For a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
Awarded to “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001” by Steve Coll (The Penguin Press).
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: “Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found” by Suketu Mehta (Alfred A. Knopf), and “The Devil’s Highway: A True Story” by Luis Alberto Urrea (Little, Brown and Company).