George F. Kennan: An American Life
by John Lewis Gaddis
Year Won: 2012
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
by T.J. Stiles
Year Won: 2010
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
by Debby Applegate
Year Won: 2007
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Year Won: 2006
De Kooning: An American Master
by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Year Won: 2005
Master of the Senate
by Robert A. Caro
Year Won: 2003
John Adams
by David McCullough
Year Won: 2002
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
by David Levering Lewis
Year Won: 2001
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
by Stacy Schiff
Year Won: 2000
Lindbergh
by A. Scott Berg
Year Won: 1999
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
by Joan D. Hedrick
Year Won: 1995
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919
by David Levering Lewis
Year Won: 1994
Machiavelli in Hell
by Sebastian de Grazia
Year Won: 1990
Oscar Wilde
by Richard Ellmann
Year Won: 1989
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
by David Herbert Donald
Year Won: 1988
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
by David J. Garrow
Year Won: 1987
Louise Bogan: A Portrait
by Elizabeth Frank
Year Won: 1986
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
by Kenneth Silverman
Year Won: 1985
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915
by Louis R. Harlan
Year Won: 1984
Grant: A Biography
by William McFeely
Year Won: 1982
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
Year Won: 1980
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews
by Leonard Baker
Year Won: 1979
Samuel Johnson
by Walter Jackson Bate
Year Won: 1978
A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence
by John E. Mack
Year Won: 1977
Edith Wharton: A Biography
by R. W. B. Lewis
Year Won: 1977
O'Neill, Son and Artist
by Louis Sheaffer
Year Won: 1974
Luce and His Empire
by W. A. Swanberg
Year Won: 1973
Eleanor and Franklin
by Joseph P. Lash
Year Won: 1972
Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938
by Lawrance Thompson
Year Won: 1971
Huey Long
by T. Harry Williams
Year Won: 1970
The Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends
by Benjamin Lawrence Reid
Year Won: 1969
Memoirs
by George F. Kennan
Year Won: 1968
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
by Justin Kaplan
Year Won: 1967
A Thousand Days
by Arthur M. Schlesinger
Year Won: 1966
Henry Adams
by Ernest Samuels
Year Won: 1965
John Keats
by Walter Jackson Bate
Year Won: 1964
Henry James
by Leon Edel
Year Won: 1963
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
by David Donald
Year Won: 1961
John Paul Jones
by Samuel Eliot Morison
Year Won: 1960
Woodrow Wilson
by Arthur Walworth
Year Won: 1959
George Washington
by Douglas Southall Freeman
Year Won: 1958
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
Year Won: 1956