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| Year | FICTION | DRAMA | HISTORY | BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY | GENERAL NON-FICTION |
| 2005 | Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) | Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley | Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press) | de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Alfred A. Knopf) | Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (The Penguin Press) |
| 2004 | The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins) | I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright | A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman (W.W. Norton) | Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday) |
| 2003 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) | Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz | An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt and Company) | Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro (Alfred A. Knopf) | "A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (Basic Books) |
| 2002 | Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf) | Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks | The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | John Adams by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) | Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (Simon & Schuster) |
| 2001 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House) | Proof by David Auburn | Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf) | W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt and Company | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (HarperCollins) |
| 2000 | Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin) | Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies | Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy (Oxford University Press | Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff (Random House) | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower (W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press) |
| 1999 | The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | Wit by Margaret Edson | Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (Oxford University Press) | Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg (G.P. Putnam's Sons) | Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| 1998 | American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) | How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel | Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson (BasicBooks) | Personal History by Katharine Graham (Alfred A. Knopf) | Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton |
| 1997 | Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown) | (No Award) | Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove (Alfred A. Knopf) | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (Scribner) | Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1996 | Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf) | Rent by the late Jonathan Larson | William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) | God: A Biography by Jack Miles (Alfred A. Knopf) | The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg (Random House) |
| 1995 | The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking) | The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote | No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster) | Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick (Oxford University Press) | The Beak Of The Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| 1994 | The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons) | Three Tall Women by Edward Albee | (No Award) | W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt) | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire by David Remnick (Random House) |
| 1993 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt) | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner | The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood (Alfred A. Knopf) | Truman by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster) |
| 1992 | A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) | The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan | The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr. (Oxford University Press) | Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet by Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (Grove Weidenfeld) | The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin (Simon & Schuster) |
| 1991 | Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf) | Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon | A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Alfred A. Knopf) | Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Clarkson N. Potter) | The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson (Belknap/Harvard University Press) |
| 1990 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) | The Piano Lesson by August Wilson | In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow (Random House) | Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia (Princeton University Press) | And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (Pantheon) |
| 1989 | Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf) | The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M.
McPherson (Oxford University Press) Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon and Schuster) |
Oscar Wilde by the late Richard Ellmann (Alfred A. Knopf) | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (Random House) |
| 1988 | Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf) | Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry | The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce (Alfred A. Knopf) | Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald (Little, Brown and Company) | The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (Simon and Schuster) |
| 1987 | A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) | Fences by August Wilson | Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (Alfred A. Knopf) | Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow (William Morrow) | Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler (Times Books) |
| 1986 | Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster) | (No Award) | ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall (Basic Books) | Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank (Alfred A. Knopf) | Common Ground: A Turbulent
Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
(Alfred A. Knopf) Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White by Joseph Lelyveld (Times Books) |
| 1985 | Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) | Sunday in the Park With George by Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine | Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw (Belknap/Harvard) | The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman (Harper & Row) | The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel (Pantheon) |
| 1984 | Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking) | Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet | (No Award) | Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan (Oxford U. Press) | The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr (Basic Books) |
| 1983 | The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) | 'Night, Mother by Marsha Norman | The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac (U. North Carolina Press) | Growing Up by Russell Baker (Congdon & Weed) | Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan (Houghton Mifflin) |
| 1982 | Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf), the latest novel in a memorable sequence | A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (Yale U. Press) by edited by C. Vann Woodward | Grant: A Biography by William McFeely (Norton) | The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder (Atlantic-Little, Brown) |
| 1981 | A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press) | Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley | American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin (Harper & Row) | Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie (Knopf) | Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske (Knopf) |
| 1980 | The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little, Brown) | Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson | Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack (Knopf) | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (Coward, McCann) | Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Basic Books) |
| 1979 | The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf) | Buried Child by Sam Shepard | The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher (Oxford Univ. Press) | Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker (Macmillan) | On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (Harvard Univ. Press) |
| 1978 | Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press) | The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn | The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (Harvard Univ. Press) | Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate (Harcourt) | The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (Random House) |
| 1977 | The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer | The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter (Harper), a posthumous publication. Manuscript finished by Don E. Fehrenbacher | A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence by John E. Mack (Little, Brown) | Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (Atlantic Little Brown) | |
| 1976 | Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking) | A Chorus Line by Conceived, choreographed and directed by Michael Bennett, with book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics by Edward Kleban | Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan (Farrar) | Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis (Harper) | Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert N. Butler (Harper) |
| 1975 | The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay) | Seascape by Edward Albee | Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V by Dumas Malone (Little) | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro (Knopf) | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (Harper's Magazine Press) |
| 1974 | The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin (Random) | O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer (Little) | The Denial of Death by the late Ernest Becker (Free Press/Macmillan) | ||
| 1973 | The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random) | That Championship Season by Jason Miller | People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen (Knopf) | Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg (Scribner) | Fire in the Lake: The
Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald
(Little) Children of Crisis, Vols. II and III by Robert Coles (Little) |
| 1972 | Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday) | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel | Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler (Macmillan) | Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash (Norton) | Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan) |
| 1971 | Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar) | No Place To Be Somebody by Charles Gordone | Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns (Harcourt) | Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938 by Lawrance Thompson (Holt) | The Rising Sun by John Toland (Random) |
| 1970 | Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson (Norton) | Huey Long by T. Harry Williams (Knopf) | Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson (Norton) | ||
| 1969 | House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper) | The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler | Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy (Oxford Univ. Press) | The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid (Oxford Univ. Press) | The Armies Of The Night by Norman Mailer (World) So Human An Animal by Rene Jules Dubos (Scribner) |
| 1968 | The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random) | The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (Harvard Univ. Press) | Memoirs by George F. Kennan (Little) | Rousseau And Revolution, The Tenth And Concluding Volume Of The Story Of Civilization by Will And Ariel Durant (Simon & Schuster) | |
| 1967 | The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar) | A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee | Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann (Knopf) | Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan (Simon & Schuster | The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (Cornell Univ. Press) |
| 1966 | Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt) | The Life of the Mind in America by the late Perry Miller (Harcourt) | A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (Houghton) | Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (Dodd) | |
| 1965 | The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random) | The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy | The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (Princeton Univ. Press) | Henry Adams, three volumes by Ernest Samuels (Harvard Univ. Press) | O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (Viking) |
| 1964 | Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell (Wesleyan Univ. Press) | John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate (Harvard Univ. Press) | Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (Random) | ||
| 1963 | The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random) | Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green (Princeton Univ. Press | Henry James by Leon Edel (Lippincott) | The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan) | |
| 1962 | The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little) | How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows | The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson (Knopf) | The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White (Atheneum) | |
| 1961 | To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) | All The Way Home by Tad Mosel | Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis (Princeton Univ. Press) | Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald (Knopf) | |
| 1960 | Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday) | Fiorello! by Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, Music by Jerry Bock and Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick | In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (Harper) | John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison (Little) | |
| 1959 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday) | J. B. by Archibald Macleish | The Republican Era: l869-1901 by Leonard D. White, with the assistance of Miss Jean Schneider (Macmillan) | Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth (Longmans) | |
| 1958 | A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky) | Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings | Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond (Princeton Univ. Press) | George Washington, Volumes I-VI by Douglas Southall Freeman, and Volume VII, written by John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth after Dr. Freeman's Death in 1953 (Scribner) | |
| 1957 | Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill | Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-192O by George F. Kennan (Princeton Univ. Press) | Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy (Harper) | ||
| 1956 | Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World | Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich | The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter (Knopf) | Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin (Oxford Univ. Press) | |
| 1955 | A Fable by William Faulkner (Random) | Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams | Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan (Rinehart) | The Taft Story by William S. White (Harper) | |
| 1954 | The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick | A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (Doubleday) | The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh (Scribner) | ||
| 1953 | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner) | Picnic by William Inge | The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield (Harcourt) | Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 by David J. Mays (Harvard Univ. Press) | |
| 1952 | The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) | The Shrike by Joseph Kramm | The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin (Little) | Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey (Macmillan) | |
| 1951 | The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf) | The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley (Towers, Inc.) | John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise Coit (Houghton) | ||
| 1950 | The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Sloane) | South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd and Joshua Logan | Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (Rinehart) | John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Knopf) | |
| 1949 | Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) | Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller | The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols (Macmillan) | Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood (Harper) | |
| 1948 | Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan) | A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams | Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard Devoto (Houghton) | Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp (Little) | |
| 1947 | Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd (Little) | The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White (Macmillan) | |||
| 1946 | State of the Union by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay | The Age of Jackson by Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (Little) | Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe (Knopf) | ||
| 1945 | Harvey by Mary Chase | Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal (Doubleday) | George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russell Blaine Nye (Knopf) | ||
| 1944 | The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti (Harper) | The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse by Carleton Mabee (Knopf) | |||
| 1943 | The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder | Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes (Houghton) | Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison (Little) | ||
| 1942 | Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech (Harper | Crusader in Crinoline by Forrest Wilson (Lippincott) | |||
| 1941 | There Shall Be No Night by Robert E. Sherwood | The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen (Harvard Univ. Press) | Jonathan Edward by Ola Elizabeth Winslow (Macmillan) | ||
| 1940 | The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan | Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt) | Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker (Doubleday | ||
| 1939 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert E. Sherwood | A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott (Harvard Univ. Press) | Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren (Viking) | ||
| 1938 | Our Town by Thornton Wilder | The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck (Little) | Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. by Marquis James (Bobbs) Pedlar's Progress by Odell Shepard (Little) |
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| 1937 | You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman | The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks (Dutton) | Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins (Dodd) | ||
| 1936 | Idiots Delight by Robert E. Sherwood | A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin (Appleton) | The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry (Little | ||
| 1935 | The Old Maid by Zoe Akins | The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews (Yale Univ. Press) | R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman (Scribner | ||
| 1934 | Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Harper) | Men in White by Sidney Kingsley | The People's Choice by Herbert Agar (Houghton) | John Hay by Tyler Dennett (Dodd) | |
| 1933 | The Store by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday) | Both Your Houses by Maxwell Anderson | The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner (Holt) | Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins (Dodd) | |
| 1932 | The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day) | Of Thee I Sing by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin | My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing (Stokes) | Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle (Harcourt) | |
| 1931 | Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton) | Alison's House by Susan Glaspell | The Coming of the War 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt (Scribner) | Charles W. Eliot by Henry James (Houghton) | |
| 1930 | Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton) | The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly | The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne (Houghton) | The Raven by Marquis James (Bobbs) | |
| 1929 | Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs) | Street Scene by Elmer L. Rice | The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon (A.H. Clark) | The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick (Houghton) | |
| 1928 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni) | Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill | Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. by Vernon Louis Parrington (Harcourt) | The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell (Doubleday) | |
| 1927 | Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes) | In Abraham's Bosom by Paul Green | Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Johns Hopkins) | Whitman by Emory Holloway (Knopf) | |
| 1926 | Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt) | Craig's Wife by George Kelly | A History of the United States by Edward Channing (Macmillan) | The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. by Harvey Cushing (Oxford Univ. Press) | |
| 1925 | So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday) | They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard | History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson (Houghton) | Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe (Little) | |
| 1924 | The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper) | Hell-Bent Fer Heaven by Hatcher Hughes | The American Revolution -- A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain (Macmillan) | From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin (Scribner) | |
| 1923 | One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf) | Icebound by Owen Davis | The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren (Little) | The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick (Houghton) | |
| 1922 | Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) | Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill | The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams (Little) | A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland (Macmillan) | |
| 1921 | The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton) | Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale | The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick (Doubleday) | The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok (Scribner | |
| 1920 | (No Award) | Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill | The War with Mexico, 2 vols. by Justin H. Smith (Macmillan) | The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. by Albert J. Beveridge (Houghton) | |
| 1919 | The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday) | (No Award) | (No Award) | The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams (Houghton) | |
| 1918 | His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan) | Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams | A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes (Macmillan) | Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce (Putnam) | |
| 1917 | (No Award) | (No Award) | With Americans of Past and Present Days by His Excellency J.J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to the United States (Scribner) | Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott assisted by Florence Howe Hall (Houghton) |