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Ackerley Prize: Autobiography and MemoirActive years represented: 1982-present. Winners from 1982 onward, including the two joint winners in 1983. The archive does not provide historical shortlists.45AwardUK1982-2025Biography, Memoir & AutobiographyAmerican Historical Association Book Prizes5 categories represented: AHA Prize in European International History, Beveridge Family Prize in American History, George L. Mosse Prize in European Intellectual and Cultural History, ...2395 categoriesUS1923-2025American History, History, World HistoryAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionAdult fiction and nonfiction published in the U.S. in the previous year; longlist, finalists, and winners are selected by library professionals.331Major awardUS2012-2026NonfictionAnisfield-Wolf Book Awards2 categories represented: Memoir, Nonfiction1692 categoriesUnited States / International1936-2026Memoir & Autobiography, NonfictionBaillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionActive years represented: 1999-present. Covers winners and shortlisted books listed in the decade tables for the Baillie Gifford Prize and its earlier Samuel Johnson Prize name.160Major awardUK1999-2025NonfictionBancroft PrizeBooks must have a copyright date in the previous year and fall under American history, biography, or diplomacy; digital-only books and resubmissions are ineligible.189Major awardUS1948-2026HistoryBarbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American HistoryActive years represented: 2006-present. Covers winners listed under the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History section. Historical publication-year labels are shifted forward one year to the prize presentation year; recent winners are verified against official New York Historical records.21AwardUS2006-2026History, American HistoryBritish Academy Book PrizeActive years represented: 2013-present. Currently imports official winner and shortlist rows from 2018 onward. Earlier 2013–2017 archive pages require separate QA because their page structure differs from the modern annual pages.44Major awardUnited Kingdom / International2018-2025NonfictionChicago Tribune Heartland Prize: NonfictionActive years represented: 1988-2019. Complete winners-only coverage for the nonfiction category. In 2008 the archive names two Garry Wills books; both are retained as winning works.33AwardUS1988-2019NonfictionCosta Book Awards: BiographyActive years represented: 1971-present. Winners from 1971 onward; shortlists from 1995 onward. Includes the Whitbread Biography Award era (1971-2005).125AwardUK1971-2021BiographyCundill History PrizeOpen to works of historical nonfiction first published in English during the stated eligibility window; translations are welcomed, while self-published books, textbooks, edited collections, posthumous works, and co-authored works are ineligible.188Major awardInternational2008-2025HistoryDayton Literary Peace Prize: NonfictionActive years represented: 2006-present. Nonfiction winners, runners-up, and published finalist slates. Runner-up is retained in record notes and normalized to finalist because the public status model has no separate runner-up value. Official releases are retained for subsequent row-level verification.102AwardUnited States / International2006-2026NonfictionDuff Cooper Prize: History, Biography & Political ScienceActive years represented: 1956-present. Winners from 1956 onward. No shortlist is announced for this prize.70AwardUK1956-2025History, Biography, Science +1Edgar Awards: Best Fact CrimeActive years represented: 1948-present. Official database winners and nominees from 1948 onward. Non-winning nominated works are normalized as finalists; years without a category record remain explicit gaps.332AwardUS1948-2026NonfictionFrancis Parkman PrizeActive years represented: 1957-present. Winners from 1957 onward; no prize was awarded in 1968. Historical rows use the deterministic secondary list because the official archive is protected from automated retrieval. The 2026 winner is replaced with the Society of American Historians' official announcement. Special-achievement awards to people or publishers are excluded.69AwardUnited States / International1957-2026NonfictionFrederick Douglass Book Prize: Slavery, Resistance, and AbolitionActive years represented: 1999-present. Winner coverage from 1999 onward, with official finalists for 1999, 2004-2015, and 2016-2025. Years with two recipient books are represented as co-winners; winners retain only winner status.87AwardUnited States / International1999-2025NonfictionFT Business Book of the YearActive years represented: 2005-present. Winners and shortlists from 2005 onward. Wikipedia article uses prose bullet lists (not a wikitable); winners marked with {{blue ribbon}} template.119Major awardInternational2005-2025NonfictionGeorge Perkins Marsh Prize: Environmental HistoryActive years represented: 1989-present. Winner-only coverage from the first listed award in 1989 onward; published finalists are deferred.36AwardUnited States / International1989-2025HistoryGeorge Polk Awards: Book AwardActive years represented: intermittent historical category. Winner-only Book or Book Award rows explicitly labeled in the official archive. Years without such a row are not inferred as no-award years. Non-book reporting, criticism, career, and special awards are excluded.24AwardUnited States / International1957-2007NonfictionGovernor General's Literary Awards: English-language Non-fictionActive years represented: 1936-present. Winners from 1936 onward; finalists as listed from 1980 onward. Several 1940s years list multiple winners, reflecting the era's split academic/creative non-fiction categories; these are normalized as co-winners.269Major awardCanada1936-2025NonfictionHelen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismActive years represented: 1988-present. Covers book winners from 1990 onward and finalist rows listed from 2019 onward. The first two historical honorees were not book records and are intentionally skipped.65AwardUS1990-2026NonfictionHilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionActive years represented: 1997-present. Winners and finalists from 1997 onward as listed in the deterministic table; official archive URL is retained for manual verification.144AwardCanada1997-2025NonfictionHillman Prize for Book JournalismActive years represented: 1950-present. Covers official Book category honorees listed in the U.S. Hillman Prize previous-honorees table. Multiple Book rows in a year are normalized as co-winners.84AwardUnited States / International1950-2026NonfictionIRE Awards: BooksActive years represented: book category archive currently exposed for 2015-present. Books/Book category winners and finalists from the official 2015-present archive. The category predates the web archive, but older rows are deferred until an authoritative structured source can be established.22AwardUnited States / International2015-2025NonfictionJ. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeActive years represented: 1999-present. Covers winners, finalists, and shortlisted books listed in the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize table.79AwardUS1999-2026NonfictionJames Tait Black Prizes: BiographyActive years represented: 1919-present. Winners from 1919 onward. The importer supplements the archive with a newer official University announcement when the archive is awaiting its annual update.108AwardUnited Kingdom / International1919-2025BiographyJohn Burroughs MedalActive years represented: 1926-present. Book winners from 1926 through 2025, excluding explicit no-award years and three out-of-scope works: the poetry collection Nature Poems (1928) and the two fiction winners, Those of the Forest (1955) and Martin Marten (2017). The source has no 2019 entry, which remains an explicit unresolved gap rather than being labeled a no-award year. The 2018 lifetime-achievement medal for nature poetry is not a book record and is excluded.87AwardUnited States / International1926-2025NonfictionKirkus Prize for NonfictionBooks reviewed by Kirkus Reviews that earn a Kirkus Star and have eligible publication dates are automatically nominated; editors and jurors select finalists and winners.78Major awardUS2014-2025NonfictionLaura Shannon Prize: European StudiesActive years represented: 2010-present. Winner coverage from the first award in 2010 onward, plus official five-book shortlists for 2019-2026. Winners retain only winner status; silver medals and honorable mentions are deferred.49AwardUnited States / International2010-2026NonfictionLionel Gelber Prize: International AffairsActive years represented: 1990-present. Winners from 1990 onward (no entry for 2005). Shortlist data available from 2011 onward; 2015, 2020, and 2021 have winner only.88Major awardInternational1990-2026NonfictionLos Angeles Times Book Prize4 categories represented: Biography, Current Interest, History, ...7594 categoriesUS1980-2025Biography, History, Nonfiction +1Mark Lynton History PrizeBooks must have been published in the United States during the applicable calendar year; anyone, including the author, may submit a book.75AwardUnited States publication1999-2026HistoryNational Book Awards25 categories represented: Autobiography and Biography Hardcover, Autobiography and Biography Paperback, Autobiography Hardcover, ...83825 categoriesUS1935-2025Biography, History, Nonfiction +1National Book Critics Circle Awards4 categories represented: Biography, Criticism, Memoir and Autobiography, ...7764 categoriesUS1975-2025Biography, Memoir & Autobiography, NonfictionNCR Book Award: NonfictionActive years represented: 1988-1997. Winner-only coverage for every edition of the prize.10AwardUK1988-1997NonfictionOrwell Prize2 categories represented: Combined Book Prize (Nonfiction works), Political Writing1642 categoriesUnited Kingdom / International1994-2026Nonfiction, Politics & GovernmentOverseas Press Club Awards: Cornelius Ryan AwardActive years represented: 1977-present. Winners from official archive entries explicitly named Cornelius Ryan Award and containing structured recipient/work data. Several older named entry pages are empty and remain explicit coverage gaps; predecessor Best Book on Foreign Affairs records are not conflated with this category.28AwardUnited States / International1980-2025NonfictionPEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize: Historical NonfictionActive years represented: 2002-present. Winners and available shortlist records from 2002 onward, including the 2005 joint winners and the explicit 2022 honorable mention. English PEN's official prize and tagged archive pages are retained for verification.114AwardUK2002-2024NonfictionPEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayActive years represented: 1990-present. Covers winners and runner-up/finalist rows listed in the deterministic table. The award was on hiatus from 2005 to 2010.67AwardUS1990-2026NonfictionPEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardActive years represented: 2011-present. Winners from 2011 onward. Runner-up data for 2011-2012; shortlist data from 2016 onward. Years 2013-2015 have winners only.57AwardUS2011-2025SciencePEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyActive years represented: 2008-present. Covers winners and runner-up/finalist rows listed in the deterministic table. Runner-up rows are normalized to finalist status.23AwardUS2008-2026BiographyPEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionEligible books are single-author nonfiction books published in the United States by a trade or academic publisher in the previous calendar year; biographies and self-published books are ineligible.57AwardUnited States publication2007-2026NonfictionPfizer Award: History of ScienceActive years represented: 1959-present. Winner-only coverage from 1959 onward, including joint award years.69AwardUnited States / International1959-2025History, SciencePhi Beta Kappa Book Awards3 categories represented: Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, Ralph Waldo Emerson Award2023 categoriesUnited States publication1954-2025Nonfiction, SciencePlutarch Award: BiographyActive years represented: 2013-present. Covers winners and nominee/finalist rows listed in the deterministic table. Nominee rows are normalized to finalist status.101AwardUnited States / International2013-2026BiographyPROSE Awards22 categories represented: Anthropology and Sociology, Archaeology and Ancient History, Art History and Criticism, ...76522 categoriesUnited States / International1991-2026Biography, History, Medicine & Public Health +5Pulitzer Prize4 categories represented: Biography or Autobiography, General Nonfiction, History, ...5944 categoriesUS1917-2026Biography, History, Memoir & Autobiography +1Rachel Carson Environment Book AwardActive years represented: 2008-present. Covers first-place winners listed on official annual pages. Second/third-place finalists and honorable mentions are deferred because annual page layouts vary substantially across years.18AwardUnited States / International2008-2026NonfictionRidenhour Book PrizeActive years represented: 2004-present. Covers winners listed in the Ridenhour Book Prize section. Non-book Ridenhour prize categories are intentionally excluded.20AwardUS2004-2024NonfictionRobert F. Kennedy Book AwardActive years represented: 1981-present. Official laureate records from 1981 through 2025. Multiple works described by official detail pages as receiving the award are normalized as co-winners. March: Book One (2014) is retained as an honorable mention because the historical winners list calls it a special recognition; The Burning Season (1991) is likewise marked honorable mention from a contemporary report. Beloved (1988) is excluded as fiction. The archive repeats the 1995 heading for Jack Bass, whose official detail page and contemporary records identify his award as 1994; the importer corrects that isolated heading error. Historical finalist slates were not published and are not inferred.66AwardUnited States / International1981-2025NonfictionRoyal Society Science Book PrizeActive years represented: 1988-present. Covers winners from 1988 onward and shortlisted books from 2000 onward where listed in the deterministic table.175Major awardUnited Kingdom / International1988-2026Science, Society & CultureTruman Capote Award for Literary CriticismActive years represented: 1995-present. Winner-only archive from the first listed award in 1995 onward. The official 2000 entry lists two recipients and two works, represented as co-winners.32AwardUnited States / International1995-2025NonfictionWainwright Prize2 categories represented: Conservation Writing, Nature Writing1732 categoriesUK2014-2025NonfictionWellcome Book Prize: NonfictionActive years represented: 2009-2012; 2014-2019. Nonfiction winners and shortlisted works from all ten award editions. Fiction winners and nominees are excluded through an explicit reviewed title set; 2013 was a no-award relaunch year.39AwardUnited Kingdom / International2009-2019NonfictionWolfson History PrizeHistory books are assessed for excellence in historical research and readability for a wider public audience.140Major awardUnited Kingdom / international history writing1972-2025History, Nonfiction, Global history