Cornelius Ryan Award


The Cornelius Ryan Award is given for "best nonfiction book on international affairs" by the Overseas Press Club of America. To be eligible for this literary award a book must be published "in the US or by a US based company or distributed for an American audience" during the year prior to that in which the award is given. The winner is chosen in a competition juried by peers from the journalism industry.
Recipients of the award receive a certificate and $1000. The Cornelius Ryan Award is one of 25 different awards currently given by the OPC for excellence in journalism at their annual award dinner, usually held at the end of April. The award is named for the journalist and author Cornelius Ryan, who himself, twice received this, his own namesake award.
In 2009 the judges were Chris Power, Robert Dowling, and Robert Teitelman.
YearAuthorTitle
1957David SchoenbrunAs France Goes
1958John GuntherInside Russia Today
1959Cornelius RyanThe Longest Day
1960William L. ShirerThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1961John TolandBut Not in Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor
1962Seymour FreidinThe Forgotten People: An Eye Witness Account of the People in the Iron Curtain Countries of Europe from 1945-1961
1963Dan KurzmanSubversion of the Innocents: Patterns of Communist Penetration in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia
1964Robert TrumbullThe Scrutable East: A Correspondent's Report on Southeast Asia
1965Robert ShaplenThe Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946–1966
1966Welles HangenThe Muted Revolution: East Germany's Challenge to Russia and the West
1967George F. KennanMemoirs, 1925–1950
1968George W. BallThe Discipline of Power: Essentials of a Modern World Structure
1969Townsend HoopesThe Limits of Intervention: An Inside Account of How the Johnson Policy of Escalation in Vietnam was Reversed
1970John TolandThe Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945
1971Anthony AustinThe President's War: The Story of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and How the Nation was Trapped in Vietnam
1972David HalberstamThe Best and the Brightest
1973C.L. SulzbergerAn Age of Mediocrity: Memoirs and Diaries, 1963–1972
1974Cornelius RyanA Bridge Too Far
1975Phillip KnightleyThe First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker from the Crimea to Vietnam
1976John TolandAdolf Hitler
1977David McCulloughThe Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914
1978Tad SzulcThe Illusion of Peace: Foreign Policy in the Nixon Years
1979Peter WydenBay of Pigs: The Untold Story
1980Dan KurzmanMiracle of November: Madrid's Epic Stand, 1936
1981Pierre SalingerAmerica Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations
1982Fox Butterfield'
1983David Shipler'
1984Kevin KloseRussia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society
1985Joseph LelyveldMove Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
1986Tad Szulc'
1987Raymond BonnerWaltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy
1988Whitman BassowThe Moscow Correspondents: Reporting on Russia from the Revolution to Glasnost
1989Thomas FriedmanFrom Beirut to Jerusalem
1990Tad Szulc'
1991Sam Dillon'
1992Misha GlennyThe Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War
1993Mary Anne Weaver'
1994Michael IgnatieffBlood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism
1995Roger WarnerBack Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and It's Link to the War in Vietnam
1996Peter MaasLove Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
1997Patrick Smith'
1998Philip GourevitchWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
1999Thomas L. FriedmanThe Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
2000A. J. LangguthOur Vietnam: The War 1954–1975
2001Mark BowdenKilling Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
2002John LaurenceThe Cat from Hué: A Vietnam War Story
2003Milt Bearden,
James Risen
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
2004Steve CollGhost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
2005George Packer'
2006Rajiv ChandrasekaranImperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
2007Bob DroginCurveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War
2008Dexter FilkinsThe Forever War
2009David FinkelThe Good Soldiers
2010Oliver Bullough'
2011Robin Wright'
2012Peter Bergen'
2013Jonathan M. Katz'
2014Evan Osnos'
2015Tom Burgis'
2016Arkady Ostrovsky'
2017Suzy Hansen'
2018Rania Abouzeid