National Book Award1957

Given by National Book Foundation

41 Works 18,051 Books 268 Reviews ½ 3.9
Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize given to writers by writers and administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. Each year, the show more Foundation selects a total of twenty Judges, including five in each of the four Award categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. Judges are published writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field, and in some cases, are past NBA Finalists or Winners. One of the five Judges on each panel is selected as the panel chair. This person acts as the voice of the panel and the liaison to the Foundation. The Foundation staff takes no part in the Judges’ deliberations, except to verify a submission’s eligibility. show less
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Winner 3

WorkCategoryYear
The Field of Vision by Wright MorrisFiction1957
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol 1 by George F. KennanNonfiction1957
Things of This World: Poems by Richard WilburPoetry1957

Finalist 41

WorkCategoryYear
The Field of Vision by Wright MorrisFiction1957
A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson AlgrenFiction1957
Giovanni's Room by James BaldwinFiction1957
Seize the Day by Saul BellowFiction1957
Greenwillow by B. J. ChuteFiction1957
These Thousand Hills by A.B. Jr GuthrieFiction1957
A Single Pebble by John HerseyFiction1957
Generations of Men by John Clinton HuntFiction1957
The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'ConnorFiction1957
The Presence of Grace by J. F. PowersFiction1957
The Voice at the Back Door by Elizabeth SpencerFiction1957
Further Fables for Our Time by James ThurberFiction1957
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol 1 by George F. KennanNonfiction1957
John Quincy Adams and the Union by Samuel Flagg BemisNonfiction1957
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940 by James MacGregor BurnsNonfiction1957
This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War by Bruce CattonNonfiction1957
Guides to Straight Thinking, With 13 Common Fallacies. by Stuart ChaseNonfiction1957
Atomic quest, a personal narrative by Arthur Holly ComptonNonfiction1957
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph by Frank FreidelNonfiction1957
The Crucial Decade–and After by Eric F. GoldmanNonfiction1957
The Nun's Story by Kathryn HulmeNonfiction1957
Richard the Third by Paul Murray KendallNonfiction1957
Profiles in Courage by John F. KennedyNonfiction1957
Revolt of the moderates by Samuel LubellNonfiction1957
The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene by Perry MillerNonfiction1957
The Transformations of Man by Lewis MumfordNonfiction1957
Autumn Across America by Edwin Way TealeNonfiction1957
Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South by Robert Penn WarrenNonfiction1957
The Organization Man by William H. WhyteNonfiction1957
Things of This World: Poems by Richard WilburPoetry1957
This Tilting Dust by Leah Bodine DrakePoetry1957
New and Selected Poems by Kenneth FearingPoetry1957
In the rose of time; poems 1931-1956 by Robert FitzgeraldPoetry1957
Poems old and new by Wheelock John HallPoetry1957
Villa Narcisse: The Garden, the Staues and the Pool by Katherine HoskinsPoetry1957
Green armor on green ground; poems in the twenty-four official Welsh meters and some, in free meters, on Welsh themes by Rolfe HumphriesPoetry1957
Unicorn and Other Poems by Anne Morrow LindberghPoetry1957
Green with Beasts by W. S. MerwinPoetry1957
Like a bulwark by Marianne MoorePoetry1957
Section: Rock-Drill 85-95 de los cantares by Ezra PoundPoetry1957
In Defense of the Earth by Kenneth RexrothPoetry1957

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