National Book Award Winners 1950-2011 Arts and Letters (Nonfiction) 1964: John Keats: The Making of a Poet

by Aileen Ward 1965: Oysters of Locmariaquer by Eleanor Clark 1966: Paris Journal, 1944-1965 by Janet Flanner 1967: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Justin Kaplan 1968: Selected Essays by William Troy 1969: The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History by Norman Mailer 1970: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir by Lillian Hellman 1971: Cocteau: A Biography by Francis Steegmuller 1972: The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen 1973: Diderot by Arthur M. Wilson 1974: Deeper into the Movies by Pauline Kael 1975: Marcel Proust by Roger Shattuck; The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas 1976: The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell Contemporary Affairs 1972: The Last Whole Earth Catalogue by Stewart Brand, ed. 1973: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald 1974: The Briar Patch by Murray Kempton 1975: All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten 1976: Passage to Ararat by Michael J. Arlen Contemporary Thought 1977: The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim 1978: Winners & Losers by Gloria Emerson 1979: The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen Current Interest (Hardcover) 1980: Julia Child and More Company by Julia Child Current Interest (Paperback) 1980: The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch General Nonfiction (Hardcover) 1980: The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe 1981: China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston 1982: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder 1983: China: Alive in the Bitter Sea by Fox Butterfield General Nonfiction (Paperback) 1980: The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen 1981: The Last Cowboy by Jane Kramer 1982: Victor S. Navasky 1983: National Defense by James Fallows History 1972: Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863-1864 and The Organized War to Victory by Allan Nevins 1973: The Children of Pride by Robert Manson Myers Judenrat by Isaiah Trunk 1974: The Shaping of the Historian by John Clive 1975: The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn 1977: World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe

1978: The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 by David McCullough 1979: Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 by Richard Beale Davis History and Biography (Nonfiction) 1964: The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeill 1965: The Life of Lenin by Louis Fischer 1966: A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 1967: The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter Gay 1968: Memoirs: 1925-1950 by George F. Kennan 1969: White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan 1970: Huey Long by T. Harry Williams 1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns 1976: The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis History (Hardcover) 1980: The White House Years by Henry A. Kissinger 1981: Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality by John Boswell 1982: People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879 by Father Peter John Powell 1983: Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley History (Paperback) 1980: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman 1981: Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwak 1982: The Generation of 1914 by Robert Wohl 1983: Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel & Fritzie P. Manuel Nonfiction 1950: Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph L. Rusk 1951: Herman Melville by Newton Arvin 1952: The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson 1953: The Course of Empire by Bernard A. De Voto 1954: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton 1955: The Measure of Man by Joseph Wood Krutch 1956: An American in Italy by Herbert Kubly 1957: Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan 1958: The Lion and the Throne by Catherine Drinker Bowen 1959: Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael by J. Christopher Herold 1960: James Joyce by Richard Ellmann 1961: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer 1962: The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects by Lewis Mumford 1963: Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years by Leon Edel 1984: Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 by Robert V. Remini 1985: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas 1986: Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez 1987: The Making of the Atom Bomb by Richard Rhodes 1988: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan 1989: From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman 1990: The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow 1991: Freedom by Orlando Patterson 1992: Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette 1993: United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal 1994: How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland 1995: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg

1996: An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us by James Carroll 1997: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis 1998: Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball 1999: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower 2000: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick 2001: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon 2002: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro 2003: Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire 2004: Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle 2005: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 2006: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan 2007: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner 2008: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed 2009: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles 2010: Just Kids by Patti Smith 2011: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Philosophy and Religion 1970: Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson 1972: Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America by Martin E. Marty 1973: A Religious History of the American People by S. E. Ahlstrom 1974: Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks by Maurice Natanson 1975: Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick The Sciences 1969: Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert J. Lifton 1971: Science in the British Colonies of America by Raymond Phineas Sterns 1972: The Blue Whale by George L. Small 1973: The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations by George B. Schaller 1974: Life: The Unfinished Experiment by S. E. Luria 1975: Interpretation of Schizophrenia by Silvano Arieti The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas Science (Hardcover) 1980: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter 1981: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 1982: Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald C. Johanson & Maitland A. Edey 1983: "Subtle is the Lord...": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais Science (Paperback) 1980: The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav 1981: The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas 1982: Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists by Fred Alan Wolf 1983: The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh Science Fiction (Hardcover) 1980: Jem by Frederik Pohl Science Fiction (Paperback) 1980: The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, Jr. Science, Philosophy, and Religion (Nonfiction) 1964: Man-made America by Christopher Tunnard & Boris Pushkarev 1965: God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion by Norbert Wiener 1966: No award given.

1967: La Vida by Oscar Lewis 1968: Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol