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Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:

  • In 1959 the award was known as Best Performance, Documentary or Spoken Word
  • From 1960 to 1961 it was awarded as Best Performance – Documentary or Spoken Word (other than comedy)
  • From 1962 to 1963 it was awarded as Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording (other than comedy)
  • From 1964 to 1965 it was awarded as Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (other than comedy)
  • In 1966 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording
  • From 1967 to 1968 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
  • From 1969 to 1979 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word Recording
  • From 1980 to 1983 it returned to the title of Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
  • From 1984 to 1991 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
  • From 1992 to 1997 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album
  • From 1998 to 2022 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word Album
  • From 2023 it will be awarded as Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.[1] Poetry reading now has its own Grammy category, Best Spoken Word Poetry Album.
Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording
Awarded forquality spoken word albums
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded1959
Currently held byMichelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times (2024)
Websitegrammy.com

This category now also includes audio books and story telling. Up to and including 2022, it also included poetry reading.

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for a recording released in the previous year.

Recipients edit

 
Stan Freberg was the first recipient of the award in 1959.
 
Carl Sandburg received the award in 1960.
 
Leonard Bernstein received the award in 1962.
 
Charles Laughton received the award in 1963.
 
Edward R. Murrow received the award in 1967.
 
Martin Luther King Jr. won the award posthumously in 1971 for Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam.
 
Richard Harris won the award in 1974.
 
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore won the award in 1975.
 
James Whitmore won the award in 1976.
 
Director Orson Welles received the award twice, in 1977 and 1979.
 
James Earl Jones received the award in 1977.
 
Sir John Gielgud received the award in 1980.
 
William Warfield received the award in 1984.
 
Actor Ben Kingsley won for The Words of Gandhi in 1985.
 
Garrison Keillor won the award in 1988.
 
1990 award winner, comedian Gilda Radner.
 
Comedian George Burns won the award in 1991.
 
Documentarian Ken Burns won in 1992.
 
Three-time winner, American poet Maya Angelou.
 
Hillary Clinton won the award in 1997.
 
LeVar Burton won the award in 2000.
 
Actor and director Sidney Poitier won the award for his autobiography The Measure of a Man in 2001.
 
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton won in 2005.
 
Two-time winner, former U.S. President Barack Obama.
 
Three-time winner, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
 
Jon Stewart won the award in 2005
 
2012 award winner, Betty White.
 
Comedian Stephen Colbert won in 2014.
 
Comedienne Joan Rivers won in 2015.
 
Comedienne Carol Burnett won in 2016
 
Carrie Fisher won the award posthumously in 2018.
 
Former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama won in 2020 and 2024.
 
Viola Davis won the award in 2023 achieving the EGOT

1950s edit

1960s edit

Year[I] Performing Artist Work
1960
[3]
Carl Sandburg A Lincoln Portrait
John Gielgud Ages of Man
Hal Holbrook Mark Twain Tonight
Basil Rathbone Basil Rathbone Reads Sherlock Holmes
Tony Schwartz New York Taxi Driver
1961
[4]
Robert Bialek (producer) FDR Speaks
Henry Fonda Voices of the Twentieth Century
John Gielgud Ages of Man, Vol. 2 (One Man in His Time)
Archibald MacLeish J.B.
1962
[5]
Leonard Bernstein Humor in Music
Hal Holbrook More of Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!
Dorothy Parker The World of Dorothy Parker
Carl Sandburg, Harlow Shapley, Jawaharlal Nehru & Jacques Lipchitz Wisdom, Vol. 1
Alexander Scourby The Coming of Christ
1963
[6]
Charles Laughton The Story-Teller ... A Session with Charles Laughton
Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry
Claude Rains & Glenn Gould Enoch Arden
Laurence Harvey This Is My Beloved
Stan Kenton Mama Sang a Song
1964
[7]
Melinda Dillon, George Grizzard, Uta Hagen & Arthur Hill Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Dane Clark, Anne Jackson, Lotte Lenya & Viveca Lindfors Brecht on Brecht
Martin Luther King Jr. with Joan Baez, Marian Anderson, Odetta, Rabbi Joachim Prinz & Bob Dylan We Shall Overcome (The March on Washington, August 28, 1963)
Goddard Lieberson, Pete Seeger, & others The Badmen
Norman Weiser & David Teig John F. Kennedy – The Presidential Years
1965
[8]
That Was the Week That Was Cast BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy
Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, John Gielgud, Alfred Drake, George Voskovec, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield & George Ross Hamlet
Richard Burton & Peter O'Toole Dialogue Highlights from Becket
Alec Guinness & Kate Reid Dylan
John F. Kennedy, David Brinkley & Adlai Stevenson The Kennedy Wit
1966
[9]
Goddard Lieberson, producer John F. Kennedy: As We Remember Him
Alec Guinness A Personal Choice
Chet Huntley & David Brinkley A Time to Keep: '64
National Theatre of Great Britain Much Ado About Nothing
Adlai Stevenson The Voice of the Uncommon Man
Margaret Webster The Brontes
1967
[10]
Edward R. Murrow A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I – The War Years
Lee J. Cobb & Mildred Dunnock Death of a Salesman
Johnny Sea Day for Decision
Buddy Starcher History Repeats Itself
1968
[11]
Everett Dirksen Gallant Men
James Dickey Poems of James Dickey
Hal Holbrook Mark Twain Tonight, Vol. 3
Patrick Magee & Cyril Cusack The Balcony
Rod McKuen The Earth
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller & Robert Shaw A Man For All Seasons
Victor Lundberg An Open Letter to My Teenage Son
1969
[12]
Rod McKuen Lonesome Cities
Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream
Paul Scofield Murder in the Cathedral
Martin Starkie The Canterbury Pilgrims

1970s edit

Year[I] Performing Artist Work
1970
[13]
Art Linkletter & Diane Linkletter We Love You, Call Collect
Walter Cronkite Man on the Moon
James Earl Jones The Great White Hope
1971
[14]
Martin Luther King Jr. Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam
Ambrose, Dryden, Hecht, Molloy, Carawan, La Farge & Seeger Poems and Ballads from 100-Plus American Poets
Apollo 8, 11 & 12 Astronauts, John F. Kennedy & Richard Nixon In the Beginning
Bill Cosby Grover Henson Feels Forgotten
Everett Dirksen Everett Dirksen's America
1972
[15]
Les Crane Desiderata
Richard Chamberlain Hamlet (a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation)
Walter Cronkite I Can Hear It Now/The Sixties
Stacy Keach, Robert Ryan & Geraldine Fitzgerald Long Day's Journey Into Night
James Whitmore Will Rogers' USA
1973
[16]
The Original Broadway Cast Lenny
Angela Davis Angela Davis Speaks
Rod McKuen The Word
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Yevtushenko
1974
[17]
Richard Harris Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Billie Holiday Songs and Conversations
Vincent Price Witches, Ghosts and Goblins
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse Five
John Wayne America, Why I Love Her
1975
[18]
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore Good Evening
Sam Ervin Senator Sam at Home
Rod McKuen Autumn
Eric Sevareid An Ear to the Sounds of Our History
1976
[19]
James Whitmore Give 'em Hell, Harry!
Alistair Cooke Talk About America
Richard Harris The Prophet
Claudia McNeil The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Maureen Stapleton To Kill a Mockingbird
Orson Welles Immortal Sherlock Holmes (Mercury Theatre on the Air)
1977
[20]
Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones & Orson Welles Great American Documents
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
Charlton Heston The Old Man and the Sea
James Mason A Tale of Two Cities
William Shatner Foundation: The Psychohistorians
1978
[21]
Julie Harris The Belle of Amherst
Alex Haley Alex Haley Tells the Story of His Search for Roots
Original Cast & Ntozake Shange For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Christopher Tolkien The Silmarillion
Harry Truman & Ben Gradus The Truman Tapes
1979
[22]
Orson Welles Citizen Kane (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Henry Fonda The Grapes of Wrath
Judith Anderson, Claire Bloom, James Mason, George Rose & Gordon Gould Wuthering Heights
Richard Nixon & David Frost The Nixon Interviews with David Frost
Various Artists Roots (Original Television Soundtrack)}}

1980s edit

Year[I] Performing Artist Work
1980
[23]
John Gielgud Ages of Man (Readings from Shakespeare)
Henry Fonda The Ox-Bow Incident
Jim Morrison An American Prayer
Ken Nordine Stare with Your Ears
Various Artists Apocalypse Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Orson Welles & Helen Hayes Orson Welles & Helen Hayes at Their Best
1981
[24]
Pat Carroll Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein
Mahalia Jackson I Sing Because I'm Happy, Vols. 1 and 2
Original Cast Adventures of Luke Skywalker: The Empire Strikes Back
Orson Welles Obediently Yours
Peter Ustinov James Thurber: A Curb In The Sky And Other Stories
1982
[25]
Orson Welles Donovan's Brain
E. G. Marshall Justice Holmes' Decisions
James Mason Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Paul McCartney & Vic Garbarini The McCartney Interview
Ed McMahon 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (from Christmas with Friends, featuring Ed McMahon, Doc Severinsen, and Tommy Newsom)
1983
[26]
Tom Voegeli Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Movie on Record
Roger Rees Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby
Isaac Asimov Foundation's Edge
John Gielgud & Ralph Richardson No Man's Land
Arthur C. Clarke 2010: Odyssey Two
1984
[27]
William Warfield Copland: Lincoln Portrait
Steve Allen & Jayne Meadows Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Home Computers
Jane Fonda & Femmy De Lyser Jane Fonda's Workout Record for Pregnancy, Birth and Recovery
John Gielgud & Irene Worth Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
1985
[28]
Ben Kingsley The Words of Gandhi
Jeremy Irons & Glenn Close The Real Thing (Broadway Cast)
Jesse Jackson Our Time Has Come
John Lennon & Yoko Ono Heart Play (Unfinished Dialogue)
1986
[29]
Mike Berniker, producer & the Broadway cast Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Alan Arkin Catch-22
Dick Cavett The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
John le Carré The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Philip Roth Zuckerman Bound
1987
[30]
Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins & Sam Phillips Interviews from the Class of '55 Recording Sessions
F. Murray Abraham Interview with the Vampire
Ray Bradbury The Stories of Ray Bradbury
Bill Cosby Hardheaded Boys
John Gielgud Gulliver (composed by Patrick Williams)
1988
[31]
Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon Days
Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall by Myself
Katharine Hepburn "Lincoln Portrait" (from Aaron Copland: Lincoln Portrait)
Leonard Nimoy Whales Alive
Leonard Nimoy & George Takei Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
1989
[32]
Jesse Jackson "Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson, July 27"
(from One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism)
John Cleese The Screwtape Letters
John Gielgud A Christmas Carol
Garrison Keillor & Various Artists A Prairie Home Companion: The 2nd Annual Farewell Performance
Jonathan Winters Winters' Tale

1990s edit

Year[I] Performing Artist Work
1990
[33]
Gilda Radner It's Always Something
Erma Bombeck I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise
Robert Fulghum All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
John Gielgud Sir John Gielgud Reads Alice in Wonderland
Jason Robards, Steve Allen, Douglas Edwards & Cast The War of the Worlds 50th Anniversary Production
1991
[34]
George Burns Gracie: A Love Story
Garrison Keillor A Prairie Home Companion: The 4th Annual Farewell Performance
John F. Kennedy Jr. Profiles in Courage
Kyle MacLachlan "Diane..." The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper
Jimmy Stewart Jimmy Stewart and His Poems
1992
[35]
Ken Burns The Civil War
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Katharine Hepburn Me: Stories of My Life
Charles Kuralt A Life on the Road
1993
[36]
Earvin "Magic" Johnson & Robert O'Keefe What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS
Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Garrison Keillor Stories
Ken Nordine Devout Catalyst
Patrick Stewart A Christmas Carol
Orson Welles & Peter Bogdanovich This Is Orson Welles
1994
[37]
Maya Angelou On the Pulse of Morning
Levar Burton Miles: The Autobiography
Arlo Guthrie Bound for Glory
Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
Emma Thompson Howards End
1995
[38]
Henry Rollins Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag
Kenneth Branagh & the Renaissance Theatre Company Hamlet
Ken Burns Baseball
Ben Kingsley Schindler's List
Gregory Peck The Bible (The New Testament)
1996
[39]
Maya Angelou Phenomenal Woman
Danny Glover Long Walk to Freedom
Garrison Keillor Guy Noir: Radio Private Eye
Leonard Nimoy I Am Spock
1997
[40]
Hillary Clinton It Takes a Village
Ed Asner, Ellen Burstyn, C. C. H. Pounder & Alfre Woodard Grow Old Along with Me, the Best Is Yet to Be
Lauren Bacall, Martin Landau, Jack Lemmon & Gregory Peck Harry S Truman: A Journey to Independence
Garrison Keillor The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Charles Kuralt Charles Kuralt's America
1998
[41]
Charles Kuralt Charles Kuralt's Spring
Maya Angelou Even the Stars Look Lonesome
Jimmy Carter Living Faith
Walter Cronkite A Reporter's Life
Jodie Foster Contact
1999
[42]
Christopher Reeve Still Me
Jimmy Carter The Virtues of Aging
David Holt & Bill Mooney Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends
Garrison Keillor Wobegon Boy
Toni Morrison Beloved

2000s edit

Year[I] Performing Artist Work
2000
[43]
LeVar Burton The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.
Nanci Griffith The Chieftains: The Authorized Biography (by John Glatt)
Merle Haggard Merle Haggard's My House of Memories
Frank McCourt 'Tis
Mandy Patinkin & Betty Buckley with Walter Cronkite The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain
2001
[44]
Sidney Poitier The Measure of a Man
Matt Dillon On the Road
Steve Martin Shopgirl
Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara Married to Laughter: A Love Story
Various artists including Kathleen Turner, Patrick Stewart & Al Pacino The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets
2002
[45]
Quincy Jones Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Jimmy Carter An Hour Before Daylight
Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon Summer 1956
Carl Reiner Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
Various artists including Rob Lowe, Noah Wyle, Joan Allen & Tom Brokaw and narrator Harry Smith War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
2003
[46]
Maya Angelou A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Tim Robbins The Great Gatsby
Robert Evans The Kid Stays in the Picture
Michael J. Fox Lucky Man
Christopher Reeve Nothing Is Impossible}}
2004
[47]
Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Don Cheadle Fear Itself
Hillary Clinton Living History
Nikki Giovanni The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection
Bill Maher When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden
2005
[48]
Bill Clinton My Life
Tyne Daly, John Lithgow, Joanne Rogers, Lily Tomlin & André Watts The World According to Mr. Rogers
David Holt & Zeb Holt Live & Kickin' at the National Storytelling Festival
Steve Martin The Pleasure of My Company
David Sedaris Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
2006
[49]
Barack Obama Dreams from My Father
George Carlin When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
Al Franken The Al Franken Show Party Album
Garrison Keillor The Adventures of Guy Noir
Sean Penn Chronicles: Volume One
2007
[50]
Jimmy Carter Our Endangered Values
Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee Ossie and Ruby
Al Franken The Truth (with Jokes)
Bill Maher New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
Bob Newhart I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!
2008
[51]
Barack Obama The Audacity of Hope
Alan Alda Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Maya Angelou Celebrations
Bill Clinton Giving
Jimmy Carter Sunday Mornings in Plains
2009
[52]
Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon & Blair Underwood An Inconvenient Truth
Steve Martin Born Standing Up
Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report cast I Am America (and So Can You!)
Sidney Poitier Life Beyond Measure
David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

2010s edit

Year[I] Performing Artist Work
2010
[53]
Michael J. Fox Always Looking Up
Yuri Rasovsky & Josh Stanton Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
Richard Dreyfuss & David Strathairn The Lincoln–Douglas Debates
Jonathan Winters A Very Special Time
Jimmy Carter We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land
Carrie Fisher Wishful Drinking
2011
[54]
Jon Stewart & The Daily Show Staff Earth (The Audiobook)
Woody Allen The Woody Allen Collection: Mere Anarchy, Side Effects, Without Feathers, Getting Even
Carol Burnett This Time Together
Craig Ferguson American on Purpose
Michael J. Fox A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future
Sarah Silverman The Bedwetter
2012
[55]
Betty White If You Ask Me (and of Course You Won't)
Tina Fey Bossypants
Nathan Burbank, Bryan Cumming, Dennis Scott & David Toledo Fab Fan Memories: The Beatles Bond
Dan Donohue & the Oregon Shakespeare Festival cast Hamlet
Val Kilmer & the Hollywood Theater of the Ear Cast The Mark of Zorro
2013
[56]
Janis Ian Society's Child
Scott Creswell & Dan Zitt, producers American Grown
Bill Clinton Back to Work
Rachel Maddow Drift
Ellen DeGeneres Seriously... I'm Kidding
2014
[57]
Stephen Colbert America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't
Carol Burnett Carrie and Me
Billy Crystal Still Foolin' Em
David Sedaris Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Pete Seeger The Storm King
2015
[58]
Joan Rivers Diary of a Mad Diva
James Franco Actors Anonymous
Jimmy Carter A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
John Waters Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
Elizabeth Warren A Fighting Chance
Gloria Gaynor We Will Survive: True Stories of Encouragement, Inspiration and the Power of Song
2016
[59]
Jimmy Carter A Full Life: Reflections at 90
Patti Smith Blood on Snow
Dick Cavett Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments and Assorted Hijinks
Janis Ian & Jean Smart Patience and Sarah
Amy Poehler Yes Please
2017
[60]
Carol Burnett In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
Elvis Costello Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Amy Schumer The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Patti Smith M Train
Various Artists Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
2018
[61]
Carrie Fisher The Princess Diarist
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Shelly Peiken Confessions of a Serial Songwriter
Bernie Sanders & Mark Ruffalo Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
2019
[62]
Jimmy Carter Faith: A Journey for All
Courtney B. Vance Accessory to War
David Sedaris Calypso
Questlove Creative Quest
Tiffany Haddish The Last Black Unicorn

2020s edit

Year[I] Performing Artist Work
2020
[63]
Michelle Obama Becoming
Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Scott Sherratt & Dan Zitt (producers) The Beastie Boys Book
Eric Alexandrakis Catatonia: 20 Years as a Two-Time Cancer Survivor
John Waters Mr. Know-It-All
Sekou Andrews & the String Theory Sekou Andrews & the String Theory
2021
[64]
Rachel Maddow Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
Flea Acid for the Children: A Memoir
Ken Jennings Alex Trebek — The Answer Is...
Ronan Farrow Catch and Kill
Meryl Streep (& Full Cast) Charlotte's Web
2022
[65]
Don Cheadle Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation from John Lewis
LeVar Burton Aftermath
J. Ivy Catching Dreams: Live at Fort Knox Chicago
Dave Chappelle & Amir Sulaiman 8:46
Barack Obama A Promised Land
2023
[66]
Viola Davis Finding Me
Mel Brooks All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
Jamie Foxx Act Like You Got Some Sense
Lin-Manuel Miranda Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
Questlove Music Is History
2024
[67]
Michelle Obama The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times
Meryl Streep Big Tree
William Shatner Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder
Rick Rubin The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Bernie Sanders It’s Ok to Be Angry About Capitalism

Multiple wins & nominations edit

The following individuals received two or more awards:

The following individuals received three or more nominations:

See also edit

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The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959 The award has had several minor name changes In 1959 the award was known as Best Performance Documentary or Spoken Word From 1960 to 1961 it was awarded as Best Performance Documentary or Spoken Word other than comedy From 1962 to 1963 it was awarded as Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording other than comedy From 1964 to 1965 it was awarded as Best Documentary Spoken Word or Drama Recording other than comedy In 1966 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording From 1967 to 1968 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word Documentary or Drama Recording From 1969 to 1979 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word Recording From 1980 to 1983 it returned to the title of Best Spoken Word Documentary or Drama Recording From 1984 to 1991 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Non Musical Recording From 1992 to 1997 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Non Musical Album From 1998 to 2022 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word Album From 2023 it will be awarded as Best Audio Book Narration amp Storytelling Recording 1 Poetry reading now has its own Grammy category Best Spoken Word Poetry Album Grammy Award for Best Audio Book Narration amp Storytelling RecordingAwarded forquality spoken word albumsCountryUnited StatesPresented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and SciencesFirst awarded1959Currently held byMichelle Obama The Light We Carry Overcoming In Uncertain Times 2024 Websitegrammy com This category now also includes audio books and story telling Up to and including 2022 it also included poetry reading Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out for a recording released in the previous year Contents 1 Recipients 1 1 1950s 1 2 1960s 1 3 1970s 1 4 1980s 1 5 1990s 1 6 2000s 1 7 2010s 1 8 2020s 2 Multiple wins amp nominations 3 See also 4 ReferencesRecipients edit nbsp Stan Freberg was the first recipient of the award in 1959 nbsp Carl Sandburg received the award in 1960 nbsp Leonard Bernstein received the award in 1962 nbsp Charles Laughton received the award in 1963 nbsp Edward R Murrow received the award in 1967 nbsp Martin Luther King Jr won the award posthumously in 1971 for Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam nbsp Richard Harris won the award in 1974 nbsp Peter Cook amp Dudley Moore won the award in 1975 nbsp James Whitmore won the award in 1976 nbsp Director Orson Welles received the award twice in 1977 and 1979 nbsp James Earl Jones received the award in 1977 nbsp Sir John Gielgud received the award in 1980 nbsp William Warfield received the award in 1984 nbsp Actor Ben Kingsley won for The Words of Gandhi in 1985 nbsp Garrison Keillor won the award in 1988 nbsp 1990 award winner comedian Gilda Radner nbsp Comedian George Burns won the award in 1991 nbsp Documentarian Ken Burns won in 1992 nbsp Three time winner American poet Maya Angelou nbsp Hillary Clinton won the award in 1997 nbsp LeVar Burton won the award in 2000 nbsp Actor and director Sidney Poitier won the award for his autobiography The Measure of a Man in 2001 nbsp Former U S President Bill Clinton won in 2005 nbsp Two time winner former U S President Barack Obama nbsp Three time winner former U S President Jimmy Carter nbsp Jon Stewart won the award in 2005 nbsp 2012 award winner Betty White nbsp Comedian Stephen Colbert won in 2014 nbsp Comedienne Joan Rivers won in 2015 nbsp Comedienne Carol Burnett won in 2016 nbsp Carrie Fisher won the award posthumously in 2018 nbsp Former U S First Lady Michelle Obama won in 2020 and 2024 nbsp Viola Davis won the award in 2023 achieving the EGOT1950s edit Year I Performing Artist Work1959 2 Stan Freberg The Best of the Stan Freberg ShowsMelvyn Douglas Vincent Price Carl Sandburg amp Ed Begley Great American SpeechesStan Freberg Green ChristmasElaine May amp Mike Nichols Improvisations to Music1960s edit Year I Performing Artist Work1960 3 Carl Sandburg A Lincoln PortraitJohn Gielgud Ages of ManHal Holbrook Mark Twain TonightBasil Rathbone Basil Rathbone Reads Sherlock HolmesTony Schwartz New York Taxi Driver1961 4 Robert Bialek producer FDR SpeaksHenry Fonda Voices of the Twentieth CenturyJohn Gielgud Ages of Man Vol 2 One Man in His Time Archibald MacLeish J B 1962 5 Leonard Bernstein Humor in MusicHal Holbrook More of Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight Dorothy Parker The World of Dorothy ParkerCarl Sandburg Harlow Shapley Jawaharlal Nehru amp Jacques Lipchitz Wisdom Vol 1Alexander Scourby The Coming of Christ1963 6 Charles Laughton The Story Teller A Session with Charles LaughtonCarl Sandburg Carl Sandburg Reading His PoetryClaude Rains amp Glenn Gould Enoch ArdenLaurence Harvey This Is My BelovedStan Kenton Mama Sang a Song1964 7 Melinda Dillon George Grizzard Uta Hagen amp Arthur Hill Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Dane Clark Anne Jackson Lotte Lenya amp Viveca Lindfors Brecht on BrechtMartin Luther King Jr with Joan Baez Marian Anderson Odetta Rabbi Joachim Prinz amp Bob Dylan We Shall Overcome The March on Washington August 28 1963 Goddard Lieberson Pete Seeger amp others The BadmenNorman Weiser amp David Teig John F Kennedy The Presidential Years1965 8 That Was the Week That Was Cast BBC Tribute to John F KennedyRichard Burton Hume Cronyn John Gielgud Alfred Drake George Voskovec Eileen Herlie William Redfield amp George Ross HamletRichard Burton amp Peter O Toole Dialogue Highlights from BecketAlec Guinness amp Kate Reid DylanJohn F Kennedy David Brinkley amp Adlai Stevenson The Kennedy Wit1966 9 Goddard Lieberson producer John F Kennedy As We Remember HimAlec Guinness A Personal ChoiceChet Huntley amp David Brinkley A Time to Keep 64National Theatre of Great Britain Much Ado About NothingAdlai Stevenson The Voice of the Uncommon ManMargaret Webster The Brontes1967 10 Edward R Murrow A Reporter Remembers Vol I The War YearsLee J Cobb amp Mildred Dunnock Death of a SalesmanJohnny Sea Day for DecisionBuddy Starcher History Repeats Itself1968 11 Everett Dirksen Gallant MenJames Dickey Poems of James DickeyHal Holbrook Mark Twain Tonight Vol 3Patrick Magee amp Cyril Cusack The BalconyRod McKuen The EarthPaul Scofield Wendy Hiller amp Robert Shaw A Man For All SeasonsVictor Lundberg An Open Letter to My Teenage Son1969 12 Rod McKuen Lonesome CitiesMartin Luther King Jr I Have a DreamPaul Scofield Murder in the CathedralMartin Starkie The Canterbury Pilgrims1970s edit Year I Performing Artist Work1970 13 Art Linkletter amp Diane Linkletter We Love You Call CollectWalter Cronkite Man on the MoonJames Earl Jones The Great White Hope1971 14 Martin Luther King Jr Why I Oppose the War in VietnamAmbrose Dryden Hecht Molloy Carawan La Farge amp Seeger Poems and Ballads from 100 Plus American PoetsApollo 8 11 amp 12 Astronauts John F Kennedy amp Richard Nixon In the BeginningBill Cosby Grover Henson Feels ForgottenEverett Dirksen Everett Dirksen s America1972 15 Les Crane DesiderataRichard Chamberlain Hamlet a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation Walter Cronkite I Can Hear It Now The SixtiesStacy Keach Robert Ryan amp Geraldine Fitzgerald Long Day s Journey Into NightJames Whitmore Will Rogers USA1973 16 The Original Broadway Cast LennyAngela Davis Angela Davis SpeaksRod McKuen The WordYevgeny Yevtushenko Yevtushenko1974 17 Richard Harris Jonathan Livingston SeagullBillie Holiday Songs and ConversationsVincent Price Witches Ghosts and GoblinsKurt Vonnegut Jr Slaughterhouse FiveJohn Wayne America Why I Love Her1975 18 Peter Cook amp Dudley Moore Good EveningSam Ervin Senator Sam at HomeRod McKuen AutumnEric Sevareid An Ear to the Sounds of Our History1976 19 James Whitmore Give em Hell Harry Alistair Cooke Talk About AmericaRichard Harris The ProphetClaudia McNeil The Autobiography of Miss Jane PittmanMaureen Stapleton To Kill a MockingbirdOrson Welles Immortal Sherlock Holmes Mercury Theatre on the Air 1977 20 Henry Fonda Helen Hayes James Earl Jones amp Orson Welles Great American DocumentsRay Bradbury Fahrenheit 451Charlton Heston The Old Man and the SeaJames Mason A Tale of Two CitiesWilliam Shatner Foundation The Psychohistorians1978 21 Julie Harris The Belle of AmherstAlex Haley Alex Haley Tells the Story of His Search for RootsOriginal Cast amp Ntozake Shange For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is EnufChristopher Tolkien The SilmarillionHarry Truman amp Ben Gradus The Truman Tapes1979 22 Orson Welles Citizen Kane Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Henry Fonda The Grapes of WrathJudith Anderson Claire Bloom James Mason George Rose amp Gordon Gould Wuthering HeightsRichard Nixon amp David Frost The Nixon Interviews with David FrostVarious Artists Roots Original Television Soundtrack 1980s edit Year I Performing Artist Work1980 23 John Gielgud Ages of Man Readings from Shakespeare Henry Fonda The Ox Bow IncidentJim Morrison An American PrayerKen Nordine Stare with Your EarsVarious Artists Apocalypse Now Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Orson Welles amp Helen Hayes Orson Welles amp Helen Hayes at Their Best1981 24 Pat Carroll Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude SteinMahalia Jackson I Sing Because I m Happy Vols 1 and 2Original Cast Adventures of Luke Skywalker The Empire Strikes BackOrson Welles Obediently YoursPeter Ustinov James Thurber A Curb In The Sky And Other Stories1982 25 Orson Welles Donovan s BrainE G Marshall Justice Holmes DecisionsJames Mason Vladimir Nabokov LolitaPaul McCartney amp Vic Garbarini The McCartney InterviewEd McMahon Twas the Night Before Christmas from Christmas with Friends featuring Ed McMahon Doc Severinsen and Tommy Newsom 1983 26 Tom Voegeli Raiders of the Lost Ark The Movie on RecordRoger Rees Charles Dickens Nicholas NicklebyIsaac Asimov Foundation s EdgeJohn Gielgud amp Ralph Richardson No Man s LandArthur C Clarke 2010 Odyssey Two1984 27 William Warfield Copland Lincoln PortraitSteve Allen amp Jayne Meadows Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Home ComputersJane Fonda amp Femmy De Lyser Jane Fonda s Workout Record for Pregnancy Birth and RecoveryJohn Gielgud amp Irene Worth Old Possum s Book of Practical Cats1985 28 Ben Kingsley The Words of GandhiJeremy Irons amp Glenn Close The Real Thing Broadway Cast Jesse Jackson Our Time Has ComeJohn Lennon amp Yoko Ono Heart Play Unfinished Dialogue 1986 29 Mike Berniker producer amp the Broadway cast Ma Rainey s Black BottomAlan Arkin Catch 22Dick Cavett The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnJohn le Carre The Spy Who Came in from the ColdPhilip Roth Zuckerman Bound1987 30 Johnny Cash Jerry Lee Lewis Chips Moman Ricky Nelson Roy Orbison Carl Perkins amp Sam Phillips Interviews from the Class of 55 Recording SessionsF Murray Abraham Interview with the VampireRay Bradbury The Stories of Ray BradburyBill Cosby Hardheaded BoysJohn Gielgud Gulliver composed by Patrick Williams 1988 31 Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon DaysLauren Bacall Lauren Bacall by MyselfKatharine Hepburn Lincoln Portrait from Aaron Copland Lincoln Portrait Leonard Nimoy Whales AliveLeonard Nimoy amp George Takei Star Trek IV The Voyage Home1989 32 Jesse Jackson Speech by Rev Jesse Jackson July 27 from One Lord One Faith One Baptism John Cleese The Screwtape LettersJohn Gielgud A Christmas CarolGarrison Keillor amp Various Artists A Prairie Home Companion The 2nd Annual Farewell PerformanceJonathan Winters Winters Tale1990s edit Year I Performing Artist Work1990 33 Gilda Radner It s Always SomethingErma Bombeck I Want to Grow Hair I Want to Grow Up I Want to Go to BoiseRobert Fulghum All I Really Need to Know I Learned in KindergartenJohn Gielgud Sir John Gielgud Reads Alice in WonderlandJason Robards Steve Allen Douglas Edwards amp Cast The War of the Worlds 50th Anniversary Production1991 34 George Burns Gracie A Love StoryGarrison Keillor A Prairie Home Companion The 4th Annual Farewell PerformanceJohn F Kennedy Jr Profiles in CourageKyle MacLachlan Diane The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent CooperJimmy Stewart Jimmy Stewart and His Poems1992 35 Ken Burns The Civil WarDouglas Adams The Hitchhiker s Guide to the GalaxyKatharine Hepburn Me Stories of My LifeCharles Kuralt A Life on the Road1993 36 Earvin Magic Johnson amp Robert O Keefe What You Can Do to Avoid AIDSFannie Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop CafeGarrison Keillor StoriesKen Nordine Devout CatalystPatrick Stewart A Christmas CarolOrson Welles amp Peter Bogdanovich This Is Orson Welles1994 37 Maya Angelou On the Pulse of MorningLevar Burton Miles The AutobiographyArlo Guthrie Bound for GloryPaul Newman amp Joanne Woodward Mr and Mrs BridgeEmma Thompson Howards End1995 38 Henry Rollins Get in the Van On the Road with Black FlagKenneth Branagh amp the Renaissance Theatre Company HamletKen Burns BaseballBen Kingsley Schindler s ListGregory Peck The Bible The New Testament 1996 39 Maya Angelou Phenomenal WomanDanny Glover Long Walk to FreedomGarrison Keillor Guy Noir Radio Private EyeLeonard Nimoy I Am Spock1997 40 Hillary Clinton It Takes a VillageEd Asner Ellen Burstyn C C H Pounder amp Alfre Woodard Grow Old Along with Me the Best Is Yet to BeLauren Bacall Martin Landau Jack Lemmon amp Gregory Peck Harry S Truman A Journey to IndependenceGarrison Keillor The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnCharles Kuralt Charles Kuralt s America1998 41 Charles Kuralt Charles Kuralt s SpringMaya Angelou Even the Stars Look LonesomeJimmy Carter Living FaithWalter Cronkite A Reporter s LifeJodie Foster Contact1999 42 Christopher Reeve Still MeJimmy Carter The Virtues of AgingDavid Holt amp Bill Mooney Spiders in the Hairdo Modern Urban LegendsGarrison Keillor Wobegon BoyToni Morrison Beloved2000s edit Year I Performing Artist Work2000 43 LeVar Burton The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr Nanci Griffith The Chieftains The Authorized Biography by John Glatt Merle Haggard Merle Haggard s My House of MemoriesFrank McCourt TisMandy Patinkin amp Betty Buckley with Walter Cronkite The Diaries of Adam amp Eve Translated by Mark Twain2001 44 Sidney Poitier The Measure of a ManMatt Dillon On the RoadSteve Martin ShopgirlJerry Stiller amp Anne Meara Married to Laughter A Love StoryVarious artists including Kathleen Turner Patrick Stewart amp Al Pacino The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets2002 45 Quincy Jones Q The Autobiography of Quincy JonesJimmy Carter An Hour Before DaylightGarrison Keillor Lake Wobegon Summer 1956Carl Reiner Letters from the Earth Uncensored Writings by Mark TwainVarious artists including Rob Lowe Noah Wyle Joan Allen amp Tom Brokaw and narrator Harry Smith War Letters Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars2003 46 Maya Angelou A Song Flung Up to HeavenTim Robbins The Great GatsbyRobert Evans The Kid Stays in the PictureMichael J Fox Lucky ManChristopher Reeve Nothing Is Impossible 2004 47 Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell ThemDon Cheadle Fear ItselfHillary Clinton Living HistoryNikki Giovanni The Nikki Giovanni Poetry CollectionBill Maher When You Ride Alone You Ride with bin Laden2005 48 Bill Clinton My LifeTyne Daly John Lithgow Joanne Rogers Lily Tomlin amp Andre Watts The World According to Mr RogersDavid Holt amp Zeb Holt Live amp Kickin at the National Storytelling FestivalSteve Martin The Pleasure of My CompanyDavid Sedaris Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim2006 49 Barack Obama Dreams from My FatherGeorge Carlin When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops Al Franken The Al Franken Show Party AlbumGarrison Keillor The Adventures of Guy NoirSean Penn Chronicles Volume One2007 50 Jimmy Carter Our Endangered ValuesOssie Davis amp Ruby Dee Ossie and RubyAl Franken The Truth with Jokes Bill Maher New Rules Polite Musings from a Timid ObserverBob Newhart I Shouldn t Even Be Doing This 2008 51 Barack Obama The Audacity of HopeAlan Alda Things I Overheard While Talking to MyselfMaya Angelou CelebrationsBill Clinton GivingJimmy Carter Sunday Mornings in Plains2009 52 Beau Bridges Cynthia Nixon amp Blair Underwood An Inconvenient TruthSteve Martin Born Standing UpStephen Colbert and The Colbert Report cast I Am America and So Can You Sidney Poitier Life Beyond MeasureDavid Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames2010s edit Year I Performing Artist Work2010 53 Michael J Fox Always Looking UpYuri Rasovsky amp Josh Stanton Dashiell Hammett s The Maltese FalconRichard Dreyfuss amp David Strathairn The Lincoln Douglas DebatesJonathan Winters A Very Special TimeJimmy Carter We Can Have Peace in the Holy LandCarrie Fisher Wishful Drinking2011 54 Jon Stewart amp The Daily Show Staff Earth The Audiobook Woody Allen The Woody Allen Collection Mere Anarchy Side Effects Without Feathers Getting EvenCarol Burnett This Time TogetherCraig Ferguson American on PurposeMichael J Fox A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the FutureSarah Silverman The Bedwetter2012 55 Betty White If You Ask Me and of Course You Won t Tina Fey BossypantsNathan Burbank Bryan Cumming Dennis Scott amp David Toledo Fab Fan Memories The Beatles BondDan Donohue amp the Oregon Shakespeare Festival cast HamletVal Kilmer amp the Hollywood Theater of the Ear Cast The Mark of Zorro2013 56 Janis Ian Society s ChildScott Creswell amp Dan Zitt producers American GrownBill Clinton Back to WorkRachel Maddow DriftEllen DeGeneres Seriously I m Kidding2014 57 Stephen Colbert America Again Re becoming The Greatness We Never Weren tCarol Burnett Carrie and MeBilly Crystal Still Foolin EmDavid Sedaris Let s Explore Diabetes with OwlsPete Seeger The Storm King2015 58 Joan Rivers Diary of a Mad DivaJames Franco Actors AnonymousJimmy Carter A Call to Action Women Religion Violence and PowerJohn Waters Carsick John Waters Hitchhikes Across AmericaElizabeth Warren A Fighting ChanceGloria Gaynor We Will Survive True Stories of Encouragement Inspiration and the Power of Song2016 59 Jimmy Carter A Full Life Reflections at 90Patti Smith Blood on SnowDick Cavett Brief Encounters Conversations Magic Moments and Assorted HijinksJanis Ian amp Jean Smart Patience and SarahAmy Poehler Yes Please2017 60 Carol Burnett In Such Good Company Eleven Years of Laughter Mayhem and Fun in the SandboxElvis Costello Unfaithful Music amp Disappearing InkAmy Schumer The Girl with the Lower Back TattooPatti Smith M TrainVarious Artists Under the Big Black Sun A Personal History of L A Punk2018 61 Carrie Fisher The Princess DiaristBruce Springsteen Born to RunShelly Peiken Confessions of a Serial SongwriterBernie Sanders amp Mark Ruffalo Our Revolution A Future to Believe InNeil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysics for People in a Hurry2019 62 Jimmy Carter Faith A Journey for AllCourtney B Vance Accessory to WarDavid Sedaris CalypsoQuestlove Creative QuestTiffany Haddish The Last Black Unicorn2020s edit Year I Performing Artist Work2020 63 Michelle Obama BecomingMichael Diamond Adam Horovitz Scott Sherratt amp Dan Zitt producers The Beastie Boys BookEric Alexandrakis Catatonia 20 Years as a Two Time Cancer SurvivorJohn Waters Mr Know It AllSekou Andrews amp the String Theory Sekou Andrews amp the String Theory2021 64 Rachel Maddow Blowout Corrupted Democracy Rogue State Russia and the Richest Most Destructive Industry on EarthFlea Acid for the Children A MemoirKen Jennings Alex Trebek The Answer Is Ronan Farrow Catch and KillMeryl Streep amp Full Cast Charlotte s Web2022 65 Don Cheadle Carry On Reflections for a New Generation from John LewisLeVar Burton AftermathJ Ivy Catching Dreams Live at Fort Knox ChicagoDave Chappelle amp Amir Sulaiman 8 46Barack Obama A Promised Land2023 66 Viola Davis Finding MeMel Brooks All About Me My Remarkable Life in Show BusinessJamie Foxx Act Like You Got Some SenseLin Manuel Miranda Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the WorldQuestlove Music Is History2024 67 Michelle Obama The Light We Carry Overcoming In Uncertain TimesMeryl Streep Big TreeWilliam Shatner Boldly Go Reflections on a Life of Awe and WonderRick Rubin The Creative Act A Way of BeingBernie Sanders It s Ok to Be Angry About CapitalismMultiple wins amp nominations editThe following individuals received two or more awards Wins Person3 Maya AngelouJimmy Carter2 Barack ObamaMichelle ObamaOrson WellesThe following individuals received three or more nominations Nominations Person10 John Gielgud9 Jimmy Carter7 Orson Welles5 Maya Angelou4 Walter Cronkite3 Carol BurnettBarack ObamaJames Earl JonesJames MasonSee also editGrammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for ChildrenReferences edit Grammys Add New Awards Songwriter of the Year Song for Social Change More 9 June 2022 Grammy Award Nominees 1959 May Grammy Award Winners 1959 May www awardsandshows com Retrieved May 9 2017 Grammy Awards 1959 IndiaServer Retrieved May 9 2017 Grammy Awards 1961 IndiaServer Retrieved May 9 2017 Grammy Award Nominees 1962 Grammy Award Winners 1962 www awardsandshows com Archived from the original on June 2 2016 Retrieved May 9 2017 Grammy Award Nominees 1963 Grammy Award Winners 1963 www awardsandshows com Archived from the original on December 7 2016 Retrieved May 9 2017 Grammy Award Nominees 1964 Grammy Award Winners 1964 www awardsandshows com Retrieved May 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