The following is a complete list of winners of the National Book Awards.

Fiction

For a complete list of winners, as well as finalists, see: National Book Award for Fiction

National Book Award for Fiction

The National Book Award for Fiction has been given since 1950, as part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually by the National Book Foundation. Of all the awards given, the Fiction award is the only one that has been given consistently for the entire history of the Award...

1950	Nelson Algren Nelson Algren Nelson Algren was an American writer.-Early life:Algren was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Goldie and Gerson Abraham. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois where they lived in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side...	The Man with the Golden Arm The Man with the Golden Arm (novel) The Man with the Golden Arm is a novel by Nelson Algren that details the trials and hardships of illicit card dealer "Frankie Machine", along with an assortment of colorful characters, on Chicago's Near Northwest Side. A veteran of World War II, Frankie struggles to stabilize his personal life...
1951	William Faulkner William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
1952	James Jones James Jones (author) James Jones was an American author known for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath.-Life and work:...	From Here to Eternity From Here to Eternity (novel) From Here to Eternity is the debut novel by James Jones, winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1952. It was ranked 62 on Modern Library's list of the 100 Best Novels. It is loosely based on Jones' experiences in the pre-World War II Hawaiian Division's 27th Infantry and the unit in which...
1953	Ralph Ellison Ralph Ellison Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953...	Invisible Man Invisible Man Invisible Man is a novel written by Ralph Ellison, and the only one that he published during his lifetime . It won him the National Book Award in 1953...
1954	Saul Bellow Saul Bellow Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...	The Adventures of Augie March The Adventures of Augie March The Adventures of Augie March is a novel by Saul Bellow.It centers on the eponymous character who grows up during the Great Depression...
1955	William Faulkner William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...	A Fable
1956	John O'Hara John O'Hara John Henry O'Hara was an American writer. He initially became known for his short stories and later became a best-selling novelist whose works include Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. He was particularly known for an uncannily accurate ear for dialogue...	Ten North Frederick Ten North Frederick Ten North Frederick is a 1955 novel by John O'Hara. It focuses on the life of an ambitious American named Joe Chapin, who desires to become President of the United States. The novel tells Chapin's story along with those of his patrician wife, two rebellious children, and mistress. It won the 1956...
1957	Wright Morris Wright Morris Wright Marion Morris was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms. Wright Morris died April 25, 1998 at the age of 88 years. He is...	The Field of Vision The Field of Vision The Field of Vision is a 1956 novel by Wright Morris, written in the style of High modernism. It won the National Book Award in 1956.-External links:* at amazon.com* at Google Book Search...
1958	John Cheever John Cheever John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy,...	The Wapshot Chronicle The Wapshot Chronicle The Wapshot Chronicle is the debut novel by John Cheever about an eccentric family that lives in a Massachusetts fishing village. Published in 1957, the book won the National Book Award in 1958, and was later followed by a sequel, The Wapshot Scandal, published in 1964.The Wapshot Chronicle is the...
1959	Bernard Malamud Bernard Malamud Bernard Malamud was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford...	The Magic Barrel The Magic Barrel The Magic Barrel is a collection of thirteen short stories written by Bernard Malamud and published in 1958. It won the 1959 National Book Award for fiction.The stories included are :*"The First Seven Years"*"The Mourners"*"The Girl of My Dreams"...
1960	Philip Roth Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him a National Book Award...	Goodbye, Columbus Goodbye, Columbus Goodbye, Columbus is a 1959 book by American novelist Philip Roth. It was the writer's first book: a collection of five short stories and one novella, also titled "Goodbye, Columbus"....
1961	Conrad Richter Conrad Richter Conrad Michael Richter was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist whose lyrical work focuses on life along the American frontier.-Biography:...	The Waters of Kronos
1962	Walker Percy Walker Percy Walker Percy was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962...	The Moviegoer The Moviegoer The Moviegoer is the debut novel by Walker Percy published in 1961. It won a National Book Award in 1962. Time magazine included the novel in its "Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005"....
1963	J. F. Powers J. F. Powers J. F. Powers was a Roman Catholic American novelist and short-story writer who often drew his inspiration from developments in the Catholic Church, and was known for his studies of midwestern Catholic priests...	Morte d'Urban
1964	John Updike John Updike John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic....	The Centaur The Centaur The Centaur is a 1963 novel by John Updike. It won the National Book Award in 1964. The story concerns George Caldwell, a school teacher, and his son Peter, outside of Alton , Pennsylvania. The novel explores the relationship between the depressive Caldwell and his anxious son...
1965	Saul Bellow Saul Bellow Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...	Herzog Herzog (novel) Herzog is a 1964 novel by Saul Bellow. Letters from the protagonist constitute much of the text.Herzog won the 1965 National Book Award for Fiction and the The Prix International...
1966	Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim...	The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter was an anthology of the work of Katherine Anne Porter. The collection of 19 short stories and long stories won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1966...
1967	Bernard Malamud Bernard Malamud Bernard Malamud was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford...	The Fixer The Fixer (Malamud novel) The Fixer is a 1966 novel by Bernard Malamud inspired by the true story of Menahem Mendel Beilis, an unjustly imprisoned Jew in Tsarist Russia. The notorious "Beilis trial" of 1913 caused an international uproar that forced Russia to back down in the face of world indignation. The Beilis case is...
1968	Thornton Wilder Thornton Wilder Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.-Early years:Wilder was born in Madison,...	The Eighth Day
1969	Jerzy Kosinski Jerzy Kosinski Jerzy Kosiński , born Józef Lewinkopf, was an award-winning Polish American novelist, and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N.He was known for various novels, among them The Painted Bird and Being There...	Steps
1970	Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...	them Them (novel) Them by Joyce Carol Oates is the third novel in The Wonderland Quartet, first published in 1969.-Plot:Them explores the complex struggles of American life through three down-on-their-luck characters—Loretta, Maureen and Jules—who are attempting to reach normality and the American dream through...
1971	Saul Bellow Saul Bellow Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...	Mr. Sammler's Planet Mr. Sammler's Planet Mr. Sammler's Planet is a 1970 novel by the American author Saul Bellow. It was awarded the National Book Award for fiction in 1971.- Plot synopsis :Mr...
1972	Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries...	The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
1973	John Barth John Barth John Simmons Barth is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.-Life:...	Chimera Chimera (John Barth novel) Chimera is a 1972 novel by the American writer John Barth, composed of three loosely connected novellas. The novellas are Dunyazadiad, Perseid and Bellerophoniad, the titles of which eponymously refer to the mythical characters Dunyazad, Perseus and Bellerophon, the last of whom slew the Chimera...
1973	John Edward Williams John Edward Williams John Edward Williams was an American author, editor and professor. He was best known for his novels Stoner and Augustus.-Life:...	Augustus Augustus (novel) Augustus is a 1973 novel by John Williams. It won the National Book Award.In epistolary form, the novel tells the story of Augustus, emperor of Rome, from his youth through old age.-National Book Award:...
1974	Thomas Pynchon Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American novelist. For his most praised novel, Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon received the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature...	Gravity's Rainbow Gravity's Rainbow Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28, 1973.The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military, and, in particular, the quest...
1974	Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer – July 24, 1991) was a Polish Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978...	A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
1975	Robert Stone	Dog Soldiers
1975	Thomas Williams Thomas Williams (writer) Thomas Williams was an American writer and a National Book Award winning novelist. Williams was twice nominated for the National Book Award. His first nomination was for Town Burning, published in 1959...	The Hair of Harold Roux
1976	William Gaddis William Gaddis William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. was an American novelist. He wrote five novels, two of which won National Book Awards and one of which, The Recognitions , was chosen as one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005...	J R J R J R is a novel by William Gaddis. Published in 1975 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., J R was Gaddis's second novel and received the National Book Award in 1976....
1977	Wallace Stegner Wallace Stegner Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers"...	The Spectator Bird
1978	Mary Lee Settle Mary Lee Settle Mary Lee Settle was an American writer and winner of the National Book Award for her 1978 novel Blood Tie...	Blood Tie
1979	Tim O'Brien Tim O'Brien (author) Tim O'Brien is an American novelist who often writes about his experiences in the Vietnam War and the impact the war had on the American servicemen who fought there...	Going After Cacciato Going After Cacciato Going After Cacciato is a war novel written by author Tim O'Brien and winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1979. This complex novel is set during the Vietnam War and is told from the point of view of the protagonist, Paul Berlin...
1980	William Styron William Styron William Clark Styron, Jr. was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.For much of his career, Styron was best known for his novels, which included...	Sophie's Choice Sophie's Choice (novel) Sophie's Choice is a novel by William Styron published in 1979. It concerns a young American Southerner, an aspiring writer, who befriends the Jewish Nathan Landau and his beautiful lover Sophie, a Polish survivor of the Nazi concentration camps...
1980	John Irving John Irving John Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978...	The World According to Garp The World According to Garp The World According to Garp is John Irving's fourth novel. Published in 1978, the book was a bestseller for several years.A movie adaptation of the novel starring Robin Williams was released in 1982, with a screenplay written by Steve Tesich....
1981	Wright Morris Wright Morris Wright Marion Morris was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms. Wright Morris died April 25, 1998 at the age of 88 years. He is...	Plains Song
1981	John Cheever John Cheever John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy,...	The Stories of John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer." It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...
1982	John Updike John Updike John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic....	Rabbit is Rich Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel of the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and concludes with Rabbit At Rest. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered...
1982	William Maxwell William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. was an American novelist and editor.-Life:Maxwell was born in Lincoln, Illinois, and as a child, he survived the 1918 Influenza epidemic. He attended the University of Illinois and Harvard University...	So Long, See You Tomorrow So Long, See You Tomorrow So Long, See You Tomorrow is a novel by American author William Maxwell. It was first published in The New Yorker magazine in October 1979 in two parts and appeared in book form the following year published by Knopf....
1983	Alice Walker Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender...	The Color Purple The Color Purple The Color Purple is an acclaimed 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker. It received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction...
1983	Eudora Welty Eudora Welty Eudora Alice Welty was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. She was the first living author to have her works published...	Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
1984	Ellen Gilchrist Ellen Gilchrist Ellen Gilchrist is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet.-Life:Gilchrist was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and spent part of her childhood on a plantation owned by her maternal grandparents. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and studied creative writing, especially...	Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
1985	Don DeLillo Don DeLillo Don DeLillo is an American author, playwright, and occasional essayist whose work paints a detailed portrait of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries...	White Noise White Noise (novel) White Noise, the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, is an example of postmodern literature. Widely considered his "breakout" work, the book won the National Book Award in 1985 and brought him to the attention of a much larger audience. Time included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels...
1986	E.L. Doctorow	World's Fair
1987	Larry Heinemann Larry Heinemann Larry Heinemann is an American novelist born and raised in Chicago. His body of work—three novels and a memoir—is primarily concerned with the Vietnam War. Heinemann served a combat tour as a conscripted draftee in Viet Nam from 1967 to 1968 with the 25th Infantry Division, and has described...	Paco's Story
1988	Pete Dexter Pete Dexter Pete Dexter is an American novelist. He was the recipient of the 1988 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Paris Trout.-Biography:Dexter was born in Pontiac, Michigan...	Paris Trout
1989	John Casey John Casey (novelist) John D. Casey is an American novelist and translator.-Life:Casey went to school at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa....	Spartina
1990	Charles Johnson Charles R. Johnson Charles R. Johnson is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. Johnson, an African-American, has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Middle Passage and Dreamer....	Middle Passage Middle Passage (novel) Middle Passage is a 1990 historical novel by Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship. Set in 1830, the novel presents a personal and historical perspective of the illegal slave trade in the United States, telling the story of Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave who...
1991	Norman Rush Norman Rush Norman Rush is an American novelist whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s. He is the son of Roger and Leslie Rush...	Mating Mating (novel) Mating is a novel by American author Norman Rush. It is a first-person narrative of an unnamed American anthropology graduate student in Botswana around 1980...
1992	Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road...	All the Pretty Horses
1993	E. Annie Proulx E. Annie Proulx Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News , won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994, and was made into a film in 2001...	The Shipping News The Shipping News The Shipping News is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel by American writer E. Annie Proulx which was published in 1993. It was adapted into a film of the same name, released in 2001.-Plot summary:...
1994	William Gaddis William Gaddis William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. was an American novelist. He wrote five novels, two of which won National Book Awards and one of which, The Recognitions , was chosen as one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005...	A Frolic of His Own A Frolic of His Own A Frolic of His Own is a novel by William Gaddis. Published in 1994 by Poseidon Press, A Frolic of His Own was Gaddis's fourth novel. It received the American Book Award and the National Book Award in 1994....
1995	Philip Roth Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him a National Book Award...	Sabbath's Theater Sabbath's Theater Sabbath's Theater is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath. It received the National Book Award for fiction in 1995.-Summary and themes:Mickey Sabbath Sabbath's Theater (1995, ISBN 0-679-77259-6) is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey...
1996	Andrea Barrett Andrea Barrett Andrea Barrett is an American novelist, and short story writer. Her Ship Fever collection of novella and short stories won the National Book Award in 1996...	Ship Fever and Other Stories
1997	Charles Frazier Charles Frazier Charles Frazier is an award-winning American historical novelist.Frazier was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1973. He earned an M.A. from Appalachian State University in the mid-1970s, and received his Ph.D. in English from the University...	Cold Mountain Cold Mountain (novel) Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical fiction novel by Charles Frazier. It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who walks for months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his life; the story shares several similarities with...
1998	Alice McDermott Alice McDermott Alice McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St...	Charming Billy
1999	Ha Jin Ha Jin Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin . Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin.-Early life:...	Waiting Waiting (novel) Waiting is a novel by award-winning author Ha Jin. The book is based on a true story that Jin heard from his wife when they were visiting her family at an army hospital in China. At the hospital was an army doctor who had waited eighteen years to get a divorce so he could marry his longtime friend,...
2000	Susan Sontag Susan Sontag Susan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, feminist and political activist whose works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.-Life:...	In America In America (Sontag) In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag which won the National Book Award in 2000. Although it is fiction, it is based upon the true story of the Polish actress Helena Modjeska , her arrival in California in 1876, and her ascendency to American stardom.Sontag was accused of plagiarism by Ellen...
2001	Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His third novel, The Corrections , a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...	The Corrections The Corrections The Corrections is a 2001 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-twentieth century to "one last Christmas" together near the turn of the millennium...
2002	Julia Glass Julia Glass Julia Glass is an American novelist. Her debut novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award in 2002. Glass followed this with a second novel, The Whole World Over, in 2006, which was also set in the Bank Street, Greenwich Village universe with three interwoven stories featuring several...	Three Junes Three Junes Three Junes is Julia Glass' debut novel. It won the National Book Award in 2002.- Plot summary :Three Junes follows the McLeods, a Scottish family, throughout their lives and relationships. Its members are Paul and Maureen, and their sons: Fenno, and twins David and Dennis...
2003	Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard is an Australian author of fiction and nonfiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship in Great Britain and the United States...	The Great Fire The Great Fire (novel) The Great Fire is the 2003 National Book Award winning novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It also won a 2004 Miles Franklin literary award.-Overview:The New Yorker wrote of the novel:Hazzard is nothing if not discriminating...
2004	Lily Tuck Lily Tuck Lily Tuck is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award. Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction...	The News from Paraguay
2005	William T. Vollmann William T. Vollmann William Tanner Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, short story writer, essayist and winner of the National Book Award...	Europe Central Europe Central Europe Central is a 2005 National Book Award-winning novel by William T. Vollmann.The novel, which takes place in central Europe in the 20th century, examines a vast array of characters, ranging from generals to martyrs, officers to poets, traitors to artists and musicians...
2006	Richard Powers Richard Powers Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology.- Life and work :...	The Echo Maker The Echo Maker The Echo Maker is a 2006 novel by American writer Richard Powers which won the National Book Award for fiction. It was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-Plot introduction:...
2007	Denis Johnson Denis Johnson Denis Hale Johnson is an American author who is known for his short-story collection Jesus' Son and his novel Tree of Smoke , which won the National Book Award. He also writes plays, poetry and non-fiction.- Biography :...	Tree of Smoke Tree of Smoke Tree of Smoke is a 2007 novel by American author Denis Johnson which won the National Book Award for fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It is about a man named Skip Sands who joins the CIA in 1965, and begins working in Vietnam during the American involvement there. The time frame...
2008	Peter Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen is a two-time National Book Award-winning American novelist and non-fiction writer, as well as an environmental activist...	Shadow Country Shadow Country Shadow Country is a novel by Peter Matthiessen published in 2008 by Random House. It tells the semi-fictional life story of Edgar "Bloody" Watson, a real Florida sugar cane planter and alleged murderer and outlaw who was killed in the remote Ten Thousand Islands region of southwest Florida in...
2009	Colum McCann Colum McCann Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He is a Professor of Contemporary Literature at European Graduate School and Professor of Fiction at CUNY Hunter College's Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing with fellow novelists Peter Carey, twice winner of the Man Booker Prize,...	Let the Great World Spin Let the Great World Spin Let the Great World Spin is a novel by author Colum McCann about New York City. The book received the 2009 National Book Award for fiction, and the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative prizes in the world.-Plot:...
2010	Jaimy Gordon Jaimy Gordon Jaimy Gordon is an American writer. She was born in Baltimore, graduated from Antioch College in 1966, received an M.A. in English from Brown University in 1972, and earned Doctor of Arts in Creative Writing in l975, also from Brown. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she teaches in the MFA...	Lord of Misrule Lord of Misrule In England, the Lord of Misrule — known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots — was an officer appointed by lot at Christmas to preside over the Feast of Fools...
2011	Jesmyn Ward Jesmyn Ward Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction with Salvage the Bones, a novel about familial love and community in the 12 days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. An assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama, she is currently...	Salvage the Bones

Nonfiction

For a complete list of winners, as well as finalists, see: National Book Award for Nonfiction

National Book Award for Nonfiction

The National Book Award for Nonfiction is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually by the National Book Foundation.The National Book Foundation has announces the finalists each year in mid-October. On the day of the final ceremony, which is held in November, one winner is chosen...

1950	Ralph L. Rusk	Ralph Waldo Emerson (article on Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century... )
1951	Newton Arvin Newton Arvin Newton Arvin was an American literary critic and academic. He achieved national recognition for his studies of individual nineteenth-century American authors....	Herman Melville (article on Herman Melville Herman Melville Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd.... )
1952	Rachel Carson Rachel Carson Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement....	The Sea Around Us The Sea Around Us The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning 1951 bestseller by Rachel Carson about oceanography, marine biology and the ecosystem within and around the world's oceans and seas. It is the second book Carson wrote, following the well-reviewed but poor-selling Under the Sea Wind , and is the book that...
1953	Bernard A. DeVoto	The Course of Empire
1954	Bruce Catton Bruce Catton Charles Bruce Catton was an American historian and journalist, best known for his books on the American Civil War. Known as a narrative historian, Catton specialized in popular histories that emphasized colorful characters and historical vignettes, in addition to the basic facts, dates, and analyses...	A Stillness at Appomattox A Stillness at Appomattox A Stillness at Appomattox is an award-winning, non-fiction book written by Bruce Catton in 1953. It recounts the American Civil War's final year, describing the campaigns of Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia during 1864 to the end of the war in 1865. It is the final volume of the Army of the Potomac...
1955	Joseph Wood Krutch Joseph Wood Krutch Joseph Wood Krutch was an American writer, critic, and naturalist.Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he initially studied at the University of Tennessee and received a masters degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University. After serving in the army in 1918, he travelled in Europe for a year with friend...	The Measure of Man
1956	Herbert Kubly Herbert Kubly Herbert Oswald Nicholas Kubly was an American author and playwright. He received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1956 for his first book, American in Italy.-Biography:...	An American in Italy
1957	George F. Kennan George F. Kennan George Frost Kennan was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War...	Russia Leaves the War Russia Leaves the War Russia Leaves the War is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by George F. Kennan. The book also won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the George Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize. The first of two volumes discussing Soviet-American relations from 1917-1920, Russia Leaves the War covers...
1958	Catherine Drinker Bowen Catherine Drinker Bowen Catherine Drinker Bowen was born as Catherine Drinker on the Haverford College campus on January 1, 1897, to a prominent Quaker family. She was an accomplished violinist who studied for a musical career at the Peabody Institute and the Juilliard School of Music, but ultimately decided to become a...	The Lion and the Throne (article on Edward Coke Edward Coke Sir Edward Coke SL PC was an English barrister, judge and politician considered to be the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Born into a middle class family, Coke was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge before leaving to study at the Inner Temple, where he was called to the... )
1959	J. Christopher Herold	Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael
1960	Richard Ellmann Richard Ellmann Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats...	James Joyce (article on James Joyce James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century... )
1961	William L. Shirer William L. Shirer William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian, who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany read and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years...	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a 1960 non-fiction book by William L. Shirer chronicling the general history of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945...
1962	Lewis Mumford Lewis Mumford Lewis Mumford was an American historian, philosopher of technology, and influential literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer...	The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects
1963	Leon Edel Leon Edel Joseph Leon Edel was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel....	Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years
1964-1983	(See below; award presented as "Arts and Letters")
1984	Robert V. Remini Robert V. Remini Robert Vincent Remini is a historian and a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of numerous works about President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian Era....	Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 (article on Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans... )
1985	J. Anthony Lukas J. Anthony Lukas Jay Anthony Lukas, aka J. Anthony Lucas , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, a classic study of race relations and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, as...	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
1986	Barry Lopez Barry Lopez Barry Holstun Lopez is an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its environmental and social concerns.-Biography:...	Arctic Dreams
1987	Richard Rhodes Richard Rhodes Richard Lee Rhodes is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non-fiction , including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb , and most recently, The Twilight of the Bombs...	The Making of the Atomic Bomb The Making of the Atomic Bomb The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a book written by Richard Rhodes, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award...
1988	Neil Sheehan Neil Sheehan Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan is an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series in the Times revealed a secret U.S. Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and resulted in government...	A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (article on John Paul Vann John Paul Vann John Paul Vann was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, later retired, who became well known for his role in the Vietnam War.-Early life:... )
1989	Thomas L. Friedman	From Beirut to Jerusalem From Beirut to Jerusalem From Beirut to Jerusalem is a book written by Thomas L. Friedman chronicling his days as a reporter in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and his journey in 1984 from Beirut to Jerusalem to cover unfolding events. The current updated version, published in 1995, includes a new chapter...
1990	Ron Chernow Ron Chernow Ronald Chernow is an American biographer. He is the author of Washington: A Life, Alexander Hamilton, The House of Morgan, and Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., among other works...	The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
1991	Orlando Patterson Orlando Patterson Orlando Patterson is a Jamaica-born American historical and cultural sociologist known for his work regarding issues of race in the America, as well as the sociology of development, currently holding the John Cowles chair in Sociology at Harvard University. Patterson took his B.Sc in Economics...	Freedom
1992	Paul Monette Paul Monette Paul Landry Monette was an American author, poet, and activist best remembered for his essays about gay relationships.-Biography:...	Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
1993	Gore Vidal Gore Vidal Gore Vidal is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality...	'United States: Essays 1952-1992'
1994	Sherwin B. Nuland Sherwin B. Nuland Dr. Sherwin Nuland is an American surgeon and author who teaches bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and, upon occasion, bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College...	How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
1995	Tina Rosenberg Tina Rosenberg Tina Rosenberg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. She frequently writes for The New York Times Magazine....	The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism written by Tina Rosenberg and published by Random House in 1995, won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1995 National Book Award-References:...
1996	James P. Carroll James P. Carroll James Carroll is a noted author, historian and journalist and Roman Catholic dissident.-Youth, education, and service as a priest:...	An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
1997	Joseph J. Ellis	American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, is a 1996 book written by Joseph Ellis, a professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. It won the 1997 National Book Award .-Overview:...
1998	Edward Ball Edward Ball (American author) Edward Ball is an American writer of non-fiction, best known for his book Slaves in the Family . The book tells the story of the author's family, slave-owners in South Carolina for 200 years, and recounts his search for and meetings with descendants of his family's slaves...	Slaves in the Family
1999	John W. Dower John W. Dower John W. Dower is an American author and historian.Dower earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Amherst College in 1959, and a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1972, where he studied under Albert M. Craig...	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II is a history book written by John W. Dower and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1999. The book covers the Occupation of Japan by the Allies between August 1945 and April 1952, delving into topics such as Douglas MacArthur's administration,...
2000	Nathaniel Philbrick Nathaniel Philbrick Nathaniel Philbrick is an American author and a winner of the National Book Award for his 2000 work of maritime history In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. He is member of the Philbrick literary family.-Life:...	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is a National Book Award winning work of maritime history by Nathaniel Philbrick. It tells the story of the Whaleship Essex from the point of view of Thomas Nickerson who was a fourteen-year-old cabin boy on the Essex. The book is based...
2001	Andrew Solomon Andrew Solomon Andrew Solomon is a New York-born bisexual writer on politics, culture, and psychiatry who lives in New York and London. He has written for publications such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Artforum, on topics including depression, Soviet artists, the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan,...	The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression is a 2001 memoir written by Andrew Solomon. It examines the personal, cultural, and scientific aspects of depression through Solomon's published interviews with depression sufferers, doctors, research scientists, politicians, and pharmaceutical...
2002	Robert A. Caro	Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
2003	Carlos Eire Carlos Eire Carlos M. N. Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He is a historian of late medieval and early modern Europe.- Career :Before joining the Yale faculty in 1996, he taught at St...	Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
2004	Kevin Boyle	Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
2005	Joan Didion Joan Didion Joan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation...	The Year of Magical Thinking The Year of Magical Thinking The Year of Magical Thinking , by Joan Didion , is an account of the year following the death of the author's husband John Gregory Dunne . Published by Knopf in October 2005, the book was immediately acclaimed as a classic in the genre of mourning literature...
2006	Timothy Egan Timothy Egan Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize winning author who resides in Seattle. He currently contributes opinion columns to The New York Times as the paper's Pacific Northwest correspondent...	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl The Worst Hard Time The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, a non-fiction book by New York Times journalist Timothy Egan, tells the story of those who lived through The Great Depression's Dust Bowl...
2007	Tim Weiner Tim Weiner Tim Weiner is a New York Times reporter, author of two books and co-author of a third, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award...	Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Legacy of Ashes Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA is a 2007 book by Tim Weiner. Legacy of Ashes is a detailed history of the Central Intelligence Agency from its creation after World War II, through the Cold War years and the War on Terror, to its near-collapse after 9/11...
2008	Annette Gordon-Reed Annette Gordon-Reed Annette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson. Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. She is Professor of Law and History at Harvard, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe...	The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a 2008 book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed. It recounts the history of four generations of the African-American Hemings family, from their African and Virginia origins until the 1826 death of Thomas Jefferson, their master, Sally...
2009	T.J. Stiles T.J. Stiles T. J. Stiles is a biographer who lives in San Francisco, California. His most recent book, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt T. J. Stiles is a biographer who lives in San Francisco, California. His most recent book, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt T....	The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
2010	Patti Smith Patti Smith Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses....	Just Kids Just Kids Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on January 19, 2010. In the book, Smith documents her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe.-Critical reception:Just Kids won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2010...
2011	Stephen Greenblatt Stephen Greenblatt Stephen Jay Greenblatt is a literary critic, theorist and scholar.Greenblatt is regarded by many as one of the founders of New Historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics"; his works have been influential since the early 1980s when he introduced the term...	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Poetry

For a complete list of winners, as well as finalists, see: National Book Award for Poetry

National Book Award for Poetry

The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...

1950		William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania...	Paterson Paterson (poem) Paterson is a poem by influential modern American poet William Carlos Williams.The poem is composed of five books and a fragment of a sixth book. The five books of Paterson were published separately in 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958, and the entire work was published as a unit in 1963. This book... : Book III and Selected Poems
1951		Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...	The Auroras of Autumn The Auroras of Autumn The Auroras of Autumn is a 1950 book of poetry by Wallace Stevens. It features the 1948 Stevens poem of the same name, whose title refers to the Aurora Borealis, or the "Northern Lights", in the fall...
1952		Marianne Moore Marianne Moore Marianne Moore was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.- Life :Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor. She was the daughter of mechanical engineer and inventor...	Collected Poems
1953		Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...	Collected Poems, 1917-1952
1954		Conrad Aiken Conrad Aiken Conrad Potter Aiken was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography.-Early years:...	Collected Poems
1955		Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...	The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
1956		W. H. Auden W. H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...	The Shield of Achilles The Shield of Achilles "The Shield of Achilles" is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1952. The Shield of Achilles is also the title poem of a collection of poems by Auden, published in 1955.-Description:...
1957		Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989....	Things of This World
1958		Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935...	Promises: Poems, 1954-1956
1959		Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm, rhyming, and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.-Biography:...	Words for the Wind
1960		Robert Lowell Robert Lowell Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress where he served from 1947 until 1948...	Life Studies Life Studies Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell. Most critics consider it one of Lowell's most important books, and the Academy of American Poets named it one of their Groundbreaking Books. The book won the National Book Award for poetry in 1960.-Publication:Life Studies was first...
1961		Randall Jarrell Randall Jarrell Randall Jarrell was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a role which now holds the title of US Poet Laureate.-Life:Jarrell was a native of Nashville, Tennessee...	The Woman at the Washington Zoo
1962		Alan Dugan Alan Dugan Alan Dugan was an American poet.His first volume Poems published in 1961 was a chosen by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry....	Poems
1963		William Stafford	Traveling Through the Dark
1964		John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom was an American poet, essayist, magazine editor, and professor.-Life:...	Selected Poems
1965		Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm, rhyming, and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.-Biography:...	The Far Field
1966		James Dickey James Dickey James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.-Early years:...	Buckdancer's Choice Buckdancer's Choice Buckdancer's Choice is a 1965 collection of poems by James Dickey. The book received the Melville Cane Award and the National Book Award for Poetry in 1966....
1967		James Merrill James Merrill James Ingram Merrill was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies...	Nights and Days
1968		Robert Bly Robert Bly Robert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.-Life:Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, to Jacob and Alice Bly, who were of Norwegian ancestry. Following graduation from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving...	The Light Around the Body
1969		John Berryman John Berryman John Allyn Berryman was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry...	His Toy, His Dream, His Rest The Dream Songs The Dream Songs is a compilation of two books of poetry, 77 Dream Songs and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest by the American poet, John Berryman...
1970		Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia...	The Complete Poems
1971		Mona Van Duyn Mona Van Duyn Mona Jane Van Duyn was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1992.-Early years:Van Duyn was born in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in the small town of Eldora Mona Jane Van Duyn (9 May 1921 – 2 December 2004) was an American poet. She was...	To See, To Take
1972		Frank O'Hara Frank O'Hara Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara was an American writer, poet and art critic. He was a member of the New York School of poetry.-Life:...	The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara
1972		Howard Moss Howard Moss Howard Moss was an American poet, dramatist and critic, who was poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine from 1948 until his death. He won the National Book Award in 1972 for Selected Poems.-Biography:...	Selected Poems
1973		A. R. Ammons	Collected Poems, 1951-1971
1974		Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...	The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971
1974		Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:...	Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
1975		Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English at the City College of New York....	Presentation Piece
1976		John Ashbery John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...	Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror
1977		Richard Eberhart Richard Eberhart Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total...	Collected Poems, 1930-1976
1978		Howard Nemerov Howard Nemerov Howard Nemerov was an American poet. He was twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1988 to 1990. He received the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov...	The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
1979		James Merrill James Merrill James Ingram Merrill was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies...	Mirabell: Book of Numbers
1980		Philip Levine Philip Levine (poet) Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for over thirty years at the English Department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well...	Ashes: Poems New and Old
1981		Lisel Mueller Lisel Mueller Lisel Mueller is an American poet.She was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1924 and immigrated to America at the age of 15. Her father, Fritz Neumann, was a professor at Evansville College. Her mother died in 1953. "Though my family landed in the Midwest, we lived in urban or suburban environments,"...	The Need to Hold Still
1982		William Bronk William Bronk William Bronk was an American poet. He won the National Book Award in 1982.-Life and work:William Bronk was born in a house on Lower Main Street in Fort Edward, New York. He had an older brother Sherman who died young and two older sisters, Jane and Betty...	Life Supports: New and Collected Poems
1983		Galway Kinnell Galway Kinnell Galway Kinnell is an American poet. He was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 1989 to 1993. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St...	Selected Poems
1983		Charles Wright Charles Wright (poet) Charles Wright is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award (19830 for...	Country Music: Selected Early Poems
1985		No Award
1986		No Award
1987		No Award
1988		No Award
1989		No Award
1990		No Award
1991		Philip Levine Philip Levine (poet) Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for over thirty years at the English Department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well...	What Work Is
1992		Mary Oliver Mary Oliver Mary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:...	New & Selected Poems
1993		A. R. Ammons	Garbage
1994		James Tate James Tate (writer) James Tate is an American poet whose work has earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...	A Worshipful Company of Fletchers
1995		Stanley Kunitz Stanley Kunitz Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.-Biography:...	Passing Through: The Later Poems
1996		Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth was an American poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.-Life:Hayden Carruth grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut, and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Chicago. He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years...	Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey
1997		William Morris Meredith, Jr. William Morris Meredith, Jr. William Morris Meredith, Jr. was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.-Early years:...	Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
1998		Gerald Stern Gerald Stern Gerald Stern is an American poet. His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and of a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has subsequently been given many prestigious awards for his...	This Time: New and Selected Poems
1999		Ai Ai (poet) Florence Anthony was a National Book Award winning American poet and educator who legally changed her name to Ai Ogawa...	Vice: New & Selected Poems
2000		Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton was an American writer and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979–1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland...	Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
2001		Alan Dugan Alan Dugan Alan Dugan was an American poet.His first volume Poems published in 1961 was a chosen by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry....	Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
2002		Ruth Stone Ruth Stone Ruth Stone was an American poet, author, and teacher.-Life and career:In 1959, after her husband, professor Walter Stone, committed suicide, she was forced to raise three daughters alone...	In the Next Galaxy
2003		C. K. Williams C. K. Williams Charles Kenneth Williams is an American poet. Senior poet Paul Muldoon has described him as “one of the most distinguished poets of his generation.” -Biography:...	The Singing
2004		Jean Valentine Jean Valentine Jean Valentine is an American poet, and currently the New York State Poet . Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry....	Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
2005		W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from...	Migration: New & Selected Poems
2006		Nathaniel Mackey Nathaniel Mackey Nathaniel Mackey is an American poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic, editor and Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Mackey is a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Mackey is currently teaching a poetry workshop at Duke University....	Splay Anthem
2007		Robert Hass Robert Hass Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:...	Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005
2008		Mark Doty Mark Doty Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested...	Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems
2009		Keith Waldrop Keith Waldrop Keith Waldrop is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal .With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edits Burning Deck Press...	Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
2010		Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry...	Lighthead
2011		Nikky Finney Nikky Finney Nikky Finney is an award-winning American poet, and the Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Kentucky...	Head Off & Split

Young People's Literature

For a complete list of winners, as well as finalists, see: National Book Award for Young People's Literature

National Book Award for Young People's Literature

The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually by the National Book Foundation....

1996	Victor Martinez Victor Martinez (author) Victor Martinez was a Mexican American poet and author.He was the son of migrant field workers in California's Central Valley, born into a family that ultimately included eleven siblings...	Parrott In the Oven: MiVida
1997	Han Nolan Han Nolan Han Nolan is a young adult writer from Alabama. She has successfully published seven young adult novels. Since her early childhood she has been fascinated with stories. Even as a little girl she would spin yarns for her friends. She did not always want to be a writer. For many years she...	Dancing on the Edge
1998	Louis Sachar Louis Sachar Louis Sachar is an American author of children's books who is best known for the Sideways Stories From Wayside School book series and the 1998 novel Holes, for which Sachar won a National Book Award and the Newbery Medal...	Holes Holes (novel) Holes is a Newbery Medal-winning novel by Louis Sachar. It was adapted into a screenplay for the 2003 film by Walt Disney Pictures. In 2006, Sachar published Small Steps, a companion novel featuring one of the characters from Holes.-Plot:...
1999	Kimberly Willis Holt Kimberly Willis Holt Kimberly Willis Holt is an American children's book writer, most famous for writing When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, which won the 1999 National Book Award for Young People's Literature...	When Zachary Beaver Came to Town When Zachary Beaver Came to Town When Zachary Beaver Came to Town is a 2003 children's movie starring Jonathan Lipnicki and Cody Linley, based on the children's book of the same name by Kimberly Willis Holt.-Plot:...
2000	Gloria Whelan Gloria Whelan Gloria Whelan is a poet, short story writer, and novelist for children and adults. She has won the National Book Award for her novel Homeless Bird. Her books include many historical fiction novels, including a trilogy set on Mackinac Island and a quartet series set in communist Russia...	Homeless Bird
2001	Virginia Euwer Wolff Virginia Euwer Wolff Virginia Euwer Wolff is a prize-winning American author of children's literature, born in Portland, Oregon 25 Aug 1937. She attended an all-girls' school called St. Helen's Hall , before attending Smith College. She married Arthur Richard Wolff in 1959...	True Believer True Believer (novel) True Believer is a young adult verse novel written by Virginia Euwer Wolff. In Publishers Weekly, the reviewer noted that Wolff writes with "delicacy and sensitivity".-Characters:...
2002	Nancy Farmer Nancy Farmer (author) Nancy Farmer is a prominent children's book author from the United States.Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Reed College and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley...	The House of the Scorpion The House of the Scorpion The House of the Scorpion is a science fiction novel by Nancy Farmer. It is about a young boy named Matteo Alacrán who is being raised by a drug lord of the same name, usually referred to by his assumed title "El Patrón" throughout the text. It is a story about the struggle to survive as a free...
2003	Polly Horvath Polly Horvath Polly Horvath is an American-Canadian author of children's and young adult novels.Horvath grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She has been writing since the age of eight. She attended college in Toronto as well as the Canadian College of Dance...	The Canning Season
2004	Pete Hautman Pete Hautman Pete Hautman is the author of many well received young adult novels, one of which, Godless, won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Hautman moved to St. Louis Park, Minnesota at the age of five. He later graduated from St...	Godless Godless (novel) Godless is a 2004 young adult novel by Pete Hautman. It won the 2004 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.It is about a 15-year-old boy, Jason Bock, who develops a religion of his own called "Chutengodianism." His god is the Ten-Legged God, also known as the water tower, and he is...
2005	Jeanne Birdsall Jeanne Birdsall Jeanne Birdsall is an American author awarded with the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2005 for her debut novel The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy. She was raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and, while she decided to...	The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy is the title of Jeanne Birdsall's debut fictional children's novel awarded with the 2005 National Book Award. The Penderwicks are made up of a father and four sisters, Batty, Jane, Skye and Rosalind , who are...
2006	M.T. Anderson Matthew Tobin Anderson Matthew Tobin Anderson, known as M. T. Anderson, is an American author, primarily of picture books for children and novels for young adults. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.-Biography:...	The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I
2007	Sherman Alexie Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American. Two of Alexie's best known works are The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , a book of short stories and Smoke Signals, a film...	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is a novel for young adults written by Sherman Alexie. It is told in the first-person, from the viewpoint of Native American teenager and budding cartoonist Arnold Spirit, Jr....
2008	Judy Blundell	What I Saw and How I Lied What I Saw and How I Lied What I Saw and How I Lied is a young adult novel written by Judy Blundell. It won the 2008 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. What I Saw and How I Lied is a historical fiction novel set in post-WWII America. It was published by Scholastic in November 2008.-Critical Acclaim:What...
2009	Phillip Hoose Phillip Hoose Phillip Hoose is an award-winning author of books, essays, stories, songs, and articles. Although he first wrote for adults, he turned his attention to children and young adults in part to keep up with his own daughters...	Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
2010	Kathryn Erskine Kathryn Erskine Kathryn Erskine is an American children's writer. Her book, Mockingbird, won the 2010 National Book Award, Young People's Literature.-Life:She grew up in South Africa, and Scotland.She was a lawyer....	Mockingbird Mockingbird (Erskine novel) Mockingbird is a young adult novel by American author Kathryn Erskine. The story is told from the point of view of Caitlin, a young girl with Asperger syndrome, as she attempts to deal with the unexpected death of her older brother.-Main characters:...
2011	Thanhha Lai Thanhha Lai Thanhha Lai is an American children's writer. She won the 2011 National Book Award, Young People's Literature, for her first novel, Inside Out and Back Again.-Life:In 1975, she immigrated with her family to Montgomery, Alabama...	Inside Out & Back Again

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 William Wharton (author) William Wharton , the pen name of the author Albert William Du Aime , was an American-born author best known for his first novel Birdy, which was also successful as a film.-Biography:...	Birdy Birdy (novel) Birdy is a 1978 novel by William Wharton.It was Wharton's first published novel, and was published when he was more than 50 years old. It won the National Book Award for first novel, and was made into a film, directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage.Naomi Wallace, a poet...
1981	Ann Arensberg	Sister Wolf
1982	Robb Forman Dew Robb Forman Dew American author Robb Forman Dew has described writing as "a strange absorption about this alternate world and the way it mixes with your real life."...	Dale Loves Sophie to Death Dale Loves Sophie to Death Dale Loves Sophie to Death is the first novel by American author Robb Forman Dew. It won the National Book Award for "First Novel" in 1982. It's a domestic story that takes places over the course of several weeks in the 1970s in Ohio and Massachusetts...
1983	Gloria Naylor Gloria Naylor Gloria Naylor is an African American novelist and educator.-Early life:Born in New York, she was the first child to Roosevelt Naylor and Alberta McAlpin. As Naylor grew up, her father was a transit worker and her mother was a telephone operator. When Naylor was young, her mother encouraged her to...	The Women of Brewster Place The Women of Brewster Place (novel) The Women of Brewster Place, is the first novel by American author Gloria Naylor. It was adapted into the 1989 miniseries The Women of Brewster Place and the 1990 ongoing series Brewster Place by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions; it won the National Book Award in 1983...

First Work of Fiction

1984	Harriet Doerr Harriet Doerr Harriet Huntington Doerr was an American author who published her first novel at the age of 74.-Early life:...	Stones for Ibarra
1985	Bob Shacochis Bob Shacochis Bob Shacochis is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary journalist. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.-Writing career:...	Easy in the Islands

Science Fiction

1980 Hardcover	Frederik Pohl Frederik Pohl Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years — from his first published work, "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna" , to his most recent novel, All the Lives He Led .He won the National Book Award in 1980 for his novel Jem...	Jem
1980 Paperback	Walter Wangerin, Jr. Walter Wangerin, Jr. Walter Wangerin, Jr. is an award-winning American author and educator best known for his religious novels and children's books.-Biography:...	The Book of the Dun Cow The Book of the Dun Cow (novel) The Book of the Dun Cow is a 1978 novel by Walter Wangerin, Jr.. It is loosely based upon the beast fable of Chanticleer and the Fox adapted from the story of "The Nun's Priest's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales....

General Nonfiction

1980 Hardcover	Tom Wolfe Tom Wolfe Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life and education:...	The Right Stuff The Right Stuff (book) The Right Stuff is a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe about the pilots engaged in U.S. postwar experiments with experimental rocket-powered, high-speed aircraft as well as documenting the stories of the first Project Mercury astronauts selected for the NASA space program...
1980 Paperback	Peter Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen is a two-time National Book Award-winning American novelist and non-fiction writer, as well as an environmental activist...	The Snow Leopard The Snow Leopard (book) The Snow Leopard is a 1978 book by Peter Matthiessen, which is an account of his two month journey along with naturalist George Schaller in 1973 to Crystal Mountain, in the Dolpo region on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas.- Awards and acclaim :...
1981 Hardcover	Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United...	China Men China Men China Men is a 1980 book by Maxine Hong Kingston. It won a 1981 National Book Award for General Nonfiction. It is a follow-up to The Woman Warrior, but with a focus on the history of the men in Kingston's family...
1981 Paperback	Jane Kramer Jane Kramer Jane Kramer is an American journalist who is the European correspondent for The New Yorker; she has written a regular "Letter from Europe" for twenty years. Kramer has also written nine books, the latest of which, Lone Patriot , is about a militia in the American West...	The Last Cowboy
1982 Hardcover	Tracy Kidder Tracy Kidder John Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the 1981 nonfiction narrative, The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation...	The Soul of a New Machine The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder's non-fiction book, The Soul of a New Machine, chronicles the experiences of an engineering team racing to design a next generation computer under a blistering schedule and tremendous pressure. This machine was eventually launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000...
1982 Paperback	Victor S. Navasky	Naming Names
1983 Hardcover	Fox Butterfield Fox Butterfield Fox Butterfield is an American journalist who spent much of his 30-year career reporting for The New York Times....	China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
1983 Paperback	James Fallows James Fallows James Fallows is an American print and radio journalist. He has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly for many years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a...	National Defense National defense National defense may refer to:*National security, a nation's use of military, economic and political power to maintain survival*National missile defense, a military strategy to shield a country from missiles...

Arts and Letters

1964	Aileen Ward	John Keats: The Making of a Poet
1965	Eleanor Clark Eleanor Clark Eleanor Clark was an American writer. Clark was born in Los Angeles. She attended Vassar College in the 1930s and was involved with the literary magazine Con Spirito there, along with Elizabeth Bishop, Mary McCarthy, and her sister Eunice Clark...	The Oysters of Locmariaquer
1966	Janet Flanner Janet Flanner Janet Flanner was an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genêt"...	Paris Journal, 1944-1965
1967	Justin Kaplan Justin Kaplan Justin Kaplan is an American writer and editor.Kaplan received his bachelor of science degree from Harvard University in 1945...	Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
1968	William Troy William Troy William Troy entered Service in the US Navy from Massachusetts as a United States Navy sailor. For bravery in action during the 1871 Korean Expedition he received the Medal of Honor on June 11, 1871...	Selected Essays
1969	Norman Mailer Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S...	The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
1970	Lillian Hellman Lillian Hellman Lillian Florence "Lily" Hellman was an American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes...	An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
1971	Francis Steegmuller	Cocteau: A Biography
1972	Charles Rosen Charles Rosen Charles Rosen is an American pianist and author on music.-Life and career:In his youth he studied piano with Moriz Rosenthal. Rosenthal, born in 1862, had been a student of Franz Liszt...	The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
1973	Arthur M. Wilson	Diderot
1974	Pauline Kael Pauline Kael Pauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career, her work appeared in City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic....	Deeper Into Movies Deeper Into Movies Deeper Into Movies is the fourth collection of Pauline Kael's movie reviews from 1969-1972, which were originally published by The New Yorker...
1975	Roger Shattuck Roger Shattuck Roger Whitney Shattuck was an American writer best known for his books on French literature, art, and music of the twentieth century.-Background and education:...	Marcel Proust
1975	Lewis Thomas Lewis Thomas Lewis Thomas was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher.Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical School...	The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher is a 1974 collection of 29 essays written by Lewis Thomas for the New England Journal of Medicine during the preceding three years. The pieces are loosely based around the premise that the Earth is perhaps best understood as a cell... (also won The Sciences award)
1976	Paul Fussell Paul Fussell Paul Fussell is an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor. His writings cover a variety of genres, from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commentary on America’s class system...	The Great War and Modern Memory

History and Biography

1964	William H. McNeill William H. McNeill William Hardy McNeill is an American world historian and author and is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1947.-Biography:...	The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community is a popular work by Canadian historian William H. McNeill...
1965	Louis Fischer Louis Fischer Louis Fischer was a Jewish-American journalist. Among his works were a contribution to the ex-Communist treatise The God that Failed, The Life of Lenin, which won a 1965 National Book Award, as well as a biography of Mahatma Gandhi entitled The Life of Mahatma Gandhi...	The Life of Lenin
1966	Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the American liberalism of political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Schlesinger served as special assistant and "court historian"...	A Thousand Days A Thousand Days (book) A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House is a 1965 book written by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. about the politics and personalities in the cabinet of President John F. Kennedy. In 1966 it won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the National Book Award for History and...
1967	Peter Gay Peter Gay Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers . Gay received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004...	The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation of the Rise of Modern Paganism
1968	George F. Kennan George F. Kennan George Frost Kennan was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War...	Memoirs: 1925-1950
1969	Winthrop D. Jordan Winthrop Jordan Winthrop Donaldson Jordan was a professor of history and renowned writer on the history of slavery and the origins of racism in the United States....	White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
1970	T. Harry Williams T. Harry Williams Thomas Harry Williams was an award-winning historian at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge whose career began in 1941 and extended for thirty-eight years until his death at the age of seventy...	Huey Long
1971	James MacGregor Burns James MacGregor Burns James MacGregor Burns is an historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies. He is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the of the School of Public Policy at the University...	Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
1976	David Brion Davis David Brion Davis David Brion Davis is an American historian and authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He is the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is a...	The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

History

1972	Allan Nevins Allan Nevins Allan Nevins was an American historian and journalist, renowned for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as President Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller.-Life:Born in Camp Point, Illinois, Nevins was educated at...	Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863-1864 and The Organized War to Victory
1973	Robert Manson Myers	The Children of Pride
1973	Isaiah Trunk	Judenrat Judenrat Judenräte were administrative bodies during the Second World War that the Germans required Jews to form in the German occupied territory of Poland, and later in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union It is the overall term for the enforcement bodies established by the Nazi occupiers to...
1974	John Clive John Clive John Clive , is an English author and actor. He is best known for his international best selling historical and social fiction, such as "KG200" and "Borossa"....	Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian (also won Biography award)
1975	Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn is an American historian, author, and professor specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953. Bailyn has won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice . In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected...	The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (article on Thomas Hutchinson)
1977	Irving Howe Irving Howe Irving Howe was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.-Life and career:...	World of Our Fathers
1978	David McCullough David McCullough David Gaub McCullough is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award....	The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
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	A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
1981 Hardcover	John Boswell	Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
1981 Paperback	Leon F. Litwack Leon F. Litwack Leon F. Litwack is an American historian and Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2007...	Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
1982 Hardcover	Father Peter John Powell	People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879
1982 Paperback	Robert Wohl	The Generation of 1914
1983 Hardcover	Alan Brinkley Alan Brinkley Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, where he was also Provost 2003–2009. He was denied tenure at Harvard University in 1986 despite being an award-winning teacher. He lives in New York City with his wife, Evangeline, daughter Elly, and dog Jessie...	Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
1983 Paperback	Frank E. Manuel & Fritzie P. Manuel	Utopian Thought in the Western World

Biography

1972	Joseph P. Lash Joseph P. Lash Joseph P. Lash was an American radical political activist, journalist, and author. A close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lash won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award in 1972 for Eleanor and Franklin, the first of two volumes he wrote about the former First Lady.-Early...	Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers
1973	James Thomas Flexner James Thomas Flexner James Thomas Flexner was an American historian and author best known for his prize-winning four-volume biography of George Washington, which earned him a National Book Award and a special Pulitzer Prize citation...	George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799
1974	John Clive John Clive John Clive , is an English author and actor. He is best known for his international best selling historical and social fiction, such as "KG200" and "Borossa"....	Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian (also won History award)
1974	Douglas Day Douglas Day Douglas Day was a novelist, biographer, and critic.Day won a National Book Award for his life of English novelist Malcolm Lowry...	Malcolm Lowry: A Biography
1975	Richard B. Sewall Richard B. Sewall Richard B. Sewall was a professor of English at Yale University, and author of the influential works The Life of Emily Dickinson and The Vision of Tragedy....	The Life of Emily Dickinson
1980 Hardcover	Edmund Morris	The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is a Pulitzer Prize winning biography of President Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris. It is the first in a trilogy, with the second volume Theodore Rex published in 2001 and the third volume Colonel Roosevelt in late 2010.The Rise covers the time period from...
1980 Paperback	A. Scott Berg A. Scott Berg Andrew Scott Berg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer. After graduating from Princeton University in 1971, Berg expanded his senior thesis, about editor Maxwell Perkins, into a full-length biography. Maxwell Perkins: Editor of Genius won a National Book Award, and his second book,...	Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

Biography and Autobiography

1977	W.A. Swanberg W.A. Swanberg William Andrew Swanberg, , pen-name W.A. Swanberg, was a Pulitzer-Prize-winning American biographer. He is perhaps best known for Citizen Hearst, his biography of William Randolph Hearst. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1907 and earned his B.A. at the University of Minnesota in 1930. He...	Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist
1978	W. Jackson Bate	Samuel Johnson
1979	Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the American liberalism of political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Schlesinger served as special assistant and "court historian"...	Robert Kennedy and His Times

Autobiography

1980 Hardcover	Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.She first emerged as leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have And Have Not and continued on in the film noir genre, with appearances in The Big Sleep and Dark Passage ,...	Lauren Bacall by Myself
1980 Paperback	Malcolm Cowley Malcolm Cowley Malcolm Cowley was an American novelist, poet, literary critic, and journalist.-Early life:...	And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978

Autobiography/Biography

1981 Hardcover	Justin Kaplan Justin Kaplan Justin Kaplan is an American writer and editor.Kaplan received his bachelor of science degree from Harvard University in 1945...	Walt Whitman
1981 Paperback	Deirdre Bair Deirdre Bair Deirdre Bair is the critically acclaimed author of five works of nonfiction. She received the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography. Her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and C. G. Jung were finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize...	Samuel Beckett
1982 Hardcover	David McCullough David McCullough David Gaub McCullough is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award....	Mornings on Horseback
1982 Paperback	Ronald Steel Ronald Steel Ronald Lewis Steel is an award-winning American writer, historian, and professor. He is the author of the definitive biography of Walter Lippman.-Biography:Ronald Steel was born in 1931 in Morris, Illinois outside of Chicago...	Walter Lippmann and the American Century
1983 Hardcover	Judith Thurman	Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
1983 Paperback	James R. Mellow	Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time

Science, Philosophy and Religion

1964	Christopher Tunnard Christopher Tunnard Christopher Tunnard was an Canadian-born landscape architect, garden designer, city-planner, and author of Gardens in the Modern Landscape...  & Boris Pushkarev	Man-made America
1965	Norbert Wiener Norbert Wiener Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician.A famous child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.Wiener is regarded as the originator of cybernetics, a...	God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
1967	Oscar Lewis Oscar Lewis Oscar Lewis was an American anthropologist who is best known for his vivid depictions of the lives of slum dwellers and for postulating that there was a cross-generational culture of poverty among poor people that transcended national boundaries...	La Vida
1968	Jonathan Kozol Jonathan Kozol Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States. Kozol graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1954, and Harvard University summa cum laude in 1958 with a degree in English Literature. He was awarded a Rhodes...	Death at an Early Age Death at an Early Age A book by Jonathan Kozol, Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools was first published in 1967. It won the National Book Award for Science, Philosophy, and Religion for 1968. The book describes Kozol's first year of teaching,...

The Sciences

1969	Robert J. Lifton	Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima
1971	Raymond Phineas Sterns	Science in the British Colonies of America
1972	George L. Small	The Blue Whale
1973	George B. Schaller	The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations
1974	S. E. Luria	Life: The Unfinished Experiment
1975	Silvano Arieti Silvano Arieti Silvano Arieti was a psychiatrist regarded in his time as one of the world’s foremost authorities on schizophrenia. He received his M.D. from the University of Pisa but left Italy soon after because of Benito Mussolini's increasingly racial policies...	Interpretation of Schizophrenia
1975	Lewis Thomas Lewis Thomas Lewis Thomas was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher.Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical School...	The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (also won Arts and Letters award)

Science

1980 Hardcover	Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics...	Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
1980 Paperback	Gary Zukav Gary Zukav Gary Zukav is a spiritual teacher and author of four consecutive New York Times bestsellers. Beginning in 1998, Zukav appeared more than 30 times on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss transformation in human consciousness concepts presented in The Seat of the Soul.-Life Story:Gary Zukav was born in...	The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics The Dancing Wu Li Masters The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav is a popular new age book from 1979 about mysticist interpretations of quantum physics.The toneless pinyin phrase Wu Li in the title is most accurately rendered 物理 in hanzi in the light of the book's subject matter, but appears to be somewhat of a pun as...
1981 Hardcover	Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....	The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History
1981 Paperback	Lewis Thomas Lewis Thomas Lewis Thomas was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher.Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical School...	The Medusa and the Snail
1982 Hardcover	Donald C. Johanson & Maitland A. Edey	Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
1982 Paperback	Fred Alan Wolf Fred Alan Wolf Fred Alan Wolf is an American theoretical physicist specializing in quantum physics and the relationship between physics and consciousness. He is a former physics professor at San Diego State University, and more recently has helped to popularize science on the Discovery Channel...	Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists
1983 Hardcover	Abraham Pais Abraham Pais Abraham Pais was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II...	"Subtle is the Lord...": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein
1983 Paperback	Philip J. Davis Philip J. Davis Philip J. Davis is an American applied mathematician.Davis was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He is known for his work in numerical analysis and approximation theory, as well as his investigations in the history and philosophy of mathematics...  & Reuben Hersh Reuben Hersh Reuben Hersh is an American mathematician and academic, best known for his writings on the nature, practice, and social impact of mathematics. This work challenges and complements mainstream philosophy of mathematics.After receiving a B.A...	The Mathematical Experience The Mathematical Experience The Mathematical Experience is a 1981 book by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh that discusses the practice of modern mathematics from a historical and philosophical perspective...
1983 Paperback	Joyce Carol Thomas Joyce Carol Thomas Joyce Carol Thomas is an African-American poet, playwright, motivational speaker, and best-selling author of more than 30 children's books. She was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma and currently resides in Berkeley, California. She moved with her family in 1948 to Tracy, California. Thomas received a...	Marked by Fire Marked by Fire Marked by Fire is a 1982 novel by Joyce Carol Thomas that won the United States 1983 National Book Award. The story follows the life of Abyssinia "Abby" Jackson, whose home in Oklahoma is destroyed by a tornado and fire....

Philosophy and Religion

1970	Erik H. Erikson	Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
1972	Martin E. Marty Martin E. Marty Martin Emil Marty is an American Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on 19th century and 20th century American religion. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956, and served as a Lutheran pastor from 1952 to 1962 in the suburbs of Chicago...	Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America
1973	S. E. Ahlstrom	A Religious History of the American People
1974	Maurice Natanson	Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks
1975	Robert Nozick Robert Nozick Robert Nozick was an American political philosopher, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a professor at Harvard University. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia , a right-libertarian answer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice...	Anarchy, State, and Utopia Anarchy, State, and Utopia Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a work of political philosophy written by Robert Nozick in 1974. This minarchist book was the winner of the 1975 National Book Award...

Religion/Inspiration

1980 Hardcover	Elaine Pagels Elaine Pagels Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey , is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic Gospels...	The Gnostic Gospels
1980 Paperback	Sheldon Vanauken Sheldon Vanauken Sheldon Vanauken is an American author, best known for his autobiographical book A Severe Mercy , which recounts his and his wife's friendship with C. S. Lewis, their conversion to Christianity and dealing with tragedy...	A Severe Mercy A Severe Mercy A Severe Mercy is an autobiographical book by Sheldon Vanauken, relating the author's relationship with his wife, their friendship with C. S. Lewis, conversion to Christianity and subsequent tragedy. It was first published in 1977. The book is strongly influenced, at least stylistically, by the...

Contemporary Affairs

1972	Stewart Brand Stewart Brand Stewart Brand is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation...  (ed.)	The Last Whole Earth Catalogue Whole Earth Catalog The Whole Earth Catalog was an American counterculture catalog published by Stewart Brand between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998...
1973	Frances FitzGerald	Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, written by Frances FitzGerald and published by both Back Bay Publishing and Little, Brown and Company in 1972, in 1973 won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, the National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs and the Bancroft...
1974	Murray Kempton Murray Kempton James Murray Kempton was an influential, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist.-Biography:Kempton was born in Baltimore on December 16, 1917. His mother was Sally Ambler and his father was James Branson Kempton, a stock broker...	The Briar Patch
1975	Theodore Rosengarten Theodore Rosengarten Theodore Rosengarten is an American historian.He graduated from Amherst College in 1966 with a BA, and received his PhD from Harvard for a thesis which became the National Book Award winning non-fiction All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, which was adapted into a one-man play starring...	All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
1976	Michael J. Arlen Michael J. Arlen Michael J. Arlen is an Armenian-American writer and former television critic of The New Yorker. The son of the prominent Armenian-American writer, Michael Arlen, he is the author of Living Room War, a book on the Vietnam War's portrayal and the social culture of America in the media in the USA...	Passage to Ararat

Contemporary Thought

1977	Bruno Bettelheim Bruno Bettelheim Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American child psychologist and writer. He gained an international reputation for his work on Freud, psychoanalysis, and emotionally disturbed children.-Background:...	The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales The Uses of Enchantment The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales is a 1976 work by Bruno Bettelheim in which the author analyses fairy tales in terms of Freudian psychology....
1978	Gloria Emerson Gloria Emerson Gloria Emerson was an American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent, who won a National Book Award for her book about the Vietnam War, Winners and Losers....	Winners & Losers Winners & Losers Winners & Losers is a Australian television drama series first broadcast on the Seven Network on 22 March 2011. It was created by the producers of Packed to the Rafters and is aired in the show's former time slot...
1979	Peter Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen is a two-time National Book Award-winning American novelist and non-fiction writer, as well as an environmental activist...	The Snow Leopard

Current Interest

1980 Hardcover	Julia Child Julia Child Julia Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for introducing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which...	Julia Child and More Company
1980 Paperback	Christopher Lasch Christopher Lasch Christopher Lasch was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic....	The Culture of Narcissism The Culture of Narcissism The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations is a 1979 book by the cultural historian Christopher Lasch exploring the roots and ramifications of the normalizing of pathological narcissism in 20th century American culture using psychological, cultural, artistic and...

General Reference Books

1980 Hardcover	Elder Witt (ed.)	The Complete Directory
1980 Paperback	Tim Brooks Tim Brooks (television historian) Tim Brooks is an American television and radio historian, author and retired television executive. He is credited with having helped launch the Sci Fi Channel in 1992 as well as other USA Network projects and channels....  & Earle Marsh	The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946–Present

Translation

1967	Gregory Rabassa Gregory Rabassa Gregory Rabassa is a renowned literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English who currently teaches at Queens College.-Life and career:Rabassa was born in Yonkers, New York, U.S., into a family headed by a Cuban émigré...	Julio Cortázar Julio Cortázar Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar, was an Argentine writer. Cortázar, known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, influenced an entire generation of Spanish speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe.-Early life:Cortázar's parents, Julio José Cortázar and... 's Hopscotch
1967	Willard Trask	Casanova Giacomo Casanova Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie , is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century... 's History of My Life Histoire de ma vie Histoire de ma vie is both the memoir and autobiography of Giacomo Casanova, a famous 18th century Italian adventurer...
1968	Howard & Edna Hong	Søren Kierkegaard Søren Kierkegaard Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel... 's Journals and Papers
1969	William Weaver William Weaver William Fense Weaver is an English language translator of modern Italian literature.-Biography:William Weaver is perhaps best known for his translations of the work of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino, and has translated many other Italian authors over the course of a career spanning more than fifty...	Italo Calvino Italo Calvino Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,... 's Cosmicomics Cosmicomics Cosmicomics is a book of short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. Each story takes a scientific "fact" , and builds an imaginative story around it...
1970	Ralph Manheim Ralph Manheim Ralph Frederick Manheim was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian...	Céline Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and physician Louis-Ferdinand Destouches . Céline was chosen after his grandmother's first name. He is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both French and... 's Castle to Castle Castle to Castle Castle to Castle is the English title of the 1957 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, titled in French D'un château l'autre. The book was written about his experiences in exile at Sigmaringen, Germany, with the Vichy French government towards the end of World War II.-Legacy:Castle to Castle was...
1971	Frank Jones	Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the... 's Saint Joan of the Stockyards Saint Joan of the Stockyards Saint Joan of the Stockyards is a play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht between 1929 and 1931, after the success of his musical The Threepenny Opera and during the period of his radical experimental work with the Lehrstücke. It is based on the musical that he co-authored...
1971	Edward G. Seidensticker	Yasunari Kawabata Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award... 's The Sound of the Mountain The Sound of the Mountain The Sound of the Mountain is a novel by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, serialized between 1949 and 1954. Its translation into English by Edward G. Seidensticker was first published in 1970, earning Seidensticker the National Book Award for Translation the following year...
1972	Austryn Wainhouse Austryn Wainhouse Austryn Wainhouse is an American translator, primarily of French works and notably of Marquis de Sade, sometimes using pseudonym Pieralessandro Casavini....	Jacques Monod Jacques Monod Jacques Lucien Monod was a French biologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and Andre Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"... 's Chance and Necessity Chance and Necessity Chance and Necessity is a 1970 book by Jacques Monod, interpreting the processes of evolution to show that life is only the result of natural processes by "pure chance". It has been described as a "manifesto of materialist biology in the most reductivist sense"...
1973	Allen Mandelbaum Allen Mandelbaum Allen Mandelbaum was a American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator. He was the W. R...	The Aeneid of Aeneid The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of roughly 10,000 lines in dactylic hexameter...  Virgil Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English , was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues , the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid...
1974	Karen Brazell Karen Brazell Karen Brazell is an American professor and translator of Japanese literature. Her English-language translation of The Confessions of Lady Nijo won an American National Book Award for Translations. Karen Brazell holds a PhD from Columbia University...	The Confessions of Lady Nijo Lady Nijo was a Japanese historical figure. She was a concubine of Emperor Go-Fukakusa from 1271 to 1283, and later became a Buddhist nun. After years of travelling, around 1304–7 she wrote an autobiographical novel, Towazugatari , the work for which she is known today, and which...
1974	Helen R. Lane	Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.-Early life and writings:... 's Alternating Current
1974	Jackson Matthews	Paul Valéry Paul Valéry Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath... 's Monsieur Teste
1975	Anthony Kerrigan	Miguel de Unamuno Miguel de Unamuno Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher.-Biography:... 's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith
1977	Li-Li Ch'en	Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance Romance of the West Chamber thumb|250px|A scene from a multi-colored woodblock printing album depicting scenes from the play,Romance of the West Chamber is one of the most famous Chinese dramatic works. It was written by the Yuan Dynasty playwright Wang Shifu 王實甫, and set during the Tang Dynasty...
1978	Howard Nemerov Howard Nemerov Howard Nemerov was an American poet. He was twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1988 to 1990. He received the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov...	Uwe George Uwe George Uwe George is a prize-winning German journalist, author and researcher, born in Kiel, Germany on April 1, 1940.In the 1960s, George performed lengthy research in the Sahara Desert as an ornithologist, writing several publications on the special breeding biology of desert birds.1967 he learned the... 's In the Deserts of This Earth
1979	Clayton Eshleman Clayton Eshleman Clayton Eshleman is an American poet, translator, and editor.-Life:Eshleman has been translating since the early 1960s. He is the recipient of the National Book Award in 1979 for his co-translation of César Vallejo's Complete Posthumous Poetry...  & José Rubia Barcia José Rubia Barcia José Rubia Barcia was born in El Ferrol , where a cultural center dedicated to him now houses his library and a collection of his papers. He studied Arabic and Hispano-Arabic literature at the University of Granada...	César Vallejo César Vallejo César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante"... 's The Complete Posthumous Poetry
1980	William Arrowsmith William Arrowsmith William Ayres Arrowsmith was an American classicist, academic, and translator.-Life:Born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Walter Weed Arrowsmith and Dorothy Arrowsmith, William grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts...	Cesare Pavese Cesare Pavese Cesare Pavese was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator; he is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.- Early life and education :... '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 Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary , and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.-Early life and education:Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen,...
1981	John E. Woods John E. Woods John E. Woods is a translator who specializes in translating German literature, since about 1978. His work includes much of the fictional prose of Arno Schmidt and the works of contemporary authors such as Ingo Schulze and Christoph Ransmayr...	Arno Schmidt Arno Schmidt Arno Schmidt was a German author and translator.-Biography:Born in Hamburg, son of a police constable, Schmidt moved with his widowed mother to Lauban and attended the secondary school in Görlitz. He then worked as a clerk in a textile company in Greiffenberg... 's Evening Edged in Gold
1982	Robert Lyons Danly	Higuchi Ichiyō's In the Shade of Spring Leaves
1982	Ian Hideo Levy	The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry
1983	Richard Howard Richard Howard Richard Howard is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches...	Charles Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century... 's Les Fleurs du mal Les Fleurs du mal Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857 , it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements...

Children's Literature

1969	Meindert DeJong Meindert DeJong Meindert De Jong sometimes spelled as Meindert de Jong or Dejong was an award winning author of children's books. He was born in the village of Wierum, of the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands.-Life:...	Journey from Peppermint Street
1976	Walter D. Edmonds Walter D. Edmonds Walter "Walt" Dumaux Edmonds was an American author noted for his historical novels, including the popular Drums Along the Mohawk , which was successfully made into a Technicolor feature film in 1939 directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert.-Life:In 1919 he entered The...	Bert Breen's Barn Bert Breen's Barn Bert Breen's Barn is a children's novel by Walter D. Edmonds set in the early 1900s. The book was published in 1975 by Little Brown & Co. The main character is Tom Dolan, an impoverished young man who lives in the north Adirondack country. The plot follows his fascination with Bert Breen's Barn, as...
1977	Katherine Paterson Katherine Paterson Katherine Paterson is an American author of children's novels. She wrote Bridge to Terabithia and has received several of the major international awards for children's literature.- Early life:...	The Master Puppeteer The Master Puppeteer The Master Puppeteer is a 1975 work of children's literature written by U.S. novelist Katherine Paterson. The book is set in Osaka, Japan during a period of famine in the 18th century. A young boy named Jiro takes a job at a theater run by the puppeteer Yoshida, who proves to be a demanding employer...
1978	Judith & Herbert Kohl Herbert Kohl (education) Herbert R. Kohl is an educator best known for his advocacy of progressive alternative education and as the author of more than thirty books on education....	The View From the Oak
1979	Katherine Paterson Katherine Paterson Katherine Paterson is an American author of children's novels. She wrote Bridge to Terabithia and has received several of the major international awards for children's literature.- Early life:...	The Great Gilly Hopkins The Great Gilly Hopkins -Plot summary:Gilly Hopkins is going to yet another foster home in Thompson Park, Maryland, with her social worker, Miss Ellis. At 11 years of age, she has spent the better part of her life being bounced from one set of foster parents to the next...

Children's Books

1970	Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer – July 24, 1991) was a Polish Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978...	A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw
1971	Lloyd Alexander Lloyd Alexander Lloyd Chudley Alexander was a widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books...	The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
1972	Donald Barthelme Donald Barthelme Donald Barthelme was an American author known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston , co-founder of Fiction Donald...	The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn
1973	Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...	The Farthest Shore The Farthest Shore The Farthest Shore is the third of a series of books written by Ursula K. Le Guin and set in her fantasy archipelago of Earthsea, first published in 1972. It follows on from The Tombs of Atuan, which itself was a sequel to A Wizard of Earthsea. It is the Earthsea series novel which inspired the...
1974	Eleanor Cameron Eleanor Cameron Eleanor Frances Butler Cameron was a Canadian children's author. Her first book was The Unheard Music, published in 1950.-Life:...	The Court of the Stone Children
1975	Virginia Hamilton Virginia Hamilton Virginia Esther Hamilton was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal....	M. C. Higgins the Great
1980 Hardcover	Joan Blos Joan Blos Joan Winsor Blos is an author, teacher and Advocate for Children and Literature. In 1980, she won the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award for A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal...	A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal A Gathering of Days; A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 is a historical novel by Joan Blos that won the 1980 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature....
1980 Paperback	Madeleine L'Engle Madeleine L'Engle Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time...	A Swiftly Tilting Planet A Swiftly Tilting Planet A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a 1978 science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, part of the Time Quartet. In it, Charles Wallace Murry, an advanced and perceptive child in A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door, has grown into adolescence...

Children's Books, Fiction

1981 Hardcover	Betsy Byars Betsy Byars Betsy Cromer Byars is an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal...	The Night Swimmers
1981 Paperback	Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary is an American author. Educated at colleges in California and Washington, she worked as a librarian before writing children's books. Cleary has written more than 30 books for young adults and children. Some of her best-known characters are Henry Huggins, Ribsy, Beatrice Quimby, her...	Ramona and Her Mother Ramona and Her Mother Ramona and Her Mother is a juvenile fiction novel written by Beverly Cleary. It is part of the Ramona Quimby series. The book was illustrated by Alan Tiegreen and was first published in 1979. The current edition was illustrated by Tracy Dockray....
1982 Hardcover	Lloyd Alexander Lloyd Alexander Lloyd Chudley Alexander was a widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books...	Westmark Westmark (novel) Westmark is a fantasy novel by Lloyd Alexander that received an American Book Award. It is the first book of the Westmark trilogy, followed by The Kestrel and The Beggar Queen. Showing influences from the French existentialist writers whose works Alexander translated early in his career, the...
1982 Paperback	Ouida Sebestyen	Words by Heart
1983 Hardcover	Jean Fritz Jean Fritz Jean Guttery Fritz, born November 16, 1915, is an American children's author and biographer.-Life:Jean Fritz was born to American missionaries in Hankow, China, where she lived until she was thirteen. She was an only child . Growing up, Fritz kept a journal about her days in China with Lin Nai-Nai...	Homesick: My Own Story
1983 Paperback	Paula Fox Paula Fox Paula Fox is an American author of novels for adults and children and two memoirs. Her novel The Slave Dancer received the Newbery Medal in 1974; and in 1978, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. More recently, A Portrait of Ivan won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2008.Her...	A Place Apart
1983 Paperback	Joyce Carol Thomas Joyce Carol Thomas Joyce Carol Thomas is an African-American poet, playwright, motivational speaker, and best-selling author of more than 30 children's books. She was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma and currently resides in Berkeley, California. She moved with her family in 1948 to Tracy, California. Thomas received a...	Marked by Fire Marked by Fire Marked by Fire is a 1982 novel by Joyce Carol Thomas that won the United States 1983 National Book Award. The story follows the life of Abyssinia "Abby" Jackson, whose home in Oklahoma is destroyed by a tornado and fire....

Children's Books, Non-fiction

1981 Hardcover	Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence Jane Lawrence Jane Lawrence Smith , born Jane Brotherton, was an American actress and opera singer who was part of the New York art scene from the 1950s on.-Life and work:...	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 Maurice Sendak Maurice Bernard Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963.-Early life:...	Outside Over There Outside Over There Outside Over There is a 1981 children's book by Maurice Sendak. It concerns a young girl named Ida, who must rescue her baby sister after the child has been stolen by goblins.-Plot:...
1982 Paperback	Peter Spier Peter Spier Peter Spier is a Dutch-born American author and illustrator who has published more than thirty children's books.-Biographical information:...	Noah's Ark Noah's Ark (book) Noah's Ark is a book by Peter Spier. Released by Doubleday, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1978and a National Book Award for picture books....
1983 Hardcover	Barbara Cooney Barbara Cooney Barbara Cooney was an American children's author and illustrator of more than 200 books and double Caldecott Medalist. She has written books for six decades...	Miss Rumphius Miss Rumphius Miss Rumphius is a children’s fiction book by Barbara Cooney, published in 1982. The book follows the life story of Miss Alice Rumphius, a woman who sought a way to make the world more beautiful, and who found it in planting lupins in the wild....
1983 Hardcover	William Steig William Steig William Steig was a prolific American cartoonist, sculptor and, later in life, an author of popular children's literature...	Doctor De Soto
1983 Paperback	Mary Ann Hoberman & Betty Fraser (ill.)	A House is a House for Me