Nominations 2014 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Megan Marshall |
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
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| Leo Damrosch |
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
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| Jonathan Sperber |
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
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Nominations 2013 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michael Gorra |
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
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| David Nasaw |
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
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| Tom Reiss |
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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Nominations 2012 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Lewis Gaddis |
George F. Kennan: An American Life
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| Mary Gabriel |
Love and Capital
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| Manning Marable |
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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Nominations 2011 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ron Chernow |
Washington: A Life
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| Alan Brinkley |
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
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| Michael O'Brien |
Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
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Nominations 2010 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| T.J. Stiles |
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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| John M. Cooper |
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
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| Blake Bailey |
Cheever: A Life
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Nominations 2009 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jon Meacham |
American Lion
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| H. W. Brands |
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| Steve Coll |
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
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Nominations 2008 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Matteson |
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
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| Martin Duberman |
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
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| Zachary Leader |
The Life of Kingsley Amis
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Nominations 2007 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Debby Applegate |
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
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| Arthur H. Cash |
John Wilkes
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| David Nasaw |
Andrew Carnegie
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Nominations 2006 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Megan Marshall |
The Peabody sisters
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| Kai Bird |
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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| Martin J. Sherwin |
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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| Joan Didion |
The Year of Magical Thinking
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Nominations 2005 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Souder |
Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America
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| Stephen Greenblatt |
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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| Mark Stevens |
De Kooning: An American Master
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| Annalyn Swan |
De Kooning: An American Master
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Nominations 2004 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Taubman |
Khrushchev
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| James Gleick |
Isaac Newton
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| Hayden Herrera |
Arshile Gorky
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Nominations 2003 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Caro |
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
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| Nicholas Dawidoff |
The Fly Swatter
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| Lewis Lockwood |
Beethoven: The Music and the Life
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Nominations 2002 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jimmy Carter |
An hour before daylight
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| Jean Edward Smith |
Grant
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| David McCullough |
John Adams
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Nominations 2001 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| H. W. Brands |
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
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| David Levering Lewis |
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century
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| Christoph Wolff |
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
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Nominations 2000 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Stacy Schiff |
Vera
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| Dava Sobel |
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
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| Bobbie Ann Mason |
Clear Springs
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Nominations 1999 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Sylvia Nasar |
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
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| Francine du Plessix Gray |
At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life
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| A. Scott Berg |
Lindbergh
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Nominations 1998 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Sam Tanenhaus |
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
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| Katharine Graham |
Personal History
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| James H Jones |
Alfred C. Kinsey
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Nominations 1997 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kim Barnes |
In the Wilderness
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| Hershel Parker |
Herman Melville: A Biography Volume 1, 1819-1851
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| Frank McCourt |
Angela's Ashes
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Nominations 1996 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Maynard Solomon |
Mozart
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| John Loughery |
John Sloan
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| Jack Miles |
God: A Biography
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Nominations 1995 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Stacy Schiff |
Saint Exupéry
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| Roger K Newman |
Hugo Black
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| Joan D. Hedrick |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Nominations 1994 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Edmund White |
Genet: A Biography
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| Deborah Baker |
In extremis
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| David Levering Lewis |
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
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Nominations 1993 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Walter Isaacson |
Kissinger
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| James Gleick |
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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| David McCullough |
Truman
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Nominations 1992 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William S. McFeely |
Frederick Douglass
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| Michael Shelden |
Orwell
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| Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr. |
Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr.
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Nominations 1991 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Steven Naifeh |
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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| Gregory White Smith |
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
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| Patricia O'Toole |
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends1880-1918
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| Joseph Frazier Wall |
Alfred I. du Pont
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Nominations 1990 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Sebastian de Grazia |
Machiavelli in Hell
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| Reynolds Price |
Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides
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| Jill Ker Conway |
The Road from Coorain
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| Geoffrey Ward |
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
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Nominations 1989 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Peter Gay |
Freud: A Life For Our Time
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| Richard Ellmann |
Oscar Wilde: Biographie
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| Neil Sheehan |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
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| Arnold Rampersad |
The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941-1967: I Dream a World
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Nominations 1988 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kenneth Lynn |
Hemingway
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| John McCormick |
George Santayana: A Biography
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| David Herbert Donald |
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
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Nominations 1987 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Leonard L Richards |
The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams
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| Joseph Frank |
Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
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| David Garrow |
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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| A.M. Sperber |
Murrow: His Life and Times
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Nominations 1986 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Hope Franklin |
George Washington Williams: A Biography
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| Frida Scheps Weinstein |
A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942-1945
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| Elizabeth Frank |
Louise Bogan: A Portrait
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Nominations 1985 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michael Mott |
The seven mountains of Thomas Merton
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| Kenneth Silverman |
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
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| Howard M. Feinstein |
Becoming William James
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Nominations 1984 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Louis R. Harlan |
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee
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| Kenneth Manning |
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
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| Fred Kaplan |
Thomas Carlyle: A Biography
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Nominations 1983 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ted Morgan |
Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, 1874-1915
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| Russell Baker |
Growing up
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| Richard Norton Smith |
Thomas E. Dewey and His Times
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Nominations 1982 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William S. McFeely |
Grant: A Biography
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| Gay Wilson Allen |
Waldo Emerson
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| David McCullough |
Mornings on Horseback
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Nominations 1981 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ronald Steel |
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
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| Robert K. Massie |
Peter the Great: His Life and World
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| Justin Kaplan |
Walt Whitman: A Life
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Nominations 1980 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Meryle Secrest |
Being Bernard Berenson
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| Geoffrey Wolff |
The Duke Of Deception: Memories of My Father
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| Ernest Samuels |
Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur
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| Edmund Morris |
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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