Take a look at the infographic that the National Book Foundation revealed a few years ago. It lists women writers that are National Book Award winners and finalists in nonfiction categories.
💬 Scholars, journalists, and scientists, these women writers received National Book Award recognition for advancing public understanding of social, political, and cultural affairs here and abroad.
The list includes Tina Rosenberg, the author of The Haunted Land, a powerful and moving account of the challenges faced by Eastern European countries as they transitioned from communism to democracy.
Claudia Koonz was honored for Mothers in the Fatherland, a groundbreaking study of the role of women in Nazi Germany.
Barbara Tuchman received the 1980 National Book Award in History for A Distant Mirror. The book chronicles the 14th century in Europe, marked by the Black Death, the Hundred Years’ War, the Papal Schism, and numerous other disasters.
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