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National Book Award Winners
Nonfiction
| 1950 | Rusk, Ralph L. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 1951 | Arvin, Newton | Herman Melville |
| 1952 | Carson, Rachel | The Sea Around Us |
| 1953 | De Voto, Bernard A. | The Course of an Empire |
| 1954 | Catton, Bruce | A Stillness at Appomattox |
| 1955 | Krutch, Joseph Wood | The Measure of Man |
| 1956 | Kubly, Herbert | An American Italy |
| 1957 | Kennan, George F. | Russia Leaves the War |
| 1958 | Bowen, Catherine Drinker | The Lion and the Throne |
| 1959 | Herold, J. Christopher | Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael |
| 1960 | Ellman, Richard | James Joyce |
| 1961 | Shirer, William L. | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| 1962 | Mumford, Lewis | The City in History: Its Orgins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects |
| 1963 | Edel, Leon | Henry James: Vol. II: The Conquest of London; Vol. III: The Middle Years |
| 1964 | McNeill, William H. | The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community |
| 1965 | Fisher, Louis | The Life of Lenin |
| 1966 | Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M. | A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House |
| 1967 | Gay, Peter | The Enlightenment, An Interpretation Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism |
| 1968 | Kennan, George F. | Memoirs: 1925-1950 |
| 1969 | Jordan, Winthrop D. | White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 |
| 1970 | Williams, T. Harry | Huey Long |
| 1971 | Burns, James MacGregor | Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom |
| 1972 | Lash, Joseph P. | Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers |
| 1973 | Flexner, James Thomas | George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799 |
| 1974 | Clive, John | Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian |
| | Day, Douglas | Malcolm Lowry: A Biography |
| 1975 | Sewall, Richard B. | The Life of Emily Dickinson |
| 1976 | Davis, David Brion | The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 |
| 1977 | Swanberg, W. A. | Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist |
| 1978 | Bate, W. Jackson | Samuel Johnson |
| 1979 | Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M. | Robert Kennedy and His Times |
| 1980 | Wolfe, Tom | The Right Stuff |
| 1981 | Kingston, Maxine Hong | China Men |
| 1982 | Kidder, Tracy | The Soul of a New Machine |
| 1983 | Butterfield, Fox | China: Alive in the Bitter Sea |
| 1984 | Remini, Robert V. | Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 |
| 1985 | Lukas, J. Anthony | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families |
| 1986 | Lopez, Barry | Artic Dreams |
| 1987 | Rhodes, Richard | The Making of the Atom Bomb |
| 1988 | Sheehan, Neil | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
| 1989 | Friedman, Thomas L. | From Beirut to Jerusalem |
| 1990 | Chernow, Ron | The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance |
| 1991 | Patterson, Orlando | Freedom |
| 1992 | Monette, Paul | Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story |
| 1993 | Vidal, Gore | United States: Essays 1952-1992 |
| 1994 | Nuland, Sherwin B. | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter |
| 1995 | Rosenberg, Tina | The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism |
| 1996 | Carroll, James | An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us |
| 1997 | Ellis, Joseph J. | American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson |
| 1998 | Ball, Edward | Slaves in the Family |
| 1999 | Dower, John W. | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II |
| 2000 | Philbrick, Nathaniel | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex |
| 2001 | Solomon, Andrew | The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression |
| 2002 | Caro, Robert A. | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
| 2003 | Eire, Carlos | Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy |
| 2004 | Boyle, Kevin | Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age |
| 2005 | Didion, Joan | The Year of Magical Thinking |
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Thomas, Edward A., ed. The World Almanac and Book of Facts for Booklovers.
New York,NY; World Almanac Books, 2005.
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