1986 • Fiction -
Lake Wobegon Days, by
Garrison Keillor • Fiction -
The Accidental Tourist, by
Anne Tyler 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 • Special Citation -
The Story of English by
Robert McCrum,
William Cran and
Robert MacNeil 1988 • American Arts & Letters -
Collected Prose, by
Robert Lowell • American Studies -
Miami, by
Joan Didion • Biography & Autobiography -
Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright, by
Brendan Gill • Fiction -
The Bonfire of the Vanities, by
Tom Wolfe • Special Citation -
Blues by
John Hersey 1989 • American Arts & Letters -
At Home: Essays 1982-1988, by
Gore Vidal • American Studies -
A Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by
Neil Sheehan • Biography & Autobiography -
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963, by
Taylor Branch • Fiction - ''
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories'', by
Raymond Carver 1990 • American Arts & Letters -
The Writing Life, by
Annie Dillard • American Studies -
Among Schoolchildren, by
Tracy Kidder • Biography & Autobiography - ''
This Boy's Life: A Memoir'', by
Tobias Wolff • Fiction -
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, by
Allan Gurganus 1991 • American Arts & Letters -
The House of Barrymore, by
Margot Peters • American Studies -
A New York Life, by
Brendan Gill • Biography & Autobiography -
The House of Morgan, by
Ron Chernow • Fiction -
Killing Mr. Watson, by
Peter Matthiessen 1992 • American Arts & Letters -
The Journals of John Cheever, by
John Cheever • American Studies -
The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev : 1960 - 1963, by
Michael Beschloss • Biography & Autobiography -
Woodrow Wilson, by
August Heckscher • Fiction -
A Thousand Acres, by
Jane Smiley • Special Prize -
American Views: Essays on American Art by
John Wilmerding 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
Scott Donaldson • Fiction -
Outerbridge Reach, by
Robert Stone 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 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 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 • Special Award - ''
The Liar's Club'' by
Mary Karr 1997 • American Studies -
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West, by
Stephen E. Ambrose • Biography & Autobiography -
Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop- Guardians of the American Century, by
Robert W. Merry • Fiction -
In the Beauty of the Lilies, by
John Updike • Poetry -
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966 - 1996, by
Robert Pinsky 1998 • American Studies -
American Visions, by
Robert Hughes • Autobiography -
Burning the Days: Recollection, by
James Salter • Biography -
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by
Joseph Ellis • Fiction -
Underworld, by
Don DeLillo • Poetry -
Black Zodiac, by
Charles Wright 1999 • American Studies -
Slaves in the Family, by
Edward Ball • Biography & Autobiography -
N.C. Wyeth, by
David Michaelis • Fiction -
I Married a Communist, by
Philip Roth • Poetry -
The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, by
John Burt 2000 • American Studies -
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945, by
David M. Kennedy • Biography & Autobiography -
Morgan: American Financier, by
Jean Strouse • Fiction -
Close Range: Wyoming Stories, by
Annie Proulx • Literary Achievement -
The Best Short Stories of the Twentieth Century by
John Updike • Poetry -
Vita Nova, by
Louise Glück 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
2002 • American Studies -
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, by
Diane McWhorter • Biography & Autobiography -
John Adams, by
David McCullough • Lifetime Achievement -
Hortense Calisher • Fiction -
Empire Falls, by
Richard Russo • Poetry -
The Darkness and the Light, by
Anthony Hecht 2003 • Fiction -
Middlesex, by
Jeffrey Eugenides • American Studies - ''In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692'', by
Mary Beth Norton • Biography & Autobiography -
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, by
T. J. Stiles • Poetry -
Springing, New and Selected Poems, by
Marie Ponsot • Lifetime Achievement -
Edmund S. Morgan 2004 • American Studies -
They Marched into Sunlight, by
David Maraniss • Biography & Autobiography -
Hawthorne, A Life, by
Brenda Wineapple • Fiction -
The Time of Our Singing, by
Richard Powers • Poetry -
Robert Lowell: Collected Poems, edited by
Frank Bidart &
David Gewanter • Distinguished Achievement Award -
Robert A. Caro 2005 • American Studies - ''
Washington's Crossing'', by
David Hackett Fischer • Biography & Autobiography -
De Kooning: An American Master, by
Mark Stevens • Fiction -
Gilead, by
Marilynne Robinson • Poetry -
Collected Poems, by
Donald Justice 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 2007 • American Studies -
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, by
Timothy Egan • Autobiography -
The Afterlife: A Memoir, by
Donald Antrim • Biography -
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, by
Debby Applegate • Current Affairs -
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, by
Thomas E. Ricks • Fiction -
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, by
Amy Hempel • Poetry -
Averno, by
Louise Glück • Lifetime Achievement -
Garry Wills 2008 • American Studies -
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, by
Rebecca Solnit • Autobiography -
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties, by
Robert Stone • Biography -
Edith Wharton, by
Hermione Lee • Fiction -
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by
Mohsin Hamid • Poetry -
Blackbird and Wolf, by
Henri Cole • Lifetime Achievement -
John Ashbery 2009 • American Studies -
A Summer of Hummingbirds, by
Christopher Benfey • Biography and Autobiography -
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, by
Donald Worster • Current Affairs -
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, by
Jane Mayer • Fiction -
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories, by
Steven Millhauser • Poetry -
Old War, by
Alan Shapiro • Special Award -
Toni Morrison 2010 • American Studies -
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War, by
James Mann • American Studies -
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, by
Morris Dickstein • Biography and Autobiography -
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life, by
Melvin Urofsky • Fiction -
Let the Great World Spin, by
Colum McCann • Poetry -
Mercury Dressing, by
J. D. McClatchy • Special Distinction Award -
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, by
Robin D. G. Kelley 2011 • American Studies -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by
Rebecca Skloot • Biography and Autobiography -
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, by
Alan Brinkley • Fiction -
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg, by
Deborah Eisenberg • Poetry -
Every Riven Thing: Poems, by
Christian Wiman • Special Distinction Award -
The Memory Chalet, by
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