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Awards: National Book Award for Nonfiction
Updated: 06/23/08

Year Title Author Call Number Location
2007 Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Tim Weiner JK 468 .I6  W44 2007 Books
2006 The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Timothy Egan F595.E38 2006 Books
2005 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion  PS3554 .I33 Z63 2005 Books
2004 Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age Kevin Boyle KF224.S8 B69 2004 Books
2003 Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy Carlos M. N. Eire E184.C97 E37 2003 Books
2002 Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert A. Caro E847 .C34 1982  Books
2001 The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Andrew Solomon RC537 .S598 2001 Books
2000 In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Nathaniel Philbrick G530 .E76 2000 Books
1999 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II John W. Dower DS889 .D69 1999 Books
1998 Slaves in the Family Edward Ball F279.C453 A2 1998 Books
1997 American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson Joseph J. Ellis E332.2 .E45 1997 Books
1996 An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us James Carroll PS3553.A764 Z464 1996 Books
1995 The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism Tina Rosenberg DJK51 .R67 1995 Books
1994 How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter Sherwin B. Nuland BD444 .N85 1994  Books
1993 United States: Essays, 1952-1992 Gore Vidal PS3543.I26 U55 1995 Books
1992 Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story Paul Monette HQ75.8.M64 A3 1992 Books
1991 Freedom in the Making of Western Culture Orlando Patterson JC585 .P32 1991 vol. 1 Books
1990 The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance Ron Chernow HG2613.N54 M6613 1990  Books
1989 From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas L. Friedman DS119.7 .F736 1989 Books
1988 A Bright and Shining Lie Neil Sheehan DS558 .S47 1988 Books
1987 The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes QC773 .R46 1986 Books
1986 Artic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape Barry Lopez QH 106.2 .N55 1986 Books
1985 Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families J. Anthony Lukas F73.9.A1 L85 1986 Books
1984 Andrew Jackson, vol 3: The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 Robert Vincent Remini E 382 .R4 1998 Books 
1983 China, Alive in a Bitter Sea Fox Butterfield DS706 .B79 1982 Books
1982 The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder QA 76.17 .K53 1997 Books 
1981 China Men Maxine H Kingston E 184 .C5 K5 1989 Books
1980 The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe Not at STL 1-4-06  
1979 The Snow Leopard Peter Matthiessen QH193.H5 M37 1978 Books
1978 Winners & Losers Gloria Emerson DS558.2 .E46 1976  Books
1977 The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales Bruno Bettelheim GR550 .B47 1976 Books
1976 The Great War and Modern Memory Paul Fussell PR478.E8 F8 2000  Books
1975 The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher Lewis Thomas QH331 .T45 1974 Books
1974 Deeper into Movies Pauline Kael Not at STL 1-4-06  
1973 Diderot Arthur M Wilson PQ1979 .W52 Books
1972 The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven Charles Rosen ML195 .R68 1972  Books
1971 Cocteau: A Biography Francis Steegmuller Not at STL 1-4-06  
1970 An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir Lillian Hellman PS3515.E343 Z5 1969  Books
1969 Armies of the Night: History as a Novel/ the Novel as History Norman Mailer PS3525.A4152 A8 Books
1968 William Troy: Selected Essays William Troy PN710 .T76 1967 Books
1967 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography Justin Kaplan Not at STL 1-4-06  
1966 Paris Journal 1944-1965 Janet Flanner DC737 .F55 1977 Books
1965 The Oysters of Locmariaquer Eleanor Clark Not at STL 1-4-06  
1964 Jon Keats: The Making of a Poet Aileen Ward PR4836 .W3 1963 Books
1963 Henry James, a Life Leon Edel Not at STL 1-4-06  
1962 The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects Lewis Mumford HT111 .M8 1989 Books
1961 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer DD256.5 .S48 1960b Books
1960 James Joyce Richard Ellman PR6019 .O9 .Z5332 1982  Books
1959 Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael J. Christopher Herold DC146.S7 H44 1958 Books
1958 Lion & the Throne Catherine D Bowen DA390.1 .C7 B6 1957  
1957 Soviet American Relations 1917 – 1920, v. 1: Russia Leaves the War George F Kennan E 183.8 .R9 K4 v.1 Books 
1956 American in Italy Herbert Kubly Not at STL 1-4-06  
1955 The Measure of Man Joseph Wood Krutch B804 .K68 1962  Books
1954 A Stillness at Appomattox Bruce Catton E470.2 .C39 1953 Books
1953 The Course of Empire Bernard De Voto E179.5 .D4 Books
1952 The Sea Around Us Rachel L. Carson GC21 .C3  Books
1951 Herman Melville Newton Arvin PS2386 .M531 1966 Books
1950 Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Rusk PS1631 .R78 1949 Books
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