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*American Arts & Letters - ''Up in the Old Hotel'', by [[Joseph Mitchell]]
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*American Studies - ''[[Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Worlds That Remade America]]'', by [[Garry Wills]]
*American Studies - ''[[Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America]]'', by [[Garry Wills]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Archibald MacLeish: An American Life'', by [[Scott Donaldson]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Archibald MacLeish: An American Life'', by [[Scott Donaldson]]
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*American Arts & Letters - ''The Journals of John Cheever'', by [[John Cheever]]
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*American Studies - ''The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev : 1960 - 1963'', by [[Michael S. Beschloss]]
*American Studies - ''The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev : 1960 - 1963'', by [[Michael Beschloss]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Woodrow Wilson'', by [[August Hecscher]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Woodrow Wilson'', by [[August Hecscher]]
*Fiction - ''[[A Thousand Acres]]'', by [[Jane Smiley]]
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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,[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).

Recipients

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1996

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

1995

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

1994

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1988

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1986

References