ShelfEvidentAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction — Complete Winners List
87 years of winners · Cleveland Foundation · Since 1935 · ← Back to award page
| 2024 | Ned Blackhawk | Yale University Press | |
| 2023 | Matthew Delmont | Viking | |
| 2022 | Tiya Miles | Random House | |
| 2021 | Vincent Brown | Belknap Press | |
| 2020 | Charles King | Doubleday | |
| 2019 | Andrew Delbanco | Penguin Press | |
| 2018 | Kevin Young | Graywolf Press | |
| 2017 | Margot Lee Shetterly | William Morrow | |
| 2016 | Lillian Faderman | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2015 | Richard S. Dunn | Harvard University Press | |
| 2014 | Ari Shavit | — | |
| 2013 | Andrew Solomon | — | |
| 2012 | David Livingstone Smith | — | |
| 2011 | David Eltis and David Richardson | — | |
| 2009 | Annette Gordon-Reed | — | |
| 2008 | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | — | |
| 2007 | Scott Reynolds Nelson | — | |
| 2006 | Jill Lepore | — | |
| 2005 | A. Van Jordan | — | |
| 2004 | Adrian Nicole LeBlanc | — | |
| 2003 | Samantha Power | — | |
| 2002 | Vernon E. Jordan Jr. and Annette Gordon-Reed | — | |
| 2001 | David Levering Lewis | — | |
| 2000 | Edward W. Said | — | |
| 1999 | John Lewis and Michael D'Orso | — | |
| 1998 | Toi Derricotte | — | |
| 1997 | James McBride | — | |
| 1996 | Jonathan Kozol | — | |
| 1995 | William H. Tucker | — | |
| 1994 | David Levering Lewis | — | |
| 1993 | Kwame Anthony Appiah | — | |
| 1992 | Melissa Fay Greene | — | |
| 1991 | Walter A. Jackson | — | |
| 1990 | Hugh Honour | — | |
| 1989 | Henry Louis Gates Jr. | — | |
| 1988 | Jeffrey Jay Foxx and Walter F. Morris Jr. | — | |
| 1987 | Arnold Rampersad | — | |
| 1986 | Donald Alexander Downs | — | |
| 1985 | David S. Wyman | — | |
| 1984 | Jose Alcina Franch | — | |
| 1983 | Richard Rodriguez | — | |
| 1982 | Geoffrey G. Field | — | |
| 1981 | Carol Beckwith and Tepilit Ole Saitoti | — | |
| 1980 | Richard Borshay Lee | — | |
| 1979 | Phillip V. Tobias | — | |
| 1978 | Maxine Hong Kingston | — | |
| 1977 | Richard Kluger | — | |
| 1976 | Lucy S. Dawidowicz | — | |
| 1975 | Eugene D. Genovese | — | |
| 1974 | Louis Leo Snyder | — | |
| 1973 | Pat Conroy | — | |
| 1972 | George M. Fredrickson | — | |
| 1971 | Robert William July | — | |
| 1970 | Dan T. Carter | — | |
| 1969 | E. Earl Baughman and W. Grant Dahlstrom | — | |
| 1968 | Norman Rufus Colin Cohn | — | |
| 1967 | David Brion Davis | — | |
| 1966 | H. C. Baldry | — | |
| 1965 | Milton M. Gordon | — | |
| 1964 | Harold R. Isaacs | — | |
| 1963 | Theodosius Dobzhansky | — | |
| 1962 | Dwight L. Dumond | — | |
| 1961 | E. R. Braithwaite | — | |
| 1960 | John Haynes Holmes | — | |
| 1959 | Martin Luther King Jr. | — | |
| 1958 | South African Institute of Race Relations | — | |
| 1957 | Father Trevor Huddleston | — | |
| 1956 | John P. Dean and Alex Rosen | — | |
| 1955 | Oden Meeker | — | |
| 1954 | Vernon Bartlett | — | |
| 1953 | Farley Mowat | — | |
| 1952 | Laurens Van Der Post | — | |
| 1951 | Henry Gibbs | — | |
| 1950 | S. Andhil Fineberg | — | |
| 1949 | J.C. Furnas | — | |
| 1948 | John Collier | — | |
| 1947 | Pauline R. Kibbe | — | |
| 1946 | St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton | — | |
| 1945 | Gunnar Myrdal | — | |
| 1944 | Roi Ottley | — | |
| 1943 | Zora Neale Hurston | — | |
| 1942 | James G. Leyburn | — | |
| 1941 | Louis Adamic | — | |
| 1940 | Edward Franklin Frazier | — | |
| 1939 | Ralph J. Bunche | — | |
| 1937 | Julian Huxley and A. C. Haddon | — | |
| 1936 | Harold Foote Gosnell | — |
