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the
National Book Awards
"The National Book Awards began in 1950, when a consortium of book
publishing groups sponsored the first annual National Book Awards
Ceremony and Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
Their goal was to enhance the public's awareness of exceptional
books written by fellow Americans, and to increase the popularity
of reading in general.
"Since then, The National Book Awards have become one of the nation's
preeminent literary prizes, and The National Book Awards Ceremony
and Dinner one of the most important event on the country's literary
calendar. Today, the Awards are given to recognize achievements
in four genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's
Literature. The Winners, selected by five-member, independent judging
panels for each genre, receive a $10,000 cash award."
--adapted from the National Book Foundation's web site, 8/99.
The award winners in Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction are presented
below.
Click on any title for more information or to order.
I. Fiction awards
1950 - Algren, Nelson. The
Man with the Golden Arm.
1951 - Faulkner, William. The
Collected Stories of William Faulkner.
1952 - Jones, James. From
Here to Eternity.
1953 - Ellison, Ralph. Invisible
Man.
1954 - Bellow, Saul. The
Adventures of Augie March.
1955 - Faulkner, William. A
Fable.
1956 - O'Hara, John. Ten
North Frederick.
1957 - Morris, Wright. The
Field of Vision.
1958 - Cheever, John. The
Wapshot Chronicle.
1959 - Malamud, Bernard. The
Magic Barrel.
1960 - Roth, Philip. Goodbye,
Columbus.
1961 - Richter, Conrad. The
Waters of Kronos.
1962 - Percy, Walker. The
Moviegoer.
1963 - Powers, J. F.. Morte
D'Urban.
1964 - Updike, John. The
Centaur.
1965 - Bellow, Saul. Herzog.
1966 - Porter, Katherine Anne. The
Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter.
1967 - Malamud, Bernard. The
Fixer.
1968 - Wilder, Thornton. The
Eighth Day.
1969 - Kosinski, Jerzy. Steps.
1970 - Oates, Joyce Carol. Them.
1971 - Bellow, Saul. Mr.
Sammler's Planet.
1972 - O'Connor, Flannery. The
Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor.
1973 - Barth, John. Augustus.
1973 - Williams, John. Chimera.
1974 - Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's
Rainbow.
1974 - Singer, Isaac Bashevis. A
Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.
1975 - Stone, Robert. Dog
Soldiers.
1975 - Williams, Thomas. The
Hair of Harold Roux.
1976 - Gaddis, William. Jr.
1977 - Stegner, Wallace. The
Spectator Bird.
1978 - Settle, Mary Lee. Blood
Tie.
1979 - O'Brien, Tim. Going
After Cacciato.
1980 - Irving, John. The
World According to Garp.
1980 - Styron, William. Sophie's
Choice.
1981 - Cheever, John. The
Stories of John Cheever.
1981 - Morris, Wright. Plains
Song.
1982 - Maxwell, William. So
Long, See You Tomorrow.
1982 - Updike, John. Rabbit
Is Rich.
1983 - Walker, Alice. The
Color Purple.
1983 - Welty, Eudora. Collected
Stories of Eudora Welty.
1984 - Gilchrist, Ellen. Victory
over Japan.
1985 - DeLillo, Don. White
Noise.
1986 - Doctorow, E. L.. World's
Fair.
1987 - Heinemann, Larry. Paco's
Story.
1988 - Dexter, Pete. Paris
Trout.
1989 - Casey, John. Spartina.
1990 - Johnson, Charles. Middle
Passage.
1991 - Rush, Norman. Mating.
1992 - McCarthy, Cormac. All
the Pretty Horses.
1993 - Proulx, E. Annie. The
Shipping News.
1994 - Gaddis, William. A
Frolic of His Own.
1995 - Roth, Philip. Sabbath's
Theater.
1996 - Barrett, Andrea. Ship
Fever and Other Stories.
1997 - Frazier, Charles. Cold
Mountain.
1998 - McDermott, Alice. Charming
Billy .
1999 - Jin, Ha. Waiting.
2000 - Sontag, Susan. In America.
1999 - Jin, Ha. Waiting.
II. Poetry awards
1950 - Williams, William Carlos. Paterson.
1951 - Stevens, Wallace. The
Auroras of Autumn.
1952 - Moore, Marianne. Collected
Poems.
1953 - MacLeish, Archibald. Collected
Poems, 1917-1982.
1954 - Aitken, Conrad. Collected
Poems.
1955 - Stevens, Wallace. The
Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens.
1956 - Auden, W. H.. The
Shield of Achilles.
1957 - Wilbur, Richard. Things
of the World.
1958 - Warren, Robert Penn. Promises.
1959 - Roethke, Theodore. Words
for the Wind.
1960 - Lowell, Robert. Life
Studies.
1961 - Jarrell, Randall. The
Woman at the Washington Zoo.
1962 - Dugan, Alan. Poems.
1963 - Stafford, William. Traveling
Through the Dark.
1964 - Ransom, John Crowe. Selected
Poems.
1965 - Roethke, Theodore. The
Far Field.
1966 - Dickey, James. Buckdancer's
Choice.
1967 - Merrill, James. Nights
and Days.
1968 - Bly, Robert. The
Light Around the Body.
1969 - Berryman, John. His
Toy, His Dream, His Rest.
1970 - Bishop, Elizabeth. The
Complete Poems.
1971 - Duyn, Mona Van. To
See, to Take.
1972 - O'Hara, Frank. The
Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara (ed. by Howard Moss)
1973 - Ammons, A. R.. Collected
Poems, 1951-1971.
1974 - Ginsberg, Allen. The
Fall of America.
1974 - Rich, Adrienne. Driving
into the Wreck . (poetry]
1975 - Hacker, Marilyn. Presentation
Piece.
1976 - Ashbery, John. Self-Portrait
in a Convex Mirror.
1977 - Eberhart, Richard. Collected
Poems, 1930-1976.
1978 - Nemerov, Howard. The
Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov.
1979 - Merrill, James. Mirabell:
Books of Number.
1980 - Levine, Philip. Ashes.
1981 - Mueller, Lisel. The
Need to Hold Still.
1982 - Bronk, William. Life
Supports.
1983 - Kinnell, Galway. Selected
Poems.
1983 - Wright, Charles. Country
Music.
1991 - Levine, Philip. What
Work Is.
1992 - Oliver, Mary. New
and Selected Poems.
1993 - Ammons, A. R.. Garbage.
1994 - Tate, James. A
Worshipful Company of Fletchers.
1995 - Kunitz, Stanley. Passing
Through.
1996 - Carruth, Hayden. Scrambled
Eggs & Whiskey.
1997 - Meredith, William. Effort
at Speech.
1998 - Stern, Gerald. This
Time .
1999 - Ai. Vice:
New and Selected Poems.
III. Nonfiction awards
1950 - Rusk, Ralph L.. Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
1951 - Arvin, Newton. Herman
Melville.
1952 - Carson, Rachel. The
Sea Around Us.
1953 - Voto, Bernard A. De. The
Course of Empire.
1954 - Catton, Bruce. The
Stillness at Appomattox.
1955 - Krutch, Joseph Wood. The
Measure of Man.
1956 - Kubly, Herbert. An
American in Italy.
1957 - Kennan, George F.. Russia
Leaves the War.
1958 - Bowen, Catherine Drinker. The
Lion and the Throne.
1959 - Herold, J. Christopher. Mistress
to an Age.
1960 - Ellmann, Richard. James
Joyce.
1961 - Shirer, William L.. The
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
1962 - Mumford, Lewis. The
City in History.
1963 - Edel, Leon. Henry
James, Vol. II.
1980 - Matthiessen, Peter. The
Snow Leopard.
1980 - Wolfe, Tom. The
Right Stuff.
1981 - Kramer, Jane. The
Last Cowboy.
1982 - Kidder, Tracy. The
Soul of a New Machine.
1982 - Navasky, Victor S.. Naming
Names.
1983 - Butterfield, Fox. China:
Alive in the Bitter Sea.
1983 - Fallows, James. National
Defense.
1983 - Giblin, James Cross. Chimney
Sweeps.
1984 - Remini, Robert V.. Andrew
Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845.
1985 - Lukas, J. Anthony. Common
Ground.
1986 - Lopez, Barry. Arctic
Dreams.
1987 - Rhodes, Richard. The
Making of the Atomic Bomb.
1988 - Sheehan, Neil. A
Bright Shining Lie.
1989 - Friedman, Thomas L.. From
Beirut to Jerusalem.
1990 - Chernow, Ron. The
House of Morgan.
1991 - Patterson, Orlando. Freedom.
1992 - Monette, Paul. Becoming
a Man.
1993 - Vidal, Gore. United
States.
1994 - Nuland, Sherwin B.. How
We Die.
1995 - Rosenberg, Tina. The
Haunted Land.
1996 - Carroll, James. An
American Requiem.
1997 - Ellis, Joseph J.. American
Sphinx.
1998 - Ball, Edward. Slaves
in the Family .
1999 - Dower, John W. Embracing
Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II.
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