| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard Ellmann |
James Joyce
|
| Jacques Barzun |
The House of Intellect
|
| Adolf Berle |
Power without Property
|
| Croswell Bowen |
The Curse of the Misbegotten
|
| Douglass Cater |
The Fourth Branch of Government
|
| Marchette Chute |
Two Gentle Men
|
| A. Hunter Dupree |
Asa Gray, American Botanist, Friend of Darwin
|
| Tyrone Guthrie |
A Life in the Theatre
|
| Alan Harrington |
Life in the Crystal Palace
|
| Moss Hart |
Act One: An Autobiography
|
| Howard Mumford Jones |
One Great Society
|
| Nard Jones |
The Great Command
|
| Matthew Josephson |
Edison a Biography
|
| Joseph Wood Krutch |
Human Nature and the Human Condition
|
| Alfred Lansing |
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
|
| Margaret Leech |
In the Days of McKinley
|
| Arthur Mann |
La Guardia, a fighter against his times
|
| Garrett Mattingly |
The Armada
|
| John C. Miller |
Alexander Hamilton: Portrait in Paradox
|
| Samuel Eliot Morison |
John Paul Jones
|
| Carl Mydans |
More than Meets the Eye
|
| Allan Nevins |
The War for the Union, Vol. I
|
| Charlton Ogburn |
The Marauders
|
| Vance Packard |
The Status Seekers
|
| Berton Roueché |
The Delectable Mountains
|
| Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
The Coming of the New Deal, Vol. II, The Age of Roosevelt
|
| George R. Stewart |
Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863
|
| Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
The Harmless People
|
| James Thurber |
The Years with Ross
|
