National Book Award for Nonfiction

Der National Book Award für Sachbücher (englisch National Book Award for Nonfiction) wird seit 1950 vergeben.

Preisträgerin 2022: Imani Perry (South to America)

Mit zwei Siegen am häufigsten ausgezeichnet wurden Justin Kaplan (1967, 1981), George F. Kennan (1957, 1968), Peter Matthiessen (1979, 1980), David McCullough (1978, 1982), Arthur M. Schlesinger (1966, 1979) und Lewis Thomas (1975, 1981).

Zwischen 1964 und 1983 wurden Preise für Bücher nach Fachgebiet bzw. nach dem Format Hardcover und Paperback separat vergeben.

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Jahr Preisträger Titel Deutscher Titel
1950 Ralph L. Rusk Ralph Waldo Emerson
1951 Newton Arvin Herman Melville
1952 Rachel Carson The Sea Around Us Geheimnisse des Meeres
1953 Bernard A. DeVoto The Course of Empire
1954 Bruce Catton A Stillness at Appomattox
1955 Joseph Wood Krutch The Measure of Man
1956 Herbert Kubly An American in Italy
1957 George F. Kennan Russia Leaves the War
1958 Catherine Drinker Bowen The Lion and the Throne
1959 J. Christopher Herold Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael Madame de Stae͏̈l
1960 Richard Ellmann James Joyce James Joyce
1961 William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Aufstieg und Fall des Dritten Reiches
1962 Lewis Mumford The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects Die Stadt
1963 Leon Edel Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London
Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years
1964 Aileen Ward (Arts and Letters) John Keats: The Making of a Poet
William H. McNeill (History and Biography) The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
Christopher Tunnard (Science, Philosophy and Religion) Man-made America
Boris Pushkarev (Science, Philosophy and Religion)
1965 Eleanor Clark (Arts and Letters) The Oysters of Locmariaquer
Louis Fischer (History and Biography) The Life of Lenin Das Leben Lenins
Norbert Wiener (Science, Philosophy and Religion) God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion Gott & Golem, Inc.
1966 Janet Flanner (Arts and Letters) Paris Journal, 1944–1965 Pariser Tagebuch: 1945–1965
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr (History and Biography) A Thousand Days Die tausend Tage Kennedys
1967 Justin Kaplan (Arts and Letters) Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
Peter Gay (History and Biography) The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism
Oscar Lewis (Science, Philosophy and Religion) La Vida La vida
1968 William Troy (Arts and Letters) Selected Essays
George F. Kennan (History and Biography) Memoirs: 1925–1950 Memoiren eines Diplomaten
Jonathan Kozol (Science, Philosophy and Religion) Death at an Early Age
1969 Norman Mailer (Arts and Letters) The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History Heere aus der Nacht
Winthrop D. Jordan (History and Biography) White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812
Robert J. Lifton (The Sciences) Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima
1970 Lillian Hellman (Arts and Letters) An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir Eine unfertige Frau
T. Harry Williams (History and Biography) Huey Long
Erik H. Erikson (Philosophy and Religion) Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence Gandhis Wahrheit
1971 Francis Steegmuller (Arts and Letters) Cocteau: A Biography
James MacGregor Burns (History and Biography) Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
Raymond Phineas Stearns (The Sciences) Science in the British Colonies of America
1972 Charles Rosen (Arts and Letters) The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven Der klassische Stil
Joseph P. Lash (Biography) Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Private Papers
Stewart Brand (Contemporary Affairs) The Last Whole Earth Catalogue
Allan Nevins (History) Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863–1864 and The Organized War to Victory
Martin E. Marty (Philosophy and Religion) Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America
George L. Small (The Sciences) The Blue Whale
1973 Arthur M. Wilson (Arts and Letters) Diderot
James Thomas Flexner (Biography) George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793–1799
Frances FitzGerald (Contemporary Affairs) Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Robert Manson Myers (History) The Children of Pride
Isaiah Trunk (History) Judenrat
Sydney E. Ahlstrom (Philosophy and Religion) A Religious History of the American People
George B. Schaller (The Sciences) The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations
1974 Pauline Kael (Arts and Letters) Deeper into the Movies
John Leonard Clive (Biography/History) Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian
Douglas Day (Biography) Malcolm Lowry: A Biography
Murray Kempton (Contemporary Affairs) The Briar Patch
Maurice Natanson (Philosophy and Religion) Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks
S. E. Luria (The Sciences) The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations Leben, das unvollendete Experiment
1975 Roger Shattuck (Arts and Letters) Marcel Proust Marcel Proust
Lewis Thomas (Arts and Letters/The Sciences) The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher Das Leben überlebt
Theodore Rosengarten (Contemporary Affairs) All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
Bernard Bailyn (History) The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
Robert Nozick (Philosophy and Religion) Anarchy, State and Utopia Anarchie, Staat, Utopia
Silvano Arieti (The Sciences) Interpretation of Schizophrenia
1976 Paul Fussell (Arts and Letters) The Great War and Modern Memory
Michael J. Arlen (Contemporary Affairs) Passage to Ararat
David Brion Davis (History and Biography) The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823
1977 W. A. Swanberg (Biography and Autobiography) The Last Idealist
Bruno Bettelheim (Contemporary Thought) The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales Kinder brauchen Märchen
Irving Howe (History) World of Our Fathers
1978 W. Jackson Bate (Biography and Autobiography) Samuel Johnson
Gloria Emerson (Contemporary Thought) Winners & Losers
David McCullough (History) The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870–1914 Sie teilten die Erde
1979 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr (Biography and Autobiography) Robert Kennedy and His Times
Peter Matthiessen (Contemporary Thought) The Snow Leopard Auf der Spur des Schneeleoparden
Richard Beale Davis (History) Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585–1763
1980 Lauren Bacall (Autobiography, Hardcover) Lauren Bacall by Myself Mein Leben
Malcolm Cowley (Autobiography, Paperback) And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918–1978
Edmund Morris (Biography, Hardcover) The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
A. Scott Berg (Biography, Paperback) Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Julia Child (Current Interest, Hardcover) Julia Child and More Company
Christopher Lasch (Current Interest, Paperback) The Culture of Narcissism Das Zeitalter des Narzissmus
Tom Wolfe (General Nonfiction, Hardcover) The Right Stuff Die Helden der Nation
Peter Matthiessen (General Nonfiction, Paperback) The Snow Leopard Auf der Spur des Schneeleoparden
Elder Witt (General Reference Books, Hardcover) The Complete Directory
Tim Brooks (General Reference Books, Paperback) The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present
Earle Marsh (General Reference Books, Paperback)
Henry A. Kissinger (History, Hardcover) The White House Years Memoiren
Barbara W. Tuchman (History, Paperback) A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Der ferne Spiegel
Elaine Pagels (Religion/Inspiration, Hardcover) The Gnostic Gospels Versuchung durch Erkenntnis
Sheldon Vanauken (Religion/Inspiration, Paperback) A Severe Mercy Eine harte Gnade / Und wenn es doch wahr wäre?
Douglas R. Hofstadter (Science, Hardcover) Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Gödel, Escher, Bach – ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band
Gary Zukav (Science, Paperback) The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics Die tanzenden Wu-li-Meister
1981 Justin Kaplan (Autobiography/Biography, Hardcover) Walt Whitman
Deirdre Bair (Autobiography/Biography, Paperback) Samuel Beckett
Maxine Hong Kingston (General Nonfiction, Hardcover) China Men Die Söhne des Himmels
Jane Kramer (General Nonfiction, Paperback) The Last Cowboy
John Boswell (History, Hardcover) Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
Leon F. Litwak (History, Paperback) Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Stephen Jay Gould (Science, Hardcover) The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History Der Daumen des Panda
Lewis Thomas (Science, Paperback) The Medusa and the Snail Die Meduse und die Schnecke
1982 David McCullough (Autobiography/Biography, Hardcover) Mornings on Horseback
Ronald Steel (Autobiography/Biography, Paperback) Walter Lippmann and the American Century
Tracy Kidder (General Nonfiction, Hardcover) The Soul of a New Machine Die Seele einer neuen Maschine
Victor S. Navasky (General Nonfiction, Paperback) Naming Names
Father Peter John Powell (History, Hardcover) People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830–1879
Robert Wohl (History, Paperback) The Generation of 1914
Donald C. Johanson (Science, Hardcover) The Beginnings of Humankind
Maitland A. Edey (Science, Hardcover)
Fred Alan Wolf (Science, Paperback) Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists Der Quantensprung ist keine Hexerei
1983 Judith Thurman (Autobiography/Biography, Hardcover) Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller Tania Blixen. Ihr Leben und Werk
James R. Mellow (Autobiography/Biography, Paperback) Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times
Fox Butterfield (General Nonfiction, Hardcover) China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
James Fallows (General Nonfiction, Paperback) National Defense
Alan Brinkley (History, Hardcover) Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
Frank E. Manuel (History, Paperback) Utopian Thought in the Western World
Fritzie P. Manuel (History, Paperback)
Lisa Goldstein (Original Paperback) The Red Magician Der Rabbi und der Magier
Abraham Pais (Science, Hardcover) “Subtle is the Lord…”: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein „Raffiniert ist der Herrgott …“
Philip J. Davis (Science, Paperback) The Mathematical Experience Erfahrung Mathematik
Reuben Hersh (Science, Paperback)
1984 Robert V. Remini Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845
1985 J. Anthony Lukas Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
1986 Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams Arktische Träume
1987 Richard Rhode The Making of the Atom Bomb
1988 Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Die große Lüge: John Paul Vann und Amerika in Vietnam
1989 Thomas L. Friedman From Beirut to Jerusalem Von Beirut nach Jerusalem
1990 Ron Chernow The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
1991 Orlando Patterson Freedom
1992 Paul Monette Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story Coming Out
1993 Gore Vidal United States: Essays 1952–1992
1994 Sherwin B. Nuland How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter Wie wir sterben
1995 Tina Rosenberg The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism Die Rache der Geschichte
1996 James Carroll An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
1997 Joseph J. Ellis American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
1998 Edward Ball Slaves in the Family Die Plantagen am Cooper River
1999 John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
2000 Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Im Herzen der See
2001 Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Saturns Schatten
2002 Robert A. Caro Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
2003 Carlos Eire Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
2004 Kevin Boyle Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
2005 Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking Das Jahr magischen Denkens
2006 Timothy Egan The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
2007 Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA CIA: Die ganze Geschichte
2008 Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
2009 T. J. Stiles The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
2010 Patti Smith Just Kids Just Kids
2011 Stephen Greenblatt The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Die Wende
2012 Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Annawadi oder Der Traum von einem anderen Leben / Slum
2013 George Packer The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America Die Abwicklung
2014 Evan Osnos Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China Große Ambitionen
2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me Zwischen mir und der Welt
2016 Ibram X. Kendi Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Gebrandmarkt
2017 Masha Gessen The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Die Zukunft ist Geschichte
2018 Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
2019 Sarah M. Broom The Yellow House Das gelbe Haus: Leben und Überleben einer Familie in New Orleans
2020 Les Payne,
Tamara Payne
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
2021 Tiya Miles All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
2022 Imani Perry South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon To Understand the Soul of a Nation
2023 Ned Blackhawk The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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