National Book Award1953

Given by National Book Foundation

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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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Winner 3

WorkCategoryYear
Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonFiction1953
The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVotoNonfiction1953
The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish by Archibald MacLeishPoetry1953

Finalist 33

WorkCategoryYear
Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonFiction1953
Many Mansions by Isabel BoltonFiction1953
Winds of Morning by H.L. DavisFiction1953
The Gathering Darkness by Thomas GallagherFiction1953
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayFiction1953
Jefferson Selleck by Carl JonasFiction1953
The Landsmen by Peter MartinFiction1953
A Shower of Summer Days by May SartonFiction1953
The Catherine Wheel by Jean StaffordFiction1953
East of Eden by John SteinbeckFiction1953
Build-Up by William Carlos WilliamsFiction1953
The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVotoNonfiction1953
Ushant: An Essay by Conrad AikenNonfiction1953
The Big Change: America Transforms Itself 1900-1950 by Frederick Lewis AllenNonfiction1953
The confident years: 1885-1915 by Van Wyck BrooksNonfiction1953
Witness by Whittaker ChambersNonfiction1953
Rome and a Villa by Eleanor ClarkNonfiction1953
Beyond the high Himalayas by William O. DouglasNonfiction1953
George Washington Volume 5 Victory with the Help of France by Douglas Southall FreemanNonfiction1953
Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform by Eric F. GoldmanNonfiction1953
The spirit of liberty; papers and addresses by Learned HandNonfiction1953
William Faulkner: A Critical Study (4th Edition) by Irving HoweNonfiction1953
The Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies by Herbert J. MullerNonfiction1953
Lincoln the President: Midstream by J. G. RandallNonfiction1953
Abraham Lincoln by Benjamin P. ThomasNonfiction1953
Sam Clemens of Hannibal by Dixon WecterNonfiction1953
Grant Rises in the West: The First Year, 1861-1862 by Kenneth P. WilliamsNonfiction1953
The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties by Edmund WilsonNonfiction1953
The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish by Archibald MacLeishPoetry1953
EARLY And LATE TESTAMENT. by Stanley BurnshawPoetry1953
A Mask for Janus by W. S. MerwinPoetry1953
A Song of Joy, and other poems. by Byron Herbert ReecePoetry1953
Kentucky Is My Land by Jesse StuartPoetry1953

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