Honor roll: National Book Award for History authors
Each of these authors has been nominated for a National Book Award for History. They are ranked by honors given those books nominated for the aforementioned award.
| 1 | Leon F. Litwack (20.31) | 7 | John Boswell (10.31) | 13 | Bernard Bailyn (10.25) |
| 2 | John Clive (20.24) | 8 | Henry A. Kissinger (10.3) | 14 | Isaiah Trunk (10.23) |
| 3 | Frank Edward Manuel (10.33) | 9 | Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (10.3) | 15 | Robert Myers (10.23) |
| 4 | Alan Brinkley (10.33) | 10 | Richard Beale Davis (10.29) | 16 | Allan Nevins (10.22) |
| 5 | Peter J. Powell (10.32) | 11 | David McCullough (10.28) | ||
| 6 | Robert Wohl (10.32) | 12 | Irving Howe (10.27) |
