Amy Stanley‘s Stranger in the Shogun’s City (Scribner, 2020) has been named a best book of the year by the Economist, New Statesman and Times of London as well as the Washington Post, besides being shortlisted for the Baillie-Gifford prize (the UK’s most prestigious prize for non-fiction—Stanley was the only American on the list). It was nominated for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award. It has now also won the National Book Critics Circle prize for Biography and the Jacqueline Bograd Weld PEN prize for biography, while also being named a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer in Biography.