Grammy Award

Best Spoken Word Album

Grammy Awards are given out annually.  The Spoken Word category has been given out, under various category names, since the 1958 inception of the awards.  For a complete listing of the category, see the Grammy Awards website.

	2006 Jimmy Carter. Read by Jimmy Carter Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis Sometimes differing with his own Southern Baptist denomination, Carter expresses his personal view on abortion, capital punishment, homosexuality, women's rights, environmentalism, evolution, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, pre-emptive war, fundamentalism, and the mixing of religion and politics. (Unabridged CD)
	2006 Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee. Read by Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together On the one-year anniversary of Ossie Davis's death comes this "sassy and sage" ("Ebony") look back at a half-century of Ossie and Ruby's personal and political struggles. (Abridged CD)
	2005 Barack Obama. Read by Barack Obama. Dreams From My Father In New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. (Abridged CD)
	2004 Bill Clinton. Read by Bill Clinton. My Life An account of Clinton's life through the White House years. (Abridged Cassette & CD)
	2003 Al Franken. Read by Al Franken. Lies and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right Satirist Al Franken examines the political right, and uses their own words against them, taking on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)
	2002 Maya Angelou. Read by Maya Angelou. A Song Flung Up to Heaven The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. (Unabridged CD)
	2001 Quincy Jones. Read by Quincy Jones. Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Jones finally tells it all, from the glamour of the high life and his string of glittering achievements to the private pain and struggles. This impressive self-portrait from one of the master makers of American culture encompasses an astonishing cast of show business giants and tells what amounts to one of the great African-American success stories of the century. (Abridged CD)
	2000 Sidney Poitier. Read by Sidney Poitier. The Measure Of A Man In this candid and spiritual memoir, the legendary actor and star of more than 40 films reflects on life itself as he reveals the spiritual depth, passion, and intellectual fervor that has driven his remarkable life. (Unabridged Cassette)
	1999 Martin Luther King. Jr. Read by LeVar Burton. The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
	1998 Christopher Reeve. Read by Christopher Reeve. Still Me This is the determined, passionate story of one man, a gifted actor and star, and how he and his family came to grips with the kind of devastating, unexplainable shock that fate can bring to any of us. Chris and Dana Reeve have gathered the will and the spirit to create a new life, one responsive and engaged and focused on the future. (Abridged Cassette)
	1997 Charles Kuralt. Charles Kuralt's Spring In Charles Kuralt's Spring , he disposes with winter's chill by recounting some of the most miraculous rites of spring he has witnessed over the years. (Cassette)
	1996 Hillary Rodham Clinton. Read by Hillary Rodham Clinton. It Takes A Village Describes the author's view that how children develop and what they need to succeed is inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and individuals. (Abridged Cassette)
	1995 Maya Angelou. Read by Maya Angelou. Phenomenal Woman
	1994 Henry Rollins. Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag
	1993 Maya Angelou. Read by Maya Angelou. On The Pulse Of Morning Poem written for President Bill Clinton's first inauguration. (Unabridged Cassette)
	1992 Earvin "Magic" Johnson. Read by Earvin Johnson & Robert O'Keefe. What You Can Do To Avoid Aids
	1991 Ken Burns. Read by Ken Burns. The Civil War Companion to PBS's phenomenally successful 9-part series of the same name. Here are glimpses into the lives of soldiers, slaves, and families who willingly fought against their own kin. (Abridged Cassette)
	1990 George Burns. Read by George Burns. Gracie - A Love Story George Burns recalls his marriage to, and show business partnership with, comedienne Gracie Allen. Includes excerpts from various Burns and Allen comedy routines. (Abridged Cassette)
	1989 Gilda Radner. Read by Gilda Radner. It's Always Something Her characters on "Saturday Night Live" made America laugh. Her storybook marriage to actor Gene Wilder played like a match made in Hollywood heaven. But then Gilda Radner discovered she had cancer. This is the inspirational story of her struggle towards wellness- a private, personal battle in which the humor and humanity that touched millions became her most powerful weapon. (Abridged Cassette)
	1988 Jesse Jackson. Speech By Rev. Jesse Jackson
	1987 Garrison Keillor. Read by Garrison Keillor. Lake Wobegon Days Learn about the statue of the Unknown Norwegian and why Lake Wobegon never made it onto the map, and many other small-town stories. (Cassette)
	1986 Johnny Cash, et. al. Interviews From The Class Of '55 Recording Sessions
	1985 August Wilson. Performed by the Original Broadway Cast. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
	1984 Ghandi. Read by Ben Kingsley. The Words Of Gandhi