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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

  • American Studies - The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War, by 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 D.G. Kelley

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

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

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

1992

1991

1990

1989

1988

1987

1986

References

  1. ^ ESU Programs - Ambassador Book Awards Committee
  2. ^ John Updike bio and awards at American Literature Web Resources
  3. ^ Houghton Mifflin list of awards won by Philip Roth
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