Biography

2002 : John Adams by David McCullough (Books)

2001 : W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis

2000 : Véra by Stacy Schiff

1999 : Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg

1998 : Personal History by Katharine Graham

1997 : Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

1996 : God: A Biography by Jack Miles

1995 : Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick

1994 : W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis

1993 : Truman by David McCullough

1992 : Fortunate Son by Lewis B. Puller Jr.

1991 : Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

1990 : Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia

1989 : Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

1988 : Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald

1987 : Bearing the Cross by David J. Garrow

1986 : Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank

Drama

2003 Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz (Books)

2001 : Proof by David Auburn

2000 : Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies

1999 : Wit by Margaret Edson

1998 : How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

1997 No Award

1996 : Rent by Jonathan Larson

1995 The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote~ Editions: Library Binding | Paperback | Audio Cassette (Unabridged)

1994 Three Tall Women by Edward Albee~ Editions: Library Binding | Paperback

1993 : Angels in America by Tony Kushner

1992 The Kentucky Cycleby Robert Schenkkan

1991 : Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon

1990 : The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

1989 : The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein

1988 : Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

1987 : Fences by August Wilson

1986 No Award

2002 : Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Books)

2001 : The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

2000 : Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

1999 : The Hours by Michael Cunningham

1998 : American Pastoral by Philip Roth

1997 : Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser

1996 : Independence Day by Richard Ford

1995 : The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

1994 : The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

1993 : A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

1992 : A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

1991 : Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

1990 : The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

1989 : Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

1988 : Beloved by Toni Morrison

1987 : A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor

1986 : Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

1985 : Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

1984 : Ironweed by William Kennedy

1983 : The Color Purple by Alice Walker

1982 : Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

1981 : A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

1980 : The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

1979 : The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

1978 : Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson

1977 No Award

1976 : Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow

1975 : The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

1974 No Award

1973 : The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

1972 : Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

1971 No Award

1970 : Collected Stories by Jean Stafford

1969 : House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

1968 : The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

1967 : The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

1966 : Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter

1965 : The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

2003 : A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (Books)

2001 : Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

2000 : Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower

1999 : Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

1998 : Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

1997 : Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger

1996 : The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg

1995 : The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner

1994 : Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick

1993 : Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills

1992 : The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin

1991 : The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson

1990 And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson

1989 : A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

1988 : The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

1987 : Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler

1986 : Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas

2003 : An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson (Books)

2001 : Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis

2000 : Freedom from Fear by David M. Kennedy

1999 : Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace

1998 : Summer for the Gods by Edward J. Larson

1997 : Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove

1996 : William Cooper's Town by Alan Taylor

1995 : No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin

1994 No Award

1993 : The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

1992 : The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely Jr.

1991 : A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

1990 : In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow

1989 : Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

And Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch

1988 : The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1976 by Robert V. Bruce

1987 : Voyagers to the West by Bernard Bailyn

1986 : The Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall

2002 : Practical Gods by Carl Dennis (Books)

2001 : Different Hours by Stephen Dunn

2000 : Repair by C.K. Williams

1999 : Blizzard of One by Mark Strand

1998 : Black Zodiac by Charles Wright

1997 : Alive Together by Lisel Mueller

1996 : The Dream of the Unified Front by Jorie Graham

1995 : The Simple Truth by Philip Levine

1994 : Neon Vernacular by Yusef Komunyakaa

1993 : The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck

1992 : Selected Poems by James Tate

1991 Near Changes: Poems by Mona Van Duyn ~ Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

1990 : The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic

1989 : New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur

1988 : Partial Accounts by William Meredith

1987 : Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove

1986 : The Flying Change by Henry Taylor

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