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The '''Ambassador Book Award''' is awarded annually by the [[English Speaking Union]]. It recognizes important literary works that contribute to the understanding and interpretation of American life and culture. Winners of the award are considered literary ambassadors who provide, in the best contemporary English, an important window on America to the rest of the world. A panel of judges, currently chaired by author [[Maureen Howard]],<ref>[http://www.esuus.org/books_across_sea_ambassador_books_awards_committee.htm ESU Programs - Ambassador Book Awards Committee]</ref> selects books out of new works in the fields of fiction, biography, autobiography, current affairs, American studies and poetry.
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The '''Ambassador Book Award''' (1986–2011) was presented annually by the [[English-Speaking Union]]. It recognized important literary and non-fiction works that contributed to the understanding and interpretation of American life and culture. Winners of the award were considered literary ambassadors who provide, in the best contemporary English, an important window on America to the rest of the world. A panel of judges selected books out of new works in the fields of fiction, biography, autobiography, current affairs, American studies and poetry.
The award was established in 1986. Since then, winners have included books by such notable authors as [[Tom Wolfe]] (1988), [[Joan Didion]] (1988), [[Raymond Carver]] (1989), [[Gore Vidal]] (1989), [[John Cheever]] (1992), [[John Updike]] (1997)<ref>[http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/updikebio.html John Updike bio and awards at American Literature Web Resources]</ref>, [[Don Delillo]] (1998), [[Philip Roth]] (1999)<ref>[http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/roth/ Houghton Mifflin list of awards won by Philip Roth]</ref>, and [[Annie Proulx]] (2000).

The award was established in 1986. Winners included books by such notable authors as [[Tom Wolfe]] (1988), [[Joan Didion]] (1988), [[Raymond Carver]] (1989), [[Gore Vidal]] (1989), [[John Cheever]] (1992), [[John Updike]] (1997),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/updikebio.html |title=John Updike bio and awards at American Literature Web Resources |access-date=2008-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704210139/http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/updikebio.html |archive-date=2008-07-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Don Delillo]] (1998), [[Philip Roth]] (1999),<ref>[http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/roth/ Houghton Mifflin list of awards won by Philip Roth]</ref> and [[Annie Proulx]] (2000).


==Recipients==
==Recipients==


'''1986'''
*Fiction - ''[[Lake Wobegon Days]]'', by [[Garrison Keillor]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Accidental Tourist]]'', by [[Anne Tyler]]


'''2008'''
'''1987'''
*American Studies - ''Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics'', by [[Rebecca Solnit]]
*American Studies - ''Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures'', by [[Frances FitzGerald (journalist)|Frances FitzGerald]]
*Autobiography - ''Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties'', by [[Robert Stone]]
*American Studies - ''The Cycles of American History'', by [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr]]
*Biography - ''Edith Wharton'', by [[Hermione Lee]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America'', by [[Arnold Rampersad]]
*Fiction - ''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'', by [[Mohsin Hamid]]
*Fiction - ''[[Roger's Version]]'', by [[John Updike]]
*Special Citation - ''[[The Story of English]]'' by [[Robert McCrum]], [[William Cran]] and [[Robert MacNeil]]
*Poetry - ''Blackbird and Wolf'', by [[Henri Cole]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[John Ashbery]]


'''2007'''
'''1988'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''Collected Prose'', by [[Robert Lowell]]
*American Studies - ''The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl'', by [[Timothy Egan]]
*Autobiography - ''The Afterlife: A Memoir'', by [[Donald Antrim]]
*American Studies - ''[[Miami (book)|Miami]]'', by [[Joan Didion]]
*Biography - ''The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher'', by [[Debby Applegate]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright'', by [[Brendan Gill]]
*Current Affairs - ''Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq'', by [[Thomas E. Ricks]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Bonfire of the Vanities]]'', by [[Tom Wolfe]]
*Fiction - ''The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel'', by [[Amy Hempel]]
*Special Citation - ''Blues'' by [[John Hersey]]
*Poetry - ''Averno'', by [[Louise Glück]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Garry Wills]]


'''2006'''
'''1989'''
*American Studies - ''A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America'', by [[Stacy Schiff]]
*American Arts & Letters - ''At Home: Essays 1982-1988'', by [[Gore Vidal]]
*American Studies - ''[[A Bright Shining Lie|A Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam]]'', by [[Neil Sheehan]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer]]'', by [[Kai Bird]] and [[Martin Sherwin]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963]]'', by [[Taylor Branch]]
*Fiction - ''Liberation: A Novel'', by [[Joanna Scott]]
*Fiction - ''[[Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories]]'', by [[Raymond Carver]]
*Poetry - ''Migration'', by [[W.S. Merwin]]


'''2005'''
'''1990'''
*American Studies - ''Washington's Crossing'', by [[David Hackett Fischer]]
*American Arts & Letters - ''The Writing Life'', by [[Annie Dillard]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''De Kooning: An American Master'', by [[Mark Stevens]]
*American Studies - ''Among Schoolchildren'', by [[Tracy Kidder]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[This Boy's Life|This Boy's Life: A Memoir]]'', by [[Tobias Wolff]]
*Fiction - ''Gilead'', by [[Marilynne Robinson]]
*Poetry - ''Collected Poems'', by [[Donald Justice]]
*Fiction - ''[[Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All]]'', by [[Allan Gurganus]]


'''2004'''
'''1991'''
*American Studies - ''They Marched into Sunlight'', by [[David Maraniss]]
*American Arts & Letters - ''The House of Barrymore'', by [[Margot Peters]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Hawthorne , A Life'', by [[Brenda Wineapple]]
*American Studies - ''A New York Life'', by [[Brendan Gill]]
*Fiction - ''The Time of Our Singing'', by [[Richard Powers]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The House of Morgan'', by [[Ron Chernow]]
*Poetry - ''Robert Lowell: Collected Poems'', edited by [[Frank Bidart]] & [[David Gewanter]]
*Fiction - ''Killing Mr. Watson'', by [[Peter Matthiessen]]
*Distinguished Achievement Award - [[Robert A. Caro]]


'''2003'''
'''1992'''
*Fiction - ''Middlesex'', by [[Jeffrey Eugenides]]
*American Arts & Letters - ''The Journals of John Cheever'', by [[John Cheever]]
*American Studies - ''In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692'', by [[Mary Beth Norton]]
*American Studies - ''The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev : 1960 - 1963'', by [[Michael Beschloss]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War'', by [[T. J. Stiles]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Woodrow Wilson'', by [[August Heckscher II|August Heckscher]]
*Poetry - ''Springing, New and Selected Poems'', by [[Marie Ponsot]]
*Fiction - ''[[A Thousand Acres]]'', by [[Jane Smiley]]
*Special Prize - ''American Views: Essays on American Art'' by [[John Wilmerding]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Edmund S. Morgan]]


'''2002'''
'''1993'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''Up in the Old Hotel'', by [[Joseph Mitchell (writer)|Joseph Mitchell]]
*American Studies - ''Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climatic Battle of Civil Rights Revolution'', by [[Diane McWhorter]]
*American Studies - ''[[Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America]]'', by [[Garry Wills]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''John Adams'', by [[David McCullough]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Archibald MacLeish: An American Life'', by [[Scott Donaldson (writer)|Scott Donaldson]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Hortsense Callisher]]
*Fiction - ''Empire Falls'', by [[Richard Russo]]
*Fiction - ''[[Outerbridge Reach]]'', by [[Robert Stone (novelist)|Robert Stone]]
*Poetry - ''The Darkness and the Light'', by [[Anthony Hecht]]


'''2001'''
'''1994'''
*American Studies - ''In the Heart of the Sea - The Tragedy of the Warship Essex'', by [[Nathaniel Philbrick]]
*American Studies - ''Around the Cragged Hill A Personal and Political Philosophy'', by [[George F. Kennan]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst'', by [[David Nasaw]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919]]'', by [[David Levering Lewis]]
*Fiction - ''The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court'', by [[Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor|Peter Taylor]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Arthur Schlesinger]]
*Fiction - ''Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks'', by [[Russell Banks]]
*Poetry - ''Tesserae & Other Poems'', by [[John Hollander]]
*Poetry - ''American Poerty: The Twentieth Century'', 2 vols., by Hass, Hollander, Kizer, Mackey, Perloff


'''2000'''
'''1995'''
*American Studies - ''Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945'', by [[David M. Kennedy]]
*American Studies - ''Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South'', by [[John Egerton (journalist)|John Egerton]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Morgan: American Financier'', by [[Jean Strouse]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II'', by [[Doris Kearns Goodwin]]
*Fiction - ''Close Range: Wyoming Stories'', by [[Annie Proulx]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Collected Stories of Grace Paley|The Collected Stories]]'', by [[Grace Paley]]
*Poetry - ''Vita Nova'', by [[Louise Glück]]
*Poetry - ''Like Most Revelations'', by [[Richard Howard]]


'''1999'''
'''1996'''
*American Studies - ''Slaves in the Family'', by [[Edward Ball]]
*American Studies - ''Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence'', by [[John Hockenberry]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''N.C. Wyeth'', by [[David Michaels]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography'', by [[David S. Reynolds]]
*Fiction - ''I Married A Communist'', by [[Philip Roth]]
*Fiction - ''All the Days and Nights'', by [[William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.|William Maxwell]]
*Poetry - ''The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren'', by [[John Burt]]
*Poetry - ''Atlantis'', by [[Mark Doty]]
*Special Award - ''[[The Liar's Club]]'' by [[Mary Karr]]

'''1998'''
*American Studies - ''American Visions'', by [[Robert Hughes]]
*Autobiography - ''Burning the Days: Recollection'', by [[James Salter]]
*Biography - ''American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson'', by [[Joseph E. Ellis]]
*Fiction - ''Underworld'', by [[Don DeLillo]]
*Poetry - ''Black Zodiac'', by [[Charles Wright]]


'''1997'''
'''1997'''
*American Studies - ''Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West'', by [[Stephen E. Ambrose]]
*American Studies - ''Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West'', by [[Stephen E. Ambrose]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop- Guardians of the American Century'', by [[Robert W. Merry]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop- Guardians of the American Century'', by [[Robert W. Merry]]
*Fiction - ''In the Beauty of the Lilies'', by [[John Updike]]
*Fiction - ''[[In the Beauty of the Lilies]]'', by [[John Updike]]
*Poetry - ''The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966 - 1996'', by [[Robert Pinsky]]
*Poetry - ''The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966 - 1996'', by [[Robert Pinsky]]


'''1996'''
'''1998'''
*American Studies - ''Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence'', by [[John Hockenberry]]
*American Studies - ''American Visions'', by [[Robert Hughes (critic)|Robert Hughes]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography'', by [[David S. Reynolds]]
*Autobiography - ''Burning the Days: Recollection'', by [[James Salter]]
*Fiction - ''All the Days and Nights'', by [[William Maxwell]]
*Biography - ''[[American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson]]'', by [[Joseph Ellis]]
*Poetry - ''Atlantis'', by [[Mark Doty]]
*Fiction - ''[[Underworld (DeLillo novel)|Underworld]]'', by [[Don DeLillo]]
*Poetry - ''Black Zodiac'', by [[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]]


'''1995'''
'''1999'''
*American Studies - ''Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South'', by [[John Egerton (journalist)|John Egerton]]
*American Studies - ''[[Slaves in the Family]]'', by [[Edward Ball (American author)|Edward Ball]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II'', by [[Doris Kearns Goodwin]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''N.C. Wyeth'', by [[David Michaelis]]
*Fiction - ''The Collected Stories'', by [[Grace Paley]]
*Fiction - ''[[I Married a Communist]]'', by [[Philip Roth]]
*Poetry - ''Like Most Revelations'', by [[Richard Howard]]
*Poetry - ''The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren'', by [[John Burt (poet)|John Burt]]


'''1994'''
'''2000'''
*American Studies - ''Around the Cragged Hill A Personal and Political Philosophy'', by [[George F. Kennan]]
*American Studies - ''[[Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945]]'', by [[David M. Kennedy (historian)|David M. Kennedy]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''W.E.B. Du Bois Biography of Race 1868-1919'', by [[David Levering Lewis]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Morgan: American Financier'', by [[Jean Strouse]]
*Fiction - ''The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court'', by [[Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor|Peter Taylor]]
*Fiction - ''[[Close Range: Wyoming Stories]]'', by [[Annie Proulx]]
*Poetry - ''Tesserae & Other Poems'', by [[John Hollander]]
*Literary Achievement - ''The Best Short Stories of the Twentieth Century'' by [[John Updike]]
*Poetry - ''Vita Nova'', by [[Louise Glück]]


'''1993'''
'''2001'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''Up in the Old Hotel'', by [[Joseph Mitchell]]
*American Studies - ''[[In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex]]'', by [[Nathaniel Philbrick]]
*American Studies - ''Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Worlds That Remade America'', by [[Gary Wills]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst'', by [[David Nasaw]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Archibald MacLeish: An American Life'', by [[Scott Donaldson]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Collected Stories of Grace Paley|Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks]]'', by [[Russell Banks]]
*Fiction - ''Outerbridge Reach'', by [[Robert Stone]]
*Poetry - ''American Poetry: The Twentieth Century'', 2 vols., by Hass, Hollander, Kizer, Mackey, Perloff


'''1992'''
'''2002'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''The Journals of John Cheever'', by [[John Cheever]]
*American Studies - ''[[Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution]]'', by [[Diane McWhorter]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[John Adams (book)|John Adams]]'', by [[David McCullough]]
*American Studies - ''The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev : 1960 - 1963'', by [[Michael S. Beschloss]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Hortense Calisher]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Woodrow Wilson'', by [[August Hecscher]]
*Fiction - ''A Thousand Acres'', by [[Jane Smiley]]
*Fiction - ''[[Empire Falls]]'', by [[Richard Russo]]
*Poetry - ''The Darkness and the Light'', by [[Anthony Hecht]]


'''1991'''
'''2003'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''The House of Barrymore'', by [[Margot Peters]]
*Fiction - ''[[Middlesex (novel)|Middlesex]]'', by [[Jeffrey Eugenides]]
*American Studies - ''A New York Life'', by [[Brendan Gill]]
*American Studies - ''In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692'', by [[Mary Beth Norton]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The House of Morgan'', by [[Ron Chernow]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War'', by [[T. J. Stiles]]
*Fiction - ''Killing Mr. Watson'', by [[Peter Matthiessen]]
*Poetry - ''Springing, New and Selected Poems'', by [[Marie Ponsot]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Edmund S. Morgan]]


'''1990'''
'''2004'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''The Writing Life'', by [[Annie Dillard]]
*American Studies - ''[[They Marched into Sunlight]]'', by [[David Maraniss]]
*American Studies - ''Among Schoolchildren'', by [[Tracy Kidder]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Hawthorne , A Life'', by [[Brenda Wineapple]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''This Boy's Life: A Memoir'', by [[Tobias Wolff]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Time of Our Singing]]'', by [[Richard Powers]]
*Poetry - ''Robert Lowell: Collected Poems'', edited by [[Frank Bidart]] & [[David Gewanter]]
*Fiction - ''Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All'', by [[Allan Gurganus]]
*Distinguished Achievement Award - [[Robert A. Caro]]


'''1989'''
'''2005'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''At Home: Essays 1982-1988'', by [[Gore Vidal]]
*American Studies - ''[[Washington's Crossing (book)|Washington's Crossing]]'', by [[David Hackett Fischer]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''De Kooning: An American Master'', by [[Mark Stevens (art critic)|Mark Stevens]]
*American Studies - ''A Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann in Vietnam'', by [[Neil Sheehan]]
*Fiction - ''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]'', by [[Marilynne Robinson]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963'', by [[Taylor Branch]]
*Fiction - ''Where I'm Calling From: New & Selected Stories'', by [[Raymond Carver]]
*Poetry - ''Collected Poems'', by [[Donald Justice]]


'''1988'''
'''2006'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''Collected Prose'', by [[Robert Lowell]]
*American Studies - ''A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America'', by [[Stacy Schiff]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer]]'', by [[Kai Bird]] and [[Martin Sherwin]]
*American Studies - ''Miami'', by [[Joan Didion]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright'', by [[Brendan Gill]]
*Fiction - ''Liberation: A Novel'', by [[Joanna Scott]]
*Fiction - ''The Bonfire of the Vanities'', by [[Tom Wolfe]]
*Poetry - ''Migration'', by [[W.S. Merwin]]


'''1987'''
'''2007'''
*American Studies - ''Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures'', by [[Frances Fitzgerald]]
*American Studies - ''The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl'', by [[Timothy Egan]]
*American Studies - ''The Cycles of American History'', by [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr]]
*Autobiography - ''The Afterlife: A Memoir'', by [[Donald Antrim]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America'', by [[Arnold Rampersad]]
*Biography - ''The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher'', by [[Debby Applegate]]
*Current Affairs - ''[[Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq]]'', by [[Thomas E. Ricks (journalist)|Thomas E. Ricks]]
*Fiction - ''Roger's Version'', by [[John Updike]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel]]'', by [[Amy Hempel]]
*Poetry - ''[[Averno (poetry)|Averno]]'', by [[Louise Glück]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Garry Wills]]


'''1986'''
'''2008'''
*American Studies - ''Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics'', by [[Rebecca Solnit]]
*Fiction - ''Lake Wobegon Days'', by [[Garrison Keillor]]
*Autobiography - ''Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties'', by [[Robert Stone (novelist)|Robert Stone]]
*Fiction - ''The Accidental Tourist'', by [[Anne Tyler]]
*Biography - ''Edith Wharton'', by [[Hermione Lee]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Reluctant Fundamentalist]]'', by [[Mohsin Hamid]]
*Poetry - ''Blackbird and Wolf'', by [[Henri Cole]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[John Ashbery]]

'''2009'''
*American Studies - ''A Summer of Hummingbirds'', by [[Christopher Benfey]]
*Biography and Autobiography - ''A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir'', by [[Donald Worster]]
*Current Affairs - ''The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals'', by [[Jane Mayer]]
*Fiction - ''Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories'', by [[Steven Millhauser]]
*Poetry - ''Old War'', by [[Alan Shapiro]]
*Special Award - [[Toni Morrison]]

'''2010'''
*American Studies - ''The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War'', by [[James Mann (writer)|James Mann]]
*American Studies - ''[[Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression]]'', by [[Morris Dickstein]]
*Biography and Autobiography - ''Louis D. Brandeis: A Life'', by [[Melvin Urofsky]]
*Fiction - ''[[Let the Great World Spin]]'', by [[Colum McCann]]
*Poetry - ''Mercury Dressing'', by [[J. D. McClatchy]]
*Special Distinction Award - ''Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original'', by [[Robin Kelley|Robin D. G. Kelley]]

'''2011'''
*American Studies - ''[[The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks]]'', by [[Rebecca Skloot]]
*Biography and Autobiography - ''The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century'', by [[Alan Brinkley]]
*Fiction - ''The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg'', by [[Deborah Eisenberg]]
*Poetry - ''Every Riven Thing: Poems'', by [[Christian Wiman]]
*Special Distinction Award - ''The Memory Chalet'', by [[Tony Judt]]


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.esuus.org/Programs_Books_Across_Sea_Ambassador_Book_Awards.htm Official website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080724075909/http://www.esuus.org/Programs_Books_Across_Sea_Ambassador_Book_Awards.htm Ambassador Book Award], official website.

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[[Category:Awards established in 1986]]
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[[Category:American non-fiction literary awards]]
[[Category:American poetry awards]]
[[Category:Biography awards]]

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Ambassador Book Award
Awarded forLiterary and non-fiction works
CountryUnited States
Presented byEnglish-Speaking Union
First awarded1986

The Ambassador Book Award (1986–2011) was presented annually by the English-Speaking Union. It recognized important literary and non-fiction works that contributed to the understanding and interpretation of American life and culture. Winners of the award were considered literary ambassadors who provide, in the best contemporary English, an important window on America to the rest of the world. A panel of judges selected books out of new works in the fields of fiction, biography, autobiography, current affairs, American studies and poetry.

The award was established in 1986. Winners included books by such notable authors as Tom Wolfe (1988), Joan Didion (1988), Raymond Carver (1989), Gore Vidal (1989), John Cheever (1992), John Updike (1997),[1] Don Delillo (1998), Philip Roth (1999),[2] and Annie Proulx (2000).

Recipients

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1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

References

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  1. ^ "John Updike bio and awards at American Literature Web Resources". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
  2. ^ Houghton Mifflin list of awards won by Philip Roth
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