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*American Studies - ''American Visions'', by [[Robert Hughes]]
*American Studies - ''American Visions'', by [[Robert Hughes (critic)|Robert Hughes]]
*Autobiography - ''Burning the Days: Recollection'', by [[James Salter]]
*Autobiography - ''Burning the Days: Recollection'', by [[James Salter]]
*Biography - ''[[American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson]]'', by [[Joseph Ellis]]
*Biography - ''[[American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson]]'', by [[Joseph Ellis]]

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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

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

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2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

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

1993

1992

1991

1990

1989

1988

1987

1986

References