Awards & Winners

John W. Dower

Date of Birth 21-June-1938
Place of Birth Providence
(Providence County, Rhode Island, United States of America, Area code 401, 02905)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as John Dower
Profession Historian, Professor, Author, Writer
John W. Dower is an American author and historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association. Dower earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Amherst College in 1959, and a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1972, where he studied under Albert M. Craig. He expanded his doctoral dissertation, a biography of former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru, into the book Empire and Aftermath. His other books include a selection of writings by E. Herbert Norman and a study of mutual images during World War II entitled War Without Mercy. Dower was the executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima, and was a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, sitting on the editorial board of its journal with Noam Chomsky, and Herbert Bix. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of California, San Diego, and is a Ford International Professor of History, Emeritus, at MIT.

Awards by John W. Dower

Check all the awards nominated and won by John W. Dower.

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction Cultures of War

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos

2000


Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Honored for : Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Bancroft Prize
Honored for : Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

1999


L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award
Honored for : Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
National Book Award for Nonfiction
Honored for : Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima

1986


National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
Honored for : War Without Mercy

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction War Without Mercy