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The National Book Award
Fiction
Awarded annually by the National Book Foundation for the best
fiction
in the United States. Go to the National
Book Awards site for biography, science, poetry, children's
literature and other literary awards.
1950: Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm
1951: William Faulkner, The Collected Stories
1952: James Jones, From Here to Eternity
1953: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
1954: Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March
1955: William Faulkner, A Fable
1956: John O'Hara, Ten North Frederick
1957: Wright Morris, The Field of Vision
1958: John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle
1959: Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel
1960: Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus
1961: Conrad Richter, The Waters of Kronos
1962: Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
1963: J.F. Powers Morte, D'Urban
1964: John Updike, The Centaur
1965: Saul Bellow, Herzog
1966: Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories
1967: Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
1968: Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
1969: Jerzy Kosinski, Steps
1970: Joyce Carol Oates, Them
1971: Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet
1972: Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories
1973: John Barth, Chimera
1973: John Williams, Augustus
1974: Isaac Bashevis Singer, A Crown of Feathers . . .
1974: Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
1975: Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers
1975: Thomas Williams, The Hair of Harold Roux
1976: William Gaddis, JR
1977: Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird
1978: Mary Lee Settle, Blood Tie
1979: Tim O'Brien, Going after Cacciato
1980: William Styron, Sophie's Choice
1981: Wright Morris, Plain Song
1982: John Updike, Rabbit is Rich
1983: Alice Walker, The Color Purple
1983: Eudora Welty, The Collected Stories
1984: Ellen Gilchrist, Victory over Japan
1985: Don DeLillo, White Noise
1986: E.L. Doctorow, World's Fair
1987: Larry Heinemann, Paco's Story
1988: Pete Dexter, Paris Trout
1989: John Casey, Spartina
1990: Charles Johnson, Middle Passage
1991: Norman Rush, Mating
1992: Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
1993: E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
1994: William Gaddis, A Frolic of his Own
1995: Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater
1996: Andrea Barrett, Ship Fever and Other Stories
1997: Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
1998: Alice McDermott, Charming Billy
1999: Ha Jin, Waiting
2000: Susan Sontag, In America
2001: Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
2002: Julia Glass, Three Junes
2003: Shirley
Hazzard, The Great Fire
2004: Lily
Tuck, The News From Paraguay
2005: William
T. Vollmann,
Europe Central
2006: Richard
Powers, The Echo Maker
2007: Denis
Johnson, Tree of Smoke
2008: Peter
Matthiessen, Shadow
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The National Book Award
Non-Fiction
Awarded annually by the National Book Foundation for the best
non-fiction
in the United States. Go to the National
Book Awards site for biography, science, poetry, children's
literature and other literary awards.
1950: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph L. Rusk
1951: Herman Melville
1952: The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson
1953: The Course of an Empire, Bernard A. De Voto
1954: The Stillness at Appomattox, Bruce Catton
1955: The Measure of Man, Joseph Wood Krutch
1956: An American in Italy, Herbert Kubly
1957: Russia Leaves the War, George F. Kennan
1958: The Lion and the Throne, Catherine Drinker Bowen
1959: Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael, J.
Christopher Herold
1960: James Joyce, Richard Ellmann
1961: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L.
Shirer
1962: The City in History: Its Origins, Transformations
& Prospects, Lewis Mumford
1963: Henry James, The Conquest of London, The Middle
Years, Leon Edel
1964: John Keats: The Making of a Poet, Aileen Ward
1964: The Rise of the West: A History of the Human
Community, William H. McNeill
1964: Man-made America, Christopher Tunnard & Boris
Pushkarev
1965: The Life of Lenin, Louis Fischer
1965: God and Golem, Inc: Where Cybernetics Impinges on
Religion, Norbert Wiener
1966: Paris Journal, 1944-1965, Janet Flanner
1966: A Thousand Days, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr
1967: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography, Justin
Kaplan
1967: The Enlightenment, An Interpretation the Rise of
Modern Paganism, Peter Gay
1968: Memoirs: 1925-1950, George F. Kennan
1968: Death at an Early Age: Negro Children in the Boston
Schools, Jonathan Kozol
1969: The Armies of the Night: History as Novel, Novel as
History, Norman Mailer
1969: White over Black: American Attitudes, 1550-1812,
Winthrop D. Jordan
1969: Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, Robert J.
Lifton
1970: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir, Lillian Hellman
1970: Huey Long, T. Harry Williams
1970: Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant
Nonviolence, Erik H. Erikson
1971: Cocteau: A Biography, Francis Steegmuller
1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, James MacGregor
Burns
1971: Science in the British Colonies of America, Raymond
Phineas Sterns
1972: Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their
Relationship, Joseph P. Lash
1972: Ordeal of the Union: The Organized War, 1863-1864,
Allan Nevins
1972: Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in
America, Martin E. Marty
1972: The Blue Whale, George L. Small
1973: Diderot , Arthur M. Wilson
1973: George Washington, Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799,
James Thomas Flexner
1973: Fire in the Lake: Vietnamese and Americans in
Vietnam, Frances FitzGerald
1973: The Children of Pride: Georgia & the Civil War,
Robert Manson Myers
1973: Judenrat: Jewish Councils under the Nazis, Isaiah
Trunk
1973: A Religious History of the American People, S. E.
Ahlstrom
1973: The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey
Relations, George B. Schaller
1974: Malcolm Lowry: A Biography, Douglas Day
1974: The Shaping of the Historian, John Clive
1974: Life: The Unfinished Experiment, S. E. Luria
1975: Marcel Proust, Roger Shattuck
1975: The Lives of a Cell: Notes on a Biology Watcher,
Lewis Thomas
1975: The Life of Emily Dickinson, Richard B. Sewall
1975: The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson, Bernard Bailyn
1975: Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick and
Marilyn Hacker
1975: Interpretation of Schizophrenia, Silvano Arieti
1976: The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell
1976: The Problem of Slavery in Age of Revolution,
1770-1823, David Brion Davis
1977: Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist, W. A. Swanberg
1977: The Uses of Enchantment: Meaning of Fairy Tales,
Bruno Bettelheim
1977: World of Our Fathers, Irving Howe
1978: Samuel Johnson, W. Jackson Bate
1978: The Path Between the Seas: Panama Canal 1870-1914,
David McCullough
1979: Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger,
Jr
1979: Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763,
Richard Beale Davis
1980: Lauren Bacall by Myself, Lauren Bacall
1980: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
1980: The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
1980: The White House Years, Henry A. Kissinger
1980: The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels
1980: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid,
Douglas Hofstadter
1981: Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan
1981: Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality,
John Boswell
1981: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural
History, Stephen Jay Gould
1982: Mornings on Horseback: Young Theodore Roosevelt,
David McCullough
1982: The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
1982: People of the Sacred Mountain: Cheyenne, Father
Peter John Powell
1982: Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, Donald C.
Johanson & Maitland A. Edey
1983: Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, Judith
Thurman
1983: China: Alive in the Bitter Sea, Fox Butterfield
1983: Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, the
Depression, Alan Brinkley
1983: "Subtle is the Lord...": The Science and Life
of Albert Einstein, Abraham Pais
1984: Andrew Jackson & American Democracy, 1833-1845,
Robert V. Remini
1985: Common Ground: Turbulent Decade for Three Families,
J. Anthony Lukas
1986: Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez
1987: The Making of the Atom Bomb, Richard Rhodes
1988: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in
Vietnam, Neil Sheehan
1989: From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman
1990: The House of Morgan: The Rise of Modern Finance,
Ron Chernow
1991: Freedom: From the Experience of Slavery, Orlando
Patterson
1992: Becoming a Man: Society's Homophobic Attitudes,
Paul Monette
1993: United States: Essays 1952-1992, Gore Vidal
1994: How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter,
Sherwin B. Nuland
1995: The Haunted Land: Europe's Ghosts After Communism,
Tina Rosenberg
1996: An American Requiem: The War that Came Between Us,
James Carroll
1997: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson,
Joseph J. Ellis
1998: Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball
1999: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II,
John W. Dower
2000: In the Heart of the Sea:
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick
2001: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Andrew
Soloman
2002: Master of the Senate: Robert A. Caro
2003: Carols Eire, 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 Dideon, The Year
of Magical Thinking
2006: Timothy Egan, The Worst
Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who
Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
2007: Tim Weiner: Legacy of Ashes: The History of
the CIA
2008: Annette
Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American
Family
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The PEN/Faulkner Award
PEN/Faulkner was founded in 1980 by writers to
honor their peers, and is now the largest juried award for
fiction in the U.S. It is named in honor of William Faulkner,
who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young
writers.
Go to the PEN/Faulkner
site.
1981: Walter Abish, How German is It?
1982: David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident
1983: Toby Olson, Seaview
1984: John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday
1985: Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
1986: Peter Taylor, The Old Forest . . .
1987: Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding
1988: T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End
1989: James Salter, Dusk . . .
1990: E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
1991: John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
1992: Don DeLillo, Mao II
1993: E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
1994: Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
1995: David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
1996: Richard Ford, Independence Day
1997: Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds
1998: Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home
1999: Michael Cunningham, The Hours
2000: Ha Jin , Waiting
2001: Philip Roth, The Human Stain
2002: Ann Patchett, Bel
Canto
2003: Sabina Murray, The Caprices
2004: John Updike, The Early Stories
2005: Ha Jin, War
Trash
2006: E.L. Doctorow, The March
2007: Philip Roth, Everyman
2008: Kate Christensen, The
Great Man
2009: Joseph O'Neill,
Netherland
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The Caldecott Medal
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of
nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It
is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to
Children, a division of the American Library Association, to
the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for
children. Go to the Caldecott
Medal site.
1938: Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop; text:
selected by Helen Dean Fish
1939: Mei Li by Thomas Handforth
1940:
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
1941: They Were Strong and
Good, by Robert Lawson
1942: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
1943: The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
1944: Many Moons,
illustrated by Louis Slobodkin; text: James Thurber
1945: Prayer for a Child, illustrated
by Elizabeth Orton Jones; text: Rachel Field
1946: The Rooster Crows by Maude &
Miska Petersham
1947: The Little Island, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard; text: Golden
MacDonald, pseud. [Margaret Wise Brown]
1948: White Snow, Bright Snow, illustrated
by Roger Duvoisin; text: Alvin Tresselt
1949: The Big Snow by Berta & Elmer Hader
1950: Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi
1951: The Egg Tree by
Katherine Milhous
1952: Finders Keepers, illustrated by Nicolas, pseud. (Nicholas
Mordvinoff); text: Will, pseud. [William Lipkind]
1953: The Biggest Bear by Lynd
Ward
1954: Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
1955: Cinderella, or
the Little Glass Slipper, illustrated by Marcia Brown; text: translated from Charles Perrault by Marcia
Brown
1956: Frog Went A-Courtin', illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky; text: retold by
John Langstaff
1957: A Tree Is Nice, illustrated by Marc Simont; text: Janice
Udry
1958: Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey
1959: Chanticleer and
the Fox, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: adapted from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Barbara
Cooney
1960: Nine Days to Christmas, illustrated by Marie Hall Ets; text: Marie Hall
Ets and Aurora Labastida
1961: Baboushka and the Three Kings, illustrated by Nicolas
Sidjakov; text: Ruth Robbins
1962: Once a Mouse, retold and illustrated by Marcia
Brown
1963: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
1964: Where the Wild
Things Are by Maurice Sendak
1965: May I Bring a Friend? illustrated by Beni
Montresor; text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
1966: Always Room for One More,
illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian; text: Sorche Nic Leodhas
1967: Sam, Bangs &
Moonshine by Evaline Ness
1968: Drummer Hoff, illustrated by Ed Emberley; text:
adapted by Barbara Emberley
1969: The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship,
illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; text: retold by Arthur Ransome
1970: Sylvester and the Magic
Pebble by William Steig
1971: A Story A Story, retold and illustrated by Gail E.
Haley
1972: One Fine Day, retold and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian
1973:
The Funny Little Woman, illustrated by Blair Lent; text: retold by Arlene Mosel
1974: Duffy and the Devil, illustrated by Margot Zemach; retold by Harve Zemach
1975:
Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
1976: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's
Ears, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: retold by Verna Aardema
1977: Ashanti to
Zulu: African Traditions, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon; text: Margaret Musgrove
1978:
Noah's Ark by Peter Spier
1979: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul
Goble
1980: Ox-Cart Man, illustrated by Barbara Cooney; text: Donald
Hall
1981: Fables by Arnold Lobel
1982: Jumanji by Chris Van
Allsburg
1983: Shadow, translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown; original text in
French: Blaise Cendrars
1984: The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis
Bleriot by Alice & Martin Provensen
1985: Saint George and the Dragon,
illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; text: retold by Margaret Hodges
1986: The Polar
Express by Chris Van Allsburg
1987: Hey, Al, illustrated by Richard Egielski; text:
Arthur Yorinks
1988: Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr; text: Jane Yolen
1989: Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell; text: Karen Ackerman
1990: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
1991:
Black and White by David Macaulay
1992: Tuesday by David Wiesner
1993: Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
1994:
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say; text: edited by Walter Lorraine
1995: Smoky
Night, illustrated by David Diaz; text: Eve Bunting
1996: Officer Buckle and Gloria
by Peggy Rathmann
1997: Golem by David Wisniewski
1998:
Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky
1999: Snowflake Bentley, illustrated by Mary
Azarian; text: Jacqueline Briggs Martin
2000: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, by Simms Taback
2001: So You Want to be President? illustrated by David Small. Text: Judith St. George (Philomel)
2002: The Three Pigs by
David Wiesner
2003: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
2004: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by
Mordicai Gerstein
2005: Kitten's First Full Moon by
Kevin Henkes
2006: The Hello, Goodbye Window illustrated
by Chris Raschka and written by Norton
Juster
2007: Flotsam by David Wiesner
2008: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian
Selznick
2009: The House in the Night,
illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie
Swanson
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