The Nonfiction Author Award Index
A ranking of every nonfiction author by how often their books have won, been shortlisted for, or longlisted for one of the tracked nonfiction awards. Authors are ranked first by wins, then by shortlists.
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- 1
George F. Kennan
5
wins
72
score
- 2
David McCullough
5
wins
71
score
- 3
Steve Coll
4
wins
67
score
- 4
Frances FitzGerald
4
wins
66
score
- 5
David Brion Davis
5
wins
56
score
- 6
Robert A. Caro
5
wins
56
score
- 7
David Levering Lewis
5
wins
53
score
- 8
Jill Lepore
4
wins
53
score
- 9
Bernard Bailyn
4
wins
52
score
- 10
Lawrence Wright
3
wins
51
score
- 11
Matthew Desmond
4
wins
50
score
- 12
Greg Grandin
2
wins
50
score
- 13
John Dower
5
wins
49
score
- 14
Eric Foner
4
wins
49
score
- 15
Taylor Branch
4
wins
48
score
- 16
Anne Applebaum
2
wins
48
score
- 17
Patrick Radden Keefe
3
wins
47
score
- 18
T. J. Stiles
3
wins
47
score
- 19
Garry Wills
2
wins
47
score
- 20
James Gleick
2
wins
47
score
- 21
David W. Blight
5
wins
46
score
- 22
Richard Rhodes
3
wins
46
score
- 23
Allan Nevins
4
wins
44
score
- 24
Ronald Steel
4
wins
44
score
- 25
Justin Kaplan
3
wins
44
score
- 26
Alan Taylor
3
wins
43
score
- 27
Isabel Wilkerson
4
wins
42
score
- 28
A. Scott Berg
3
wins
41
score
- 29
Tiya Miles
4
wins
40
score
- 30
Barbara W. Tuchman
3
wins
40
score
- 31
J. Anthony Lukas
3
wins
40
score
- 32
Katherine Boo
3
wins
40
score
- 33
R. W. B. Lewis
3
wins
40
score
- 34
Robert K. Massie
3
wins
40
score
- 35
W. Jackson Bate
3
wins
40
score
- 36
Jared Diamond
4
wins
39
score
- 37
Adam Higginbotham
3
wins
39
score
- 38
Richard Kluger
2
wins
39
score
- 39
Tracy Kidder
2
wins
39
score
- 40
Andrew Solomon
4
wins
38
score
- 41
Jonathan Weiner
3
wins
38
score
- 42
Ron Chernow
2
wins
38
score
- 43
Samantha Power
4
wins
37
score
- 44
Sheri Fink
4
wins
37
score
- 45
Maxine Hong Kingston
3
wins
37
score
- 46
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
3
wins
36
score
- 47
Douglas Hofstadter
3
wins
36
score
- 48
Paul Horgan
3
wins
36
score
- 49
Ed Yong
2
wins
36
score
- 50
Ernest Samuels
2
wins
36
score
Recent Standouts (2020+)
- 1Tiya Miles39 score
- 2Adam Higginbotham36 score
- 3Roxanna Asgarian35 score
- 4Kathleen DuVal33 score
- 5Beverly Gage32 score
- 6Les Payne and Tamara Payne31 score
- 7Ed Yong30 score
- 8Ada Ferrer26 score
- 9Greg Grandin26 score
- 10Ned Blackhawk25 score
Most Prolific Authors
- 1Anne Applebaum8 books
- 2George F. Kennan7 books
- 3Jill Lepore7 books
- 4John McPhee7 books
- 5Steve Coll7 books
- 6Steven Pinker6 books
- 7Adam Hochschild5 books
- 8David Levering Lewis5 books
- 9Deirdre Bair5 books
- 10Garry Wills5 books