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| 1950 |
Ralph L. Rusk |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 1951 |
Newton Arvin |
Herman Melville |
| 1952 |
Rachel Carson |
The Sea Around Us |
| 1953 |
Bernard A. De Voto |
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 |
Misterss to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael |
| 1960 |
Richard Ellmann |
James Joyce |
| 1961 |
William L. Shirer |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| 1962 |
Lewis Mumford |
The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects |
| 1963 |
Leon Edel |
Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London; Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years |
| 1964 |
Aileen Ward |
John Keats: The Making of a Poet |
| 1964 |
William H. McNeill |
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community |
| 1964 |
Christopher Tunnard & Boris Pushkarev |
Man-made America |
| 1965 |
Eleanor Clark |
Oysters of Lockmariaquer |
| 1965 |
Louis Fischer |
The Life of Lenin |
| 1965 |
Norbert Wiener |
God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion |
| 1966 |
Janet Flanner |
Paris Journal, 1944-1965 |
| 1966 |
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr |
A Thousand Days |
| 1967 |
Justin Kaplan |
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography |
| 1967 |
Peter Gay |
The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism |
| 1967 |
Oscar Lewis |
La Vida |
| 1968 |
William Troy |
Selected Essays |
| 1968 |
George F. Kennan |
Memoirs: 1925-1950 |
| 1968 |
Jonathan Kozol |
Death at an Early Age |
| 1969 |
Norman Mailer |
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History |
| 1969 |
Winthrop D. Jordan |
White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 |
| 1969 |
Robert J. Lifton |
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima |
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| 1980 Hardcover |
Tom Wolfe |
The Right Stuff |
| 1980 Paperback |
Peter Matthiessen |
The Snow Leopard |
| 1981 Hardcover |
Maxine Hong Kingston |
China Men |
| 1981 Paperback |
Jane Kramer |
The Last Cowboy |
| 1982 Hardcover |
Tracy Kidder |
The Soul of a New Machine |
| 1982 Paperback |
Victor S. Navasky |
Naming Names |
| 1983 Hardcover |
Fox Butterfield |
China: Alive in the Bitter Sea |
| 1983 Paperback |
James Fallows |
National Defense |
| 1984 |
Robert V. Remini |
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 |
| 1985 |
J. Anthony Lukas |
Common Ground: A Turbulate Decade in the Lives of Three American Families |
| 1986 |
Barry Lopez |
Arctic Dreams |
| 1987 |
Richard Rhodes |
The Making of the Atom Bomb |
| 1988 |
Neil Sheehan |
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
| 1989 |
Thomas L. Friedman |
From Beirut to 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 |
| 1993 |
Gore Vidal |
United States: Essays 1952-1992 |
| 1994 |
Sherwin B. Nuland |
How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter |
| 1995 |
Tina Rosenberg |
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism |
| 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 |
| 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 Waleship Essex |
| 2001 |
Andrew Solomon |
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression |
| 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 |
| 1950 |
William Carlos Williams |
Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems |
| 1951 |
Wallace Stevens |
The Auroras of Autumn |
| 1952 |
Marianne Moore |
Collected Poems |
| 1953 |
Archibald MacLeish |
Collected Poems, 1917-1952 |
| 1954 |
Conrad Aiken |
Collected Poems |
| 1955 |
Wallace Stevens |
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens |
| 1956 |
W. H. Auden |
The Shield of Achilles |
| 1957 |
Richard Wilbur |
Things of the World |
| 1958 |
Robert Penn Warren |
Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 |
| 1959 |
Theodore Roethke |
Words for the Wind |
| 1960 |
Robert Lowell |
Life Studies |
| 1961 |
Randall Jarrell |
The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
| 1962 |
Alan Dugan |
Poems |
| 1963 |
William Stafford |
Traveling Through the Dark |
| 1964 |
John Crowe Ransom |
Selected Poems |
| 1965 |
Theodore Roethke |
The Far Field |
| 1966 |
James Dickey |
Buckdancer's Choice: Poems |
| 1967 |
James Merrill |
Nights and Days |
| 1968 |
Robert Bly |
The Light Around the Body |
| 1969 |
John Berryman |
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest |
| 1970 |
Elizabeth Bishop |
The Complete Poems |
| 1971 |
Mona Van Duyn |
To See, To Take |
| 1972 |
Howard Moss |
Selected Poems |
| 1972 |
Frank O'Hara |
The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara |
| 1973 |
A. R. Ammons |
Collected Poems, 1951-1971 |
| 1974 |
Allen Ginsberg |
The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 |
| 1974 |
Adrienne Rich |
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 |
| 1975 |
Marilyn Hacker |
Presentation Piece |
| 1976 |
John Ashbery |
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror |
| 1977 |
Richard Eberhart |
Collected Poems, 1930-1976 |
| 1978 |
Howard Nemerov |
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov |
| 1979 |
James Merrill |
Mirabell: Book of Numbers |
| 1980 |
Philip Levine |
Ashes |
| 1981 |
Lisel Mueller |
The Need to Hold Still |
| 1982 |
William Bronk |
Life Supports: New and Collected Poems |
| 1983 |
Galway Kinnell |
Selected Poems |
| 1983 |
Charles Wright |
Country Music: Selected Early Poems |
| 1991 |
Philip Levine |
What Work Is |
| 1992 |
Mary Oliver |
New & Selected Poems |
| 1993 |
A. R. Ammons |
Garbage |
| 1994 |
James Tate |
A Worshipful Company of Fletchers |
| 1995 |
Stanley Kunitz |
Passing Through: The Later Poems |
| 1996 |
Hayden Carruth |
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey |
| 1997 |
William Meredith |
Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems |
| 1998 |
Gerald Stern |
This Time: New and Selected Poems |
| 1999 |
Ai |
Vice: New & Selected Poems |
| 2000 |
Lucille Clifton |
Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry |
| 2001 |
Alan Dugan |
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 |
| 2002 |
Ruth Stone |
In the Next Galaxy |
| 2003 |
C.K. Williams |
The Singing |
| 2004 |
Jean Valentine |
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 |
| 2005 |
W. S. Merwin |
Migration |
