Awards & Winners

Ambassador Book Award for Biography & Autobiography

Ambassador Book Award

Check all the winners of Ambassador Book Award for Biography & Autobiography presented under Ambassador Book Award since 1987 .


Melvin I. Urofsky

Honored for : Louis D. Brandeis: A Life

Donald Worster

Honored for : A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

Martin J. Sherwin

Honored for : American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Mark Stevens

Honored for : De Kooning: An American Master

Brenda Wineapple

Honored for : Hawthorne: A Life

T.J. Stiles

Honored for : Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War

David McCullough

Honored for : John Adams

David Nasaw

Honored for : The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst

Jean Strouse

Honored for : Morgan: American Financier

David Michaelis

Honored for : N. C. Wyeth: A Biography

Robert W. Merry

Honored for : Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop- Guardians of the American Century

David S. Reynolds

Honored for : Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Honored for : No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II

David Levering Lewis

Honored for : W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919

Scott Donaldson

Honored for : Archibald MacLeish: An American Life

August Heckscher

Honored for : Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

Ron Chernow

Honored for : The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

Tobias Wolff

Honored for : This Boy's Life: A Memoir

Taylor Branch

Honored for : Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963

Brendan Gill

Honored for : Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright

Arnold Rampersad

Honored for : The Life of Langston Hughes