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'''2001'''
'''2001'''
*American Studies: ''In the Heart of the Sea - The Tragedy of the Warship Essex'', by [[Nathaniel Philbrick]]
*American Studies - ''In the Heart of the Sea - The Tragedy of the Warship Essex'', by [[Nathaniel Philbrick]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst'', by [[David Nasaw]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst'', by [[David Nasaw]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Arthur Schlesinger]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Arthur Schlesinger]]
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'''2000'''
'''2000'''
*AMERICAN STUDIES: Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, David M. Kennedy
*American Studies - ''Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945'', by [[David M. Kennedy]]
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Morgan: American Financier, Jean Strouse
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Morgan: American Financier'', by [[Jean Strouse]]
*FICTION: Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Annie Proulx
*Fiction - ''Close Range: Wyoming Stories'', by [[Annie Proulx]]
*POETRY: Vita Nova, Louise Glück
*Poetry - ''Vita Nova'', [[Louise Glück]]
*THE DRUE HEINZ AWARD FOR LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT: The Best Short Stories of the Twentieth Century, John Updike ()


'''1999'''
'''1999'''
*AMERICAN STUDIES: Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
*American Studies - Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: N.C. Wyeth, David Michaels (Knopf)
*Biography & Autobiography - N.C. Wyeth, David Michaels
*FICTION: I Married A Communist, Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
*Fiction - I Married A Communist, Philip Roth
*POETRY: The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, John Burt (Louisiana Sate University)
*Poetry - The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, John Burt


'''1998'''
'''1998'''
*AMERICAN STUDIES: American Visions, Robert Hughes (Knopf)
*American Studies - American Visions, Robert Hughes
*AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Burning the Days: Recollection, James Salter (Random House)
*Autobiography - Burning the Days: Recollection, James Salter
*BIOGRAPHY: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph E. Ellis (Knopf)
*Biography - American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph E. Ellis
*FICTION: Underworld, Don DeLillio (Scribner)
*Fiction - Underworld, Don DeLillio
*POETRY: Black Zodiac, Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
*Poetry - Black Zodiac, Charles Wright
*SPECIAL PRIZE: God and the American Writer, Alfred Kazin (Knopf)


'''1997'''
'''1997'''
*AMERICAN STUDIES: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West, Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster)
*American Studies - Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West, Stephen E. Ambrose
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop- Guardians of the American Century, Robert W. Merry (Viking)
*Biography & Autobiography - Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop- Guardians of the American Century, Robert W. Merry
*FICTION: In the Beauty of the Lilies, John Updike (Knopf)
*Fiction - In the Beauty of the Lilies, John Updike
*POETRY: The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966 - 1996, Robert Pinsky (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
*Poetry - The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966 - 1996, Robert Pinsky


'''1996'''
'''1996'''
*AMERICAN STUDIES: Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence, John Hockenberry (Hyperion)
*American Studies - Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence, John Hockenberry
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, David S. Reynolds (Knopf)
*Biography & Autobiography - Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, David S. Reynolds
*FICTION: All the Days and Nights, William Maxwell (Knopf)
*Fiction - All the Days and Nights, William Maxwell
*POETRY: Atlantis, Mark Doty (HarperCollins)
*Poetry - Atlantis, Mark Doty
*SPECIAL AWARD: The Liar's Club, Mary Carr (Viking)


'''1995'''
'''1995'''
*AMERICAN STUDIES: Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South, John Egerton (Knopf)
*American Studies - Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South, John Egerton
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon Schuster)
*Biography & Autobiography - No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Doris Kearns Goodwin
*FICTION: The Collected Stories, Grace Paley (Farrar, Straus Giroux)
*Fiction - The Collected Stories, Grace Paley
*POETRY: Like Most Revelations, Richard Howard (Pantheon Books)
*Poetry - Like Most Revelations, Richard Howard


'''1994'''
'''1994'''
*AMERICAN STUDIES: Around the Cragged Hill A Personal and Political Philosophy, George F. Kennan (W.W. Norton)
*American Studies - Around the Cragged Hill A Personal and Political Philosophy, George F. Kennan
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: W.E.B. Du Bois Biography of Race 1868-1919, David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt)
*Biography & Autobiography - W.E.B. Du Bois Biography of Race 1868-1919, David Levering Lewis
*FICTION: The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court, Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
*Fiction - The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court, Peter Taylor
*POETRY: Tesserae & Other Poems, John Hollander (Alfred A. Knopf)
*Poetry - Tesserae & Other Poems, John Hollander


'''1993'''
'''1993'''
*AMERICAN ARTS & LETTERS: Up in the Old Hotel, Joseph Mitchell (Pantheon Books)
*American Arts & Letters - Up in the Old Hotel, Joseph Mitchell
*AMERICAN STUDIES: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Worlds That Remade America, Gary Wills (Simon & Schuster)
*American Studies - Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Worlds That Remade America, Gary Wills
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Archibald MacLeish: An American Life, Scott Donaldson (Houghton Mifflin)
*Biography & Autobiography - Archibald MacLeish: An American Life, Scott Donaldson
*FICTION: Outerbridge Reach, Robert Stone (Ticknor & Fields)
*Fiction - Outerbridge Reach, Robert Stone


'''1992'''
'''1992'''
*AMERICAN ARTS & LETTERS: The Journals of John Cheever, John Cheever (Knopf)
*American Arts & Letters - The Journals of John Cheever, John Cheever
*AMERICAN STUDIES: The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev : 1960 - 1963, Michael S. Beschloss (HarperCollins)
*American Studies - The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev : 1960 - 1963, Michael S. Beschloss
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Woodrow Wilson, August Hecscher (Scribner)
*Biography & Autobiography - Woodrow Wilson, August Hecscher
*FICTION: A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (Knopf)
*Fiction - A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
*SPECIAL PRIZE: American Views: Essays on American Art, John Wilmerding


'''1991'''
'''1991'''
*AMERICAN ARTS & LETTERS: The House of Barrymore, Margot Peters (Random House)
*American Arts & Letters - The House of Barrymore, Margot Peters
*AMERICAN STUDIES: A New York Life, Brendan Gill (Poseidon Press)
*American Studies - A New York Life, Brendan Gill
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: The House of Morgan, Ron Chernow (Atlantic Monthly Press)
*Biography & Autobiography - The House of Morgan, Ron Chernow
*FICTION: Killing Mr. Watson, Peter Matthiessen (Random House)
*Fiction - Killing Mr. Watson, Peter Matthiessen


'''1990'''
'''1990'''
*AMERICAN ARTS & LETTERS: The Writing Life, Annie Dillard (Harper & Row)
*American Arts & Letters - The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
*AMERICAN STUDIES: Among Schoolchildren, Tracy Kidder (Houghton Mifflin)
*American Studies - Among Schoolchildren, Tracy Kidder
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: This Boy's Life: A Memoir, Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press)
*Biography & Autobiography - This Boy's Life: A Memoir, Tobias Wolff
*FICTION: Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus (Knopf)
*Fiction - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus


'''1989'''
'''1989'''
*AMERICAN ARTS & LETTERS: At Home: Essays 1982-1988, Gore Vidal
*American Arts & Letters - At Home: Essays 1982-1988, Gore Vidal
*AMERICAN STUDIES: A Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann in Vietnam, Neil Sheehan (Vintage)
*American Studies - A Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann in Vietnam, Neil Sheehan
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963, Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster)
*Biography & Autobiography - Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963, Taylor Branch
*FICTION: When I'm Calling From: New & Selected Stories, Raymond Carver (Atlantic Monthly Press)
*Fiction - When I'm Calling From: New & Selected Stories, Raymond Carver


'''1988'''
'''1988'''
*AMERICAN ARTS & LETTERS: Collected Prose, Robert Lowell (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
*American Arts & Letters - Collected Prose, Robert Lowell
*AMERICAN STUDIES: Miami, Joan Didion (Simon & Schuster)
*American Studies - Miami, Joan Didion
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright, Brendan Gill (Putnam)
*Biography & Autobiography - Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright, Brendan Gill
*FICTION: The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
*Fiction - The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
*SPECIAL CITATION: Blues, John Hennesy (Knopf)


'''1987'''
'''1987'''
*AMERICAN STUDIES: Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures, Frances Fitzgerald (Simon & Schuster)
*American Studies - Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures, Frances Fitzgerald
*AMERICAN STUDIES: The Cycles of American History, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr (Houghton Mifflin)
*American Studies - The Cycles of American History, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
*BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America, Arnold Rampersad (Oxford University Press)
*Biography & Autobiography - The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America, Arnold Rampersad
*FICTION: Roger's Vision, John Updike (Knopf)
*Fiction - Roger's Vision, John Updike
*HONORABLE MENTION: 1986 Volumes of the Library of America
*SPECIAL CITATION: The Story of English, Robert McCrum, William Cran and Robert MacNeil (Viking)


'''1986'''
'''1986'''
*FICTION: Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor (Viking)
*Fiction - Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor
*FICTION: The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler (Knopf)
*Fiction - The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
*HONORABLE MENTION: 1985 Volumes of the Library of America


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 11:22, 2 December 2008

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,[1] selects 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)[2], Don Delillo (1998), Philip Roth (1999)[3], and Annie Proulx (2000).

Past winners of the Ambassador Book Award are:


2008

2007

  • 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
  • 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
  • Fiction - The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, by Amy Hempel
  • Poetry - Averno, by Louise Glück
  • Lifetime Achievement - Garry Wills

2006

  • 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
  • Fiction - Liberation: A Novel, by Joanna Scott
  • Poetry - Migration, by W.S. Merwin

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

  • American Studies - In the Heart of the Sea - The Tragedy of the Warship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Biography & Autobiography - The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, by David Nasaw
  • Lifetime Achievement - Arthur Schlesinger
  • Fiction - Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks, by Russell Banks
  • Poetry - American Poerty: The Twentieth Century, 2 vols., by Hass, Hollander, Kizer, Mackey, Perloff

2000

  • American Studies - Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, by David M. Kennedy
  • Biography & Autobiography - Morgan: American Financier, by Jean Strouse
  • Fiction - Close Range: Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx
  • Poetry - Vita Nova, Louise Glück

1999

  • American Studies - Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball
  • Biography & Autobiography - N.C. Wyeth, David Michaels
  • Fiction - I Married A Communist, Philip Roth
  • Poetry - The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, John Burt

1998

  • American Studies - American Visions, Robert Hughes
  • Autobiography - Burning the Days: Recollection, James Salter
  • Biography - American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph E. Ellis
  • Fiction - Underworld, Don DeLillio
  • Poetry - Black Zodiac, Charles Wright

1997

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

1996

  • American Studies - Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence, John Hockenberry
  • Biography & Autobiography - Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, David S. Reynolds
  • Fiction - All the Days and Nights, William Maxwell
  • Poetry - Atlantis, Mark Doty

1995

  • American Studies - Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South, John Egerton
  • Biography & Autobiography - No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Fiction - The Collected Stories, Grace Paley
  • Poetry - Like Most Revelations, Richard Howard

1994

  • American Studies - Around the Cragged Hill A Personal and Political Philosophy, George F. Kennan
  • Biography & Autobiography - W.E.B. Du Bois Biography of Race 1868-1919, David Levering Lewis
  • Fiction - The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court, Peter Taylor
  • Poetry - Tesserae & Other Poems, John Hollander

1993

  • American Arts & Letters - Up in the Old Hotel, Joseph Mitchell
  • American Studies - Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Worlds That Remade America, Gary Wills
  • Biography & Autobiography - Archibald MacLeish: An American Life, Scott Donaldson
  • Fiction - Outerbridge Reach, Robert Stone

1992

  • American Arts & Letters - The Journals of John Cheever, John Cheever
  • American Studies - The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev : 1960 - 1963, Michael S. Beschloss
  • Biography & Autobiography - Woodrow Wilson, August Hecscher
  • Fiction - A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

1991

  • American Arts & Letters - The House of Barrymore, Margot Peters
  • American Studies - A New York Life, Brendan Gill
  • Biography & Autobiography - The House of Morgan, Ron Chernow
  • Fiction - Killing Mr. Watson, Peter Matthiessen

1990

  • American Arts & Letters - The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
  • American Studies - Among Schoolchildren, Tracy Kidder
  • Biography & Autobiography - This Boy's Life: A Memoir, Tobias Wolff
  • Fiction - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus

1989

  • American Arts & Letters - At Home: Essays 1982-1988, Gore Vidal
  • American Studies - A Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann in Vietnam, Neil Sheehan
  • Biography & Autobiography - Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963, Taylor Branch
  • Fiction - When I'm Calling From: New & Selected Stories, Raymond Carver

1988

  • American Arts & Letters - Collected Prose, Robert Lowell
  • American Studies - Miami, Joan Didion
  • Biography & Autobiography - Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright, Brendan Gill
  • Fiction - The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe

1987

  • American Studies - Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures, Frances Fitzgerald
  • American Studies - The Cycles of American History, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
  • Biography & Autobiography - The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America, Arnold Rampersad
  • Fiction - Roger's Vision, John Updike

1986

  • Fiction - Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor
  • Fiction - The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler

References