Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959. The category now also includes audio books, poetry readings and story telling.

Three United States Presidents have won the award: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, along with spoken recordings of John F. Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Four U.S. Senators have won: Barack Obama, Everett Dirksen, Al Franken, and Hillary Clinton.

Grammy Award For Best Spoken Word Album Media

• Stan Freberg 1956.jpg

  Stan Freberg was the first recipient of the award in 1959.

• Carl Sandburg NYWTS.jpg

  Carl Sandburg received the award in 1960.

• Leonard Bernstein - 1950s.JPG

  Leonard Bernstein received the award in 1962.

• Charles Laughton-publicity2.JPG

  Charles Laughton received the award in 1963.

• Edward R. Murrow.jpg

  Edward R. Murrow received the award in 1967.

• Martin Luther King Jr with medallion NYWTS.jpg

  Martin Luther King Jr. won the award posthumously in 1971 for Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam.

• Richard Harris 2.jpg

  Richard Harris won the award in 1974.

• Peter Cook Dudley Moore Kraft Music Hall1.jpg

  Peter Cook & Dudley Moore won the award in 1975.

• James Whitmore.jpg

  James Whitmore won the award in 1976.

• Orson Welles 1937.jpg

  Director Orson Welles received the award twice, in 1977 and 1979.

Other websites

• Official website