Former President Jimmy Carter on Monday received his seventh Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album for the audiobook version of his memoir, A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety, which he also narrated.
This news comes a day after the 91-year-old Carter, who had been undergoing radiation treatment for melanoma that had spread from his liver to his brain, announced he has been declared cancer-free.
He will be competing against rocker Patti Smith’s reading of Blood on Snow, former talk show host Dick Cavett’s autobiography Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks, songwriter Janis Ian’s narration of Patience and Sarah, and actress Amy Poehler’s tell-all Yes Please.
Carter won his only Best Spoken Word Grammy in 2007 for writing and narrating the audiobook Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis.
He was nominated last year for his work on A Call to Action: Women, Religion Violence, and Power, though he lost to Joan Rivers’ posthumous win for Diary of a Mad Diva. His other nominations came in 1998 for Living Faith, 1999 for The Virtues of Aging, 2002 for An Hour Before Daylight and 2008 for Sunday Mornings in Plains (which lost to President Obama’s The Audacity of Hope).
Carter is one of three presidents to win a Grammy for Best Spoken Word, the other two being Obama (who also won as a senator in 2006 for Dreams from My Father) and Bill Clinton in 2005 for My Life. Recordings of Franklin Roosevelt (1961 for FDR Speaks) and John F. Kennedy (1966 for John F. Kennedy — As We Remember Him) were also honored by Grammy voters.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton also has a Best Spoken Word Grammy win under her belt, in 2007 for It Takes a Village.
Carter will find out if he adds another Grammy win to his trophy collection when the annual awards show airs Feb. 15, 2016, on CBS.
