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National Book Award winners, 1935–1941 Year Category Author Title 1935 Biography Vincent Sheean: Personal History: Most Original Book Charles G. Finney: The Circus of Dr. Lao: Nonfiction Anne Morrow Lindbergh: North to the Orient: Novel Rachel Field: Time Out of Mind: 1936 Biography Victor Heiser: An American Doctor's Odyssey: Adventures in ...
The National Book Foundation awards winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. This year, publishers submitted a total of 1,917 books.
At the National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner held in New York City each November, the chair of each judging panel announces the winners of the year's National Book Awards. Each finalist receives $1,000, a medal, and a citation written by the judging panel; winners get $10,000 and a bronze sculpture.
National Book Award for Fiction winners and finalists, 1984-1989 Year Author Title Result Ref. 1984 Ellen Gilchrist: Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories: Winner [69] Alison Lurie: Foreign Affairs: Finalist Philip Roth: The Anatomy Lesson: Finalist 1985 Don DeLillo: White Noise: Winner [70] [71] Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home: Finalist ...
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At the 75 th National Book Awards, hosted in Manhattan at Cipriani Downtown last night, members of the literary community gathered to celebrate some of the year’s best writing across Fiction ...
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism winners and finalists; Year Author Title Result Ref. 1975 Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory: Winner: 1976 Bruno Bettelheim: The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales: Winner: 1977 Susan Sontag: On Photography: Winner: 1978 Meyer Schapiro
The general "Nonfiction" award was one of three when the National Book Awards were re-established in 1950 for 1949 publications, which the National Book Foundation considers the origin of its current Awards series. [3] From 1964 to 1983, under different administrators, there were multiple nonfiction categories. [3]