National Book Award1952

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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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Announced:
November 2023: Winner2023 Recent

Winner 3

WorkCategoryYear
From Here to Eternity by James JonesFiction1952
The Sea Around Us by Rachel CarsonNonfiction1952
Collected Poems by Marianne MoorePoetry1952

Finalist 32

WorkCategoryYear
From Here to Eternity by James JonesFiction1952
The Morning Watch by James AgeeFiction1952
The Grass Harp: Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories by Truman CapoteFiction1952
Requiem for a Nun by William FaulknerFiction1952
The strange children by Caroline GordonFiction1952
The Holy Sinner by Thomas MannFiction1952
Melville Goodwin, USA by John P. MarquandFiction1952
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. SalingerFiction1952
Lie Down in Darkness by William StyronFiction1952
The Witch Diggers by Jessamyn WestFiction1952
The Caine Mutiny by Herman WoukFiction1952
The Sea Around Us by Rachel CarsonNonfiction1952
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah ArendtNonfiction1952
Life in America by Marshall B. DavidsonNonfiction1952
Henry James by F. W. DupeeNonfiction1952
Birth of a World: Bolivar in Terms of His People by Waldo David FrankNonfiction1952
Washington by Douglas Southall FreemanNonfiction1952
The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths by Erich FrommNonfiction1952
The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People by Oscar HandlinNonfiction1952
A Walker in the City by Alfred KazinNonfiction1952
Jefferson and the Rights of Man by Dumas MaloneNonfiction1952
White Collar: The American Middle Classes by C. Wright MillsNonfiction1952
The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Arthur MizenerNonfiction1952
The conduct of life by Lewis MumfordNonfiction1952
Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. PuseyNonfiction1952
Thomas Jefferson : A Biography by Nat SchachnerNonfiction1952
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (New Directions Paperbook) by William Carlos WilliamsNonfiction1952
Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction by C. Vann WoodwardNonfiction1952
Collected Poems by Marianne MoorePoetry1952
Nones by W. H. AudenPoetry1952
Selected Poems of Horace Gregory by Horace GregoryPoetry1952
The Collected Earlier Poems of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos WilliamsPoetry1952

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