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For ‪Women’s History Month‬, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of our female National Book Award Nonfiction Honorees whose expository writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American literature.

Just a few short years after Clarence Thomas ascended to the U.S. Supreme Court, Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson– then investigative reporters for The Wall Street Journal— published Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. The 1994 National Book Award Finalist book revealed the machinations involved in silencing Anita Hill, whose allegations of sexual harrassment nearly torpeoded Thomas’s nomination, and brought to light damning new evidence of Thomas’s culpability.

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For ‪Women’s History Month‬, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of our female National Book Award Nonfiction Honorees whose expository writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American literature.

After combing through more than a thousand sources, law historian Annette Gordon-Reed’s research confirmed Founding Father Thomas Jefferson’s long-suspected intimate relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings, who bore Jefferson six children— and who herself came from a large family of men and women related by blood to Jefferson’s wife Martha. Her groundbreaking book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2008.

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For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature. Gloria Emerson...

For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.

Gloria Emerson was one of a few female journalists who covered the Vietnam War. Her 1978 National Book Award Winning book Winners & Losers was her passionate account of the effects of America’s prolonged and ultimately failed engagement on Americans, veterans, and the Vietnamese people.

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For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature. Devra Davis, a...

For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.

Devra Davis, a world-renowned epidemiologist, examined the impact of catastrophic levels of industrial pollution on her hometown of Donora, Pennsylvania and towns and cities across America. Her conclusion that pollution-related toxins contributed to countless deaths and illnesses became the basis of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a 2002 Finalist for the National Book Award.

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In 1966, journalist Frances FitzGerald traveled to Saigon to observe and report the Vietnam War firsthand. Her 1973 National Book Award Winning book Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam is FitzGerald’s probing analysis of the...

In 1966, journalist Frances FitzGerald traveled to Saigon to observe and report the Vietnam War firsthand. Her 1973 National Book Award Winning book Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam is FitzGerald’s probing analysis of the psychological chasm that separated the Vietnamese and Americans at that time, a deep cultural misunderstanding that is now widely regarded as a major contributor to the Americans’ tragic misinterpretation of the war’s realities.

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For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature. 

A foreign-affairs reporter and columnist for The New York Times for nearly 60 years, Flora Lewis witnessed the Communist invasion of Eastern Europe in 1946, as well as the Polish and Hungarian uprisings in 1956. Her report on Poland’s struggles to regain their freedoms while under Soviet control, A Case History of Hope, was a National Book Award Finalist in 1959.

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For ‪Women’s History Month‬, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of our female National Book Award Nonfiction Honorees whose expository writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American literature.Before the...

For ‪Women’s History Month‬, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of our female National Book Award Nonfiction Honorees whose expository writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American literature.

Before the publication of Brenda Maddox’s revealing biography of Nora Barnacle, the wife of Irish author James Joyce was little known and much eclipsed by her husband’s literary fame. A 1988 National Book Award Finalist, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom introduced the world to the Irish chambermaid who is long believed to be the model for Joyce’s famed character Molly Bloom.


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For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature. 

A real-life murder mystery set amidst a city teeming with suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy. Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a remarkable depiction of the people of Annawadi, a slum in the shadow of Mumbai airport. The book earned a National Book Award in 2012 and playwright David Hare’s adaption of The Beautiful Forevers is now on stage at London’s National Theatre.

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For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature. Maxine Hong...

For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.

Maxine Hong Kingston won the 1981 National Book Award for Nonfiction for China Men. Weaving together memory, myth, and fact, Kingston vividly portrays the lives of Chinese men and women in America from the 1840s to the Vietnam war and draws into sharp relief the lack of acceptance that prevented these migrants from ever gaining recognition as Americans.

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This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20. 

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