Our World by
Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger (Simon & Schuster) |
| 1992 |
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future
of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond (HarperCollins) |
| 1991 |
The Truth about Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev
(Basic Books) |
| 1990 |
Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by
Jane S. Smith (William Morrow) |
| 1989 |
Peacemaking among Primates by Frans de Waal
(Harvard University Press) |
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| Award Added in 1998 |
| 2007 |
Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain (The Hungry City Chronicles) (Eos Books/HarperCollins) |
| 2006 |
Coe Booth, Tyrell (Push / Scholastic) |
| 2005 |
Per Nilsson, You & You & You [translated
from the Swedish by Tara Chace] (Front Street/Boyds Mills Press) |
| 2004 |
Doing It by Melvin Burgess (Henry Holt Books
for Young Readers) |
| 2003 |
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (Harcourt
Children’s Books) |
| 2002 |
Feed by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press) |
| 2001 |
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor (Phyllis
Fogelman Books, Penguin Putnam) |
| 2000 |
Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P.
Putnam's Sons, Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers) |
| 1999 |
Frenchtown Summer by Robert Cormier (Delacorte
Press) |
| 1998 |
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer (G.P. Putnam's
Sons) |
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| Award Added in 1991 |
| 2007 |
Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead Books) |
| 2006 |
Alice Greenway, White Ghost Girls (Black Cat / Grove/Atlantic) |
| 2005 |
Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation: A Novel (HarperCollins) |
| 2004 |
Harbor by Lorraine Adams (Alfred
A. Knopf) |
| 2003 |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by
Mark Haddon (Doubleday) |
| 2002 |
Prague: A Novel by Arthur Phillips (Random House) |
| 2001 |
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert (Pantheon Books) |
| 2000 |
The Romantics: A Novel by Pankaj Mishra (Random
House) |
| 1999 |
Amy and Isabelle: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout
(Random House) |
| 1998 |
Kalimantaan by C.S. Godshalk (Henry Holt) |
| 1997 |
Don't Erase Me: Stories by Carolyn Ferrell
(Houghton Mifflin) |
| 1996 |
The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr (St. Martin's) |
| 1995 |
American Studies by Mark Merlis (Houghton
Mifflin) |
| 1994 |
The Year of the Frog by Martin M. Šimecka
(Louisiana State University Press) |
| 1993 |
Love <Enter> by Paul Kafka (Houghton
Mifflin) |
| 1992 |
High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux) |
| 1991 |
Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie (Alfred
A. Knopf) |
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