Past Recipients of Ann M. Sperber Prize

2023
The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
by Kathryn Olmsted

2022
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
by Elizabeth Becker

2021
Black Radical The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
by Kerri Greenidge

2021
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It
by Lesley Blume

2020
Working
by Robert A. Caro

2019
Reporter
by Seymour M. Hersh

2018
The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th-Century Journalism
by Mitchell Stephens

2017
Avid Reader: A Life
by Robert Gottlieb

2016
Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker
by Thomas Kunkel

2015
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
by Charles M. Blow'

2014
Seymour Hersh: Scoop Artist
by Robert Miraldi

2013
Cronkite
by Douglas Brinkley

2012
Lives of Margaret Fuller
by John Matteson

2011
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
by Alan Brinkley

2010
American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone
by D.D. Guttenplan

2009
Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front
by Todd DePastino

2007
All Governments Lie! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone
by Myra MacPherson

2006
A Matter of Opinion
Victor Navasky

2005
City Room
Arthur Gelb

2003
Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism
by John F. Stacks

2002
Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty
by Dennis McDougal

2001
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
by David Nasaw

2000
The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times
by Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones

1999
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of American Slavery
by Henry Mayer