Ambassador Book Award

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Ambassador Book Award
Awarded forLiterary and non-fiction works
CountryUnited States
Presented byEnglish-Speaking Union
First awarded1986

The Ambassador Book Award (1986–2011) was presented annually by the English-Speaking Union. It recognized important literary and non-fiction works that contributed to the understanding and interpretation of American life and culture. Winners of the award were considered literary ambassadors who provide, in the best contemporary English, an important window on America to the rest of the world. A panel of judges selected books out of new works in the fields of fiction, biography, autobiography, current affairs, American studies and poetry.

The award was established in 1986. Winners included books by such notable authors as Tom Wolfe (1988), Joan Didion (1988), Raymond Carver (1989), Gore Vidal (1989), John Cheever (1992), John Updike (1997),[1] Don Delillo (1998), Philip Roth (1999),[2] and Annie Proulx (2000).

Recipients[]

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

  • American Studies - A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, by Stacy Schiff
  • Biography & Autobiography - American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
  • Fiction - Liberation: A Novel, by Joanna Scott
  • Poetry - Migration, by W.S. Merwin

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

  • American Studies - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Biography & Autobiography - The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, by David Nasaw
  • Lifetime Achievement - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  • Fiction - Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks, by Russell Banks
  • Poetry - American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, 2 vols., by Hass, Hollander, Kizer, Mackey, Perloff

2000

1999

1998

1997

1996

  • American Studies - Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence, by John Hockenberry
  • Biography & Autobiography - Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, by David S. Reynolds
  • Fiction - All the Days and Nights, by William Maxwell
  • Poetry - Atlantis, by Mark Doty

1995

  • American Studies - Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South, by John Egerton
  • Biography & Autobiography - No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Fiction - The Collected Stories, by Grace Paley
  • Poetry - Like Most Revelations, by Richard Howard

1994

  • American Studies - Around the Cragged Hill A Personal and Political Philosophy, by George F. Kennan
  • Biography & Autobiography - W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919, by David Levering Lewis
  • Fiction - The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court, by Peter Taylor
  • Poetry - Tesserae & Other Poems, by John Hollander

1993

  • American Arts & Letters - Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell
  • American Studies - Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, by Garry Wills
  • Biography & Autobiography - Archibald MacLeish: An American Life, by
  • Fiction - Outerbridge Reach, by Robert Stone

1992

1991

1990

1989

1988

1987

  • American Studies - Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures, by Frances FitzGerald
  • American Studies - The Cycles of American History, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr
  • Biography & Autobiography - The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America, by Arnold Rampersad
  • Fiction - Roger's Version, by John Updike

1986

References[]

  1. ^ "John Updike bio and awards at American Literature Web Resources". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
  2. ^ Houghton Mifflin list of awards won by Philip Roth

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