Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
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The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959. The award 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
- Since it has been awarded as Best Spoken Word Album
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for music released in the previous year.
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2000s
- Grammy Awards of 2005
- Bill Clinton for My Life
- Grammy Awards of 2004
- Paul Ruben (producer) & Al Franken for Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
- Grammy Awards of 2003
- Charles B. Potter (producer) & Maya Angelou for A Song Flung Up to Heaven
- Grammy Awards of 2002
- Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers) & Elisa Shokoff (producer) & Quincy Jones for Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
- Grammy Awards of 2001
- Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) & Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man
- Grammy Awards of 2000
- LeVar Burton for The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1990s
- Grammy Awards of 1999
- Christopher Reeve for Still Me
- Grammy Awards of 1998
- Charles Kuralt for Charles Kuralt's Spring
- Grammy Awards of 1997
- Hillary Rodham Clinton for It Takes a Village
- Grammy Awards of 1996
- Maya Angelou for Phenomenal Woman
- Grammy Awards of 1995
- Henry Rollins for Get in the Van - On the Road With Black Flag
- Grammy Awards of 1994
- Maya Angelou for On the Pulse of Morning
- Grammy Awards of 1993
- Earvin "Magic" Johnson & Robert O'Keefe for What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS
- Grammy Awards of 1992
- Ken Burns for The Civil War
- Grammy Awards of 1991
- George Burns for Gracie - A Love Story
- Grammy Awards of 1990
- Gilda Radner for It's Always Something
1980s
- Grammy Awards of 1989
- Jesse Jackson for Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson
- Grammy Awards of 1988
- Garrison Keillor for Lake Wobegon Days
- Grammy Awards of 1987
- Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins & Sam Phillips for Interviews From the Class of '55 Recording Sessions
- Grammy Awards of 1986
- Mike Berniker (producer) & the original Broadway cast for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Grammy Awards of 1985
- Ben Kingsley for The Words of Gandhi
- Grammy Awards of 1984
- William Warfield for Copland: A Lincoln Portrait
- Grammy Awards of 1983
- Tom Voegeli (producer) for Raiders of the Lost Ark - The Movie on Record performed by various artists
- Grammy Awards of 1982
- Orson Welles for Donovan's Brain
- Grammy Awards of 1981
- Pat Carroll for Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein
- Grammy Awards of 1980
- John Gielgud for Ages of Man - Readings From Shakespeare
1970s
- Grammy Awards of 1979
- Orson Welles for Citizen Kane
- Grammy Awards of 1978
- Julie Harris for The Belle of Amherst
- Grammy Awards of 1977
- Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones & Orson Welles for Great American Documents
- Grammy Awards of 1976
- James Whitmore for Give 'Em Hell Harry
- Grammy Awards of 1975
- Peter Cook & Dudley Moore for Good Evening
- Grammy Awards of 1974
- Richard Harris for Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Grammy Awards of 1973
- Bruce Botnick (producer) for Lenny performed by the original cast
- Grammy Awards of 1972
- Les Crane for Desiderata
- Grammy Awards of 1971
- Martin Luther King Jr. for Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam
- Grammy Awards of 1970
- Art Linkletter & Diane Linkletter for We Love You Call Collect
1960s
- Grammy Awards of 1969
- Rod McKuen for Lonesome Cities
- Grammy Awards of 1968
- Everett M. Dirksen for Gallant Men
- Grammy Awards of 1967
- Edward R. Murrow for Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I The War Years
- Grammy Awards of 1966
- Goddard Lieberson (producer) for John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Him
- Grammy Awards of 1965
- That Was The Week That Was for BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy performed by the That Was the Week That Was cast
- Grammy Awards of 1964
- Edward Albee (playwright) for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? performed by Melinda Dillon, George Grizzard, Uta Hagen & Arthur Hill
- Grammy Awards of 1963
- Charles Laughton for The Story-Teller: A Session With Charles Laughton
- Grammy Awards of 1962
- Leonard Bernstein for Humor in Music
- Grammy Awards of 1961
- Robert Bialek (producer) for FDR Speaks
- Grammy Awards of 1960
- Carl Sandburg for A Lincoln Portrait
1950s
- Grammy Awards of 1959
- Stan Freberg for The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows