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2012 The Making of the Making of a President: Politics as Art John Heilemann, Danny Strong   Rep. Harold Ford, Jr.  

2011

New York Then and Now:1911-2011

Nora Ephron

Hermione Lee
2010 All Eyes on Her: The Queen Mother and the 20th Century William Shawcross Amanda Foreman (interviewer)
2009 Not For Children Only Mary Ann Hoberman
Salman Rushdie		 Chris Van Allsburg
Adam Gopnik (moderator)
2008 A Funny Thing Happened at the Library Jenny Allen
Andy Borowitz
Ian Frazier		 Fran Lebowitz
Calvin Trillin
David Remnick (moderator)
2007 The French Connection Adam Gopnik
Simon Schama		 Caroline Weber
Joan Juliet Buck (moderator)
2006 Memoir: Truth? Consequences? Mary Karr
Frank McCourt
Robert MacNeil (moderator)		 J.R. Moehringer
Jeannette Walls
2005 Starting Over, Glancing Back: The Immigrant Experience in Literature Gish Jen
Jhumpa Lahiri		 Gary Shteyngart
Dick Cavett (moderator)
2004 Love, Lust and Literature Michael Cunningham
Azar Nafisi		 Shirley Hazzard
Jonathan Galassi
2003 My Country 'tis of Thee: Defining American Identity Joan Juliet Buck
Chuck Close
Lee Cullum		 Russell Simmons
Harold Evans (moderator)
2002 America: What's Next? Michael Beschloss
Jamaica Kincaid
Jim Hoagland		 Nicholas Lemann
Jim Lehrer (moderator)
2001 The New Money: A Cultural Transformation Barbara Taylor Bradford
Ron Chernow
James B. Stewart		 Wendy Wasserstein
Paula Zahn (moderator)
2000 Celebrity: Our Cultural Obsession Marie Brenner
Dominick Dunne
Neal Gabler		 Walter Isaacson
Diane Sawyer (moderator)
1999 Millennium: The Search for Meaning Thomas Cahill
Peter John Gomes
Francine du Plessix Gray		 Burton Visotzky
Charles Osgood (moderator)
1998 What's Cooking? Food in Life and Literature Isabel Allende
Ruth Reichl
Calvin Trillin		 Alice Waters
Sally Quinn (moderator)
1997 Why Jane Austen? Why Now? The Classics Return Russell Baker
David Denby
Ismail Merchant		 Daphne Merkin
Roger Rosenblatt (moderator)
1996 New York, New York Ken Auletta
E.L. Doctorow
Dominick Dunne		 Kitty Carlisle Hart
Harold Evans (moderator)
1995 America the Courtroom Floyd Abrams
Linda Fairstein
Terry Moran		 Jeffrey Toobin
Charles R. Nesson (moderator)
1994 The Play's the Thing Tony Kushner
Terrence McNally
Wendy Wasserstein		 August Wilson
A. R. Gurney (moderator)
1993 The First 85 Days: The Changing of the Guard Tom Brokaw
Tom Wicker
Gary Wills		 Judy Woodruff
Charlie Rose (moderator)
1992 Two Sexes Separated By a Common Language Erica Jong
Robert MacNeil
Sally Quinn		 Roger Rosenblatt
Liz Smith (moderator)
1991 Can You Believe Everything You Read? Don Hewitt
Hugh Sidey		 Doris Kearns Goodwin
Kati Marton
James Hoge (moderator)
1990 Censored: Writers Under Attack Judy Blume
Kitty Kelley
Gay Talese		 Bob Woodward
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (moderator)
1989 Intimate Relations: Writers Reflect on Their Parents Haywood Hale Broun
Susan Cheever
Jonathan Schwartz		 Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
Robert MacNeil (moderator)
1988 Funny Bone in the Politic Roy Blount, Jr.
Tom Brokaw
Pat Oliphant		 Mark Shields
Liz Smith (moderator)
1986 American Perspectives: A Discussion of Where We Came From/Where We Are Rita Mae Brown
James Carroll
Pat Conroy		 J. Anthony Lukas
Cynthia Ozick
Donna Shalala (moderator)
1985 High Crimes and Misdemeanors Shana Alexander
Mary Higgins Clark
Tony Hillerman		 Gregory McDonald
Robert Parker
Calvin Trillin (moderator)
1984 Other People's Lives: The Look at the World of Biography Robert Caro
Robert Massie
Nancy Milford		 Paul Nagel
David McCullogh (moderator)
1983 Books Into Reels: The Author's Experience E.L. Doctorow
Judith Rossner		 William Styron
Brendan Gill (moderator)
1982 Laugh at the Library Russell Baker
Peter DeVries
Nora Ephron		 Fran Lebowitz
Thomas Meehan
Calvin Trillin (moderator)
1981 Two Countries Separated By a Common Language David B. Guralnik
Rosemary Harris
Alan Pryce-Jones		 Samuel S. Vaughn
William F. Buckley, Jr
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