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Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording

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The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:

  • In 1959 the award was known as Best Performance, Documentary or Spoken Word
  • From 1960 to 1961 it was awarded as Best Performance – Documentary or Spoken Word (other than comedy)
  • From 1962 to 1963 it was awarded as Best Documentary or Spoken Word Recording (other than comedy)
  • From 1964 to 1965 it was awarded as Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording (other than comedy)
  • In 1966 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Drama Recording
  • From 1967 to 1968 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
  • From 1969 to 1979 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word Recording
  • From 1980 to 1983 it returned to the title of Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording
  • From 1984 to 1991 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording
  • From 1992 to 1997 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album
  • From 1998 to 2022 it was awarded as Best Spoken Word Album. In 2020, spoken-word children's albums were moved here from the Best Children's Album category.[1]
  • From 2023 it has been awarded as Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.[2] Poetry reading now has its own Grammy category, Best Spoken Word Poetry Album.
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Recipients

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Stan Freberg was the first recipient of the award in 1959.
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Carl Sandburg received the award in 1960.
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Leonard Bernstein received the award in 1962.
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Charles Laughton received the award in 1963.
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Edward R. Murrow received the award in 1967.
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Martin Luther King Jr. won the award posthumously in 1971 for Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam.
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Richard Harris won the award in 1974.
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Peter Cook & Dudley Moore won the award in 1975.
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James Whitmore won the award in 1976.
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Director Orson Welles received the award twice, in 1977 and 1979.
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James Earl Jones received the award in 1977.
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8-time nominee Sir John Gielgud received the award in 1980.
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William Warfield received the award in 1984.
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Actor Sir Ben Kingsley won for The Words of Gandhi in 1985.
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Garrison Keillor won the award in 1988.
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1990 award winner, comedian Gilda Radner.
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Comedian George Burns won the award in 1991.
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Documentarian Ken Burns won in 1992.
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Magic Johnson won in 1993.
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Three-time winner, American poet Maya Angelou.
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Former First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton won the award in 1997.
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Christopher Reeve won in 1999.
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LeVar Burton won the award in 2000.
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Actor Sidney Poitier won the award for his autobiography The Measure of a Man in 2001.
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Quincy Jones won in 2002.
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Former President of the United States Bill Clinton won in 2005.
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Two-time winner, former President of the United States Barack Obama won in 2006 and 2008.
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Four-time winner, former President of the United States Jimmy Carter.
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Michael J. Fox won in 2010.
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Jon Stewart won the award in 2011.
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2012 award winner, Betty White.
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Comedian Stephen Colbert won in 2014.
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Comedienne Joan Rivers won in 2015.
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Comedienne Carol Burnett won in 2017.
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Carrie Fisher won the award in 2018, posthumously.
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Former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama won in 2020 and 2024.
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Don Cheadle won for Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation from John Lewis in 2022.
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Viola Davis won the award in 2023 achieving the EGOT

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Multiple wins & nominations

The following individuals received two or more awards:

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The following individuals received three or more nominations:

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