National Book Award - Nonfiction

National Book Award Winners – Nonfiction / 2010 - 1984

The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, they are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year. While historically there have been other categories, today the awards are made in four areas: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature.

2010: Just Kids by Patti Smith
2009: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
2008: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2007: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
2006: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
2005: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
2004: Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle
2003: Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire
2002: Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
2001: The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
2000: In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
1999: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII by John W. Dower
1998: Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
1997: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis
1996: An American Requiem by James Carroll
1995: The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg
1994: How We Die, Reflections in Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin Nuland
1993: United States Essays by Gore Vidal
1992: Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
1991: Freedom by Orlando Patterson
1990: The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
1989: From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
1988: A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
1987: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
1986: Artic Dreams by Barry Lopez
1985: Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas
1984: Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy by Robert Remini