National Book Award1962

Given by National Book Foundation

36 Works 77,126 Books 1,148 Reviews 4.0
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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All, 2023 (50), 2022 (50), 2021 (49), 2020 (50), 2019 (49), 2018 (50), 2017 (40), 2016 (40), 2015 (40), 2014 (40), 2013 (42), 2012 (20), 2011 (20), 2010 (20), 2009 (20), 2008 (20), 2007 (16), 2006 (20), 2005 (20), 2004 (20), 2003 (20), 2002 (20), 2001 (20), 2000 (20), 1999 (20), 1998 (20), 1997 (20), 1996 (20), 1995 (15), 1994 (15), 1993 (15), 1992 (15), 1991 (15), 1990 (10), 1989 (9), 1988 (9), 1987 (10), 1986 (8), 1985 (9), 1983 (90), 1982 (79), 1981 (67), 1980 (105), 1979 (13), 1978 (9), 1977 (15), 1976 (12), 1975 (25), 1974 (28), 1973 (25), 1972 (31), 1971 (32), 1970 (31), 1969 (30), 1968 (24), 1967 (29), 1966 (19), 1965 (22), 1964 (25), 1963 (24), 1962 (36), 1961 (35), 1960 (40), 1959 (25), 1958 (29), 1957 (41), 1956 (26), 1955 (29), 1954 (3), 1953 (33), 1952 (32), 1951 (3), 1950 (8), 1936 (2), 1935 (1)

Winner 3

WorkCategoryYear
The Moviegoer by Walker PercyFiction1962
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis MumfordNonfiction1962
Poems by Alan DuganPoetry1962

Finalist 36

WorkCategoryYear
The Moviegoer by Walker PercyFiction1962
False Entry by Hortense CalisherFiction1962
Among the Dangs by George P. ElliottFiction1962
Catch-22 by Joseph HellerFiction1962
A New Life by Bernard MalamudFiction1962
The Chateau by William MaxwellFiction1962
Franny and Zooey by J. D. SalingerFiction1962
The Spinoza of Market Street by Isaac Bashevis SingerFiction1962
The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis WallantFiction1962
The Morning and the Evening (Voices of the South) by Joan WilliamsFiction1962
Revolutionary Road by Richard YatesFiction1962
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis MumfordNonfiction1962
African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man by Robert ArdreyNonfiction1962
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son by James BaldwinNonfiction1962
The will of Zeus; a history of Greece from the origins of Hellenic culture to the death of Alexander by Stringfellow BarrNonfiction1962
The architecture of America; a social and cultural history by John E. BurchardNonfiction1962
Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias by Rene DubosNonfiction1962
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsNonfiction1962
Children of Sanchez by Oscar LewisNonfiction1962
A matter of life and death by Virgilia PetersonNonfiction1962
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark SchorerNonfiction1962
Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth StevensonNonfiction1962
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. WhiteNonfiction1962
John Bunyan by Ola Elizabeth WinslowNonfiction1962
Poems by Alan DuganPoetry1962
Madonna of the cello, poems by Robert BaggPoetry1962
The Islanders by Philip BoothPoetry1962
In the Stoneworks by John CiardiPoetry1962
Helen in Egypt by Hilda DoolittlePoetry1962
Fact of Crystal by Abbie Huston EvansPoetry1962
Looking Glass by Isabella GardnerPoetry1962
Medusa in Gramercy Park by Horace GregoryPoetry1962
The fortune teller; poems by John HolmesPoetry1962
The Jacob's Ladder by Denise LevertovPoetry1962
Adam before his mirror by Ned O'GormanPoetry1962
The gardener, and other poems by John Hall WheelockPoetry1962

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