Category talk:National Book Award winners

Winning authors, winning books

Evidently this category contains winning authors in all award categories. Category:National Book Award Winners - Young People's Literature contains winning books in the specified award category. That 'W' should be lowercase but the revision is not worthwhile. Perhaps it should be Category:National Book Award winning books - Young People's Literature in order to be clear about the books vs authors. --P64 (talk) 22:46, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Update re winning books

2012-02-19, the two categories of winning books were renamed following one week discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 February 11#Award-winning books.

This week, two new categories were created and filled.

2012-02-25, our "winning works" categories now cover all four current award categories and their clear predecessors.

• National Book Award for Fiction winning works‎ (56 P)
• National Book Award for Nonfiction winning works‎ (24 P)
• National Book Award for Poetry winning works‎ (7 P)
• National Book Award for Young People's Literature winning works‎ (23 P)

source: Category:National Book Award

--P64 (talk) 22:55, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Report on coverage

Among others this category contains all wikipedia articles on the authors of winning books in these NBAward category-years:

• Pre-war, all categories — thus all before 1950
• "Children's" 1969-83 and "Young People's" 1996 to date — thus the entire scope of National Book Award for Young People's Literature
• "Nonfiction" 1950-63 and 1984 to date —thus the entire scope of National Book Award for Nonfiction
• Fiction, 1950-63

It also contains:

• Poetry, all authors whose award-winning books we cover (8)

This report may be updated by revision rather than by reiteration. --P64 (talk) 18:43, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

update --P64 (talk) 16:06, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Done. This category is now complete --except perhaps for my oversights and some biographies that are new this spring.

► National Book Award winners‎ (310 P)

Afaik, that is, we have biographies of 310 NBAward-winning authors and all of them are here in the category.

Furthermore, every biography at least mentions the Award and the award-winning book with a reference to a listing by the NBFoundation --almost always the page for the award year, "National Book Awards – yyyy". Here are standard references copied from the "Reference sections of two biographies.

Rachel Carson

^ a b "National Book Awards – 1952". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 19, 2012.

(With acceptance speech by Carson and essay by Neil Baldwin from the Awards 50-year anniversary publications.)

Larry Heinemann

^ "National Book Awards – 1987". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-26.

(With essays by Patricia Smith and Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

The award-winning books are also done. For example, see The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson. (We have no article on Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann.)

See also Category talk:National Book Award winning works. --P64 (talk) 23:51, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Probably I have overlooked some group of authors --maybe translators?

If I count correctly, there have been 358 National Book Award category-years and 369 different people have been authors/coauthors/editors/illustrators of winning authors --more than 358 because the awards with two winning books (split awards) and winning books with two authors (coauthors, etc) outnumber the people who have won two awards (repeat winners).

Given 310 biographies in the category, that count implies 59 missing biographies, but the List of winners shows only 45 authors without bluelinks ... --P64 (talk) 23:10, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

I have not overlooked any "group" of authors.

Having corrected eight miscellaneous oversights in my winter work (adds to the category) and three older mistakes (drops from the category), we now list 315 biographies of NBAward-winning authors. --closer to a match --P64 (talk) 18:43, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Subcategories?

There are now 320 pages here. It's relatively easy to track our coverage of articles on NBA-winning works, and not primarily because we have articles for only 100+ winning works. The crucial difference is that we have four winning-works subcategories for the four current Awards. National Book Award winning works contains pages only for the pre-war awards and the defunct award categories. --and the "Children's" awards are not defunct in that sense, for I combined all of them (1969-1983) with the current Young People's Literature (1996-present).

--P64 (talk) 22:10, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done for the winners in "Children's" and "Young People's" categories, who are now the National Book Award for Young People's Literature winners.

Winners of the Poetry award would be even more sharply distinct in that the "Poetry" name has been used persistently and there have never been multiple awards for poetry under any name --altho the single Poetry award was split a three times.

--P64 (talk) 21:01, 24 November 2013 (UTC)