Fiction
2007: The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
2006: March
by Geraldine Brooks
2005: Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
2004: The Known
World by Edward P. Jones
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey
Eugenides
2002: Empire
Falls by Richard Russo
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
General Nonfiction
2007: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
2006: Imperial Reckoning:
The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline
Elkins
2005: Ghost Wars: The
Secret History of The CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the
Soviet by Steve Coll
2004: Gulag: A
History by Anne Applebaum
2003: A Problem from Hell:
America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
2002: Carry Me Home:
Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights
Revolution by Diane McWhorter
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
Biography
2007: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
2006: American Prometheus:
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and
Martin J. Sherwin
2005: De Kooning: An
American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn
Swan
2004: Khrushchev: The Man
and His Era by William Taubman
2003: Master of the Senate:
The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A.
Caro
2002: John
Adams by David McCullough
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
History
2007: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2006: Polio: An American
Story by David M. Oshinsky
2005: Washington's
Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2004: A Nation Under Our
Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great
Migration by Steven Hahn
2003: An Army at Dawn: The
War in Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
2002: The Metaphysical
Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis
Menand
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
Drama
2007: Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire
2006:
No award
given.
2005: Doubt
by John Patrick Shanley
2004: I Am My Own
Wife by Doug Wright
2003: Anna in the
Tropics by Nilo Cruz
2002: Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori
Parks
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
1994: Three Tall Women
by Edward Albee
1993: Angels in
America by Tony Kushner
1992: The Kentucky Cycle
by 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
Poetry
2007: Native Guard by Natasha Tretheway
2006: Late
Wife by Claudia Emerson
2005: Delights and
Shadows by Ted Kooser
2004: Walking to Martha's
Vineyard by Franz Wright
2003: Moy Sand and
Gravel by Paul Muldoon
2002: Practical
Gods by Carl Dennis
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 Field 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
by
Mona Van Duyn
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
