The National Book Award for Nonfiction is part of the National Book Award

National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...

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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation, founded in 1989, is an American nonprofit literary organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America." It achieves this through sponsoring the National Book Award, as well as the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American...

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The National Book Foundation has announces the finalists each year in mid-October. On the day of the final ceremony, which is held in November, one winner is chosen among the finalists. This winner is given $10,000 and a bronze sculpture; finalists receive $1,000, a medal, and a citation from the panel jury.

Winners

The winners of each year are bolded, and the finalists appear beneath the winners for their respective years.

• 2011: Stephen Greenblatt
  Stephen Greenblatt
  Stephen Jay Greenblatt is a literary critic, theorist and scholar.Greenblatt is regarded by many as one of the founders of New Historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics"; his works have been influential since the early 1980s when he introduced the term...
  
  , The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
  • Deborah Baker
    Deborah Baker
    Deborah Baker is a biographer and essayist. She is married to the writer Amitav Ghosh and lives in Brooklyn, Calcutta, and Goa. She is the author of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India a recent biography on Allen Ginsberg which focuses on his time in India and of Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, a...
    
    , The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism
  • Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
  • Manning Marable
    Manning Marable
    William Manning Marable was an American professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. Marable authored several texts and was active in progressive political causes...
    
    , Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
  • Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout