The English-Speaking Union of the United States' The 2007 Ambassador Book Award ceremony was a gala event held at New York's Century Association, attended by ABA-winning authors Amy Hempel, Donald Antrim, Louise Glück and Debby Applegate. Each is widely regarded as one of America's major writers. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills was also present to receive a special award for Lifetime Achievement. 2007 Winners: American Studies: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl; Timothy Egan, Houghton Mifflin Autobiography: The Afterlife: A Memoir; Donald Antrim ◊, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Biography The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher; Debby Applegate ◊, Doubleday Current Affairs: Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq; Thomas E. Ricks; Penguin Press Fiction: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel; Amy Hempel ◊; Scribner Poetry: Averno; Louise Glück ◊; Farrar, Straus & Giroux LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Garry Wills ◊ ◊ Attended the Ceremony 2007 Ambassador Book Award Winners:(l to r) Donald Atrim, Debby Applegate, Garry Wills, Louise Glück, Amy Hempel   The Ambassador Book Awards Committee