The Plutarch Award

Nicholas Boggs

Emerson’s Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy

Kate Culkin

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

Francesca Wade

Amanda Vaill

The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

Daniel Brook

The Invention of Charlotte Brontë

Graham Watson

The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Ruth Franklin

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide

Howard W. French

Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West

Max Perry Mueller

Sue Prideaux

Cynthia Carr

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

John Lewis: A Life, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs for Survival Is A Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

David Greenberg

The Icon & the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America

Stephanie Gorton

The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Adam Shatz

Monet: The Restless Vision

Jackie Wullschläger

Reagan: His Life and Legend

Max Boot

The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady

Heath Hardage Lee

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

Margalit Fox

Yepoka Yeebo

Sally H. Jacobs

Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist

Larry Rohter

Jonathan Eig

Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar

Barbara D. Savage

Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt

Willard Spiegelman

The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

Lisa M. Hamilton

The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

Prudence Peiffer

To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse

Howard Fishman

Jonny Steinberg

Jennifer Homans

Jon Meacham

Beverly Gage

George V: Never a Dull Moment

Jane Ridley

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Katherine Rundell

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

Miranda Seymour

Ted Kennedy: A Life

John A. Farrell

The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World

Paul Fisher

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff

Frances Wilson

Rebecca Donner

Robert Elder

Francis Bacon: Revelations

Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiona Sampson

Oscar Wilde: A Life

Matthew Sturgis

Richard Zenith

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights

Dorothy Wickenden

The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama

Claude A. Clegg III

Janice P. Nimura

A. N. Wilson

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter: A Life

Jonathan Alter

Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington

Ted Widmer

Les Payne and Tamara Payne

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

Martha Ackmann

Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times

David S. Reynolds

Hitler: Downfall 1939-1945

Volker Ullrich, trans. by Jefferson Chase

Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood's Most Influential Composer

Steven C. Smith

The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution

Steven Heyman

The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography

Hilary Holladay

Sonia Purnell

Sidney Blumenthal

Charles King

George Packer

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

David W. Blight

Julie Dobrow

Hilary Spurling

Andrew Roberts

In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin

Lindsey Hilsum

Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History

Victor Sebestyen

Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Craig Brown

The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and Conceived a New World Order

David Levering Lewis

The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

Patricia O'Toole

Jeffrey C. Stewart

Caroline Fraser

Jonathan Eig

Megan Marshall

Gorbachev: His Life and Times

William Taubman

Ron Chernow

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Rosalind Rosenberg

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Victor Sebestyen

Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

Francine Klagsbrun

Milosz: A Biography

Andrzej Franaszek, trans. by Aleksandra Parker and Michael Parker

John A. Farrell

Ruth Franklin

Larry Tye

Frances Wilson

His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt

Joseph Lelyveld

Volker Ullrich with Jefferson Chase (trans.)

John Aubrey, My Own Life

Ruth Scurr

Kafka: The Early Years

Reiner Stach, trans. by Shelley Frisch

Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams

Louisa Thomas

Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band

Simon Callow

The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship

Alex Beam

Rosemary Sullivan

Sonia Purnell

T. J. Stiles

Jay Parini

Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times

Anne Heller

Irrepressible: A Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham

Emily Bingham

Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage

Betty Boyd Caroli

Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter

Cathy Curtis

Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll

Peter Guralnick

The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon 1952-1961

Irwin F. Gellman

Hermione Lee

John Lahr

The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942

Nigel Hamilton

The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandria

Helen Rappaport

Linda Leavell

Marie Arana

Jill Lepore

Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Jim Henson: The Biography

Brian Jay Jones

Leo Damrosch

Lawrence in Arabia

Scott Anderson

Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center

Ray Monk

The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams

Ben Bradlee Jr.

A. Scott Berg

Robert Caro

Alice Kessler-Harris

Lisa Cohen

Rachel L. Swarns

David Maraniss

On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson

William Souder

Saul Steinberg: A Biography

Deirdre Bair

Timothy Egan

Tom Reiss

The Lives of Margaret Fuller

John Matteson