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.

Winners of the National Book Awards

Current categories

Fiction

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

Nonfiction

1950>
a href="/encyclopedia/Ralph-L.-Rusk" title="Ralph L. Rusk">Ralph L. Rusk Ralph Waldo Emerson (article on Ralph Waldo Emerson)
b>1951 Newton Arvin Herman Melville (article on Herman Melville)
b>1952 Rachel Carson The Sea Around Us
b>1953 Bernard A. De Voto The Course of Empire
b>1954 Bruce Catton A Stillness at Appomattox
b>1955 Joseph Wood Krutch The Measure of Man
b>1956 Herbert Kubly An American in Italy
b>1957 George F. Kennan Russia Leaves the War
b>1958 Catherine Drinker Bowen The Lion and the Throne (article on Edward Coke)
b>1959 J. Christopher Herold
b>1960 Richard Ellmann James Joyce (article on James Joyce}
b>1961 William L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
b>1962 Lewis Mumford
b>1963 Leon Edel
b>1984 Robert V. Remini Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 (article on Andrew Jackson)
b>1985 J. Anthony Lukas
b>1986 Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams
b>1987 Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atom Bomb
b>1988 Neil Sheehan (article on John Paul Vann)
b>1989 Thomas L. Friedman From Beirut to Jerusalem
b>1990 Ron Chernow
b>1991 Orlando Patterson Freedom
b>1992 Paul Monette
b>1993 Gore Vidal
b>1994 Sherwin B. Nuland
b>1995 Tina Rosenberg
b>1996 James Carroll
b>1997 Joseph J. Ellis
b>1998 Edward Ball Slaves in the Family
b>1999 John W. Dower
b>2000 Nathaniel Philbrick
b>2001 Andrew Solomon
b>2002 Robert A. Caro
b>2003 Carlos Eire
b>2004 Kevin Boyle

Poetry

1950>
a href="/encyclopedia/William-Carlos-Williams" title="William Carlos Williams">William Carlos Williams
b>1951 Wallace Stevens The Auroras of Autumn
b>1952 Marianne Moore Collected Poems
b>1953 Archibald MacLeish Collected Poems, 1917-1952
b>1954 Conrad Aiken Collected Poems
b>1955 Wallace Stevens The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
b>1956 W.H. Auden The Shield of Achilles
b>1957 Richard Wilbur Things of the World
b>1958 Robert Penn Warren
b>1959 Theodore Roethke Words for the Wind
b>1960 Robert Lowell Life Studies
b>1961 Randall Jarrell The Woman at the Washington Zoo
b>1962 Alan Dugan Poems
b>1963 William Stafford Traveling Through the Dark
b>1964 John Crowe Ransom Selected Poems
b>1965 Theodore Roethke The Far Field
b>1966 James Dickey
b>1967 James Merrill Nights and Days
b>1968 Robert Bly The Light Around the Body
b>1969 John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
b>1970 Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems
b>1971 Mona Van Duyn To See, To Take
b>1972 Howard Moss Selected Poems
b>1972 Frank O'Hara The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara
b>1973 A. R. Ammons Collected Poems, 1951-1971
b>1974 Allen Ginsberg
b>1974 Adrienne Rich
b>1975 Marilyn Hacker Presentation Piece
b>1976 John Ashbery Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror
b>1977 Richard Eberhart Collected Poems, 1930-1976
b>1978 Howard Nemerov The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
b>1979 James Merrill
b>1980 Philip Levine Ashes
b>1981 Lisel Mueller The Need to Hold Still
b>1982 William Bronk
b>1983 Galway Kinnell Selected Poems
b>1983 Charles Wright
b>1991 Philip Levine What Work Is
b>1992 Mary Oliver New & Selected Poems
b>1993 A. R. Ammons Garbage
b>1994 James Tate A Worshipful Company of Fletchers
b>1995 Stanley Kunitz
b>1996 Hayden Carruth Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
b>1997 William Meredith
b>1998 Gerald Stern
b>1999 Ai
b>2000 Lucille Clifton
b>2001 Alan Dugan
b>2002 Ruth Stone In the Next Galaxy
b>2003 C.K. Williams The Singing
b>2004 Jean Valentine

Young People's Literature

1996>
a href="/encyclopedia/Victor-Martinez" title="Victor Martinez">Victor Martinez
b>1997 Han Nolan Dancing on the Edge
b>1998 Louis Sachar Holes
b>1999 Kimberly Willis Holt When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
b>2000 Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird
b>2001 Virginia Euwer Wolff True Believer
b>2002 Nancy Farmer The House of the Scorpion
b>2003 Polly Horvath The Canning Season
b>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>
a href="/encyclopedia/William-Wharton" title="William Wharton">William Wharton Birdy
b>1981 Ann Arensberg Sister Wolf
b>1982 Robb Forman Dew Dale Loves Sophie to Death
b>1983 Gloria Naylor The Women of Brewster Place

First Work of Fiction

1984>
a href="/encyclopedia/Harriet-Doerr" title="Harriet Doerr">Harriet Doerr Stones for Ibarra
b>1985 Bob Shacochis Easy in the Islands

Science Fiction

1980 Hardcover>
a href="/encyclopedia/Frederik-Pohl" title="Frederik Pohl">Frederik Pohl Jem
b>1980 Paperback Walter Wangerin, Jr. The Book of the Dun Cow

Mystery

1980 Hardcover>
a href="/encyclopedia/John-D.-MacDonald" title="John D. MacDonald">John D. MacDonald The Green Ripper

Western

1980>
a href="/encyclopedia/Louis-L'Amour" title="Louis L'Amour">Louis L'Amour Bendigo Shafter

Original Paperback

1983>
a href="/encyclopedia/Lisa-Goldstein" title="Lisa Goldstein">Lisa Goldstein The Red Magician

General Nonfiction

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

Arts and Letters

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

History and Biography

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

History

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

Biography

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

Biography and Autobiography

1977>
a href="/encyclopedia/W.-A.-Swanberg" title="W. A. Swanberg">W. A. Swanberg
b>1978 W. Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson
b>1979 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Robert Kennedy and His Times

Autobiography

1980 Hardcover>
a href="/encyclopedia/Lauren-Bacall" title="Lauren Bacall">Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall by Myself
b>1980 Paperback Malcolm Cowley

Autobiography/Biography

1981 Hardcover>
a href="/encyclopedia/Justin-Kaplan" title="Justin Kaplan">Justin Kaplan Walt Whitman
b>1981 Paperback Deirdre Bair Samuel Beckett
b>1982 Hardcover David McCullough Mornings on Horseback
b>1982 Paperback Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American Century
b>1983 Hardcover Judith Thurman
b>1983 Paperback James R. Mellow Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time

Science, Philosophy and Religion

1964>
a href="/encyclopedia/Christopher-Tunnard" title="Christopher Tunnard">Christopher Tunnard & Boris Pushkarev Man-made America
b>1965 Norbert Wiener God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
b>1967 Oscar Lewis La Vida
b>1968 Jonathan Kozol Death at an Early Age

The Sciences

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

Science

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

Philosophy and Religion

1970>
a href="/encyclopedia/Erik-H.-Erikson" title="Erik H. Erikson">Erik H. Erikson
b>1972 Martin E. Marty
b>1973 S. E. Ahlstrom A Religious History of the American People
b>1974 Maurice Natanson
b>1975 Robert Nozick Anarchy, State and Utopia

Religion/Inspiration

1980 Hardcover>
a href="/encyclopedia/Elaine-Pagels" title="Elaine Pagels">Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Gospels
b>1980 Paperback Sheldon Vanauken A Severe Mercy

Contemporary Affairs

1972>
a href="/encyclopedia/Stewart-Brand" title="Stewart Brand">Stewart Brand (ed.) The Last Whole Earth Catalogue
b>1973 Frances FitzGerald
b>1974 Murray Kempton The Briar Patch
b>1975 Theodore Rosengarten
b>1976 Michael J. Arlen Passage to Ararat

Contemporary Thought

1977>
a href="/encyclopedia/Bruno-Bettelheim" title="Bruno Bettelheim">Bruno Bettelheim
b>1978 Gloria Emerson Winners & Losers
b>1979 Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard

Current Interest

1980 Hardcover>
a href="/encyclopedia/Julia-Child" title="Julia Child">Julia Child Julia Child and More Company
b>1980 Paperback Christopher Lasch The Culture of Narcissism

General Reference Books

1980 Hardcover>
a href="/encyclopedia/Elder-Witt" title="Elder Witt">Elder Witt (ed.) The Complete Directory
b>1980 Paperback Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh

Translation

1967>
Gregory Rabassa Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch Willard Trask -- Casanova's History of My Life
b>1968 Howard & Edna Hong Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers
b>1969 William Weaver Calvino's Cosmicomics
b>1970 Ralph Manheim Celine's Castle to Castle
b>1971 Frank Jones Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards
b>1971 Edward G. Seidensticker Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of The Mountain
b>1972 Austryn Wainhouse Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity
b>1973 Allen Mandelbaum The Aeneid of Virgil
b>1974 Karen Brazell The Confessions of Lady Nijo
b>1974 Helen R. Lane Octavio Paz's Alternating Current
b>1974 Jackson Matthews Paul Valery's Monsieur Teste
b>1975 Anthony Kerrigan Miguel D. Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith
b>1977 Li-Li Ch'en Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance
b>1978 Howard Nemerov Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth
b>1979 Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubin Barcia Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry
b>1980 William Arrowsmith Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor
b>1980 Jane Gary Harris & Constance Link Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters
b>1981 Francis Steegmuller The Letters of Gustave Flaubert
b>1981 John E. Woods Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold
b>1982 Robert Lyons Danly Higuchi Ichiyo's In the Shade of Spring Leaves
b>1982 Ian Hideo Levy
b>1983 Richard Howard Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal

Children's Literature

1969>
a href="/encyclopedia/Meindert-DeJong" title="Meindert DeJong">Meindert DeJong Journey from Peppermint Street
b>1976 Walter D. Edmonds Bert Breen's Barn
b>1977 Katherine Paterson The Master Puppeteer
b>1978 Judith & Herbert Kohl The View From the Oak
b>1979 Katherine Paterson The Great Gilly Hopkins

Children's Books

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

Children's Books, Fiction

1981 Hardcover>
a href="/encyclopedia/Betsy-Byars" title="Betsy Byars">Betsy Byars The Night Swimmers
b>1981 Paperback Beverly Cleary Ramona and Her Mother
b>1982 Hardcover Lloyd Alexander Westmark
b>1982 Paperback Ouida Sebestyen Words by Heart
b>1983 Hardcover Jean Fritz
b>1983 Paperback Paula Fox A Place Apart
b>1983 Paperback Joyce Carol Thomas Marked by Fire

Children's Books, Non-fiction

1981 Hardcover>
a href="/encyclopedia/Alison-Cragin-Herzig" title="Alison Cragin Herzig">Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence Mali -- Oh, Boy! Babies
b>1982 Susan Bonners A Penguin Year
b>1983 James Cross Giblin Chimney Sweeps

Children's Books, Picture Books

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

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