The Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
		The Award
		Winners and Nominees
		Previous Winners

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch

1998

Anatomy of a Miracle
by Patti Waldmeir

1997

The Song of the Dodo
by David Quammen

1996

The Haunted Land
by Tina Rosenberg

1995

A Piece of the Action
by Joseph Nocera

1994

Lenin's Tomb
by David Remnick

1993

Upon This Rock
by Samuel Freedman

1992

There Are No Children Here
by Alex Kotlowitz

1991

The Promised Land
by Nicholas Lemann

1990

From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas Friedman

1989

Judy Woodruff
For her series of television reports focusing on the Iran-Contra affair

1988

James Reston
In special recognition of his 50-year contribution to journalism