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.^[1]

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 was the first recipient of the award in 1959.
Carl Sandburg received the award in 1960.
Poet Rod McKuen won the award for Lonesome Cities in 1969.
Martin Luther King Jr. won the award posthumously in 1971 for Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam.
Director Orson Welles received the award twice, in 1977 and 1979.
Actor Ben Kingsley won for The Words of Gandhi in 1985.
1990 award winner, comedian Gilda Radner.
Three-time winner, American poet Maya Angelou.
Hillary Clinton won the award in 1997.
Actor and director Sidney Poitier won the award for his autobiography The Measure of a Man in 2001.