List of winners of the National Book Award

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These authors and books have won the annual National Book Awards, awarded to American authors by the National Book Foundation based in the United States.

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History of categories

The National Book Awards were first awarded to four 1935 publications in May 1936. Contrary to that historical fact, the National Book Foundation currently recognizes only a history of purely literary awards that begins in 1950. The pre-war awards and the 1980 to 1983 graphics awards are covered below following the main list of current award categories.

There have been five award categories since 2018: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Young People's Literature, and Translated Literature. The main list below is organized by the current award categories and by year.

The categories' winners are selected from hundreds of preliminary nominees – "from 150 titles (Translated Literature) to upwards of 600 titles (Nonfiction)." [1] Since 2013, a long list of ten entries for each of the categories has been selected and announced in September, followed by five finalists for each category in October, with the year's winners announced in November. [1]

Repeat winners and split awards are covered at the bottom of the page.

Current award categories

This section covers awards starting in 1950 in the five current categories as defined by their names. Some awards in "previous categories" may have been equivalent except in name. [2]

Fiction

General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.

National Book Award for Fiction winners, 1950 to 1979
YearAuthorTitleRef.
1950 Nelson Algren The Man with the Golden Arm [3]
1951 William Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner [4]
1952 James Jones From Here to Eternity [5]
1953 Ralph Ellison Invisible Man [6]
1954 Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March [7]
1955 William Faulkner A Fable [8]
1956 John O'Hara Ten North Frederick [9]
1957 Wright Morris The Field of Vision [10]
1958 John Cheever The Wapshot Chronicle [11]
1959 Bernard Malamud The Magic Barrel [12]
1960 Philip Roth Goodbye, Columbus [13] [14]
1961 Conrad Richter The Waters of Kronos [15]
1962 Walker Percy The Moviegoer [16]
1963 J. F. Powers Morte d'Urban [17]
1964 John Updike The Centaur [18]
1965 Saul Bellow Herzog [19]
1966 Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter [20]
1967 Bernard Malamud The Fixer [21]
1968 Thornton Wilder The Eighth Day [22]
1969 Jerzy Kosinski Steps [23]
1970 Joyce Carol Oates them [24]
1971 Saul Bellow Mr. Sammler's Planet [25]
1972 Flannery O'Connor The Complete Stories [26]
1973 [a] John Barth Chimera [29] [28] [30]
John Edward Williams Augustus [31] [28] [32]
1974 [b] Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow [34] [35] [36]
Isaac Bashevis Singer A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories [37] [38] [35] [39]
1975 [c] Robert Stone Dog Soldiers [41] [42]
Thomas Williams The Hair of Harold Roux [44]
1976 William Gaddis J R [45]
1977 Wallace Stegner The Spectator Bird [46]
1978 Mary Lee Settle Blood Tie [47]
1979 Tim O'Brien Going After Cacciato [48]

Dozens of new categories were introduced in 1980, including "General fiction", hardcover and paperback, which are both listed here. [i] The comprehensive "Fiction" genre and hard-or-soft format were both restored three years later.

National Book Award for Fiction winners, 1980–1983
YearCategoryAuthorTitleRef.
1980Hardcover William Styron Sophie's Choice [49] [50]
Paperback [i] John Irving The World According to Garp [51] [52]
1981Hardcover Wright Morris Plains Song [53] [54]
Paperback [i] John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever [53] [55]
1982Hardcover John Updike Rabbit is Rich [56] [57]
Paperback [i] William Maxwell So Long, See You Tomorrow [56] [58]
1983Hardcover Alice Walker The Color Purple [59] [60]
Paperback [i] Eudora Welty The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty [61] [62]

The comprehensive "Fiction" category returned in 1984.

National Book Award for Fiction winners, 1984 to present
YearAuthorTitleRef
1984 Ellen Gilchrist Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories [63]
1985 Don DeLillo White Noise [64] [65]
1986 E.L. Doctorow World's Fair [66]
1987 Larry Heinemann Paco's Story [67] [68]
1988 Pete Dexter Paris Trout [69]
1989 John Casey Spartina [70]
1990 Charles Johnson Middle Passage [71] [72]
1991 Norman Rush Mating [73]
1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses [74]
1993 E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News [75]
1994 William Gaddis A Frolic of His Own [76]
1995 Philip Roth Sabbath's Theater [77]
1996 Andrea Barrett Ship Fever and Other Stories [78] [79]
1997 Charles Frazier Cold Mountain [80] [81]
1998 Alice McDermott Charming Billy [82]
1999 Ha Jin Waiting [83]
2000 Susan Sontag In America [84]
2001 Jonathan Franzen The Corrections [85] [86]
2002 Julia Glass Three Junes [87]
2003 Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire [88] [89]
2004 Lily Tuck The News from Paraguay [90] [91]
2005 William T. Vollmann Europe Central [92]
2006 Richard Powers The Echo Maker [93]
2007 Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke [94] [95]
2008 Peter Matthiessen Shadow Country [96]
2009 Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin [97] [98] [99]
2010 Jaimy Gordon Lord of Misrule [100] [101]
2011 Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones [102] [103] [104]
2012 Louise Erdrich The Round House [105] [106] [107] [108] [103] [109]
2013 James McBride The Good Lord Bird [110] [111] [112]
2014 Phil Klay Redeployment [113] [114] [115]
2015 Adam Johnson Fortune Smiles [116] [117] [118]
2016 Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad [119]
2017 Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing [120] [121]
2018 Sigrid Nunez The Friend [122] [123]
2019 Susan Choi Trust Exercise [124] [125]
2020 Charles Yu Interior Chinatown [126] [127]
2021 Jason Mott Hell of a Book [128] [129] [130] [131]
2022 Tess Gunty The Rabbit Hutch [132] [133] [134]
2023 Justin Torres Blackouts [135] [136]
2024 Percival Everett James [137] [138]
2025 Rabih Alameddine The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) [139] [140]

Nonfiction

General nonfiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category continuous only from 1984, when the general award was restored after two decades of awards in several nonfiction categories. From 1935 to 1941 there were six annual awards for general nonfiction, two for biography, and the Bookseller Discovery or Most Original Book was sometimes nonfiction.

National Book Award for Nonfiction winners, 1950–1959
YearAuthorTitleRef.
1950 Ralph L. Rusk The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson [141]
1951 Newton Arvin Herman Melville [142]
1952 Rachel Carson The Sea Around Us [143]
1953 Bernard De Voto,The Course of Empire [144]
1954 Bruce Catton A Stillness at Appomattox [145]
1955 Joseph Wood Krutch The Measure of Man [146]
1956 Herbert Kubly An American in Italy [147]
1957 George F. Kennan Russia Leaves the War [148]
1958 Catherine Drinker Bowen The Lion and the Throne [149]
1959 J. Christopher Herold Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël [150]

Multiple nonfiction categories were introduced in 1964, initially Arts and Letters; History and (Auto)Biography; and Science, Philosophy and Religion. See also Contemporary and General Nonfiction. The comprehensive "Nonfiction" genre was restored twenty years later.

National Book Award for Nonfiction winners, 1984 to present
YearAuthorTitleRef.
1984 Robert V. Remini Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845 [151]
1985 J. Anthony Lukas Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families [152]
1986 Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape [153] [100]
1987 Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb [154]
1988 Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam [155]
1989 Thomas L. Friedman From Beirut to Jerusalem [156]
1990 Ron Chernow The House of Morgan : An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance [157]
1991 Orlando Patterson Freedom, Vol. 1: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture [158]
1992 Paul Monette Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story [159]
1993 Gore Vidal United States: Essays 1952–1992 [160]
1994 Sherwin B. Nuland How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter [161]
1995 Tina Rosenberg The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism [162]
1996 James Carroll An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us [163]
1997 Joseph J. Ellis American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson [164]
1998 Edward Ball Slaves in the Family [165]
1999 John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II [166]
2000 Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex [167] [168]
2001 Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon : An Atlas of Depression [169] [170]
2002 Robert A. Caro Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson [171]
2003 Carlos Eire Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy [172]
2004 Kevin Boyle Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age [173]
2005 Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking [174]
2006 Timothy Egan The Worst Hard Time : The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl [175] [176]
2007 Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA [177]
2008 Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello : An American Family [178]
2009 T. J. Stiles The First Tycoon : The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt [179]
2010 Patti Smith Just Kids [180]
2011 Stephen Greenblatt The Swerve: How the World Became Modern [181] [182]
2012 Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity [183] [108] [106] [184]
2013 George Packer The Unwinding : An Inner History of the New America [185] [186] [187]
2014 Evan Osnos Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China [188] [189]
2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me [116]
2016 Ibram X. Kendi Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America [190] [191]
2017 Masha Gessen The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia [192] [120]
2018 Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke [193] [194]
2019 Sarah M. Broom The Yellow House [195]
2020 Les Payne and Tamara Payne The Dead Are Arising : The Life of Malcolm X [196]
2021 Tiya Miles All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake [197] [129]
2022 Imani Perry South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon To Understand the Soul of a Nation [132] [133]
2023 Ned Blackhawk The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the unmaking of US history [135]
2024 Jason De León Soldiers and Kings [137]
2025 Omar El Akkad One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This [139]

Poetry

National Book Award for Poetry winners, 1950 to present
YearAuthorTitleRef.
1950 William Carlos Williams Paterson: Book Three and Selected Poems [198]
1951 Wallace Stevens The Auroras of Autumn [199]
1952 Marianne Moore Collected Poems [200]
1953 Archibald MacLeish Collected Poems, 1917–1952 [201]
1954 Conrad Aiken Collected Poems [202]
1955 Wallace Stevens The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens [203]
1956 W. H. Auden The Shield of Achilles [204]
1957 Richard Wilbur Things of This World [205]
1958 Robert Penn Warren Promises: Poems, 1954–1956 [206]
1959 Theodore Roethke Words for the Wind [207]
1960 Robert Lowell Life Studies [208]
1961 Randall Jarrell The Woman at the Washington Zoo [209]
1962 Alan Dugan Poems [210]
1963 William Stafford Traveling Through the Dark [211]
1964 John Crowe Ransom Selected Poems [212]
1965 Theodore Roethke The Far Field [213]
1966 James Dickey Buckdancer's Choice [214]
1967 James Merrill Nights and Days [215]
1968 Robert Bly The Light Around the Body [216]
1969 John Berryman His Toy, His Dream, His Rest [217]
1970 Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems [218]
1971 Mona Van Duyn To See, To Take [219]
1972 Howard Moss Selected Poems [220]
Frank O'Hara The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara [221]
1973 A. R. Ammons Collected Poems, 1951–1971 [222]
1974 Allen Ginsberg The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965–1971 [223]
Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972 [224]
1975 Marilyn Hacker Presentation Piece [225]
1976 John Ashbery Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror [226]
1977 Richard Eberhart Collected Poems, 1930–1976 [227]
1978 Howard Nemerov The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov [228]
1979 James Merrill Mirabell: Books of Numbers [229]
1980 Philip Levine Ashes: Poems New and Old [230]
1981 Lisel Mueller The Need to Hold Still [231]
1982 William Bronk Life Supports: New and Collected Poems [232]
1983 Galway Kinnell Selected Poems [233]
Charles Wright Country Music: Selected Early Poems [234]
Award eliminated [235] [236] [237] [238]
1991 Philip Levine What Work Is [239]
1992 Mary Oliver New and Selected Poems [240]
1993 A. R. Ammons Garbage [241]
1994 James Tate A Worshipful Company of Fletchers [242]
1995 Stanley Kunitz Passing Through: The Later Poems [243]
1996 Hayden Carruth Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey [244]
1997 William Meredith Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems [245]
1998 Gerald Stern This Time: New and Selected Poems [246]
1999 Ai Vice: New and Selected Poems [247]
2000 Lucille Clifton Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000 [248]
2001 Alan Dugan Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry [249]
2002 Ruth Stone In the Next Galaxy [250]
2003 C. K. Williams The Singing [251]
2004 Jean Valentine Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003 [252]
2005 W. S. Merwin Migration: New and Selected Poems [253]
2006 Nathaniel Mackey Splay Anthem [254]
2007 Robert Hass Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005 [255]
2008 Mark Doty Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems [256] [257]
2009 Keith Waldrop Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy [258]
2010 Terrance Hayes Lighthead [259]
2011 Nikky Finney Head Off & Split [260]
2012 David Ferry Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations [261]
2013 Mary Szybist Incarnadine [262] [263]
2014 Louise Glück Faithful and Virtuous Night [264] [265]
2015 Robin Coste Lewis Voyage of the Sable Venus [117] [116] [266]
2016 Daniel Borzutzky The Performance of Becoming Human [267]
2017 Frank Bidart Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016 [268]
2018 Justin Phillip Reed Indecency [269]
2019 Arthur Sze Sight Lines [270]
2020 Don Mee Choi DMZ Colony [271]
2021 Martín Espada Floaters [272]
2022 John Keene Punks: New & Selected Poems [132] [273]
2023 Craig Santos Perez from unincorporated territory [åmot] [135] [274]
2024 Lena Khalaf Tuffaha Something About Living [137] [275]
2025 Patricia Smith The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems [139] [276]

Young People's Literature

National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners, 1996 to present
YearAuthorTitleRef.
1996 Victor Martinez Parrot in the Oven: MiVida [277]
1997 Han Nolan Dancing on the Edge [278]
1998 Louis Sachar Holes [279]
1999 Kimberly Willis Holt When Zachary Beaver Came to Town [280]
2000 Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird [281]
2001 Virginia Euwer Wolff True Believer [282]
2002 Nancy Farmer The House of the Scorpion [283]
2003 Polly Horvath The Canning Season [284]
2004 Pete Hautman Godless [285]
2005 Jeanne Birdsall The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy [286]
2006 M. T. Anderson The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I [287]
2007 Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian [288]
2008 Judy Blundell What I Saw and How I Lied [289]
2009 Phillip Hoose Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice [290]
2010 Kathryn Erskine Mockingbird [291]
2011 Thanhha Lai Inside Out and Back Again [292]
2012 William Alexander Goblin Secrets [105] [293]
2013 Cynthia Kadohata The Thing About Luck [262] [294]
2014 Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming [264] [295]
2015 Neal Shusterman Challenger Deep [117] [116] [296]
2016 John Lewis , Nate Powell, and Andrew Aydin March: Book Three [297]
2017 Robin Benway Far from the Tree [298]
2018 Elizabeth Acevedo The Poet X [299]
2019 Martin W. Sandler 1919: The Year That Changed America [300]
2020 Kacen Callender King and the Dragonflies [301]
2021 Malinda Lo Last Night at the Telegraph Club [302]
2022 Sabaa Tahir All My Rage [132] [133] [303]
2023 Dan Santat A First Time for Everything [135] [304]
2024 Shifa Saltagi Safadi Kareem Between [137] [305]
2025 Daniel Nayeri The Teacher of Nomad Land [139] [306]

Translation

National Book Award for Translation winners, 1967 to present
YearAuthorTitleTranslator(s)Ref.
1967 [d] Julio Cortázar Hopscotch Gregory Rabassa
Giacomo Casanova History of My Life Willard Trask
1968 Søren Kierkegaard Journals and Papers Howard Hong and Edna Hong
1969 Italo Calvino Cosmicomics William Weaver
1970 Céline Castle to Castle Ralph Manheim
1971 Bertolt Brecht Saint Joan of the Stockyards Frank Jones
Yasunari Kawabata The Sound of the Mountain Edward G. Seidensticker
1972 Jacques Monod Chance and Necessity Austryn Wainhouse
1973 Virgil The Aeneid of Virgil Allen Mandelbaum
1974 Lady Nijo The Confessions of Lady Nijo Karen Brazell
Octavio Paz Alternating Current Helen R. Lane
Paul Valéry Monsieur TesteJackson Matthews
1975 Miguel de Unamuno The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith Anthony Kerrigan
1977Master TungMaster Tung's Western Chamber Romance Li-Li Ch'en
1978 Uwe George In the Deserts of This Earth Richard and Clara Winston
1979 César Vallejo The Complete Posthumous Poetry Clayton Eshleman and José Rubia Barcia
1980 Cesare Pavese Hard Labor William Arrowsmith
Osip E. Mandelstam Complete Critical Prose and Letters Jane Gary Harris and Constance Link
1981 Gustave Flaubert The Letters of Gustave Flaubert Francis Steegmuller
Arno Schmidt Evening Edged in Gold John E Woods
1982 Higuchi Ichiyō In the Shade of Spring Leaves Ian Hideo Levy
Various Japanese poets The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry Robert Lyons Danly
1983 Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du mal Richard Howard
Award eliminated [308] [309]
2018 Tawada Yoko The Emissary Margaret Mitsutani [310]
2019 László Krasznahorkai Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming Ottilie Mulzet [311]
2020 Miri Yu Tokyo Ueno Station Morgan Giles [312]
2021 Elisa Shua Dusapin Winter in Sokcho Aneesa Abbass Higgins [313]
2022 Samanta Schweblin Seven Empty Houses Megan McDowell [133] [314]
2023 Stênio Gardel The Words That Remain Bruna Dantas Lobato [135] [315]
2024 Yang Shuang-zi Taiwan Travelogue Lin King [137] [316]
2025 Gabriela Cabezón Cámara We Are Green and Trembling Robin Myers [139] [317]

Children's books

National Book Award for Children's Literature winners, 1969–1979
YearCategoryAuthorTitleRef.
1969Literature Meindert DeJong Journey from Peppermint Street [318]
1970Literature Isaac Bashevis Singer A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw [319]
1971Literature Lloyd Alexander The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian [320]
1972Literature Donald Barthelme The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn [321]
1973Literature Ursula K. Le Guin The Farthest Shore [322]
1974Literature Eleanor Cameron The Court of the Stone Children [323]
1975Literature Virginia Hamilton M. C. Higgins the Great [324]
1976Literature Walter D. Edmonds Bert Breen's Barn [325]
1977Literature Katherine Paterson The Master Puppeteer [326]
1978Literature Judith Kohl and Herbert R. Kohl The View From the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures [327]
1979Literature Katherine Paterson The Great Gilly Hopkins [328]
1980Fiction (hardcover) Joan Blos A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal [329]
Fiction (paperback) Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet [330]
1981Fiction (hardcover) Betsy Byars The Night Swimmers [331]
Fiction (paperback) Beverly Cleary Ramona and Her Mother [332]
Nonfiction (hardcover) Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali Oh, Boy! Babies [333]
1982Fiction (hardcover) Lloyd Alexander Westmark [334]
Nonfiction Susan Bonners A Penguin Year [335]
Picture Books (hardcover) Maurice Sendak Outside Over There [336]
Picture Books (paperback) Peter Spier Noah's Ark [337]
1983Fiction (hardcover) Jean Fritz Homesick: My Own Story [338]
Fiction (paperback) [e] Paula Fox A Place Apart [340]
Joyce Carol Thomas Marked by Fire [341]
Nonfiction James Cross Giblin Chimney Sweeps [342]
Picture Books (hardcover) [e] Barbara Cooney Miss Rumphius [343]
William Steig Doctor De Soto [344]
Picture Books (paperback) Mary Ann Hoberman with
Betty Fraser (illus.)		A House Is a House for Me [345]

Nonfiction subcategories 1964 to 1983

This section covers awards from 1964 to 1983 in categories that differ from the "current categories" in name. Some of them were substantially equivalent to current categories. [2]

Arts and Letters

National Book Award for Nonfiction: Arts and Letters winners, 1964–1976
YearAuthorTitle
1964 Aileen Ward John Keats: The Making of a Poet
1965 Eleanor Clark The Oysters of Locmariaquer
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
1970 Lillian Hellman An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
1971 Francis Steegmuller Cocteau: A Biography
1972 Charles Rosen The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
1973 Arthur M. Wilson Diderot
1974 Pauline Kael Deeper into Movies
1975 [c] Roger Shattuck Marcel Proust
Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher [ii]
1976 Paul Fussell The Great War and Modern Memory

History and (Auto)biography

National Book Award for Nonfiction: History and (Auto)biography winners, 1964–1983
YearCategoryAuthorTitle
1964History and Biography William H. McNeill The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
1965History and Biography Louis Fischer The Life of Lenin
1966History and Biography Arthur Schlesinger A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
1967History and Biography Peter Gay The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism
1968History and Biography George F. Kennan Memoirs: 1925–1950
1969History and Biography Winthrop D. Jordan White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812
1970History and Biography T. Harry Williams Huey Long
1971History and Biography James MacGregor Burns Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
1972Biography Joseph P. Lash Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers
History Allan Nevins The Organized War
1973Biography James Thomas Flexner George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793–1799
History [a] Robert Manson Myers The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War
Isaiah Trunk Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation
1974Biography [b] John Clive Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian [iii]
Douglas Day Malcolm Lowry: A Biography
History John Clive Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian [iii]
1975Biography Richard B. Sewall The Life of Emily Dickinson
History Bernard Bailyn The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
1976History and Biography David Brion Davis The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823
1977Biography and Autobiography W. A. Swanberg Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist
History Irving Howe World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made
1978Biography and Autobiography W. Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson
History David McCullough The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870–1914
1979Biography and Autobiography Arthur Schlesinger Robert Kennedy and His Times
History Richard Beale Davis Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585–1763
1980Autobiography (hardcover) Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall by Myself
Autobiography (paperback) Malcolm Cowley And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918–1978
Biography (hardcover) Edmund Morris The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Biography (paperback) A. Scott Berg Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
History (hardcover) Henry A. Kissinger The White House Years
History (paperback) Barbara W. Tuchman A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
1981(Auto)biography (hardcover) Justin Kaplan Walt Whitman: A Life
(Auto)biography (paperback) Deirdre Bair Samuel Beckett: A Biography
History (hardcover) John Boswell Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
History (paperback) Leon F. Litwack Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
1982(Auto)biography (hardcover) David McCullough Mornings on Horseback
(Auto)biography (paperback) Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American Century
History (hardcover) Peter J. Powell People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830–1879
History (paperback) Robert Wohl The Generation of 1914
1983(Auto)biography (hardcover) Judith Thurman Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
(Auto)biography (paperback) James R. Mellow Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times
History (hardcover) Alan Brinkley Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
History (paperback) Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. ManuelUtopia in the Western World

Science, Philosophy and Religion

National Book Award for Nonfiction: Science, Philosophy, and Religion winners, 1964–1983
YearCategoryAuthorTitle
1964Science, Philosophy and Religion Christopher Tunnard and Boris PushkarevMan-made America: Chaos or Control?
1965Science, Philosophy and Religion Norbert Wiener God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
1966Science, Philosophy and ReligionNo Award (four finalists, none selected) [307]
1967Science, Philosophy and Religion Oscar Lewis La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York
1968Science, Philosophy and Religion Jonathan Kozol Death at an Early Age
1969The Sciences Robert Jay Lifton Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima
1970Philosophy and Religion Erik H. Erikson Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
1971The Sciences Raymond Phineas Stearns Science in the British Colonies of America
1972Philosophy and Religion Martin E. Marty Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America
The Sciences George L. Small The Blue Whale
1973Philosophy and Religion S. E. Ahlstrom A Religious History of the American People
The Sciences George B. Schaller The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations
1974Philosophy and Religion Maurice Natanson Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks
The Sciences S. E. Luria Life: The Unfinished Experiment
1975Philosophy and Religion Robert Nozick Anarchy, State, and Utopia
The Sciences [c] Silvano Arieti Interpretation of Schizophrenia
Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher [ii]
1980Religion/Inspiration (hardcover) Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Gospels
Religion/Inspiration (paperback) Sheldon Vanauken A Severe Mercy
Science (hardcover) Douglas Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Science (paperback) Gary Zukav The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
1981Science (hardcover) Stephen Jay Gould The Panda's Thumb : More Reflections on Natural History
Science (paperback) Lewis Thomas The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
1982Science (hardcover) Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. EdeyLucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
Science (paperback) Fred Alan Wolf Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists
1983Science (hardcover) Abraham Pais " Subtle is the Lord...": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein
Science (paperback) Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh The Mathematical Experience

Contemporary

National Book Award for Nonfiction: Contemporary winners, 1972–1980
CategoryYearAuthorTitle
Contemporary Affairs1972 Stewart Brand (ed.) The Last Whole Earth Catalog
1973 Frances FitzGerald Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
1974 Murray Kempton The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.
1975 Theodore Rosengarten All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
1976 Michael J. Arlen Passage to Ararat
Contemporary Thought1977 Bruno Bettelheim The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
1978 Gloria Emerson Winners and Losers
1979 Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard [iv]
Current Interest (hardcover)1980 Julia Child Julia Child and More Company
Current Interest (paperback) Christopher Lasch The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

General Nonfiction

National Book Award for Nonfiction: General Nonfiction winners, 1980–1983
YearCategoryAuthorTitle
1980Hardcover Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff
Paperback Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard [iv]
1981Hardcover Maxine Hong Kingston China Men
Paperback Jane Kramer The Last Cowboy: Europeans and The Politics of Memory
1982Hardcover Tracy Kidder The Soul of a New Machine
Paperback Victor S. Navasky Naming Names
1983Hardcover Fox Butterfield China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
Paperback James Fallows National Defense

Other Fiction 1980 to 1985

National Book Award for Fiction Subcategory winners, 1980–1983
YearCategoryAuthorTitle
1980First Novel William Wharton Birdy [v]
Mystery (hardcover) John D. MacDonald The Green Ripper
Mystery (paperback) William F. Buckley Stained Glass
Science Fiction (hardcover) Frederik Pohl Jem
Science Fiction (paperback) Walter Wangerin The Book of the Dun Cow
Western Louis L'Amour Bendigo Shafter
1981First Novel Ann Arensberg Sister Wolf
1982First Novel Robb Forman Dew Dale Loves Sophie to Death
1983First Novel Gloria Naylor The Women of Brewster Place
1984First Work of Fiction Harriet Doerr Stones for Ibarra
1985First Work of Fiction Bob Shacochis Easy in the Islands

Miscellaneous

National Book Award for Miscellaneous winners, 1980,1983
YearCategoryAuthorTitle
1980General Reference Books (hardcover) Elder Witt (ed.)The Complete Directory
General Reference Books (paperback) Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946–Present
1983Original Paperback Lisa Goldstein The Red Magician

1935 to 1941

The first National Book Awards were presented in May 1936 at the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association to four 1935 books selected by its members. [346] [347] Subsequently, the awards were announced mid-February to March 1 [348] [349] [350] [351] [352] [353] and presented at the convention. For 1937 books there were ballots from 319 stores, about three times as many as for 1935. [349] There had been 600 ABA members in 1936. [348]

The "Most Distinguished" Nonfiction, Biography, and Novel (for 1935 and 1936) [346] [347] [348] were reduced to two and termed "Favorite" Nonfiction and Fiction beginning 1937. Master of ceremonies Clifton Fadiman declined to consider the Pulitzer Prizes (not yet announced in February 1938) as potential ratifications. "Unlike the Pulitzer Prize committee, the booksellers merely vote for their favorite books. They do not say it is the best book or the one that will elevate the standard of manhood or womanhood. Twenty years from now we can decide which are the masterpieces. This year we can only decide which books we enjoyed reading the most." [349]

The Bookseller Discovery officially recognized "outstanding merit which failed to receive adequate sales and recognition" [350] The award stood alone for 1941 and the New York Times frankly called it "a sort of consolation prize that the booksellers hope will draw attention to his work". [353]

Authors and publishers outside the United States were eligible and there were several winners by non-U.S. authors (at least Lofts, Curie, de Saint-Exupéry, Du Maurier, and Llewellyn). The Bookseller Discovery and the general awards for fiction and non-fiction were conferred six times in seven years, the Most Original Book five times, and the biography award in the first two years only.

Dates are years of publication.

National Book Award winners, 1935–1941
YearCategoryAuthorTitle
1935Biography Vincent Sheean Personal History
Most Original Book Charles G. Finney The Circus of Dr. Lao
Nonfiction Anne Morrow Lindbergh North to the Orient
Novel Rachel Field Time Out of Mind
1936Biography Victor Heiser An American Doctor's Odyssey: Adventures in Forty-Five Countries [354] [355]
Bookseller Discovery Norah Lofts I Met a Gypsy
Most Original Book Della T. Lutes The Country Kitchen [356]
Nonfiction Van Wyck Brooks The Flowering of New England: 1815–1865
1937Bookseller Discovery Lawrence Watkin On Borrowed Time
Fiction A. J. Cronin The Citadel
Most Original Book Carl Crow Four Hundred Million Customers: The Experiences—Some Happy, Some Sad, of an American Living in China, and What They Taught Him
Nonfiction Ève Curie Madame Curie
1938Bookseller Discovery David Fairchild The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer
Fiction Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca
Most Original Book Margaret Halsey With Malice Toward Some [357]
Nonfiction Anne Morrow Lindbergh Listen! The Wind
1939Bookseller Discovery Elgin Groseclose Ararat
Fiction John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
Most Original Book Dalton Trumbo Johnny Got His Gun
Nonfiction Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Wind, Sand and Stars
1940Bookseller Discovery Perry Burgess Who Walk Alone [358] (1942 subtitle, Life of a Leper) [359]
Fiction Richard Llewellyn How Green Was My Valley
Nonfiction Hans Zinsser As I Remember Him: The Biography of R.S.
1941Bookseller Discovery George Sessions Perry Hold Autumn in Your Hand

Graphics awards

The "Academy Awards model" (Oscars) was introduced in 1980 under the name TABA, The American Book Awards. The program expanded from seven literary awards to 28 literary and 6 graphics awards. After 1983, with 19 literary and 8 graphics awards, the Awards practically went out of business, to be restored in 1984 with a program of three literary awards.

Since 1988 the Awards have been under the care of the National Book Foundation which does not recognize the graphics awards.

1980

[360] [361]

Art/Illustrated collection (hardcover)Drawings and Digressions by Larry Rivers with Carol Brightman; Herman Strobuck, designer (Clarkson N. Potter)
Art/Illustrated original art (hard)The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde (1888 original), illustrated by Leonard Lubin (Viking Press)
Art/Illustrated (paperback)Anatomy Illustrated by Emily Blair Chewning; designed by Dana Levy (Fireside/ Simon & Schuster)
Book Design (hc & ppb) The Architect's Eye by Debora Nevins and Robert A. M. Stern (Pantheon Books)
Cover Design (paper)Famous Potatoes by Joe Cottonwood (orig. 1978); David Myers, designer (Delta/ Seymour Lawrence)
Jacket Design  (hard) Birdy by William Wharton; Fred Marcellino, designer (Alfred A. Knopf) [v]
1981

[362]

Book Design, pictorialIn China, photographed by Eve Arnold, designer R. D. Scudellari (The Brooklyn Museum)
Book Design, typographicalSaul Bellow, Drumlin Woodchuck by Mark Harris, designed by Richard Hendel (University of Georgia Press)
Book Illustration, collected or adaptedThe Lost Museum: glimpses of vanished originals by Robert M. Adams, designed by Michael Shroyer (Viking Press)
Cover Design, paperbackFiorucci: The Book, designed by Quist-Couratin(?) (Milan: Harlin Quist Books, distributed by Dial/ Delacorte)
Jacket Design, hardcoverIn China, photographed by Eve Arnold, designer R. D. Scudellari (The Brooklyn Museum)
1982
1983Pictorial DesignLewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, designer/illustrator Barry Moser, art director Steve Renick (University of California Press)
Typographical DesignA Constructed Roman Alphabet, designer/illustrator David Lance Goines, art director William F. Luckey (David R. Godine)
Illustration Collected ArtJohn Singer Sargent by Carter Ratcliff, designer Howard Morris, editor Nancy Grubb, production manager Dana Cole (Abbeville Press)
Illustration Original ArtPorcupine Stew by Beverly Major, illustrator Erick Ingraham, designer/art director Cynthia Basil (William Morrow Junior Books)
Illustration Photographs Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings by Sarah Greenough and Juan Hamilton, designer Eleanor Morris Caponigro (National Gallery of Art/Callaway Editions)
Cover Design Bogmail by Patrick McGinley, illustrator Doris Ettlinger, designer/art director Neil Stuart (Penguin Books)
Jacket Design Souls on Fire by Elie Wiesel, designer Fred Marcellino, art director Frank Metz (Summit Books/ Simon & Schuster)

Herbert Mitgang's report on the inaugural TABA begins thus: "Thirty-four hardcover and paperback books, many of which nobody had heard of before, were named winners during a generally ragged presentation of the first American Book Awards in a ceremony at the Seventh Regiment Armory last night. The event was designed to resemble Hollywood's Oscars, but instead there was little glamour. All the winners were barred from accepting their awards, and most did not attend."

Repeat winners

Books

At least three books have won two National Book Awards.
Dates are award years.

1974 Biography; 1974 History
1979 Contemporary Thought; 1980 General Nonfiction, Paperback
1975 Arts and Letters; 1975 Science

Authors

At least three authors have won three awards: Saul Bellow with three Fiction awards; Peter Matthiessen with two awards for The Snow Leopard (above) and the 2008 Fiction award for Shadow Country; Lewis Thomas with two awards for The Lives of a Cell (above) and the 1981 Science paperback award for The Medusa and the Snail.

These three authors and numerous others have written two award-winning books.

Dates are award years.

"Children's" and "Young People's" categories

  • Lloyd Alexander, 1971, 1982
  • Katherine Paterson, 1977, 1979

"Fiction"

  • Saul Bellow (3), 1954, 1965, 1971
  • John Cheever, 1958, 1981
  • William Faulkner, 1951, 1955
  • William Gaddis, 1976, 1994
  • Bernard Malamud, 1959, 1967
  • Wright Morris, 1957, 1981
  • Philip Roth, 1960, 1995
  • John Updike, 1964, 1982
  • Jesmyn Ward, 2011, 2017

"Fiction" and another category

  • Peter Mathiessen, 2008 and The Snow Leopard, two nonfiction categories 1979 and 1980
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1974 and A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw, Children's Literature 1970

"Nonfiction" and nonfiction subcategories

  • Justin Kaplan, 1961, 1981 (Arts and Letters, Biography/Autobiography)
  • George F. Kennan, 1957, 1968 (Nonfiction, History and Biography)
  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1936, 1939 (Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction)
  • David McCullough, 1978, 1982 (History, Autobiography/Biography)
  • Arthur Schlesinger, 1966, 1979 (History and Biography, Biography and Autobiography)
  • Frances Steegmuller, 1971, 1981 (Arts and Letters, Translation)
  • Lewis Thomas, 1975, 1981 (Arts and Letters and Science, Science)

"Poetry"

  • A. R. Ammons, 1973, 1993
  • Alan Dugan, 1962, 2001
  • Philip Levine, 1980, 1991
  • James Merrill, 1967, 1979
  • Theodore Roethke, 1959, 1965
  • Wallace Stevens, 1951, 1955

Split awards

The Translation award was split six times during its 1967 to 1983 history, once split three ways. Twelve other awards were split, all during that period. [2]

Four of the ten awards were split in 1974, including the three-way split in Translation. That year, the Awards practically went out of business. In 1975, there was no sponsor. A temporary administrator, the Committee on Awards Policy, "begged" judges not to split awards, yet three of ten awards were split. William Cole explained this in a New York Times column pessimistically entitled "The Last of the National Book Awards" but the Awards were "saved" by the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1976.

Split awards returned with a 1980 reorganization on Academy Awards lines (under the ambiguous name "American Book Awards" for a few years). From 1980 to 1983 there were not only split awards but more than twenty award categories annually; there were graphics awards (or "non-literary awards") and dual awards for hardcover and paperback books, both unique to the period.

In 1983 the awards again went out of business, and they were not saved for 1983 publications (January to October). The 1984 reorganization prohibited split awards as it trimmed the award categories from 27 to three.

Notes

Split awards
  1. 1 2 Split award. [27] [28]
  2. 1 2 Split award. [27] [33]
  3. 1 2 3 Split award. In 1975, there were 12 winners in 10 award categories, [27] although the Committee on Awards Policy, temporary administrator, "begged" judges not to split awards. [40]
  4. ↑ The first split National Book Award. [307]
  5. 1 2 Split award. [339]
Other
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Irving, Cheever, Maxwell, and Welty won the 1980 to 1983 awards for general paperback fiction. None were paperback originals. Indeed, all four had been losing finalists for the Fiction award in their hardcover editions (two 1979, two 1981).
  2. 1 2 Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell, won both the Arts and Letters and the Sciences awards in 1975.
  3. 1 2 John Clive, Thomas Babington Macaulay, won both the History and Biography awards in 1974.
  4. 1 2 Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard, won the Contemporary Thought award in 1979 and the General Nonfiction, Paperback award in 1980.
  5. 1 2 Birdy by William Wharton, designed by Fred Marcellino, published by Alfred A. Knopf, won both the First Novel and Jacket Design awards in 1980, presumably received by Wharton and Marcellino respectively.

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