2008 Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale University Press)
2009 Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema (Picador)
2010 Michael Scammell, Koestler (Random House)
2011 Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown and Company)
2012 Robert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Random House)
Runner-Up:
Janny Scott, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother (Riverhead Books/Penguin)
2013 Tom Reiss, The Black Count (Broadway Brooks)
Runner-Up:
Gordon Bowker, James Joyce (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2014 Linda Leavell, Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2015 Anna Whitelock, The Queen’s Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth’s Court (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2016 Nancy Princenthal, Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames & Hudson)
2017 Joe Jackson, Black Elk: The Life of An American Visionary (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)