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National Book Award

National Book Awards are annual literary awards presented since 1950 for the best American book published in the preceding year, presently in each of four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature. Over the years awards in several categories have been retired or subsumed into supercategories. To be eligible for entry, a book must be published in the United States and the author must be a living U.S. citizen. The winners, selected by five-member, independent judging panels for each genre, receive a $10,000 cash award and a crystal sculpture.

Contents

1 National Book Award Winners (Fiction) 2 National Book Award Winners (Nonfiction) 3 National Book Award Winners (Arts and Letters) 4 National Book Award Winners (History and Biography) 5 National Book Award Winners (Science, Philosophy and Religion) 6 National Book Award Winners (The Sciences) 7 National Book Award Winners (Poetry) 8 National Book Award Winners (Translation) 9 National Book Award Winners (Children's Literature) 10 External link

National Book Award Winners (Fiction)

1950	Nelson Algren	The Man With The Golden Arm
1951	William Faulkner	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
1952	James Jones	From Here to Eternity
1953	Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man
1954	Saul Bellow	The Adventures of Augie March
1955	William Faulkner	A Fable
1956	John O'Hara	Ten North Frederick
1957	Wright Morris	The Field of Vision
1958	John Cheever	The Wapshot Chronicle
1959	Bernard Malamud	The Magic Barre
1960	Philip Roth	Goodbye, Columbus
1961	Conrad Richter	The Waters of Kronos
1962	Walker Percy	The Moviegoer
1963	J. F. Powers	Morte D'Urban
1964	John Updike	The Centaur
1965	Saul Bellow	Herzog
1966	Katherine Anne Porter	The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
1967	Bernard Malamud	The Fixer
1968	Thornton Wilder	The Eighth Day
1969	Jerzy Kosinski	Steps
1970	Joyce Carol Oates	Them
1971	Saul Bellow	Mr. Sammler's Planet
1972	Flannery O'Connor	The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
1973	John Barth	Chimera
1974	Thomas Pynchon	Gravity's Rainbow
1975	Robert Stone	Dog Soldiers
1976	William Gaddis	Jr
1977	Wallace Stegner	The Spectator Bird
1978	Mary Lee Settle	Blood Ties
1979	Tim O'Brien	Going After Cacciato
1980 Hardcover	William Styron	Sophie's Choice
1980 Paperback	John Irving	The World According to Garp
1981 Hardcover	Wright Morris	Plains Song
1981 Paperback	John Cheever	The Stories of John Cheever
1982 Hardcover	John Updike	Rabbit is Rich
1982 Paperback	William Maxwell	So Long, See You Tomorrow
1983 Hardcover	Alice Walker	The Color Purple
1983 Paperback	Eudora Welty	Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1984	Ellen Gilchrist	Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
1985	Don DeLillo	White Noise
1986	E.L. Doctorow	World's Fair
1987	Larry Heinemann	Paco's Story
1988	Pete Dexter	Paris Trout
1989	John Casey	Spartina
1990	Charles Johnson	Middle Passage
1991	Norman Rush	Mating
1992	Cormac McCarthy	All the Pretty Horses
1993	E. Annie Proulx	The Shipping News
1994	William Gaddis	A Frolic of His Own
1995	Philip Roth	Sabbath's Theater
1996	Andrea Barrett	Ship Fever and Other Stories
1997	Charles Frazier	Cold Mountain
1998	Alice McDermott	Charming Billy
1999	Ha Jin	Waiting
2000	Susan Sontag	In America
2001	Jonathan Franzen	The Corrections
2002	Julia Glass	Three Junes
2003	Shirley Hazzard	The Great Fire
2004	Lily Tuck	The News from Paraguay

National Book Award Winners (Nonfiction)

1950	Ralph L. Rusk	Ralph Waldo Emerson
1951	Newton Arvin	Herman Melville
1952	Rachel Carson	The Sea Around Us
1953	Bernard A. De Voto	The Course of Empire
1954	Bruce Catton	A Stillness at Appomattox
1955	Joseph Wood Krutch	The Measure of Man
1956	Herbert Kubly	An American in Italy
1957	George F. Kennan	Russia Leaves the War
1958	Catherine Drinker Bowen	The Lion and the Throne
1959	J. Christopher Herold	Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael
1960	Richard Ellmann	James Joyce
1961	William L. Shirer	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1962	Lewis Mumford	The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects
1963	Leon Edel	Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years

National Book Award Winners (Arts and Letters)

1964	Aileen Ward	John Keats: The Making of a Poet
1965	Eleanor Clark	Oysters of Lockmariaquer
1966	Janet Flanner	Paris Journal, 1944-1965
1967	Justin Kaplan	Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
1968	William Troy	Selected Essays
1969	Norman Mailer	The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History

National Book Award Winners (History and Biography)

1964	William H. McNeill	The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
1965	Louis Fischer	The Life of Lenin
1966	Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr	A Thousand Days
1967	Peter Gay	The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism
1968	George F. Kennan	Memoirs: 1925-1950
1969	Winthrop D. Jordan	White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

National Book Award Winners (Science, Philosophy and Religion)

1964	Christopher Tunnard & Boris Pushkarev	Man-made America
1965	Norbert Wiener	God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
1966	No award given
1967	Oscar Lewis	La Vida
1968	Jonathan Kozol	Death at an Early Age

National Book Award Winners (The Sciences)

1969

Robert J. Lifton

Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima

National Book Award Winners (Poetry)

1950	William Carlos Williams	Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems
1951	Wallace Stevens	The Auroras of Autumn
1952	Marianne Moore	Collected Poems
1953	Archibald MacLeish	Collected Poems, 1917-1952
1954	Conrad Aiken	Collected Poems
1955	Wallace Stevens	The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
1956	W.H. Auden	The Shield of Achilles
1957	Richard Wilbur	Things of the World
1958	Robert Penn Warren	Promises: Poems, 1954-1956
1959	Theodore Roethke	Words for the Wind
1960	Robert Lowell	Life Studies
1961	Randall Jarrell	The Woman at the Washington Zoo
1962	Alan Dugan	Poems
1963	William Stafford	Traveling Through the Dark
1964	John Crowe Ransom	Selected Poems
1965	Theodore Roethke	The Far Field
1966	James Dickey	Buckdancer's Choice: Poems
1967	James Merrill	Nights and Days
1968	Robert Bly	The Light Around the Body
1969	John Berryman	His Toy, His Dream, His Rest

National Book Award Winners (Translation)

1967	Gregory Rabassa	Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch Willard Trask -- Casanova's History of My Life
1968	Howard & Edna Hong	Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers
1969	William Weaver	Calvino's Cosmicomics

National Book Award Winners (Children's Literature)

1969

Meindert DeJong

Journey from Peppermint Street

External link

• National Book Award website (http://www.nationalbook.org/nba.html)

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