PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers Winners

The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction was given for a distinguished first book of general nonfiction by an American writer. The PEN/Martha...more

Winners

	The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate by Marjorie Williams 4.07 avg rating — 388 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (2006)	My rating:
	A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Greenfield 3.84 avg rating — 441 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (2006)	My rating:
	The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris 3.93 avg rating — 7,476 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (2005)	My rating:
	The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie 4.32 avg rating — 354 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (2004)	My rating:
	Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson 4.09 avg rating — 160 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (2003)	My rating:
	The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein 4.16 avg rating — 160 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (2002)	My rating:
	Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife 3.88 avg rating — 2,217 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (2001)	My rating:
	The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome 4.24 avg rating — 80 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (2000)	My rating:
	We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch 4.36 avg rating — 7,327 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (1999)	My rating:
	Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village by Serge Schmemann 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (1998)	My rating:
	Heaven's Coast by Mark Doty 4.34 avg rating — 352 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (1997)	My rating:
	The Liars' Club by Mary Karr 3.82 avg rating — 14,207 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (1996)	My rating:
	Proofs and Theories by Louise Glück 3.89 avg rating — 218 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (1995)	My rating:
	Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War by Michael Kelly 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (1994)	My rating:
	The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica by David G. Campbell 3.90 avg rating — 39 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (1993)	My rating:
	The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann 4.10 avg rating — 164 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (1992)	My rating:
	A Painter of Darkness: Leon Golub and His Times by Gerald Marzorati 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (1991)	My rating:
	The Rainy Season by Amy Wilentz 4.16 avg rating — 81 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (1990)	My rating:
	Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains by Merrill Gilfillan 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers for First Nonfiction Writers (1989)	My rating: