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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
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CARLOS EIRE |
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
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CARLOS EIRE |
The National Book Awards are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens. The Number of prizes has varied, including categories such as poetry, fiction, biography, science, philosophy, religion and history. The prizes for nonfiction are as follows.
| 2003 | Carlos Eire | Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy |
| 2002 | Robert Caro | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
| 2001 | Andrew Solomon | The Noonday Demon |
| 2000 | Martahnial Philbrick | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex |
| 1999 | John W. Dower | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II |
| 1998 | Edward Ball | Slaves in the Family |
| 1997 | Joseph J. Ellis | American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson |
| 1996 | James Carroll | An American Requiem: God, My Father and the War That Came Between Us |
| 1995 | Tina Rosenberg | The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism |
| 1994 | Sherwin B. Nuland | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter |
| 1993 | Gore Vidal | United States: Essays, 1952-1992 |
| 1992 | Paul Monette | Becoming a Man: Half a Life |
| 1991 | Orlando Patterson | Freedom |
| 1990 | Ron Chernow | The House of Morgan |
| 1989 | Thomas L. Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem |
| 1988 | Neil Sheehan | A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietman |
| 1987 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
| 1986 | Barry Lopez | Arctic Dreams |
| 1985 | J. Anthony Lucas | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families |
| 1984 | Robert V. Remini | Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-45, Vol. 5 |
| 1983 | Fox Butterfield | China: Alive in the Bitter Sea |
| 1982 | Tracy Kidder | The Soul of a New Machine |
| 1981 | Maxine Hong Kingston | China Men |
| 1980 | Tom Wolfe | The Right Stuff |
| 1979 | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | Robert Kennedy and His Times |
| 1978 | Walter Jackson Bate | Samuel Johnson |
| 1977 | Bruno Bettleheim | The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales |
| 1976 | Paul Fussell | The Great War and Modern Memory |
| 1975 | Richard B. Sewall | The Life of Emily dickinson |
| 1974 | Lewis Thomas | The Lives of a Cell |
| 1973 | Frances Fitzgerald | Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam |
| 1972 | Joseph P. Lash | Eleanor and Franklin |
| 1971 | James MacGregor Burns | Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom |
| 1970 | Lillian Hellman | An Unfinished Woman, a Memoir |
| 1969 | Norman Mailer | The Armies of the Night |
| 1968 | Jonathan Kozol | Death at an Early Age |
| 1967 | Justin Kaplan | Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
| 1966 | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | A Thousand Days: JFK in the White House |
| 1965 | Louis Fisher | The Life of Lenin |
| 1964 | Aileen Ward | John Keats: The Making of a Poet |
| 1963 | Leon Edel | Henry James, Vols. 2 & 3 |
| 1962 | Lewis Mumford | The City in History |
| 1961 | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| 1960 | Richard Ellman | James Joyce |
| 1959 | J. Christopher Herold | Mistress to an Age |
| 1958 | Catherine Drinker Bowen | The Lion and the Throne |
| 1957 | George F. Kennan | Russia Leaves the War |
| 1956 | Herbert Kubly | An American in Italy |
| 1955 | Joseph Wood Krutch | The Measure of a Man |
| 1953 | Richard DeVoto | Course of Empire |
| 1952 | Rachel Carson | The Sea Around Us |
| 1951 | Newton Arvin | Herman Melville |
| 1950 | Ralph L. Rusk | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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