Honor roll: National Book Award for Biography authors
Each of these authors has been nominated for a National Book Award for Biography. They are ranked by honors given those books nominated for the aforementioned award.
| 1 | Ronald Steel (20.32) | 7 | James R. Mellow (10.33) | 13 | Lauren Bacall (10.3) |
| 2 | David McCullough (20.32) | 8 | Judith Thurman (10.33) | 14 | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (10.29) |
| 3 | Edmund Morris (20.3) | 9 | Deirdre Bair (10.31) | 15 | W.A. Swanberg (10.27) |
| 4 | Walter Jackson Bate (20.28) | 10 | Justin Kaplan (10.31) | 16 | Richard B. Sewall (10.25) |
| 5 | John Clive (20.24) | 11 | Malcolm Cowley (10.3) | 17 | Douglas Day (10.24) |
| 6 | Joseph Lash (20.22) | 12 | A. Scott Berg (10.3) | 18 | James Thomas Flexner (10.23) |
