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Ambassador Book Award

October 30, 2023

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.

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

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).

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References edit

  1. ^ . Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
  2. ^ Houghton Mifflin list of awards won by Philip Roth

External links edit

  • , official website.

October 30, 2023
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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 Ambassador Book AwardAwarded forLiterary and non fiction worksCountryUnited StatesPresented byEnglish Speaking UnionFirst awarded1986The 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 edit1986 Fiction Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor Fiction The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler1987 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 amp 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 MacNeil1988 American Arts amp Letters Collected Prose by Robert Lowell American Studies Miami by Joan Didion Biography amp 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 Hersey1989 American Arts amp 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 amp Autobiography Parting the Waters America in the King Years 1954 1963 by Taylor Branch Fiction Where I m Calling From New amp Selected Stories by Raymond Carver1990 American Arts amp Letters The Writing Life by Annie Dillard American Studies Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder Biography amp Autobiography This Boy s Life A Memoir by Tobias Wolff Fiction Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus1991 American Arts amp Letters The House of Barrymore by Margot Peters American Studies A New York Life by Brendan Gill Biography amp Autobiography The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow Fiction Killing Mr Watson by Peter Matthiessen1992 American Arts amp Letters The Journals of John Cheever by John Cheever American Studies The Crisis Years Kennedy and Khrushchev 1960 1963 by Michael Beschloss Biography amp Autobiography Woodrow Wilson by August Heckscher Fiction A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Special Prize American Views Essays on American Art by John Wilmerding1993 American Arts amp Letters Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell American Studies Lincoln at Gettysburg The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills Biography amp Autobiography Archibald MacLeish An American Life by Scott Donaldson Fiction Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone1994 American Studies Around the Cragged Hill A Personal and Political Philosophy by George F Kennan Biography amp 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 amp Other Poems by John Hollander1995 American Studies Speak Now Against the Day The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South by John Egerton Biography amp 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 Howard1996 American Studies Moving Violations War Zones Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence by John Hockenberry Biography amp 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 Karr1997 American Studies Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E Ambrose Biography amp 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 Pinsky1998 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 Wright1999 American Studies Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball Biography amp 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 Burt2000 American Studies Freedom from Fear The American People in Depression and War 1929 1945 by David M Kennedy Biography amp 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 Gluck2001 American Studies In the Heart of the Sea The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick Biography amp 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 Perloff2002 American Studies Carry Me Home Birmingham Alabama the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter Biography amp Autobiography John Adams by David McCullough Lifetime Achievement Hortense Calisher Fiction Empire Falls by Richard Russo Poetry The Darkness and the Light by Anthony Hecht2003 Fiction Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides American Studies In the Devil s Snare The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton Biography amp 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 Morgan2004 American Studies They Marched into Sunlight by David Maraniss Biography amp 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 amp David Gewanter Distinguished Achievement Award Robert A Caro2005 American Studies Washington s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer Biography amp Autobiography De Kooning An American Master by Mark Stevens Fiction Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Poetry Collected Poems by Donald Justice2006 American Studies A Great Improvisation Franklin France and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff Biography amp 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 Merwin2007 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 Gluck Lifetime Achievement Garry Wills2008 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 Ashbery2009 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 Morrison2010 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 Kelley2011 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 Tony JudtReferences edit John Updike bio and awards at American Literature Web Resources Archived from the original on 2008 07 04 Retrieved 2008 08 08 Houghton Mifflin list of awards won by Philip RothExternal links editAmbassador Book Award official website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ambassador Book Award amp oldid 1141443270, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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