"Who won Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Awards in 2006 and 2008 for abridged audiobook versions of his books ""Dreams from My Father"" and ""The Audacity of Hope""?"
Dreams from My Father 50 years." Michiko Kakutani, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for "The New York Times", described it as "the most evocative, lyrical and candid autobiography written by a future president." The audiobook edition earned Obama the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2006. Five days before being sworn in as President in 2009, Obama secured a $500,000 advance for an abridged version of "Dreams from My Father" for middle-school-aged children. In 2011, "Time Magazine" listed the book on its top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. Dreams from My Father Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for works containing quality "spoken word" performances aimed at children. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position." The award was