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National Book Award for Nonfiction

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National Book Award for nonfiction.

1950
Ralph L. Rusk Ralph Waldo Emerson (article)
1951
Newton Arvin Herman Melville (article)
1952
Rachel Carson The Sea Around Us
1953
Bernard A. De Voto The Course of Empire
1954
Bruce Catton A Stillness at Appomattox
1955
Joseph Wood Krutch The Measure of Man
1956
Herbert Kubly An American in Italy
1957
George F. Kennan Russia Leaves the War
1958
Catherine Drinker Bowen The Lion and the Throne (article)
1959
J. Christopher Herold Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael
1960
Richard Ellmann James Joyce (article)
1961
William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1962
Lewis Mumford The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects
1963
Leon Edel Henry James, Vol. II and III
1984
Robert V. Remini Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 (article)
1985
J. Anthony Lukas Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
1986
Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams
1987
Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb
1988
Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (article)
1989
Thomas Friedman From Beirut to Jerusalem
1990
Ron Chernow The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
1991
Orlando Patterson Freedom
1992
Paul Monette Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
1993
Gore Vidal United States: Essays 1952-1992
1994
Sherwin B. Nuland How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
1995
Tina Rosenberg The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
1996
James Carroll An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
1997
Joseph J. Ellis American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
1998
Edward Ball Slaves in the Family
1999
John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
2000
Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
2001
Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
2002
Robert Caro Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
2003
Carlos Eire Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
2004
Kevin Boyle Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
2005
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
2006
Timothy Egan The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
2007
Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
2008
Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
2009
T. J. Stiles The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
2010
Patti Smith Just Kids
2011
Stephen Greenblatt The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
2012
Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity



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