1999
Lindbergh
by A. Scott Berg
1998
Personal History
by Katharine Graham
1997
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
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: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
by Lewis B. Puller
1991
Jackson Pollock
by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
1990
Machiavelli in Hell
by Sebastian de Grazia
1989
Oscar Wilde
by the late Richard Ellmann
1988
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
by David Herbert Donald
1987
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
by David J. Garrow
1986
Louise Bogan: A Portrait
by Elizabeth Frank
1985
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
by Kenneth Silverman
1984
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
by Louis R. Harlan
1983
Growing Up
by Russell Baker
1982
Grant: A Biography
by William McFeely
1981
Peter the Great: His Life and World
by Robert K. Massie
1980
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
1979
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews
by Leonard Baker
1978
Samuel Johnson
by Walter Jackson Bate
1977
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence
by John E. Mack
1976
Edith Wharton: A Biography
by R.W.B. Lewis
1975
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert Caro
1974
O'Neill, Son and Artist
by Louis Sheaffer
1973
Luce and His Empire
by W.A. Swanberg
1972
Eleanor and Franklin
by Joseph P. Lash
1971
Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938
by Lawrance Thompson
1970
Huey Long
by T. Harry Williams
1969
The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends
by Benjamin Lawrence Reid
1968
Memoirs
by George F. Kennan
1967
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
by Justin Kaplan
1966
A Thousand Days
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1965
Henry Adams, three volumes
by Ernest Samuels
1964
John Keats
by Walter Jackson Bate
1963
Henry James
by Leon Edel
1962
(No Award)
1961
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
by David Donald
1960
John Paul Jones
by Samuel Eliot Morison
1959
Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet
by Arthur Walworth
1958
George Washington, Volumes I-VI by Douglas Southall Freeman, and Volume VII,
written by John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth after Dr. Freeman's Death in 1953
1957
Profiles in Courage
by John F. Kennedy
1956
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
1955
The Taft Story
by William S. White
1954
The Spirit of St. Louis
by Charles A. Lindbergh
1953
Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803
by David J. Mays
1952
Charles Evans Hughes
by Merlo J. Pusey
1951
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
by Margaret Louise Coit
1950
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy
by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1949
Roosevelt and Hopkins
by Robert E. Sherwood
1948
Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow
by Margaret Clapp
1947
The Autobiography of William Allen White
by William Allen White
1946
Son of the Wilderness
by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
1945
George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel
by Russell Blaine Nye
1944
The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F.B. Morse
by Carleton Mabee
1943
Admiral of the Ocean Sea
by Samuel Eliot Morison
1942
Crusader in Crinoline
by Forrest Wilson
1941
Jonathan Edward
by Ola Elizabeth Winslow
1940
Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters, VII and VIII
by Ray Stannard Baker
1939
Benjamin Franklin
by Carl Van Doren
1938
Andrew Jackson, 2 vols.
by Marquis James (Bobbs)
1937
Hamilton Fish
by Allan Nevins
1936
The Thought and Character of William James
by Ralph Barton Perry
1935
R.E. Lee
by Douglas S. Freeman
1934
John Hay
by Tyler Dennett
1933
Grover Cleveland
by Allan Nevins
1932
Theodore Roosevelt
by Henry F. Pringle
1931
Charles W. Eliot
by Henry James
1930
The Raven
by Marquis James (Bobbs)
1929
The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letter of Walter H. Page
by Burton J. Hendrick
1928
The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas
by Charles Edward Russell
1927
Whitman
by Emory Holloway
1926
The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols.
by Harvey Cushing
1925
Barrett Wendell and His Letters
by M.A. Dewolfe Howe
1924
From Immigrant to Inventor
by Michael Idvorsky Pupin
1923
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
by Burton J. Hendrick
1922
A Daughter of the Middle Border
by Hamlin Garland
1921
The Americanization of Middle Border
by Edward Bok
1920
The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols.
by Albert J. Beveridge
1919
The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
1918
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
by William Cabell Bruce
1917
Julia Ward Howe
by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall
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