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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are the preeminent literary awards in the United States, presented annually for the best book by a living US citizen published in the United States.

The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and is presently awarded 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 other categories. The winners, selected in each category by five-member, independent judging panels, each receive a US$ 10,000 cash prize and a crystal sculpture.

Contents

Winners of the National Book Awards

Current categories

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
1973 John Williams Augustus
1974 Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
1974 Isaac Bashevis Singer A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
1975 Robert Stone Dog Soldiers
1975 Thomas Williams The Hair of Harold Roux
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
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

Nonfiction

1950 Ralph L. Rusk Ralph Waldo Emerson (article on Ralph Waldo Emerson)
1951 Newton Arvin Herman Melville (article on 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 (article on Edward Coke)
1959 J. Christopher Herold
1960 Richard Ellmann James Joyce (article on James Joyce}
1961 William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1962 Lewis Mumford
1963 Leon Edel
1984 Robert V. Remini Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 (article on Andrew Jackson)
1985 J. Anthony Lukas
1986 Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams
1987 Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atom Bomb
1988 Neil Sheehan (article on John Paul Vann)
1989 Thomas L. Friedman From Beirut to Jerusalem
1990 Ron Chernow
1991 Orlando Patterson Freedom
1992 Paul Monette
1993 Gore Vidal
1994 Sherwin B. Nuland
1995 Tina Rosenberg
1996 James Carroll
1997 Joseph J. Ellis
1998 Edward Ball Slaves in the Family
1999 John W. Dower
2000 Nathaniel Philbrick
2001 Andrew Solomon
2002 Robert A. Caro Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
2003 Carlos Eire
2004 Kevin Boyle

Poetry

1950 William Carlos Williams
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
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
1967 James Merrill Nights and Days
1968 Robert Bly The Light Around the Body
1969 John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
1970 Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems
1971 Mona Van Duyn To See, To Take
1972 Howard Moss Selected Poems
1972 Frank O'Hara The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara
1973 A. R. Ammons Collected Poems, 1951-1971
1974 Allen Ginsberg
1974 Adrienne Rich
1975 Marilyn Hacker Presentation Piece
1976 John Ashbery Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror
1977 Richard Eberhart Collected Poems, 1930-1976
1978 Howard Nemerov The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
1979 James Merrill
1980 Philip Levine Ashes
1981 Lisel Mueller The Need to Hold Still
1982 William Bronk
1983 Galway Kinnell Selected Poems
1983 Charles Wright
1991 Philip Levine What Work Is
1992 Mary Oliver New & Selected Poems
1993 A. R. Ammons Garbage
1994 James Tate A Worshipful Company of Fletchers
1995 Stanley Kunitz
1996 Hayden Carruth Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
1997 William Meredith
1998 Gerald Stern
1999 Ai
2000 Lucille Clifton
2001 Alan Dugan
2002 Ruth Stone In the Next Galaxy
2003 C.K. Williams The Singing
2004 Jean Valentine

Young People's Literature

1996 Victor Martinez
1997 Han Nolan Dancing on the Edge
1998 Louis Sachar Holes
1999 Kimberly Willis Holt When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
2000 Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird
2001 Virginia Euwer Wolff True Believer
2002 Nancy Farmer The House of the Scorpion
2003 Polly Horvath The Canning Season
2004 Pete Hautman Godless

Previous categories

In 1964, the categories Arts and Letters, History and Biography & Science, Philosophy and Religion categories had the addendum (Nonfiction).

In 1981, Children's Books, Fiction was called Children's Book, Fiction; and in 1983 it was called Children's Fiction.

In 1981, Children's Books, Non-fiction was called Children's Book, Nonfiction.

In 1983 Children's Books, Picture Books was called Children's Books, Picture Books.

First Novel

1980 William Wharton Birdy
1981 Ann Arensberg Sister Wolf
1982 Robb Forman Dew Dale Loves Sophie to Death
1983 Gloria Naylor The Women of Brewster Place

First Work of Fiction

1984 Harriet Doerr Stones for Ibarra
1985 Bob Shacochis Easy in the Islands

Science Fiction

1980 Hardcover Frederik Pohl Jem
1980 Paperback Walter Wangerin, Jr. The Book of the Dun Cow

Mystery

1980 Hardcover John D. MacDonald The Green Ripper

Western

1980 Louis L'Amour Bendigo Shafter

Original Paperback

1983 Lisa Goldstein The Red Magician

General Nonfiction

1980 Hardcover Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff
1980 Paperback Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard
1981 Hardcover Maxine Hong Kingston China Men
1981 Paperback Jane Kramer The Last Cowboy
1982 Hardcover Tracy Kidder The Soul of a New Machine
1982 Paperback Victor S. Navasky Naming Names
1983 Hardcover Fox Butterfield
1983 Paperback James Fallows National Defense

Arts and Letters

1964 Aileen Ward
1965 Eleanor Clark Oysters of Lockmariaquer
1966 Janet Flanner Paris Journal, 1944-1965
1967 Justin Kaplan
1968 William Troy Selected Essays
1969 Norman Mailer
1970 Lillian Hellman
1971 Francis Steegmuller
1972 Charles Rosen
1973 Arthur M. Wilson Diderot
1974 Pauline Kael Deeper into the Movies
1975 Roger Shattuck Marcel Proust
1975 Lewis Thomas (also won The Sciences award)
1976 Paul Fussell The Great War and Modern Memory

History and Biography

1964 William H. McNeill
1965 Louis Fischer The Life of Lenin
1966 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. A Thousand Days
1967 Peter Gay
1968 George F. Kennan
1969 Winthrop D. Jordan
1970 T. Harry Williams Huey Long
1971 James MacGregor Burns
1976 David Brion Davis The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

History

1972 Allan Nevins
1973 Robert Manson Myers The Children of Pride Isaiah Trunk
1973 Isaiah Trunk Judenrat
1974 John Clive (also won Biography award)
1975 Bernard Bailyn The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (article on Thomas Hutchinson)
1977 Irving Howe World of Our Fathers
1978 David McCullough
1979 Richard Beale Davis Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763
1980 Hardcover Henry A. Kissinger The White House
1980 Paperback Barbara W. Tuchman
1981 Hardcover John Boswell Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
1981 Paperback Leon F. Litwak
1982 Hardcover Father Peter John Powell
1982 Paperback Robert Wohl The Generation of 1914
1983 Hardcover Alan Brinkley
1983 Paperback Frank E. Manuel & Fritzie P. Manuel Utopian Thought in the Western World

Biography

1972 Joseph P. Lash
1973 James Thomas Flexner
1974 John Clive (also won History award)
1974 Douglas Day
1975 Richard B. Sewall The Life of Emily Dickinson
1980 Hardcover Edmund Morris The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
1980 Paperback A. Scott Berg

Biography and Autobiography

1977 W. A. Swanberg
1978 W. Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson
1979 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Robert Kennedy and His Times

Autobiography

1980 Hardcover Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall by Myself
1980 Paperback Malcolm Cowley

Autobiography/Biography

1981 Hardcover Justin Kaplan Walt Whitman
1981 Paperback Deirdre Bair Samuel Beckett
1982 Hardcover David McCullough Mornings on Horseback
1982 Paperback Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American Century
1983 Hardcover Judith Thurman
1983 Paperback James R. Mellow Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time

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
1967 Oscar Lewis La Vida
1968 Jonathan Kozol Death at an Early Age

The Sciences

1969 Robert J. Lifton
1971 Raymond Phineas Sterns Science in the British Colonies of America
1972 George L. Small The Blue Whale
1973 George B. Schaller
1974 S. E. Luria
1975 Silvano Arieti Interpretation of Schizophrenia
1975 Lewis Thomas (also won Arts and Letters award)

Science

1980 Hardcover Douglas Hofstadter
1980 Paperback Gary Zukav
1981 Hardcover Stephen Jay Gould
1981 Paperback Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail
1982 Hardcover Donald C. Johanson & Maitland A. Edey
1982 Paperback Fred Alan Wolf
1983 Hardcover Abraham Pais
1983 Paperback Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh The Mathematical Experience
1983 Paperback Joyce Carol Thomas Marked by Fire

Philosophy and Religion

1970 Erik H. Erikson
1972 Martin E. Marty
1973 S. E. Ahlstrom A Religious History of the American People
1974 Maurice Natanson
1975 Robert Nozick Anarchy, State and Utopia

Religion/Inspiration

1980 Hardcover Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Gospels
1980 Paperback Sheldon Vanauken A Severe Mercy

Contemporary Affairs

1972 Stewart Brand (ed.) The Last Whole Earth Catalogue
1973 Frances FitzGerald
1974 Murray Kempton The Briar Patch
1975 Theodore Rosengarten
1976 Michael J. Arlen Passage to Ararat

Contemporary Thought

1977 Bruno Bettelheim
1978 Gloria Emerson Winners & Losers
1979 Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard

Current Interest

1980 Hardcover Julia Child Julia Child and More Company
1980 Paperback Christopher Lasch The Culture of Narcissism

General Reference Books

1980 Hardcover Elder Witt (ed.) The Complete Directory
1980 Paperback Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh

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
1970 Ralph Manheim Celine's Castle to Castle
1971 Frank Jones Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards
1971 Edward G. Seidensticker Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of The Mountain
1972 Austryn Wainhouse Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity
1973 Allen Mandelbaum The Aeneid of Virgil
1974 Karen Brazell The Confessions of Lady Nijo
1974 Helen R. Lane Octavio Paz's Alternating Current
1974 Jackson Matthews Paul Valery's Monsieur Teste
1975 Anthony Kerrigan Miguel D. Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith
1977 Li-Li Ch'en Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance
1978 Howard Nemerov Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth
1979 Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubin Barcia Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry
1980 William Arrowsmith Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor
1980 Jane Gary Harris & Constance Link Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters
1981 Francis Steegmuller The Letters of Gustave Flaubert
1981 John E. Woods Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold
1982 Robert Lyons Danly Higuchi Ichiyo's In the Shade of Spring Leaves
1982 Ian Hideo Levy
1983 Richard Howard Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal

Children's Literature

1969 Meindert DeJong Journey from Peppermint Street
1976 Walter D. Edmonds Bert Breen's Barn
1977 Katherine Paterson The Master Puppeteer
1978 Judith & Herbert Kohl The View From the Oak
1979 Katherine Paterson The Great Gilly Hopkins

Children's Books

1970 Isaac Bashevis Singer
1971 Lloyd Alexander The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
1972 Donald Barthelme The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn
1973 Ursula K. LeGuin The Farthest Shore
1974 Eleanor Cameron The Court of the Stone Children
1975 Virginia Hamilton M. C. Higgins the Great
1980 Hardcover Joan W. Blos
1980 Paperback Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Children's Books, Fiction

1981 Hardcover Betsy Byars The Night Swimmers
1981 Paperback Beverly Cleary Ramona and Her Mother
1982 Hardcover Lloyd Alexander Westmark
1982 Paperback Ouida Sebestyen Words by Heart
1983 Hardcover Jean Fritz
1983 Paperback Paula Fox A Place Apart
1983 Paperback Joyce Carol Thomas Marked by Fire

Children's Books, Non-fiction

1981 Hardcover Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence Mali -- Oh, Boy! Babies
1982 Susan Bonners A Penguin Year
1983 James Cross Giblin Chimney Sweeps

Children's Books, Picture Books

1982 Hardcover Maurice Sendak Outside Over There
1982 Paperback Peter Spier Noah's Ark
1983 Hardcover Barbara Cooney Miss Rumphius
1983 Hardcover William Steig Doctor De Soto
1983 Paperback Mary Ann Hoberman & Betty Fraser (ill.) A House is a House for Me

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