National Book Award
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National Book Awards are annual literary awards presented since 1950 for the best American book published in the preceding year, presently in each of four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature. Over the years awards in several categories have been retired or subsumed into supercategories. To be eligible for entry, a book must be published in the United States and the author must be a living U.S. citizen. The winners, selected by five-member, independent judging panels for each genre, receive a $10,000 cash award and a crystal sculpture.
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National Book Award Winners (Fiction)
National Book Award Winners (Nonfiction)
| 1950 | Ralph L. Rusk | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 1951 | Newton Arvin | Herman Melville |
| 1952 | Rachel Carson | The Sea Around Us |
| 1953 | Bernard A. De Voto | The Course of Empire |
| 1954 | Bruce Catton | A Stillness at Appomattox |
| 1955 | Joseph Wood Krutch | The Measure of Man |
| 1956 | Herbert Kubly | An American in Italy |
| 1957 | George F. Kennan | Russia Leaves the War |
| 1958 | Catherine Drinker Bowen | The Lion and the Throne |
| 1959 | J. Christopher Herold | Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael |
| 1960 | Richard Ellmann | James Joyce |
| 1961 | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| 1962 | Lewis Mumford | The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects |
| 1963 | Leon Edel | Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years |
National Book Award Winners (Arts and Letters)
| 1964 | Aileen Ward | John Keats: The Making of a Poet |
| 1965 | Eleanor Clark | Oysters of Lockmariaquer |
| 1966 | Janet Flanner | Paris Journal, 1944-1965 |
| 1967 | Justin Kaplan | Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography |
| 1968 | William Troy | Selected Essays |
| 1969 | Norman Mailer | The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History |
National Book Award Winners (History and Biography)
| 1964 | William H. McNeill | The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community |
| 1965 | Louis Fischer | The Life of Lenin |
| 1966 | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr | A Thousand Days |
| 1967 | Peter Gay | The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism |
| 1968 | George F. Kennan | Memoirs: 1925-1950 |
| 1969 | Winthrop D. Jordan | White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 |
National Book Award Winners (Science, Philosophy and Religion)
| 1964 | Christopher Tunnard & Boris Pushkarev | Man-made America |
| 1965 | Norbert Wiener | God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion |
| 1966 | No award given | |
| 1967 | Oscar Lewis | La Vida |
| 1968 | Jonathan Kozol | Death at an Early Age |
National Book Award Winners (The Sciences)
| 1969 | Robert J. Lifton | Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima |
National Book Award Winners (Poetry)
| 1950 | William Carlos Williams | Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems |
| 1951 | Wallace Stevens | The Auroras of Autumn |
| 1952 | Marianne Moore | Collected Poems |
| 1953 | Archibald MacLeish | Collected Poems, 1917-1952 |
| 1954 | Conrad Aiken | Collected Poems |
| 1955 | Wallace Stevens | The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens |
| 1956 | W.H. Auden | The Shield of Achilles |
| 1957 | Richard Wilbur | Things of the World |
| 1958 | Robert Penn Warren | Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 |
| 1959 | Theodore Roethke | Words for the Wind |
| 1960 | Robert Lowell | Life Studies |
| 1961 | Randall Jarrell | The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
| 1962 | Alan Dugan | Poems |
| 1963 | William Stafford | Traveling Through the Dark |
| 1964 | John Crowe Ransom | Selected Poems |
| 1965 | Theodore Roethke | The Far Field |
| 1966 | James Dickey | Buckdancer's Choice: Poems |
| 1967 | James Merrill | Nights and Days |
| 1968 | Robert Bly | The Light Around the Body |
| 1969 | John Berryman | His Toy, His Dream, His Rest |
National Book Award Winners (Translation)
| 1967 | Gregory Rabassa | Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch Willard Trask -- Casanova's History of My Life |
| 1968 | Howard & Edna Hong | Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers |
| 1969 | William Weaver | Calvino's Cosmicomics |
National Book Award Winners (Children's Literature)
| 1969 | Meindert DeJong | Journey from Peppermint Street |
