Awards & Winners

National Book Award for Nonfiction

National Book Award

The National Book Award for Nonfiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by U.S. citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers". The panelists are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field". The original National Book Awards recognized the "Most Distinguished" biography and nonfiction books of 1935 and 1936, and the "Favorite" nonfiction books of 1937 to 1940. The "Bookseller Discovery" and the "Most Original Book" sometimes recognized nonfiction. The general "Nonfiction" award was one of three when the National Book Awards were re-established in 1950 for 1949 publications, which the National Book Foundation considers the origin of its current Awards series. From 1964 to 1983, under different administrators, there were multiple nonfiction categories. The current Nonfiction award recognizes one book written by a US citizen and published in the US from December 1 to November 30. The National Book Foundation accepts nominations from publishers until June 15, requires mailing nominated books to the panelists by August 1, and announces five finalists in October. The winner is announced on the day of the final ceremony in November. The award is $10,000 and a bronze sculpture; other finalists get $1000, a medal, and a citation written by the panel. The sculpture by Louise Nevelson dates from the 1980 awards. The $10,000 and $1000 cash prizes and autumn recognition for current-year publications date from 1984.
National Book Award for Nonfiction is an award category of National Book Award given by National Book Foundation. The award category was established in 1950. National Book Award for Fiction was not announced between 1964-1983.
Date Established : 1950

Check all the winners of National Book Award for Nonfiction presented under National Book Award since 1935 .


George Packer

Honored for : The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jill Lepore Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
Wendy Lower Hitler\u2019s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
George Packer The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
Alan Taylor The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Lawrence Wright Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Katherine Boo

Honored for : Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Anne Applebaum Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Robert Caro The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Domingo Martinez The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir
Anthony Shadid House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

Stephen Greenblatt

Honored for : The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Stephen Greenblatt The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Deborah Baker The Convert
Mary Gabriel Love and Capital
Manning Marable Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Lauren Redniss Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie

Patti Smith

Honored for : Just Kids

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy
John W. Dower Cultures of War
Justin Spring Secret Historian
Megan K. Stack Every Man in This Village Is a Liar
Patti Smith Just Kids

T.J. Stiles

Honored for : The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
T.J. Stiles The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
David M. Carroll Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook
Sean B. Carroll Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
Greg Grandin Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Adrienne Mayor The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy

Annette Gordon-Reed

Honored for : The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Drew Gilpin Faust This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Jane Mayer The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Jim Sheeler Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
Joan Wickersham The Suicide Index

Tim Weiner

Honored for : Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Edwidge Danticat Brother, I'm Dying
Christopher Hitchens God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Woody Holton Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
Arnold Rampersad Ralph Ellison

Timothy Egan

Honored for : The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Timothy Egan The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Taylor Branch At Canaan's Edge
Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Peter Hessler Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Joan Didion

Honored for : The Year of Magical Thinking

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Alan Burdick Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
Leo Damrosch Jean Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
Jim Dwyer 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
Kevin Flynn 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
Adam Hochschild Bury the Chains

Kevin Boyle

Honored for : Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Kevin Boyle Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
David Hackett Fischer Washington's Crossing
Jennifer Gonnerman Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Stephen Greenblatt Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
9/11 Commission 9/11 Commission Report

Carlos Eire

Honored for : Waiting for Snow in Havana

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Carlos Eire Waiting for Snow in Havana
Anne Applebaum Gulag: A History
George Howe Colt The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
John D'Emilio Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
Erik Larson The Devil in the White City

Robert Caro

Honored for : Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Caro Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Devra Davis When Smoke Ran Like Water
Atul Gawande Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Elizabeth Gilbert The Last American Man
Steve Olson Mapping Human History

Andrew Solomon

Honored for : The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Marie Arana American Chica
Nina Bernstein The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
David James Duncan My Story as Told by Water
Jan T. Gross Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland

Nathaniel Philbrick

Honored for : In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Jacques Barzun From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present- 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
Alice Kaplan The Collaborator
David Levering Lewis W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century
Patrick Tierney Darkness in El Dorado

John W. Dower

Honored for : Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Natalie Angier Woman: an intimate geography
Mark Bowden Black Hawk Down
John Phillip Santos Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
Judith Thurman Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

Edward Ball

Honored for : Slaves in the Family

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Edward Ball Slaves in the Family
Harold Bloom Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Yaffa Eliach There Once was A World
Beth Kephart A Slant of Sun
Henry Mayer All on Fire

Joseph J. Ellis

Honored for : American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Joseph J. Ellis American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
David Kertzer The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
Jamaica Kincaid My Brother
Thomas Lynch The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Sam Tanenhaus Whittaker Chambers: A Biography

James P. Carroll

Honored for : An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee Nominated Work
James P. Carroll An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
Melissa Fay Greene The Temple Bombing
Paul Hendrickson The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
Cary Reich The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958
Anne Roiphe Fruitful

Tina Rosenberg

Honored for : The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Daniel Dennett Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Tina Rosenberg The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Dennis Covington Salvation on Sand Mountain
Jonathan Harr A Civil Action
Maryanne Vollers Ghosts of Mississippi

Sherwin B. Nuland

Honored for : How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

Nominations 1994 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sherwin B. Nuland How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
John Putnam Demos The Unredeemed Captive
Jane Mayer Strange Justice
John Edgar Wideman Fatheralong
Tobias Wolff In Pharaoh's Army

Gore Vidal

Honored for : United States: Essays 1952-1992

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Gore Vidal United States: Essays 1952-1992
William Leach Land of Desire
David Levering Lewis W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
Richard Slotkin Gunfighter Nation
Peter Svenson Battlefield

Paul Monette

Honored for : Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story

Nominations 1992 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Paul Monette Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
Edward L. Ayers The Promise of the New South
James Gleick Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
David McCullough Truman
Garry Wills Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Orlando Patterson

Honored for : Freedom

Nominations 1991 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Orlando Patterson Freedom
E. J. Dionne Why Americans Hate Politics
Melissa Fay Greene Praying For Sheetrock
R. W. B. Lewis The Jameses: A Family Narrative
Diane Middlebrook Anne Sexton: A Biography

Ron Chernow

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

Nominations 1990 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ron Chernow The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Samuel G. Freedman Small Victories
Roger Morris Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician
Steven Naifeh Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
Gregory White Smith Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
T. H. Watkins Righteous Pilgrim

Thomas L. Friedman

Honored for : From Beirut to Jerusalem

Nominations 1989 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Thomas L. Friedman From Beirut to Jerusalem
Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
McGeorge Bundy Danger and Survival
William Pfaff Barbarian Sentiments
Marilynne Robinson Mother Country

Neil Sheehan

Honored for : A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Nominations 1988 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Eric Foner Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Peter Gay The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism
Brenda Maddox Nora
Jack McLaughlin Jefferson and Monticello

Richard Rhodes

Honored for : The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Nominations 1987 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb
David Herbert Donald Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
James Gleick Chaos: Making a New Science
Claudia Koonz Mothers in the Fatherland
Robert A. M. Stern New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars
Gregory Gilmartin New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars
Thomas Mellins New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars

Barry Lopez

Honored for : Arctic Dreams

Nominations 1986 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams
John W. Dower War Without Mercy
Richard Kluger The Paper
Michael Reynolds The young Hemingway
Theodore Rosengarten Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter

J. Anthony Lukas

Honored for : Common Ground

Nominations 1985 »

Nominee Nominated Work
J. Anthony Lukas Common Ground
Daniel Kevles In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
Walter A. McDougall ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age

Robert V. Remini

Honored for : Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845

Nominations 1984 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert V. Remini Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845
Howard M. Feinstein Becoming William James
Richard Marius Thomas More
Ernst Pawel The Nightmare of Reason
Eudora Welty One Writer's Beginnings

Leon Edel

Honored for : Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years

Nominations 1963 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Leon Edel Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London","Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years
Rachel Carson Silent Spring
Arthur Gelb O'Neill
Barbara Gelb O'Neill
Alfred Kazin Contemporaries, from the 19th Century to the Present
Frederic Morton The Rothschilds
Ernest Simmons Chekhov
Page Smith John Adams
Barbara W. Tuchman The Guns of August
Edmund Wilson Patriotic Gore

Lewis Mumford

Honored for : The City in History

Nominations 1962 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lewis Mumford The City in History
Robert Ardrey African Genesis
James Baldwin Nobody Knows My Name
Stringfellow Barr The Will of Zeus
Albert Bush-Brown The Architecture of America
John E. Burchard The Architecture of America
René Dubos The Dreams of Reason
Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Oscar Lewis The Children of Sanchez
Virginia Peterson A Matter of Life and Death
Mark Schorer Sinclair Lewis
Elizabeth Stevenson Lafcadio Hearn
Theodore White The Making of the President, 1960
Ola Elizabeth Winslow John Bunyan

William L. Shirer

Honored for : The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Nominations 1961 »

Nominee Nominated Work
William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Isaac Asimov The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
Peter Blake The Master Builders. Le Corbusier, Mies VanDer Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright
George Dangerfield Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813
David Herbert Donald Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
William O. Douglas My Wilderness
Loren Eiseley The Firmament of Time
John Graves Goodbye to a River
T.S. Mathews Name and Address
Elizabeth Nowell Thomas Wolfe
Harlan B. Phillips Felix Frankfurter Reminisces
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The Politics of Upheaval

Richard Ellmann

Honored for : James Joyce

Nominations 1960 »

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

J. Christopher Herold

Honored for : Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael

Nominations 1959 »

Nominee Nominated Work
J. Christopher Herold Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael
Hannah Arendt The Human Condition
Lester Atwell Private
Daniel J. Boorstin The Americans: The Colonial Experience
Anne Braden The Wall Between
Charles W. Ferguson Naked to Mine Enemies
Shelby Foote Fort Sumter to Perryville
John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society
Harry Golden Only in America
George F. Kennan Russia, the Atom, and the West
Louis Kronenberger Marlborough's Duchess
Flora Lewis Case History of Hope
Edgar Snow Journey to the Beginning

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Honored for : The Lion and the Throne

Nominations 1958 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Catherine Drinker Bowen The Lion and the Throne
Margaret Coit Mr. Baruch
Will Durant The Reformation
Louis Morton Hacker Alexander Hamilton in the American Tradition
Gilbert Highet Poets in a Landscape
M. A. Dewolfe Howe Justice Holmes: The Shaping Years, 1841-1870
Henry Kissinger Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
Mary McCarthy Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Max F. Milliken A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign Policy
Walt Whitman Rostow A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign Policy
Vance Packard The hidden persuaders
John J. Pullen Twentieth Maine
David Schoenbrun As France Goes
Gwen Terasaki Bridge to the Sun
William Smith White Citadel, the story of the U.S. Senate

George F. Kennan

Honored for : Russia Leaves the War

Nominations 1957 »

Nominee Nominated Work
George F. Kennan Russia Leaves the War
Samuel Flagg Bemis John Quincy Adams and the Union
James MacGregor Burns Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox
Bruce Catton This Hallowed Ground
William Chambers Old Bullion Benton
Stuart Chase Guides to Straight Thinking
Arthur Compton The Atomic Quest
Frank Burt Freidel Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph
Eric F. Goldman The Crucial Decade, America 1945-55
Kathryn Hulme The Nun's Story
Paul Murray Kendall Richard the Third
John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage
Samuel Lubell The Revolt of the Moderates
Perry Miller The Raven and the Whale
Lewis Mumford The Transformations of Man
Edwin Way Teale Autumn Across America
Robert Penn Warren Segregation, the Inner Conflict in the South
William H. Whyte The Organization Man

Herbert Kubly

Honored for : An American in Italy

Nominations 1956 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Herbert Kubly An American in Italy
Gay Wilson Allen The Solitary Singer
Alan Barth Government by Investigation
Rachel Carson The Edge of the Sea
Clifford Dowdey Land They Fought For
John Gunther Inside Africa
Richard Hofstadter The Age of Reform
Murray Kempton Part of Our Time
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gift from the Sea
Milton Mayer They Thought They Were Free
Allan Temko Notre Dame of Paris
Harry S. Truman Year of Decisions
Edmund Wilson The scrolls from the Dead Sea

Joseph Wood Krutch

Honored for : The Measure of Man

Nominations 1955 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Joseph Wood Krutch The Measure of Man
Van Wyck Brooks Scenes and portraits
Harrison Brown The Challenge of Man's Future
Elmer Davis But we were born free
Hermann Hagedorn The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill
Paul Horgan Great River
John LaFarge, Jr. The Manner is Ordinary
David Lavender Bent's Fort
Carl Sandburg Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
Wallace Stegner Beyond the hundreth meridian
Norman Thomas The test of freedom
E. B. White The second tree from the corner

Bruce Catton

Honored for : A Stillness at Appomattox

Nominations 1954 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Bruce Catton A Stillness at Appomattox

Bernard DeVoto

Honored for : The Course of Empire

Nominations 1953 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Bernard DeVoto The Course of Empire
Herbert Agar A Declaration of Faith
Conrad Aiken Ushant
Frederick Lewis Allen The big change
Robert Brittain Let There Be Bread
Van Wyck Brooks The confident years
Whittaker Chambers Witness
Eleanor Clark Rome and a villa
William O. Douglas Beyond the high Himalayas
Douglas S. Freeman George Washington, Vol. V
Eric F. Goldman Rendezvous with Destiny
Learned Hand The Spirit of Liberty
Irving Howe William Faulkner
Herbert J. Muller The Uses of the Past
F. S. C. Northrop The taming of the nations
Katherine Anne Porter The Days Before
James G. Randall Midstream: Lincoln the President
Benjamin Platt Thomas Abraham Lincoln
Dixon Wecter Sam Clemens of Hannibal
Kenneth P. Williams Lincoln finds a general: a military study of the Civil War
Edmund Wilson The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties

Rachel Carson

Honored for : The Sea Around Us

Nominations 1952 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Rachel Carson The Sea Around Us
Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism
Marshall B. Davidson Life in America
F. W. Dupee Henry James
Waldo Frank Birth of a world
Douglas S. Freeman George Washington: A Biography
Erich Fromm The Forgotten Language
Oscar Handlin The Uprooted
Alfred Kazin A Walker in the City
Dumas Malone Jefferson and the Rights of Man
C. Wright Mills White Collar: The American Middle Classes
Arthur Mizener The Far Side of Paradise
Lewis Mumford The conduct of life.
Merlo J. Pusey Charles Evans Hughes
Nat Schachner Thomas Jefferson
William Carlos Williams Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
C. Vann Woodward Reunion and reaction

Newton Arvin

Honored for : Herman Melville

Nominations 1951 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Newton Arvin Herman Melville

Ralph L. Rusk

Honored for : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nominations 1950 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ralph L. Rusk Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lincoln Barnett The Universe and Dr. Einstein
Harry Allen Overstreet The Mature Mind
Eleanor Roosevelt This I remember
Lillian Smith Killers of the Dream
Kenneth P. Williams Lincoln finds a general: a military study of the Civil War

Hans Zinsser

Honored for : As I Remember Him, the Biography of R. S

Nominations 1940 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Hans Zinsser As I Remember Him, the Biography of R. S

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Honored for : Wind, Sand and Stars

Nominations 1939 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Wind, Sand and Stars
Pierre van Paassen Days of our years

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Honored for : Listen! the Wind

Nominations 1938 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Listen! the Wind

Ève Curie

Honored for : Madame Curie

Nominations 1937 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ève Curie Madame Curie
Lin Yutang The importance of living

Van Wyck Brooks

Honored for : The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865

Nominations 1936 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Van Wyck Brooks The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865
Victor Heiser An American Doctor's Odyssey: Adventures in Forty-Five Countries

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Honored for : North to the Orient

Nominations 1935 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Anne Morrow Lindbergh North to the Orient
Vincent Sheean Personal History