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1917: Julia Ward Howe by Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, assisted by Florence Howe Hall

1918: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce

1919: The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

1920: The Life of John Marshall, 4 vols. by Albert J. Beveridge

1921: The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward Bok

1922: A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

1923: The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick

1924: From Immigrant to Inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin

1925: Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe

1926: The Life of Sir William Osler, 2 vols. by Harvey Cushing

1927: Whitman by Emory Holloway

1928: The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas by Charles Edward Russell

1929: The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick

1930: The Raven by Marquis James

1931: Charles W. Eliot by Henry James

1932: Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle

1933: Grover Cleveland by Allan Nevins

1934: John Hay by Tyler Dennett

1935: R. E. Lee by Douglas S. Freeman

1936: The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry

1937: Hamilton Fish by Allan Nevins

1938: Andrew Jackson, 2 vols. by Marquis James

1938: Pedlar's Progress by Odell Shepard

1939: Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren

1940: Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker

1941: Jonathan Edward by Ola Elizabeth Winslow

1942: Crusader in Crinoline by Forrest Wilson

1943: Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison

1944: The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse by Carleton Mabee

1945: George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel by Russell Blaine Nye

1946: Son of the Wilderness by Linnie Marsh Wolfe

1947: The Autobiography of William Allen White by William Allen White

1948: Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp

1949: Roosevelt and Hopkins by Robert E. Sherwood

1950: John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis

1951: John C. Calhoun: American Portrait by Margaret Louise Coit

1952: Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey

1953: Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 by David J. Mays

1954: The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh

1955: The Taft Story by William S. White

1956: Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin

1957: Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

1958: 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

1959: Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth

1960: John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison

1961: Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald

1962: no award given

1963: Henry James by Leon Edel

1964: John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate

1965: Henry Adams, 3 vols., by Ernest Samuels

1966: A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

1967: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan

1968: Memoirs by George Frost Kennan

1969: The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid

1970: Huey Long by Thomas Harry Williams

1971: Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 - 1938 by Lawrence Thompson

1972: Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash

1973: Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg

1974: O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer

1975: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro

1976: Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis

1977: A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T E. Lawrence by John E. Mack

1978: Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate

1979: Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker

1980: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

1981: Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie

1982: Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely

1983: Growing Up by Russell Baker

1984: Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan

1985: The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman

1986: Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank

1987: Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow

1988: Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald

1989: Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

1990: Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia

1991: Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

1992: Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr. by Lewis B. Puller

1993: Truman by David McCullough

1994: W.E.B. Dubois

Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis

1995: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick

1996: God: A Biography by Jack Miles

1997: by Frank McCourt

1998: Personal History by Katharine Graham

1999: Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg

2000: Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov by Stacy Schiff

2001: W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and The American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis

2002: John Adams by David McCullough

2003: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro

2004: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (ISBN 0-393-05144-7) by William Taubman

2005: de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

2006: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin