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Category:National Book Award

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Graphics awards (at least 1980)

Children's

list) Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida

1. ^ a b Beginning 2005, the official annual webpages (see References) provide more information: the panelists in each award category, the publisher of each finalist, some audio-visual interviews with authors, etc. For 1996 to date, annual webpages generally provide transcripts of acceptance speeches by winning authors.

2. ^ a b c d e Books marked "original" may have been paperback reprints during the same calendar year as their hardcover first editions, so "original" may be a misnomer. They were first published during the calendar year preceding the award year, so they were not previously eligible for any previous National Book Award.

Fiction

^ Evidently the July to September 2009 "Book-a-Day Blog" and September online poll covered 77 fiction winners. The online display of thumbnail cover images has been extended to cover 2009 and 2010 winners, as has the second numeral in its title, now "60 Years of the National Book Awards- 79 Fiction Winners" (as of 2012-01-05).

Poetry

^ a b c The Poetry panels split the 1972, 1974, and 1983 awards, after which split awards were not permitted.

Nonfiction

nonfic) Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël

Organization

The institutional administrator is likely to be called "sponsor" in the sense of organizing not funding.

National Book Awards institutional history

begin	end	span	Organization	notes (incl funding)
1936	1942	7	American Booksellers Association (ABA)
1943	1949	7	none — publication years 1942 to 1948
1950	1959	10	"volunteers"	ABA, Association of American Publishers (AAP), Book Manufacturers Institute (BMI)
1960	1974	15	National Book Committee (NBA History)	National Translation Center — the fifth sponsor, 196?
1975	1975	1	Committee on Awards Policy
1976	1977	2	National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1976 Amer. Academy and Inst. of A. and L., 1977
1978	1979	2	?
1980	1980	1	"The American Book Awards" (TABA),
1981	1983	3	"American Book Awards"
1983	1983	1	none — publication dates 1983 January to October
1984	1986	3	"American Book Awards" (revamped)	E.D. Barbara Prete 1984
1987	1988	2	National Book Awards Inc. (NBA History)	E.D. Barbara Prete 1988
1989	2011+	23+	National Book Foundation
1936	2011	77	at least one award, 69 of 77 publication years

Count and Classification of Award Categories

Green highlights the scope of the "winners and finalists" tables below, #Nonfiction, 1964 to 1983.

Khaki indicates other categories whose losing finalists are not listed at wikipedia including this user space. (The indication isn't perfect because the main Fiction award is covered throughout its history and the one-year "General Reference" is below.)

No special background color means that coverage is complete at National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Book Award for Fiction, and National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

Count and Classification of Award Categories

Award Years	count	Nonfiction categories	Fiction categories	Children/ Young People	Other literary
1935/36	5 awards(1936) 2 nonfiction 1 fiction 2 other	Biography Non-Fiction	Novel		Most Original
1936/37					Discovery Most Original
1937/38–39/40 (3 yrs)		Non-Fiction	Fiction		Discovery Most Original
1940/41					Discovery
1941/42	1 other
NO AWARDS FOR 1942–1948 PUBLICATIONS (award years 1943–1949)
1950 to 1963 (14 yrs)	3 awards 1 nonfiction 1 fiction 1 poetry	Nonfiction	Fiction		Poetry
divide Nonfiction in three subcategories
1964 to 1966 (3 yrs)	5 awards 3 nonfiction 1 fiction	Arts and Letters History and Biography Science, Phil. and Relig.	Fiction		Poetry
1967 to 1968 (2 yrs)	6 awards 3 nonfiction 1 fiction	Arts and Letters History and Biography Science, Phil. and Relig.	Fiction		Poetry Translation
1969 to 1971 (3 yrs)	7 awards 3 nonfiction 1 fiction	Arts and Letters History and Biography Science, Phil. and Relig.	Fiction	Children's	Poetry Translation
1972 to 1975 (4 yrs)	10 awards 6 nonfiction 1 fiction	Arts and Letters Biography Contemporary Affairs History Phil. and Relig. The Sciences	Fiction	Children's	Poetry Translation
1976	6 awards 3 nonfiction 1 fiction	Arts and Letters Contemporary Affairs History and Biography	Fiction	Children's	Poetry
1977 to 1979 (3 yrs)	7 awards 3 nonfiction 1 fiction	Biography and Autobiog. Contemporary Thought History	Fiction	Children's	Poetry Translation
recognize Hardcover and Paperback books in many categories (*)
1980	many awards 28 literary 14 nonfiction 8 fiction 2 children's 4 other ?? graphics	*Autobiography *Biography *Current Interest *General Nonfiction *History *Relig./Inspiration *Science	*Fiction First Novel *Mystery *Science Fic. Western	*Children's	Poetry *Reference Translation
1981	27 awards(1983) 19 literary 8 nonfiction 3 fiction 5 children's 3 other 8 graphics	*Autobiog./Biography *General Nonfiction *History *Science	*Fiction First Novel	*Ch. Fiction Ch. Nonfiction	Poetry Translation
1982				*Ch. Fiction Ch. Nonfiction *Picture Books
1983					Poetry Translation Original Ppb
NO AWARDS FOR 1983 PUBLICATIONS cut back to three Fall awards to current year publications
1984 to 1985 (2 yrs)	3 awards 1 nonfiction 2 fiction	Nonfiction	Fiction First Work of Fic.
1986 to 1990 (5 yrs)	2 awards 1 nonfiction 1 fiction	Nonfiction	Fiction
1991 to 1995 (5 yrs)	3 awards 1 nonfiction 1 fiction 1 poetry	Nonfiction	Fiction		Poetry
1996 to date  (16+ yrs)	4 awards 1 nonfiction 1 fiction 1 children's 1 poetry	Nonfiction	Fiction	Young People's	Poetry
Award Year	count	Nonfiction categories	Fiction categories	Children/ Young People	Other literary

Ceremony

NBF publishes supplementary material such as acceptance speech or retrospective essay for the winners of all Fiction and Poetry awards from 1950 (about 80+60=140 award winners) and those other awards listed here --and only these if i scan correctly 2012-04-03.

1952 nf Carson

1953 nf DeVoto

1954 nf Catton

1957 nf Kennan

1958 nf Drinker Bowen * * * all noted in wikipedia biographies

1960 nf Ellman

1963 nf Edel

1964 al Ward

1967 al Kaplan

1972 ch Barthelme

1974 al Kael

1975 al Thomas

1975 h Bailyn

1977 ch Paterson

1986 nf Lopez

1992 nf Monette

1993 nf Vidal

1995 nf Rosenberg

1996 to date except 2000(nothing), 2004(blurb only), and 2006NF(blurb) -- Nonfiction and Young People's Literature (thus all four awards)

Nonfiction, 1964 to 1983

before 1980

Winners in Nonfiction award subcategories, 1964 to 1983

Year and count	Nonfiction categories	Winner and finalists
1950 to 1963 (14 yrs) 3 awards 1 nonfiction 1 fiction 1 poetry
divide Nonfiction
1964 5 awards 3 Nonfiction 1 fiction 1 poetry	Arts and Letters	(speech) Aileen Ward, John Keats: The Making of a Poet Losing finalists for nonfiction awards are known only collectively.
	History and Biography	William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community Losing finalists for nonfiction awards are known only collectively.
	Science, Philosophy and Religion	Christopher Tunnard and Boris Pushkarev, Man-made America: Chaos or Control? Losing finalists for nonfiction awards are known only collectively.
	Losing finalists, 1964 nonfiction	David E. Lilienthal, Change, Hope and the Bomb Ralph McGill, The South and the Southerner
		(probably Arts and Letters) Walter Jackson Bate, John Keats (bio John Keats) Francis Steegmuller, Apollinaire: Poet among the Painters (bio Guillaume Apollinaire)
		(probably History and Biography) Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. II, Fredericksburg to Meridian (2nd of three vols) Richard Hofstadter, Anti-intellectualism in American Life Seymour Martin Lipset, The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective Peter Lyon*, Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure (bio S. S. McClure) Bertram D. Wolfe, The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera (bio Diego Rivera)
		(probably Science, Philosophy and Religion) James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Raymond Fredric Dasmann, The Last Horizon (international? conservation biology) Howard Ensign Evans, Wasp Farm (entomology) Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City Stewart Udall, The Quiet Crisis (conservation of natural resources) [[[
1965 5 awards 3 Nonfiction  1 fiction 1 poetry	Arts and Letters	Eleanor Clark, The Oysters of Locmariaquer Eric Bentley, The Life of the Drama Robert Brustein, The Theater of Revolt: An Approach to Modern Drama Edward Dahlberg, Because I Was Flesh (autobiography) Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act Howard Mumford Jones, O Strange New World: American Culture, the Formative Years [[[
	History and Biography	Louis Fischer, The Life of Lenin Oscar Lewis, Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His Family R. R. Palmer, Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800 Willie Lee Nichols Rose, Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment Ernest Samuels, Henry Adams: The Major Phase (third of 3 vols.) Richard J. Whalen, The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy
	Science, Philosophy and Religion	Norbert Wiener, God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion Walter Ciszek, With God in Russia (memoir) Theodosius Dobzhansky, Heredity and the Nature of Man David Hawkins, The Language of Nature: An Essay on the Philosophy of Science John Courtney Murray, The Problem of God, Yesterday and Today Walter S. Sullivan, We Are Not Alone: The Search for Intelligent Life on Other Worlds [[[
1966 5 awards 3 Nonfiction 1 fiction 1 poetry	Arts and Letters	Janet Flanner Paris Journal, 1944–1965 Alfred Kazin, Starting Out in the Thirties R. W. B. Lewis, Trials of the Word: Essays in American Literature and the Humanistic Tradition Philip Rahv, The Myth and the Powerhouse Lionel Trilling, Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning René Wellek, History of Modern Criticism: 1750–1950 [[[
	History and Biography	Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House Irving Brant, The Bill of Rights: Its Origin and Meaning Edward Chase Kirkland, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 1835–1915: Patrician at Bay Richard B. Morris, The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence Robert Shaplen, The Lost Revolution: The U.S. in Vietnam, 1946–1966 Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1964 (second of 4)
	Science, Philosophy and Religion	No award given. Charles Frankel, "The Love of Anxiety" and other essays Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Coming of Age in America Bentley Glass, Science and Ethical Values Alice Kimball Smith, A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists' Movement in America, 1945–47 [[[
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1967 6 awards 3 Nonfiction 1 fiction 2 other	Arts and Letters	(speech) Justin Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography Oliver Larkin, Daumier: Man of His Time (bio Honoré Daumier) Frederick A. Pottle, James Boswell: The Earlier Years (bio James Boswell) Isaac Bashevis Singer, In My Father's Court (autobiographical) Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays Lawrence Thompson, Robert Frost: The Early Years (bio Robert Frost) [[[
	History and Biography	Peter Gay, The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism James H. Billington, The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture Martin Duberman, James Russell Lowell (about James Russell Lowell) Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World Peter Štanský and William Abrahams, Journey to the Frontier: Two roads to the Spanish Civil War
	Science, Philosophy and Religion	Oscar Lewis, La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York (about culture of poverty) Howard B. Adelmann, Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology (five vols including Marcello Malpighi's works) George Beadle and Muriel Beadle, The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics Wassily W. Leontief, Essays in Economics (1st of two vols) Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud Erwin Straus, Phenomenological Psychology: The Selected Papers of Erwin W. Straus (about phenomenological psychology) [[[
1968 6 awards 3 Nonfiction 1 fiction 2 other	Arts and Letters	William Troy, Selected Essays R. P. Blackmur, A Primer of Ignorance (posthumous) Frank Conroy, Stop-Time (memoir) Leonard B. Meyer, Music, the Arts and Ideas M. L. Rosenthal, The New Poets Stanley Weintraub, Beardsley: A Biography (bio Aubrey Beardsley) [[[
	History and Biography	George F. Kennan, Memoirs: 1925–1950 (first of 2 vols.) Henry Bragdon, Woodrow Wilson: The Academic Years Louis J. Halle, The Cold War as History Roger Hilsman, To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administration of John F. Kennedy Nathan Silver, Lost New York (former New York City buildings)
	Science, Philosophy and Religion	Jonathan Kozol, Death at an Early Age (about Boston Public Schools) Theodosius Dobzhansky, The Biology of Ultimate Concern John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Industrial State Suzanne K. Langer, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (1st of three vols) Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development (1st of two vols) [[[
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1969 6 awards 3 Nonfiction 1 fiction 2 other	Arts and Letters	Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times Peter Gay, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (about Weimar culture) Gordon S. Haight, George Eliot: A Biography (bio George Eliot) Gertrude Himmelfarb, Victorian Minds (collective biography) [[[
	History and Biography	Winthrop Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812 Nuel Pharr Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., The Indian Heritage of America Norman Mailer, Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republic and Democratic Conventions of 1968 David M. Potter, The South and the Sectional Conflict (about Origins of the American Civil War)
	The Sciences	Robert J. Lifton, Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima René Dubos, So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events Frank E. Manuel, A Portrait of Isaac Newton (bio Isaac Newton) Karl Menninger, M.D., The Crime of Punishment (psychiatric treatment vs. punishment) James D. Watson, The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA [[[
1970 7 awards 3 Nonfiction 1 fiction 3 other	Arts and Letters	Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir Richard Howard, Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950 Noel Perrin, Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America (about expurgated books) John Unterecker, Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane (bio Hart Crane) Gore Vidal, Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship [[[
	History and Biography	T. Harry Williams, Huey Long (about Huey Long) Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (memoir) Townsend Hoopes, The Limits of Intervention (memoir) John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic
	Philosophy and Religion	Erik Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence Kenneth E. Boulding, Beyond Economics: Essays on Society, Religion, and Ethics Loren Eiseley, The Unexpected Universe Rollo May, Love and Will Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition [[[
1971 7 awards 3 Nonfiction 1 fiction 3 other	Arts and Letters	Francis Steegmuller, Cocteau: A Biography Harold Bloom, Yeats (about W. B. Yeats) Robert Coles, Erik H. Erikson: the Growth of His Work (about Erik Erikson) Nancy Milford, Zelda (bio Zelda Fitzgerald) Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power (2nd of two vols) Kenneth Rexroth, The Alternative Society: Essays from the Other World [[[
	History and Biography	James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (about Franklin D. Roosevelt) David Herbert Donald, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (second of 2 vols.) Andy Logan, Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal Affair Dumas Malone, Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801–1805 (fourth of 6 vols.) C. L. Sulzberger, The Last of the Giants (world leaders he covered)
	The Sciences	Raymond Phineas Sterns, Science in the British Colonies of America Gustav Eckstein, The Body Has a Head Victor C. Ferkiss, Technological Man Ian L. McHarg, Design with Nature (about ecological land-use planning) Theodor Rosebury, Life on Man (about human skin as ecosystem) [[[
further divide Nonfiction
1972 10 awards 6 Nonfiction 1 fiction 3 other	Arts and Letters	Charles Rosen, The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven M. H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature James Dickey, Sorties Thomas R. Edwards, Imagination and Power: A Study of Poetry on Public Themes Norman Fruman, Coleridge, the Damaged Archangel (about Samuel Taylor Coleridge) César Graña, Fact and Symbol: Essays in the Sociology of Art and Literature B. H. Haggin, Ballet Chronicle Nathan Huggins, Harlem Renaissance (about Harlem Renaissance) Iris Origo, Images and Shadows (autobiographical) John Simon, Movies into Films: Film Criticism, 1967–1970 [[[
	Biography	Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers John Cody, After Great Pain: The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson Emily Farnham, Charles Demuth: behind a laughing mask David Freeman Hawke, Benjamin Rush: Revolutionary Gadfly Ralph Ketcham, James Madison: A Biography Harding Lemay, Inside, Looking Out: A Personal Memoir D'Arcy McNickle, Indian Man: A Life of Oliver La Farge Ronald Paulson, Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times (second of 3 vols.) Lacey Baldwin Smith, Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty Barbara Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
	Contemporary Affairs	Stewart Brand, editor, The Last Whole Earth Catalogue No other finalists announced.
	History	Allan Nevins, The Organized War, 1863–1864 and The Organized War to Victory, 1864–1865 (Ordeal of the Union, vols. 7–8 of eight) No other finalists announced.
	Philosophy and Religion	Martin E. Marty, Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America No other finalists announced.
	The Sciences	George L. Small, The Blue Whale No other finalists announced.
1973 10 awards 6 Nonfiction 1 fiction 3 other	Arts and Letters	Arthur M. Wilson, Diderot bio Denis Diderot) Leo Braudy, Jean Renoir: The World of His Films (about Jean Renoir) Arlene Croce, The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book (about Astaire and Rogers musicals) Stanley Fish, Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature Michael Goldman, Shakespeare and the Energies of Drama Daniel Hoffman, Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe (about Edgar Allan Poe Albert Murray, South to a Very Old Place Linda Nochlin, Realism Harold Rosenberg, The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks Leo Steinberg, Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art Lionel Trilling, Sincerity and Authenticity Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950 Vernon Young, On Film: Unpopular Essays on a Popular Art [[[
	Biography	James Thomas Flexner, George Washington: Anguish and Farewell, 1793–1799 (last of 4 vols.) Ingrid Bengis, Combat in the Erogenous Zone: Writings on Love, Hate, and Sex Hortense Calisher, Herself (autobiography) Kenneth S. Davis, FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882–1928 (first of 5 vols.) Leon Edel, Henry James: The Master, 1901–1916 (Vol. V of five) Eleanor Flexner, Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography Nikki Giovanni, Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being A Black Poet John Houseman, Run-Through (memoir, first of 3) Diane Johnson, Lesser Lives (about Mary Ellen (Peacock)(Nicolls) Meredith) George F. Kennan, Memoirs, 1950–1963 (second of 2 vols.) Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (about Eleanor Roosevelt) Margaret Mead, Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years Peter Štanský and William Abrahams, The Unknown Orwell (first volume on George Orwell)
	Contemporary Affairs	Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (about the U.S. Vietnam War) Michael Barone, Grant Ujifusa and Douglas Matthews, The Almanac of American Politics (first biennial edition) Herbert Block, Herblock's State of the Union (collected cartoons) Lynn Eden, Crisis in Watertown: The Polarization of an American Community (about Watertown, Wisconsin 1967–1969) David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (about U.S. Vietnam War origins) Seymour Hersh, Cover-Up: The Army's Secret Investigation of the Massacre at My Lai 4 (about the My Lai Massacre cover-up) Stanley Karnow, Mao and China: From Revolution to Revolution (about Mao Zedong and China) Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb, The Hidden Injuries of Class (a study of working-class consciousness) Colin M. Turnbull, The Mountain People (about the Ik people) Garry Wills, Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion — Attica: The Official Report of the New York State Special Commission on Attica (about the Attica Prison riot) [[[
	History	Split award. Robert Manson Myers, The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War (see Charles Colcock Jones) Isaiah Trunk, Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation James David Barber, The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House John Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America Richard Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713 Loren Graham, Science and Philosophy in the Soviet Union David Lovejoy, The Glorious Revolution in America (see Dominion of New England) Jerre Mangione, The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers Project, 1935-43 Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944 Edward E. Rice, Mao's Way
	Philosophy and Religion	S. E. Ahlstrom, A Religious History of the American People Silvano Arieti, M.D., The Will to be Human Germaine Brée, Camus and Sartre (about Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre) Arthur Danto, Mysticism and Morality: Oriental Thought and Moral Philosophy Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden (about Walden) William A. Christian, Person and God in a Spanish Valley William Leiss, The Domination of Nature Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends Morton White, Science and Sentiment in America Theodore Ziolkowski, Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus [[[
	The Sciences	George B. Schaller, The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations John E. Bardach, John H. Ryther and William O. McLarney, Aquaculture: the farming and husbandry of freshwater and marine organisms (about aquaculture) Herman H. Goldstine, The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann (about history of computing, history of computing hardware) Garrett Hardin, Exploring New Ethics for Survival: The Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle (see lifeboat ethics, bioethics) Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times Peter Matthiessen, The Tree Where Man Was Born (about East Africa) H. Lewis McKinney, Wallace and Natural Selection (about Alfred Russell Wallace) Victor Richards, M.D., Cancer: The Wayward Cell; its origins, nature, and treatment Ann Zwinger and Beatrice Willard, Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra (about alpine tundra) [[[
1974 10 awards 6 Nonfiction 1 fiction 3 other	Arts and Letters	(speech) Pauline Kael, Deeper Into Movies Daniel Aaron, The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War W. H. Auden, Forewords and Afterwords Clarence Brown, Mandelstam (bio Osip Mandelstam) Richard Ellmann, Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations B. H. Haggin, A Decade of Music Lillian Hellman, Pentimento: A Book of Portraits (memoir) Edward Hoagland, Walking the Dead Diamond River (about Dead Diamond River) Lincoln Kirstein, Elie Nadelman (bio Elie Nadelman) Leonard B. Meyer, Explaining Music: Essays and Explorations Saul Steinberg, The Inspector (drawings) Kevin Starr, Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915 (1st of many volumes) [[[
	Biography	Split award. John Leonard Clive, Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian Douglas Day, Malcolm Lowry: A Biography J. H. Adamson and H. F. Folland, Sir Harry Vane: His Life and Times (1613–1662) Robert V. Bruce, Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and The Conquest of Solitude Stephen F. Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888–1938 Lester G. Crocker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Prophetic Voice, Vol. II Myra Friedman, Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin William H. Harbaugh, Lawyer's Lawyer: The Life of John W. Davis Townsend Hoopes, The Devil and John Foster Dulles Louis Sheaffer, O'Neill Volume II: Son and Artist (about Eugene O'Neill) Kathryn Kish Sklar, Catherine Beecher (about Catherine Beecher) Adam Ulam, Stalin (about Joseph Stalin)
	Contemporary Affairs	Murray Kempton, The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al. (about a Black Panthers trial) Peter Davies, The Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American Conscience (about the Kent State shootings) John Kenneth Galbraith, Economics and the Public Purpose Vivian Gornick, In Search of Ali Mahmoud: An American Woman in Egypt Walter Karp, Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in America Robert J. Lifton, Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans—Neither Victims nor Executioners (about U.S. Vietnam veterans) Jessica Mitford, Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business Nora Sayre, Sixties Going on Seventies (Perspectives on the Sixties) (about 1960s) Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Imperial Presidency Robert Sherrill, The Saturday Night Special and Other Guns (about personal firearms) [[[
	History	John Leonard Clive, Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian Ray Allen Billington, Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Teacher, Scholar Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt (about Franklin D. Roosevelt) Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law Frederic C. Lane, Venice: Maritime Republic Edward Pessen, Riches, Class and Power Before the Civil War Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence: the Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860 Stephan Thernstrom, The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970 Robert C. Tucker, Stalin as Revolutionary, 1879–1929: A Study in History and Personality
	Philosophy and Religion	Maurice Natanson, Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks Don Browning, Generative Man: Psychoanalytic Perspectives Harvey Cox, The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People's Religion Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness Marjorie Grene, Jean-Paul Sartre (bio Sartre) Trent Schroyer, The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical Theory (about critical theory) Laurence Veysey, The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Counter-Cultures in America (about American communes) Anarchist and Mystical Communities in Twentieth-century America Frederic Wakeman, History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought (about Maoism) Harry Austryn Wolfson, Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 1 (collection) Larzer Ziff, Puritanism in America: New Culture in a New World (see New England Puritans [[[
	The Sciences	S. E. Luria, Life: The Unfinished Experiment Jeremy Bernstein, Einstein (see Albert Einstein) Theodosius Dobzhansky, Genetic Diversity and Human Equality Amitai Etzioni, Genetic Fix: The Next Technological Revolution J. M. Jauch, Are Quanta Real? A Galilean Dialogue Ruth Kirk and Louis Kirk, Desert: The American Southwest Suzanne K. Langer, Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, Vol. II (2nd of three vols) George Laycock, Autumn of the Eagle (about bald eagle) Robert I. Levy, Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands William T. Powers, Behavior: The Control of Perception Edwin S. Shneidman, Deaths of Man [[[
1975 10 awards 6 Nonfiction 1 fiction 3 other	Arts and Letters	Split award. Roger Shattuck, Marcel Proust (bio Marcel Proust) (speech) Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher Calvin Bedient, Eight Contemporary Poets: Charles Tomlinson, Donald Davie, R. S. Thomas, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith, W. S. Graham Alessandra Comini, Egon Schiele's Portraits (about Egon Schiele) Peter Gay, Style in History Richard Gilman, The Making of Modern Drama: A Study of Büchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Handke Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal Marjorie L. Hoover, Meyerhold: The Art of Conscious Theater (bio Vsevolod Meyerhold) H. W. Janson, 16 Studies (essays in Art History) Eleanor Perényi, Liszt: The Artist as Romantic Hero (bio Franz Liszt) Oliver Strunk, Essays on Music in the Western World [[[
	Biography	Richard B. Sewall, The Life of Emily Dickinson Richard Beeman, Patrick Henry: A Biography Michael Collins, Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys Ben Maddow, Edward Weston: Fifty Years; The Definitive Volume of His Photographic Work James R. Mellow, Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company Francis Steegmuller, "Your Isadora": The Love Story of Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig Wallace Stegner, The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto Richard M. Sudhalter and Philip R. Evans, Bix: Man and Legend (about Bix Beiderbecke) Glenn Watkins, Gesualdo: The Man and His Music (about Carlo Gesualdo) James A. Weisheipl, Friar Thomas D'Aquino: his life, thought, and work
	Contemporary Affairs	Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (see Ned Cobb) Raoul Berger, Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth (about U.S. executive privilege) Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, All the President's Men Robert Jean Campbell, M.D., The Chasm: The Life and Death of a Great Experiment in Ghetto Education Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (bio Robert Moses) Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse (about the Harrisonville shooting) Middleton A. Harris with others, The Black Book ("printed scrapbook" of American "Negro historical materials"; uncredited editor Toni Morrison) Andrew Levinson, The Working Class Majority Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values Franz Schurmann, The Logic of World Power: An Inquiry into the Origins, Currents, and Contradictions of World Politics Rachel Scott, Muscle and Blood Studs Terkel, Working [[[ BELOW THIS LINE THERE MAY BE FALSE BLUELINKS FOR TITLES OF WINNING BOOKS
	History	(speech) Bernard Bailyn, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft Robert Brentano, Rome Before Avignon Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made John R. Gillis, Youth and History: Tradition and Change in European Age Relations, 1750-Present Erich S. Gruen, The Last Generation of the Roman Republic Christopher H. Johnson, Utopian Communism in France Gerald H. Meaker, The Revolutionary Left in Spain Edward Shorter and Charles Tilly, Strikes in France, 1830–1968 Mira Wilkins, The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise Peter H. Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
	Philosophy and Religion	Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia Ian Barbour, Myths, Models and Paradigms Leonard E. Barrett, Soul-Force: African Heritage in Afro-American Religion (about Afro-American religion) John Murray Cuddihy, The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity Philip Garvin and Julia Welch, Religious America (photos and text) Guenter Lewy, Religion and Revolution (case studies) Barbara Myerhoff, Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians (about Huichol use of peyote) Jaroslav Pelikan, The Spirit of Eastern Christendom 600–1700 (about Eastern Christianity) Rosemary Radford Ruether, Faith and Fratricide: The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism (about anti-Semitism) [[[
	The Sciences	Split award. Silvano Arieti, Interpretation of Schizophrenia Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher Lewis Feuer, Einstein and the Generation of Science Howard E. Gruber and Paul H. Barrett, Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity J. L. Heilbron, H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887–1915 (bio Henry Moseley) Richard S. Lewis, The Voyages of Apollo: The Exploration of the Moon (about Apollo program) John McPhee, The Curve of Binding Energy Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View Walter S. Sullivan, Continents in Motion: The New Earth Debate (about Plate tectonics) Dorothy B. Vitaliano, Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins (about Geomythology) [[[
drop four (three nonfiction and Translation)
1976 6 awards 3 Nonfiction 1 fiction 2 other	Arts and Letters	Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory Lincoln Kirstein, Njinsky Dancing (about Vaslav Nijinsky) Lawrence L. Langer, The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination Robert Rosenblum, Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko (about Romantic painting) Patricia Meyer Spacks, The Female Imagination Leo Steinberg, Michelangelo's Last Paintings (about Michelangelo) [[[
	Contemporary Affairs	Michael J. Arlen, Passage to Ararat Richard Barnet and Ronald E. Muller, Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations (about multinational corporations) Peter L. Berger, Pyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Social Change John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (about Money) W. Eugene Smith and Aileen M. Smith, Minamata (exposé of Minimata disease) Tim Wicker, A Time to Die [[[
	History and Biography	David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 Paul Horgan, Lamy of Santa Fe (about Jean Baptiste Lamy R. W. B. Lewis, Edith Wharton (about Edith Wharton) Charles S. Maier, Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade after World War I Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom Richard Pipes, Russia Under the Old Regime Frank R. Rossiter, Charles Ives and His America Martin J. Sherwin, A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and its Legacies
restore Translation; drop Arts and Letters
1977 7 awards 3 Nonfiction 1 fiction 3 other	Biography and Autobiography	W. A. Swanberg, Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Volume VI 1955–1966 B. L. Reid, The Lives of Roger Casement E. B. White, Letters of E. B. White
	Contemporary Thought	Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales Dorothy Dinnerstein, The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise Joseph Frank, Dostoyevsky: A Writer in His Time (about Fyodor Dostoyevsky) Ada Louise Huxtable, Kicked a Building Lately? Rufus E. Miles, Jr., Awakening from the American Dream [[[
	History	Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers: the journey of the East European Jews to America and the life they found and made Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America Linda Gordon, Woman's Body, Woman's Right: The History of Birth Control in America Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality Joshua C. Taylor, America as Art
1978 7 awards 3 Nonfiction 1 fiction 3 other	Biography and Autobiography	W. Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson (about Samuel Johnson) James Atlas, Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet Will D. Campbell, Brother to a Dragonfly (autobiographical) Will Durant and Ariel Durant, A Dual Autobiography Frank Vandiver, Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing
	Contemporary Thought	Gloria Emerson, Winners and Losers Kai T. Erikson, Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood (about the Buffalo Creek Flood) Michael Harrington, The Vast Majority Louise Kapp Howe, Pink Collar Workers (about pink-collar workers) Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind [[[
	History	David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870–1914 Henry Steele Commager, The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment Robert J. Donovan, Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-48 Joseph Kastner, A Species of Eternity (Natural history in the New World) Fritz Stern, Gold and Iron (Bleichröder and Bismarck)
1979 7 awards 3 Nonfiction 1 fiction 3 other	Biography and Autobiography	Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times Donald Hall, Remembering Poets (biographical memoir) William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur William M. Murphy, Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats Phyllis Rose, Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf
	Contemporary Thought	Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard Kenneth E. Boulding, Stable Peace (see Peace science) Ivan Doig, This House of Sky: Landscapes of the Western Wind (memoir) Alfred Kazin, New York Jew Meyer Schapiro, Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries
	History	Richard Beale Davis, Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585–1763 Reinhard Bendix, Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule Gordon A. Craig, Germany, 1866–1945 John H. White, Jr. 1933-, The American Railroad Passenger Car (John Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) Garry Wills, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
recognize Paperbacks separately; further divide literary awards; add graphics awards

1980 and after

Winners in Nonfiction award subcategories, 1964 to 1983

Year and count	Nonfiction categories	Winner and finalists
1980 34 categories (28 literary) 14 Nonfiction 8 fiction 4 misc. 2 children's 6 graphics	Autobiography (hc)	Lauren Bacall, Lauren Bacall by Myself Barbara Gordon, I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can (Valium addiction) John Houseman, Front and Center (memoir, second of 3) William Saroyan, Obituaries
	Autobiography (ppb)	Malcolm Cowley, And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918–1978 (1978) No other finalists announced.
	Biography (hc)	Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Millicent Bell, Marquand: An American Life (about John P. Marquand Leon Edel, Bloomsbury: A House of Lions Ernest Samuels, Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur
	Biography (ppb)	A. Scott Berg, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978) W. Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson (about Samuel Johnson) (1977) William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964 (1978) Arthur Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times (1978)
	Current Interest (hc)	Julia Child, Julia Child and More Company Raymond Lifchez and Barbara Winslow, Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled People Gay Gaer Luce, Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years from the Experiences of the Sage Program Nathan Pritikin with Patrick M. McGrady, The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise ("The Pritikin Diet") Robert Ellis Smith, Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It [[[
	Current Interest (ppb)	Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (original) Frances Wells Burck, Babysense: A Practical and Supportive Guide to Baby Care (original) Farallones Institute, The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City (see Sim Van der Ryn) (original) Tracy Hotchner, Pregnancy and Childbirth: The Complete Guide for a New Life (original) Calvin Trillin, Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater (1978) [[[
	General Nonfiction (hc)	Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff Frances FitzGerald, America Revised (about history textbooks) David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (about news media) Frederic Morton, A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888–1889 (see Austrian culture, Mayerling Incident) Thomas Powers, The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA
	General Nonfiction (ppb)	Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard (1978) Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life (1978) Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men (1978)
	History (hc)	Henry A. Kissinger, The White House Years (memoir, first of 3) Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 George F. Kennan, Decline of Bismarck's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875–1890 Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World Telford Taylor, Munich: The Price of Peace
	History (ppb)	Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (1978) James Lincoln Collier, The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History (1978) Daniel J. Kevles, The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (1978) Allen Weinstein, Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case (1978) Theodore H. White, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure (1978)
	Religion/Inspiration (hc)	Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (about Gnostic Gospels) Peter L. Berger, The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation Brevard S. Childs, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture (canonical criticism) Peter Kreeft, Love Is Stronger Than Death Jack B. Rogers and Donald K. McKim, The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible: An Historical Approach (about Biblical authority) [[[
	Religion/Inspiration (ppb)	Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy (1977) Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (mystical novel) (1977) Catherine Marshall, The Helper (about the Holy Ghost) (1978) [[[
	Science (hc)	Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe Douglas Faulkner and Richard Chesher, Living Corals Bernd Heinrich, Bumblebee Economics Horace Freeland Judson, The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology [[[
	Science (ppb)	Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (original) William J. Kaufmann, Black Holes and Warped Spacetime (original) Thomas S. Kuhn, The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change (1977) Anne W. Simon, The Thin Edge: Coast and Man in Crisis (1978) [[[
1980 contd	Reference (hc)	Elder Witt, editor, Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sopin and Stephen Andors, eds., Encyclopedia of China Today Bernard Karpel, Arts in America: A Bibliography J. Gordon Melton, The Encyclopedia of American Religions, Vols. I & II Carolyn Sue Peterson and Ann D. Fenton, eds., Index to Children's Songs
	Reference (ppb)	Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present (original) Cynthia W. Cooke, M.D., and Susan Dworkin, The Ms. Guide to a Woman's Health (original) Editors of Solar Age magazine, The Solar Age Resource Book (original) Stuart Berg Flexner, I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated History of American Words and Phrases (1976) Elisabeth L. Scharlatt, editor, Kids: Day In and Day Out: a parents' manual (original)
1981 ?? categories (16 literary) 8 Nonfiction 3 fiction 2 misc. 3 children's ?? graphics	Autobiography/ Biography (hc)	Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great: His Life and World James R. Mellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times Peter Štanský and William Abrahams, Orwell: The Transformation (second volume on George Orwell) Ronald Steel, Walter Lippman and the American Century
	Autobiography/ Biography (ppb)	Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett: A Biography (1978) E. K. Brown, Willa Cather: A Critical Biography (1953) Leon Edel, Bloomsbury: A House of Lions (1979) Maureen Howard, Facts of Life (autobiography) (1978) Meryle Secrest, Being Bernard Berenson (1979)
	General Nonfiction (hc)	Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men Malcolm Cowley, The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s (autobiography) John Graves, From a Limestone Ledge (Texas Monthly essays) Victor S. Navasky, Naming Names (see Hollywood blacklist) Studs Terkel, American Dreams: Lost and Found
	General Nonfiction (ppb)	Jane Kramer, The Last Cowboy: Europeans and The Politics of Memory (1977) Joan Didion, The White Album (1979) David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (about news media) (1979) Dan Morgan, Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply (1979) Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express (travel memoir) (1979)
	History (hc)	John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality James H. Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith Steven Ozment, The Age of Reform, 1250–1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe Carl E. Schorske, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna:Politics and Culture Page Smith, The Shaping of America: A People's History of the Young Republic
	History (ppb)	Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979) Richard Drinnon, The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building (1980) A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., In the Matter of Color: The Colonial Period (1978) Telford Taylor, Munich: The Price of Peace (1979) Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (original)
	Science (hc)	Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History Claude C. Albritton, The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth’s Antiquity after the Sixteenth Century René Dubos, The Wooing of Earth Timothy Ferris, Galaxies Carl Sagan, Cosmos [[[
	Science (ppb)	Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (1979) Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979) Joseph Silk, The Big Bang: The Creation and Evolution of the Universe (original) Walter Sullivan, Black Holes: the Edge of the Space, the End of Time (1979) [[[
1982 ?? categories (18 literary) 8 Nonfiction 3 fiction 2 misc. 5 children's ?? graphics	Autobiography/ Biography (hc)	David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback (about Theodore Roosevelt) Gay Wilson Allen, Waldo Emerson: A Biography Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello (last of 6 vols.) William S. McFeely, Grant: A Biography (about Ulysses S. Grant Milton Rugoff, The Beechers
	Autobiography/ Biography (ppb)	Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century (1980) Joseph P. Lash, Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy (1980) Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great: His Life and World (1980) Ted Morgan, Maugham (about W. Somerset Maugham) (1980) Ernest Samuels, Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur (1979)
	General Nonfiction (hc)	Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays James Fallows, National Defense Janet Malcolm, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession Andrea Lee, Russian Journal
	General Nonfiction (ppb)	Victor S. Navasky, Naming Names (1980) (see Hollywood blacklist) Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing (1979) Edward Hoagland, African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan (1979) Landon Jones, Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation (1980) Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875 (1980)
	History (hc)	Peter J. Powell, People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830–1879 Ray Huang, 1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline Donald Neff, Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East (see Suez Crisis) Russell F. Weigley, Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944–1945 C. Vann Woodward, editor, Mary Chestnut's Civil War (diary revised by Chestnut)
	History (ppb)	Robert Wohl, The Generation of 1914 (see Lost Generation) (1979) Malcolm Cowley, The Dream of the Golden Mountains (1980) Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 (1980) Carl N. Degler, At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (1980) Charles Rembar, The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System (1980)
	Science (hc)	Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind Gene Bylinsky, Life in Darwin's Universe: Evolution and the Cosmos Eric Chaisson, Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life Steven J. Gould, The Mismeasure of Man Steven M. Stanley, The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes and the Origin of Species [[[
	Science (ppb)	Fred Alan Wolf, Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists (original) Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe (1979) Howard E. Gruber, Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity (1974) Bernd Heinrich, Bumblebee Economics (1979) Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science & Philosophy (1979) [[[
1983 27 categories (19 literary) 8 Nonfiction 3 fiction 3 misc. 5 children's 8 graphics	Autobiography/ Biography (hc)	Judith Thurman, Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller Russell Baker, Growing Up (first of two) Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (first of 3 vols.) Robert J. Donovan, Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949–1953 Lewis Mumford, Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford: The Early Years
	Autobiography/ Biography (ppb)	James R. Mellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times (1980) Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello (last of 6 vols.) (1981) Paul Mariani, William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked (1981) William S. McFeely, Grant: A Biography (about Ulysses S. Grant) (1981) Jean Strouse, Alice James: A Biography (1980)
	General Nonfiction (hc)	Fox Butterfield, China: Alive in the Bitter Sea George F. Kennan, The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age David McClintock, Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street (about the Begelman affair) Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth Susan Sheehan, Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
	General Nonfiction (ppb)	James Fallows, National Defense (1981) Edwin R. Bayley, Joe McCarthy and the Press (1981) Paul Fussell, Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars (1980) Al Santoli, Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War (1981) Joanna Stratton, Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier (original)
	History (hc)	Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression Gordon A. Craig, The Germans Robert Darnton, The Literary Underground of the Old Regime John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (see Salem witch trials) William H. McNeill, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000 Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
	History (ppb)	Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World (1979) George M. Fredrickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (1981) Ray Huang, 1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (1981) John Noble Wilford, The Mapmakers (about cartography) (1981)
	Science (hc)	Abraham Pais, "Subtle is the Lord ...": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein Philip J. Hilts, Scientific Temperaments: Three Lives in Contemporary Science (bio Robert R. Wilson, Mark Ptashne, John McCarthy) Melvin Konner, The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit Ernst Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance Heinz R. Pagels, Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature [[[
	Science (ppb)	Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh, The Mathematical Experience (1981) Morris Kline, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (1980) Cynthia Moss, Portrait in the Wild: Animal Behavior in the Western World (1979) Berton Roueché, The Medical Detectives (1980) G. Ledyard Stebbins, Darwin to DNA: Molecules to Humanity (original) [[[
REVAMP: no split awards; current year publications; only three categories (none graphics); no split awards
1984 to 1985 (2 yrs)	3 awards 1 nonfiction 2 fiction
1986 to 1990 (5 yrs)	2 awards 1 nonfiction 1 fiction
1991 to 1995 (5 yrs)	3 awards 1 nonfiction 1 fiction 1 poetry
1996 to date (16+ yrs)	4 awards 1 nonfiction 1 fiction 1 poetry 1 young people's

no plans to cover these

For these award categories I do not anticipate that I will do so much as list the winners and finalists with confirmed and improved links.

POETRY, 1950 to date
TRANSLATION, 1967 to 1983

plus these award categories 1980 to 1985. I have copied the nearly-raw data here.

1980

FIRST NOVEL

   William Wharton, Birdy
   > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog

Finalists:

   Terry Davis - Vision Quest
   Stratis Haviaras - When the Tree Sings
   Philip F. O'Connor - Stealing Home
   Alan Saperstein - Mom Kills Kids and Self

MYSTERY (HARDCOVER)

   John D. MacDonald, The Green Ripper
   > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog

Finalists:

   Lucille Kallen - Introducing C.G. Greenfield
   William X. Kienzle - The Rosary Murders
   Arthur Maling - The Rheingold Route
   Lawrence Meyer - False Front 

MYSTERY (PAPERBACK)

   William F. Buckley, Jr., Stained Glass
   > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog

Finalists:

   R. Wright Campbell - The Spy Who Sat and Waited
   Sean Flannery - The Kremlin Conspiracy
   Tony Hillerman - Listening Woman
   Michael Kurland - The Infernal Device

POETRY

SCIENCE FICTION (HARDCOVER)

   Frederik Pohl, Jem
   > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog <

Finalists:

   John Crowley - Engine Summer
   Thomas M. Disch - On Wings of Song
   Jerry Pournelle - Janissaries
   Kate Wilhelm - Juniper Time

SCIENCE FICTION (PAPERBACK)

   Walter Wangerin, Jr., The Book of the Dun Cow
   > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog

Finalists:

   Samuel R. Delany - Tales of Neveryon
   Vonda N. McIntyre - Dreamsnake
   Norman Spinrad - The Star-Spangled Future
   John Varley - The Persistence of Vision

TRANSLATION

split award
   William Arrowsmith, Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor 
   Jane Gary Harris & Constance Link, Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters

Finalist:

   George L. Hart, III – George Hart’s Poets of the Tamil Anthologies 

WESTERN

   Louis L'Amour, Bendigo Shafter
   > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog

Finalists:

   Benjamin Capps - Woman Chief
   Loren D. Estleman - The High Rocks
   Brian Garfield - Wild Times
   G. Clifton Wisler - My Brother, the Wind

1981

FIRST NOVEL

   Ann Arensberg, Sister Wolf
   > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog 

Finalists:

   Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear
   Philip Caputo - Horn of Africa
   Johanna Kaplan - O My America
   Lynne Sharon Schwartz - Rough Strife

POETRY

TRANSLATION

split award
   Francis Steegmuller, The Letters of Gustave Flaubert
   John E. Woods, Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold

Finalists:

   Guy Davenport – Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C.
   John Glad – Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales
   Jean Milligan – Kao Ming’s The Lute

1982

FIRST NOVEL

   Robb Forman Dew, Dale Loves Sophie to Death
   > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog

Finalists:

   Celia Gittelson - Saving Grace
   Bette Bao Lord - Spring Moon
   Leonard Michaels - The Men's Club
   Ted Mooney - Easy Travel to Other Planets

POETRY

TRANSLATION

split award
   Robert Lyons Danly, Higuchi Ichiyo's In the Shade of Spring Leaves
   Ian Hideo Levy, The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry

Finalists:

   W.S. DiPiero – Leopardi’s Pensieri
   Louis Iribarne – Milosz’s The Issa Valley
   Miller Williams – Sonnets of Giuseppe Belli

1983

FIRST NOVEL

   Gloria Naylor , The Women of Brewster Place
   > Read Her Acceptance Speech
   > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog

Finalists:

   Gail Albert - Matters of Chance
   John M. Del Vecchio - The 13th Valley
   Susanna Moore - My Old Sweetheart
   David Small - Almost Famous

ORIGINAL PAPERBACK

   Lisa Goldstein, The Red Magician

Finalists:

   David P. Barash, PhD., and Judith Eve Lipton, M.D. – Stop Nuclear War: A Handbook
   Mark Green – Winning Back America
   Ground Zero War Foundation – Nuclear War
   Marc Scott Zicree – The Twilight Zone Companion

POETRY

TRANSLATION

   Richard Howard, Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal

Finalists:

   Marion Faber – Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Mozart
   Allen Mandelbaum – Dante’s Purgatorio
   Philip B. Miller – An Abyss Deep Enough: Letters of Heinrich von Kleist
   Richard Wilbur – Racine’s Andromache

1984

FIRST WORK OF FICTION

   Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
   > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog

Finalists:

   Kem Nunn – Tapping the Source
   Padgett Powell – Edisto

1985

FIRST WORK OF FICTION

   Easy in the Islands, Bob Shacochis
   > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog

Finalists:

   Elizabeth Benedict – Slow Dancing
   Cecile Pineda – Face

Children's Books, 1980 to 1983

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Winners in "Children's Books" award categories, 1980 to 1983

	Children's Books	finalists	Winner		other finalists
1980	Hardcover	4	Joan Blos	A Gathering of Days	David Kherdian, The Road from Home E. L. Konigsburg, Throwing Shadows (stories) Ouida Sebestyen, Words by Heart
	Paperback	5	Madeleine L'Engle	A Swiftly Tilting Planet
1981	Nonfiction	5	Alison Cragin Herzig Jane Lawrence Mali	Oh, Boy! Babies	Jean Fritz, Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? William Jaspersohn, The Ballpark Milton Meltzer, All Time, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery Peter Spier, People
	Fiction, hardcover	5	Betsy Byars	The Night Swimmers	Paula Fox, A Place Apart Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved Ouida Sebestyen, Far From Home Jan Slepian, The Alfred Summer
	Fiction, paperback	5	Beverly Cleary	Ramona and Her Mother
1982	Nonfiction	5	Susan Bonners	A Penguin Year	Jean Fritz, Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold James Howe, The Hospital Book (Mal Warshaw, photos) Patricia Lauber, Seeds: Pop, Stick and Glide (James Wexler, photos) Melvin B. Zisfein Flight: A Panorama of Aviation (Robert Parker, illus.)
	Fiction, hardcover	5	Lloyd Alexander	Westmark	Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Deborah Hautzig, Second Star to the Right Mildred D. Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken Cynthia Voigt, Homecoming
	Fiction, paperback	4	Ouida Sebestyen	Words by Heart
	Picture Books, hard	5	Maurice Sendak	Outside Over There
	Picture Books, paper	6	Peter Spier	Noah's Ark
1983	Nonfiction	5	James Cross Giblin	Chimney Sweeps	Linda Grant De Pauw, Seafaring Women Patricia Lauber, Journey to the Planets John Nance, Lobo of the Tasaday Judith St. George, The Brooklyn Bridge
	Fiction, hardcover	5	Jean Fritz	Homesick: My Own Story	Lloyd Alexander, The Kestrel Edward Fenton, The Refugee Summer Virginia Hamilton, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush  Zibby Oneal, A Formal Feeling
	Fiction, paperback	5	Paula Fox	A Place Apart
			Joyce Carol Thomas	Marked by Fire
	Picture Books, hard	5	Barbara Cooney	Miss Rumphius
			William Steig	Doctor De Soto
	Picture Books, paper	5	Mary Ann Hoberman  Betty Fraser (illus.)	A House is a House for Me

Sources

Tools

Citations

• Alexander, Lloyd (1973). The Foundling, and Other Tales of Prydain. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 0-030-07431-2.
• Alexander, Lloyd (1999). The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-805-06130-4.

| awards = National Book Award
1973

Children's YPL

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• National Book Award for Young People's Literature

• Boston Globe – Horn Book Award --usually unreferenced

• Caldecott Medal (and Honor)

• Newbery Medal (and Honor)

• Michael L. Printz Award (and Honor)

"the American Library Association named it a Printz Honor Book, one of four runners up for the annual Michael L. Printz Award recognizing literary excellence in books for young adults.

• ALSC, YALSA Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production (and Honor)

ALA "2012 Youth Media Awards"

Alex Awards : (10 announced today by YALSA)

Andrew Carnegie Medal : ref name=pr2012 (announced today by ALSC)
"Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly Ellard win 2012 Carnegie Medal for Children Make Terrible Pets". ALA Press Release. January 23, 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-21.</ref>

Coretta Scott King Book Awards (2) : (African-American experience) (2 cats announced today) [1]

Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement : (career/ announced today by ALA) [2]

John Newbery Medal : ref name=pr2012newb/cald (announced today by ALSC)
"Jack Gantos, Chris Raschka win Newbery, Caldecott Medals".

Margaret A. Edwards Award : ref name=pr2012 (career/ announced today by YALSA)
"Susan Cooper wins 2012 Edwards Award for The Dark Is Rising Sequence".

May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture : ALSC ref name=pr2012 (career/ announced today by ALSC)
"Michael Morpurgo to deliver 2013 Arbuthnot Honor Lecture".

Michael L. Printz Award : ref name=pr2012 (announced today by YALSA)
"Where Things Come Back wins 2012 Printz Award".

Mildred L. Batchelder Award : ref name=pr2012 (announced today by ALSC)
"2012 Batchelder Award honors Eerdmans Books for Young Readers for Soldier Bear".

Odyssey Award : ref name=pr2012 (announced today)
"Listening Library wins 2012 Odyssey Award for "'Rotters".

Pura Belpré Awards (2) : (Latino cultural experience) (2 cats announced today by ALSC) [3]

Randolph Caldecott Medal : ref name=pr2012newb/cald (announced today by ALSC)
"Jack Gantos, Chris Raschka win Newbery, Caldecott Medals".

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal : (announced today by ALSC)
"Melissa Sweet wins 2012 Sibert Medal".

Schneider Family Book Award (3) : (disability experience) (3 cats announced today by ALA) [4]

Stonewall Children's & Young Adult Literature Award : (LGBT experience) (1 cat announced today) [5]

Theodore Seuss Geisel Award :(announced today by ALSC)
"Josh Schneider wins Geisel Award for Tales for Very Picky Eaters".

William C. Morris Award : ref name=pr2012 (presented today by YALSA)
"Where Things Come Back wins 2012 William C. Morris Award".

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults : ref name=pr2012 (presented today by YALSA)
"The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery wins 2012 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults".

end 2012 Youth Media Awards

Speculative fiction

• ISFDB

• Pringle 100
  • Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels
  • Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
• Locus Awards

all-time 1987 (see The Left Hand of Darkness, Dragonflight)

Anne McCaffrey. The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees.

In 1987, Locus magazine ranked The Shadow of the Torturer number four among the 33 "All-Time Best Fantasy Novels", based on a poll of subscribers.

The Shadow of the Torturer won the annual World Fantasy Award and British Science Fiction Association Award as the year's best novel. Among other annual awards for fantasy or science fiction novels, it placed second for the Locus (fantasy), third for the Campbell Memorial (SF), and was a finalist for the Nebula (SF).

Other awards

• Pulitzer Prizes (below)
• American Book Awards (below)
• O. Henry Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award --usually unreferenced
• Modern Library (below)
  • Modern Library 100 Best Novels
  • Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction
• TIME (below)
  • The 100 Best Books of All Time
  • Time's List of the 100 Best Novels

American Book Awards

"AMERICAN"

Time 100

TIME magazine named it one of the 100 best novels in the English language since "the beginning of TIME" (1923 to 2005).

named one of the 100 best novels in the English-language by TIME magazine (best in the history of TIME, 1923 to 2005)

Modern Library 100

and by Modern Library (number 81 of the editorial board's 20th-century hundred).

National Book Foundation

faq foundation history letters literarian2005 process selection winners

NONFICTION recent

National Book Award for Nonfiction

MULTIPLE NONFICTION 1980 to 1983 --or 1964 to 1983

a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in History.

Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints of books eligible for previous awards but the 1982 Science was original, Taking the Quantum Leap by Fred Alan Wolf.

or ... ; this one was original.

FINALIST 1980 Engine Summer (1979) was nominated for the 1980 National Book Award in one-year category Science Fiction;

PAPERBACKS PICTURE

60-YEAR ESSAY CONTENT

nba1951
(With essays by Neil Baldwin and Ross Gay from the Awards 50(?) and 60-year anniversary publications. Gay (2009) cites the 1949 title Selected Poems with some comment.)

nba1972(fiction)

• 1970s to date --The New York Times, mix of ProQuest (subxn only) and NYT (some subxn only)
• 1935 to 1950 --The New York Times at ProQuest Historical Newspapers (subscription only)

fehrman(2011column)

nyt1950a nyt1950eve nyt1950

nyt1967

nyt1973 nyt1974 nyt1975(afterword)

nyt1980a nyt1980 nyt1983 nyt1983vote nyt1984a(nom;revamp) nyt1984 nyt1985 nyt1987

List of winners of the National Book Award#1935 to 1941

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Early awards

The first article announces the new annual award.

35/36 - four

36/37 - five (add Booksellers Discovery)

37/38 - four with close seconds (drop Biography)

38/39 - four

39/40 - four with runners up

40/41 - three (drop Most Original Book)

41/42 - one (Discovery alone; drop Non-fiction and Novel)

1935/1936

The Most Distinguished Novel of the Year, Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind

The Most Original Novel of the Year, Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao

The Most Distinguished Biography of the Year, Vincent Sheean, Personal History

The Most Distinguished General Nonfiction, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient

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Books and Authors New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 12, 1936; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR12

new annual award to be given at the annual convention

voted by all booksellers from nominees by a central NY cmtee of seven and a national cmtee of fifteen

The Most Distinguished Novel of the Year

The Most Original Novel of the Year

The Most Distinguished Biography of the Year

The Most Distinguished General Nonfiction

The year's awards, May 11 annual banquet Virginia Kirkus, chair; E.S. McCawley, ABA president; three bookshops, Publishers Weekly, American News Co.

1936 adverts

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Display Ad 28 -- No Title New York Times (1923-Current file); May 12, 1936; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 21

Vincent Sheean, Personal History, "one person's relationship to living history"

'The most distinguished autobiography of 1935' advert. by publ Doubleday, Doran; "the top for the year" --Harry Hansen; award yesterday, presented by Christopher Morley

Anne Lindbergh, North to the Orient

'The most distinguished general non-fiction book of 1935' advert. bty publ Harcourt, Brace & Co

Display Ad 22 -- No Title New York Times (1923-Current file); Jun 3, 1936; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 19

Sheean, one of 20 advert. Doubleday, Doran Book Shops

August, another

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LEWIS IS SCORNFUL OF RADIO CULTURE: Nothing Ever Will Replace the Old-Fashioned Book, He Tells Booksellers. New York Times (1923-Current file); May 12, 1936; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 25

"Enemies of the Book", address by Lewis on the 36th annual dinner of the ABA, concluding two-day convention at Hotel Pennsylvania

crit's teachers of English who scorn current writers, and publishers of cheap pulp magazines

all writers are booksellers

books will not be supplanted by radio, television, phonograph records, nor "any ingenious microscopic gadget whereby you can carry the entire works of Balzac in your cigarette case"

those are enemies; so are "the automobile, the bridge table and night clubs"

we publishers writers and dealers may expect smaller profits but we must/will be increasingly skilled; there will be no shelf space for "any anemic romance that happens along"

At the luncheon that preceded the afternoon session first NBAs announced by Christopher Morley

Dist Novel, Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind

Original Novel, Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao

Dist Biography, Vincent Sheean, Personal History

Dist general non-fiction, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North of the Orient

"the opinions of the booksellers of America, voting

best-seller lists discussed afternoon; most say inaccurate, maybe deliberately misleading; "the life of a book is shortened"; the joint cmtee of booksellers and publishers takes "no definite decision" but the general opinion is "detrimental"

also afternoon, attorney Morris L. Ernst spoke for resale price maintenance, advocated its enforcement by booksellers

next pres Lewis B. Traver

1936/1937

The Most Distinguished Novel of the Year, Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

The Most Original Novel of the Year, Della T. Lutes, The Country Kitchen

The Most Distinguished Biography of the Year, Victor Heiser, An American Doctor's Odyssey (autobiography)

(Heiser: Leprosy#Chaulmoogra oil)

The Most Distinguished General Nonfiction, Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England

Booksellers' Discovery, Norah Lofts, I Met a Gypsy

(British)

-- we say Short Story Collection and gives "London: Metheun & New York: Knopf, 1935"

8 hits "n b award", all adverts; 0 "n b award"

non-fiction, Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England (pulitzer too; best history, American Writers Congress) 1031 Dutton advert 31st printing; 1128 national bestseller 65 weeks, special editions $4, $5 for Christmas

another advert, Graduation gift

hits "booksellers award"

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5 HONORS AWARDED ON THE YEAR'S BOOKS: Authors of Preferred Volumes Hailed at Luncheon New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 26, 1937; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 23

results of voting by the 600 members of the ABA ann Christopher Morley yday, annually five awards

biography, Victor Heiser, An American Doctor's Odyssey

general non-fiction, Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England

novel, Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

original, Della T. Lutes, The Country Kitchen

cookbook; gastronomical autobiography --Michigan cookbooks online

forgotten book of the year that least deserved to be forgotten, Norah Lofts, I Met a Gypsy

(British)

1937 convention

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ROOSEVELT TO GET GIFT OF 200 BOOKS: Nation's Sellers to Reward Him for Example Set New York Times (1923-Current file); May 12, 1937; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 21

yesterday at the conclusion of the annual convention, Hotel Pennsylvania --voted to continue award five plaques next year to books "most deserving of popularity"; this year two garnered Pulitzer (Mitchell and Brooks)

Lewis B. Traver re-elected pres

1937/1938

Discovery, Lawrence Watkin, On Borrowed Time

--we say first novel

Non-fiction, Ève Curie, Madame Curie

(French)

--we say French, simult. publ. France and elsewhere

Novel, A. J. Cronin, The Citadel

--we say novel, groundsbreaking treatment of medical ethics (Scottish, UK)

Most Original, Carl Crow, Four Hundred Million Customers

--first Western advertising agency in Shanghai

"close seconds"

Conrad Richter, The Sea of Grass

--we say novel

Kenneth Roberts (author), Northwest Passage

--we say historical novel

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

--we say Chinese 1935 immigrant; in US a "popularizer of Chinese philosophy and way of life"

Leonard Q. Ross (Leo Rosten), The Education of Hyman Kaplan

--we say collection of The New Yorker stories, humorist

0 hits "n b award"; 2 "n b awards", one being 0225 announcement of luncheon next Tuesday

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BOOKSELLERS GIVE PRIZE TO 'CITADEL': Cronin's Work About Doctors Their Favorite--'Mme. Curie' New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 2, 1938; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 14

long title

BOOKSELLERS GIVE PRIZE TO 'CITADEL': Cronin's Work About Doctors Their Favorite--'Mme. Curie' Gets Non-Fiction Award TWO OTHERS WIN HONORS Fadiman Is 'Not Interested' in What Pulitzer Committee Thinks of Selections Other High Favorites Paperweights As Prizes

four prizes announced yesterday at ABA book award luncheon

favorite novel, A. J. Cronin, The Citadel

non-fiction, Eve Curie, Madame Curie

discovery, Lawrence Watkin, On Borrowed Time

original, Carl Crow, 400 Million Customers

"close seconds"

Conrad Richter, Sea of Grass

Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

Leonard Q. Ross, The Education of Hyman Kaplan

ballots from 319 stores, three times so many as 1935/36

Fadiman on Pulitzer: "I, for one, do not care whether they ratify our stand or not." "Unlike the Pulitzer Prize committee, the booksellers merely vote for their favorite books. They do not say it is the best book or the one that will elevate the standard of manhood or womanhood. Twenty years from now we can decide which are the masterpieces. This year we can only decide which books we enjoyed reading the most."

... "Each year the booksellers of the country, who feel that they are closer to books than any jury of experts, select their favorite titles in each of these classifications. The balloting is carried on by the bookstore owners and their staffs."

Prizes "engraved bronze paperweights in the shape of an open book"

Dr. Francis Carter Wood, Inst Cancer Research Columbia U, accepting for Mlle. Curie,

1938/1939

Bookseller Discovery, David Fairchild, The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer

Non-fiction: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Listen! The Wind

Novel: Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

(British)

Original: Margaret Halsey, With Malice Toward Some

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BOOK ABOUT PLANTS RECEIVES AWARD: Dr. Fairchild's 'Garden' Work Cited by Booksellers New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 15, 1939; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 20

"favorite books of the past year in several classifications"

four winners announced at luncheon ABA & NYHT, 1000 att.

Bookseller Discovery Dr. David Fairchild, The World Was My Garden (autobiography, ex-head USDA)

"the most deserving book which failed to receive adequate sales and recognition"

favorite novel: Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca favorite non-fiction: Anne Morrow Lindbergh Listen! the Wind most original: Margaret Halsey, With Malice Toward Some

Halsey alone present, Du Maurier by transatlantic telephone

Clifton Fadiman presiding

Books and Authors New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 26, 1939; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 91

"In a nation-wide poll the members of the ABA ..."

1939/1940

Bookseller's Discovery, Elgin Groseclose, Ararat

a novel of adventure in Armenia; 'a book of "outstanding merit which failed to receive adequate sales and recognition"'

Favorite Fiction, annual ballot booksellers, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

having more sales than any other, 430000 printed

Most Original Book, Dalton Trumbo, screen writer, Johnny Got His Gun

depicting the horrors of war

--we say "(then known as an American Book Sellers Award)"

Favorite Non-fiction, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

noted French pilot

--French, France Feb 1939, transl. publ. US later 1939

Runners Up

Discovery: Chard Powers Smith, Artillery of Time, I

I: Artillery of Time is a novel about Yankee farm like of the 1850s and 1860s as the drift toward industrialization became a torrent. --Wildside Press

II: DURING April, 1860, the cholera as usual crossed the Ohio River at Cincinnati and spread northward with the spring. --first sentence, Amazon, no date

Novel: Sholom Asch, The Nazarene

Non-fiction: Pierre van Paassen, Days of Our Years (autobiography)

original: Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male

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1939 BOOK AWARDS GIVEN BY CRITICS: Elgin Groseclose's 'Ararat' Is Picked as Work Which Failed to Get Due Recognition", New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 14, 1940; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 25

"Winners in four classifications of the National Book Awards for 1939 were announced yesterday at a book and author luncheon in the Hotel Astor of the American Booksellers Association, which sponsors the award, and the New York Herald Tribune."

Announced by critic Harry Hansen.

Bookseller's Discovery, 'a book of "outstanding merit which failed to receive adequate sales and recognition"'

Elgin Groseclose, Ararat, a novel of adventure in Armenia

Favorite Fiction, annual ballot booksellers

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, having more sales than any other, 430000 printed

Most Original Book

Dalton Trumbo, screen writer, Johnny Got His Gun, depicting the horrors of war

Favorite Non-fiction

Artoine de St. Exupery, noted French pilot, Wind, Sand and Stars

"engraved bronze paperweights in the form of an open book"

17 people guessed 3 out of 4 at the last luncheon and received copies of the fourth

Runners up, one each category

Speakers two former winners

Victor Heiser, You're the Doctor

Vincent Sheean, Not Peace but a Sword

1940/1941

Booksellers' Discovery: Perry Burgess, Who Walk Alone (non-fiction?)

(at Google) (at Amazon: "A Spanish-American war veteran returns from the Phillipines to begin his young life only to find out a few years hence he was infected with leprosy.")

Favorite Novel: Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

(Welsh)

Favorite Non-Fiction: Hans Zinsser, As I Remember Him: The Biography of R.S. (autobiography)

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FRENCH FLIER GETS BOOK PRIZE FOR 1939: Antoine de St. Exupery Able at Last to Receive New York Times (1923-Current file); Jan 15, 1941; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 6

AdSE "was flying daily reconnaissance over the German lines a year ago when the award was first announced" yesterday rec'd the 1939 award at the luncheon (third of the season), att. 1500

presented by Elmer Davis, chairman at the luncheon

1941 adverts

missing URL Display Ad 26 -- No Title New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 13, 1941; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 17

National Book Award Edition, ABA favorite novel

Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

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Books and Authors

Booksellers' Discovery: Perry Burgess, Who Walk Alone (listed first)

Booksellers' Favorite Non-Fiction: Hans Zinsser, As I Remember Him

selections "though a nationwide poll of American booksellers, who give their votes to the books they and their staffs enjoy selling and found worth recommending to their customers"

1941 advert

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Display Ad 78 -- No Title New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 23, 1941; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR21

The Booksellers of America Announce Their National Awards [photocopy]

"Each year they choose, by a nation-wide poll, their favorite books."

"The Discovery award always goes to a book deserving far more attention than it has received. In effect, his ballot says, 'Of all the books of the year these are the three I enjoyed most--iin two ways! I enjoyed reading them; and I enjoyed selling them."

"The National Book Awards give you perhaps a greater guarantee of reading pleasure than do any other literary prizes."

half the advertisement is devoted to the three books by three publishers

1941 toward 1942?

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Notes on Books and Authors New York Times (1923-Current file); Dec 29, 1941; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 19

Notes on Books and Authors

next year nominations?

1941/1942

Discovery, George Sessions Perry, Hold Autumn in Your Hand

--we say "a novel about a year in the life of a tenant farm"

0 "n b awards", 6 "n b award", 20 "booksellers award" mainly adverts

1942

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Notes on Books and Authors New York Times (1923-Current file); Jan 11, 1942; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR12

at book and author luncheon Tue Jan 13, guests will cast straw votes for Booksellers' Discovery "to be presented with the National Book Award for 1941"

1942 prelim

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Books -- Authors New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 5, 1942; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 19

announced by Publishers Weekly, to be presented next Tuesday

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NEGLECTED AUTHOR GETS HIGH HONOR: 1941 Book Award Presented to George Perry for 'Hold New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 11, 1942; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 18

fifth in the series of book and author luncheons at the Astor by ABA and NYHT

presented by Karl Placht, ABA president

Booksellers' Discovery "a sort of consolation prize that the booksellers hope will draw attention to his work";

George Sessions Perry, Hold Autumn in Your Hands, a realistic story of Texas farm life; 7000 sold, new edition with 'stamp "Booksellers' Discovery"'

1942/1943

no hits except "bookseller award", not fruitful (but Skinner Award continues)(Pulitzer too)(Southern Authors Award)

current series

1949, no hits "national book award" or "awards"

1950

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BOOK TRADE PLANS TO HONOR WRITERS: Industry Will Award Annual Prizes for Poetry, Fiction New York Times (1923-Current file); Jan 22, 1950; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 68

three awards to works by Americans published here, announced yesterday, first to be given March 16

gold medal

sponsors ABPC, ABA, BMI

three boards of five judges

"the book industry itself had never united to honor the best contributions to American life and culture"

4 Harper ads "Watch for"

2 mentions "In and Out of Books" David Dempsey column

Eleanor Roos will speak at the book industry dinner

"first annual NBA dinner of the book industry in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Thursday"

speakers Sen Paul Douglas, Eleanor Roos, Frederick Lewis Allen

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PROGRAMS ON THE AIR

New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 16, 1950; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 46

9:30-10 National Book Awards Dinner: Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, Clifton Fadiman, Others WQXR; 10-10:30 WJZ (Recorded)

also today: a one-par notice of Mrs. Roosevelt's radio address and the following "Author Meets the Critics" from Waldorf-Astoria

nyt1950

http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/111467441/1342889A25B1601DD17/11?accountid=11311 BOOK PUBLISHERS MAKE 3 AWARDS: Nelson Algren, Dr. Ralph L. Rusk and Dr. W.C. Williams Receive New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 17, 1950; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 21

"The first literary awards ever made by the publishing trade as a whole ..." gold plaques

MC Clifton Fadiman

Algren, The Man With the Golden Arm, a lurid account of life in a Chicago slum

Ralph L. Rusk, The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (publ nearly a year ago, nom. for 1949 Pulitzer)

William Carlos Williams, latest volume Paterson poems and selected verse ... "pediatrician-novelist-poet, has the reputation, like Whitman, of writing with too great complexity for the unskilled reader.

five special citations in the non-fiction field

Lincoln Barnett, The Universe and Dr. Einstein Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember H. A. Overstreet, The Mature Mind Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream Kenneth P. Williams, Lincoln Finds a General

only Algern has been on the best-seller list and the three winners share "the common lot of being in part hard to read"

1950 after

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THREE LITERARY PRIZES New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 18, 1950; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 12

THREE LITERARY PRIZES

"... the first annual National Book Awards ... Sponsored by the entire book industry in a gesture of cooperation, the awards created an occasion unprecedented in publishing history: the assembling of bookish people throughout the country to focus attention on the significance of books in general, and
three books in particular which --according to a board of distinguished judges and the recommendations of the nation's reviewers-- contributed most to American life and culture in 1949."
"... The three winners are serious writers, ... who have reflected on the meaning of America."
...
"... we welcome the inauguration of an award that should draw spectacular atention to the solid, unspectacular creative talents which ... continue to nourish American literature."

1951

"national book awards"

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS: 3 'Most Distinguished' Works of 1950 to Be Honored March 6

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Faulkner, Arvin, Stevens Honored By Publishers as Best U.S. Authors: RECIPIENTS OF SECOND ANNUAL NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

1964

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National Book Awards Are Presented to Six Authors: Prizes of $1,000 Given for the Best Works Published in '63

"NBA yday for the most distinguished ..."

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SPEAKING OF BOOKS SPEAKING OF BOOKS

By J. DONALD ADAMS New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 22, 1964; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR2

"National Book Awards are now firmly established, and as much a part of the literary year as the Pulitzer Prize. ... and since their[judges] decisions are not subject to review by a higher court ... there have been fewer miscarriages of justice."

"newly designated" categories covered without comment

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In and Out of Books IN AND OUT OF BOOKS

By LEWIS NICHOLS New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 22, 1964; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR8

"This year, for the first time, there were five--each carrying $1,000 and a citation declaring it the best book in its field, written and published by Americans during 1963."

Knopf and Random House (new merged) lead at 6 of 47 each; University Presses 7, two this year

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In and Out of Children's Books In and Out of Children's Books

By LEWIS NICHOLS New York Times (1923-Current file); May 10, 1964; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BRA38

2300 US titles last year, sales 80% schools & libraries (est.) --a bone betw bksellers & publers

three main awards: Newb, Cald, and "the Child Study Association award for best book of the year"

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Observer: Plan for Closing the Prize Gap

Russel Baker satire

0621

In and Out of Books

ABooksellersA recent convention, brings booksellers and publishers together as ABAwards week brings writers and publishers together

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BOOK COMMITTEE NAMES DIRECTOR: Jennison to Head Award and Library Week Programs

By HARRY GILROY New York Times (1923-Current file); Aug 22, 1964; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 19

Peter S. Jennison new ED "National Book Cmte, a nonprofit association that seeks to foster interest in books and reading"; has resigned asst mgg dir Amer Book Publ Council

creation of an ED is one recommendation of the recent evaluation of NBC by John R. Everett, former pres Encyc Brit Press, former chancellor UCNY

Jennison will direct National Library Week (NBC co-sponsor with ALibraryAssoc) and head administration of National Book Awards. "These have been given for what are described as 'the most distinguished books' written by [US] authors in each of the last ten years."

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Literary Letter From London

By WALTER ALLENLONDON. New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 15, 1964; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR54

comparing British literary awards, "Certainly they command nothing of the public attention, nothing of the effect on sales, that characterize the French Prix Goncourt or the American National Book Awards."

1967

at least

1967 nom

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31 'Leading Nominees' Chosen For the National Book Awards

for five annual literary prizes tba 0308, Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center

1967 new translation prize

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$1,000 National Book Prize Is Set Up for a Translation

New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 8, 1967; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 29

donor National Transl Center, Austin TX; in turn supported by Ford Foundation grant to UT

NBCmte chair William I. Nichols: "to draw attention to the art of translation and to recognize achievements in writing abroad."

nyt1967

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Book Award Goes to 'La Vida'; 'The Fixer' Wins Fiction Prize: 3 Others Will Be Honored at a Ceremony Wednesday at Lincoln Center

By HENRY RAYMONT New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 5, 1967; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 39

(Sunday) ann selections of five juries, Nat Book Cmte, at their final meetings Thursday night --obtained from trade sources; scheduled tb announced and tb presented Wed, VP Humphrey principal speaker

"The NBAwards enjoy great prestige in literary and publishing circles and are ranked in the trade on a level with the Pulitzer prizes."
juries change, "outstanding figures" in their fields
NBCmte, which estab. the awards in 1950, is a nonprofit edu assoc devoted to the wiser and wider use of books. The prizes are donated by the Amer Booksellers Assoc, the Amer Book Publ Council and the Book Manuf Institute

1967 transl

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IN AND OUT Of BOOKS: Translators

By LEWIS NICHOLS New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 5, 1967; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 295

new award to translators; $1000 from National Translation Center, Austin TX

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WORDS THE ISSUE AS WRITERS DINE: Best-Selling Authors Gather With Critics and Editors

ED Jennison read a statement by Cmte chair William I. Nichols (publisher and editor, This Week) crit NYTimes for premature incomplete disclosure of Award winners

1967 official presentation three days later

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National Book Awards

New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 9, 1967; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 38

covering only five winners, not Translation(s) --the first split award

1967

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Malamud Asserts Novel Should Stress a Theme: He Quotes Melville at Awards Ceremony--Lewis Supports Value of Form and Content

By HARRY GILROY New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 9, 1967; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 42

prize winning authors speak; the translators agree "they were gratified by the simple fact that a translation prize had been established"

presenter Newton N. Minow, former chair FCC

0312

In The Nation: The Malaise Beyond Dissent

editorial re walkout by many intellectuals before VP Humphrey spoke at NBAwards ceremony

1968

1968 pre

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American Notebook: Notebook

By LEWIS NICHOLS New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 3, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR32

National Book Award week; "a national convention of all those who have to do with books" [IS THIS THE BOOKSELLERS CONVENTION? NO MENTION OF THEM]

The History: three associations $1000 each

1950s "run by volunteers among publicity people for the publishers"

from 1960 National Book Cmte; now five donors including "American" Translation Center and AAUPresses

until 1964 there were formal addresses

1950 only, night club acts (embarr. Eleanor R)

five double winners: fiction Faulkner, Bellow, Malamud; poetry Stevens, Roethke

1968

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Wilder's 'Eighth Day' Tops Styron's 'Nat Turner' and Three Other Novels for National Book Award

By HENRY RAYMONT New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 5, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 33

"the 19th annual NBAs"

"the book industry's highest awards"

tbp Newton N. Minow, chair NBCmte, tomorrow night

posth. award Mr. Troy, died 1961 "a rare decision"

"The awards ceremony [Wed night] will complete three days of literary discussions and functions organizaed by the NBCmte, an association of citizens that also sponsors the National Medal for Literature and the National Library Week Program."

1968 ceremony

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BOOKS SPOTLIGHT HELD BY POLITICS: Dissent on Vietnam Voiced at National Awards

By HENRY RAYMONT New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 7, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 51

finally Nichols rebutted crit of NBCmte for "doing nothing about the war"

1969

1969

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National Book Awards: The Winners

By HENRY RAYMONT New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 11, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 42

"The 1968 National Book Awards were announced yesterday" ... "ann by the jurors of each category after they had deliberated all morning in separate panels"; tbp tomorrow

NBCmte, nonprofit trade assoc

"the first prize in children's literature" without comment

two more for random house

1969

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WRITER FEARFUL OF NUCLEAR PERIL: Lifton, Book Award Winner, Cites Weapons' Dangers

By HENRY RAYMONT New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 13, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 44

all seven winners present

presented by Mason W. Gross, pres. Rutgers U, chairman NBCmte

"writers, publishers, editors, and critics" --not the sellers

1973

nyt1973

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2 Book Awards Split for First Time: 'Serengeti' Lion' Wins Other Judges Shocked 'Multitudinous By ERIC PACE New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 11, 1973; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 38

$1000 prizes in ten categories, two split --Fiction, History

previous divided prizes: translation 1967, 1971; poetry 1972

National Book Cmte, a nonprofit org funded "by publishers and by org's involved in the book trade"

1974

1974

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Pynchon, Singer Share Fiction Prize

New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 17, 1974; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 37

"publishing industry officials" confirmed some, ann others, in advance of tomorrow sched

"the book world's equivalent of the Academy Awards"[familiar from the 1960s]

National Medal for Literature, Vladimir Nabokov --also by NBCmte-- $10,000 and bronze medal, accepted by son last night NYPL

nyt1974

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World of Books Presents Its Oscars: Audience Wonders ,By STEVEN R. WEISMANAdrienne RichAllen Ginsberg New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 19, 1974; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 24

Singer, Israel resident who writes in Yiddish

14 authors: fiction split; poetry split; translation split by three (NO MENTION OF CONTROVERSY)

Clive winner history; biography to Douglas Day, Malcolm Lowry: A Biography [NBF WEBSITE TWICE LISTS SHARED BIOGRAPHY AWARD]

1974 THE BEST

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The Best of All 25 N.B.A.'s: The Guest Word

Cole, William New York Times (1923-Current file); May 5, 1974; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 63

present at all 25; "this year's was the best of them all" all week "an unaccustomed air of camaraderie" among ... inclg booksellers; speakers all good!; "the first year when no controversy raged concerning any of the winners"!

"One of the main contributions of the N.B.A. is that it serves as a sort of social focal point for the book year." four days

exec secy NBCmte Jack Frantz

1974 disband 1

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Briefs on the Arts: Book Award Panel Weighs Disbanding Ballet Foundation Picks President CSC New York Times (1923-Current file); Sep 27, 1974;

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 49

John C. Frantz "executive chairman" NBCmte: among other options for exec cmte (24 members) NBC discussion Monday, "the question of ceasing to operate altogether"

chronic budget problems; funds from AAP and others; deficit $15K

if disband then outlook for awards is uncertain

1974 disband 2

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Briefs on the Arts: Book Award Unit Begins Fund Drive Bernstein Talks Of His '76 Salute

New York Times (1923-Current file); Oct 1, 1974; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 36

NBCmte will "engage energetically in fundraising attempts" this month, determined yday exec cmte meeting, decision deferred

1974 disband 3

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Briefs on the Arts: Book Committee Decides to Disband Keene and Katzive Named at Artpark Astaire New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 20, 1974;

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 54

Roger L. Stevens, chairman, "20-yr-old cmte" funded principally by publisher contributions; incr cost decr income force the vote

Mr. Stevens leads ad hoc cmte to continue the awards for 1975

ALA will continue National Library Week

Judges selected for 8 of 10 awards tba 0414

1975

nyt1975

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The Last of the National Book Awards?: The Guest Word By WILLIAM COLE New York Times (1923-Current file); May 4, 1975; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 288

subsequent to 1975 awards (spring)

National Book Cmte disbanded last year when publishers dropped support. temporary Cmte on Awards Policy handled this year. Cost $60,000 admin, prizes, judge fees, transportation, etc.

"begged not to split awards", Arts & Letters also did so

"The focal point of the book year, the N.B.A. ceremony itself, is preceded by three days of ancillary meetings, symposia, lunches, dinners and just plain parties attended by book reviewers, columnists, radio and TV people and publishing personnel."

1976

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Book Award Nominees: Children's Literature

41 nominations but no Ragtime for "the prestigious annual awards, which are funded by the book industry with the aid of corporate grants and bewtowed by three-person panels of writers" tba 0419

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Voting for 'Literary Miss Rheingold,' A Guide to the National Book Awards

By JOHN LEONARD New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 19, 1976; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 45

Roger L. Stevens took personal responsibility ... "picked up by the NIAL, with a little help from CBS Inc., the I.B.M Corp, the Exxon Corp., the Pitney-Bowes Co., Reader's Digest Assoc Inc., and the Xerox Corp.

Harrison E. Salisbury will preside (this afternoon announcement, presentations later)

"In the past[1975 only?], judges have been chosen by a committee on awards policy, consisting of representatives from book-world trade organizations, literary editors and prominent critics, serving three-year terms on a staggered, and unpaid, basis." (the challenge was to recruit judges and get them together) "This committee, too, woke up one morning last year to find that it no longer existed. ..."

NIAL has instituted three-judge panels (down from five) chaired by one of its own members

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WEST VIEW: The National Book Awards Revisited

Diehl, Digby Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 2, 1976; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. P3

"the least controversial in recent memory" "Under the new administration of the National Institute of Arts and Letters the awards this year were singularly Establishment"

NBA week

NIAL president Harrison E. Salisbury --defends cut from 10 to 6 categories and retention of children's books "added after pressure on the NBA from various children's literature groups";

Diehl: ambivalent reaction "is symptomatic of the entire publishing industry's shift from class to mass."

this year "elite selections chosen by elite juries which seem accessible only to elite audiences"; while "other award ceremonies clearly are moving in the direction of promoting public interest in their respective arts"

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The Guest Word: The National Book Awards 1976

By WILLIAM COLE New York Times (1923-Current file); May 9, 1976; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 210

saved by Roger L. Stevens with NIAL administration, "material backing from elements of the publishing industry and beneficent corparations [and]... getting a commitment that the backing will continue for five years."

"The N.B.A. is three concentrated days of talk, talk, talk."

two major improvements: 10 to 6, no splitting

children's books: who can choose from thousands? need one written and one picture, or drop the award

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Prize Winners

The Washington Post (1974-Current file); May 30, 1976; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. F9

compilation "the three major American books awards" (P, NBA, BCCircle)

1976 University Press convention

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University Presses: A Least-Sellers List

By ISRAEL SHENKER Special to The New York Times New York Times (1923-Current file); Jun 30, 1976; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 63 0630

three days this week

400 reps of 70 nonprofit press

1977

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National Book Awards Cover 7 Categories

New York Times (1923-Current file); Jan 20, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 45

newly merged NIAL, AAAL =>Amer Acad and Inst of Arts and Lett, pres Jacques Barzun

seven rearranged cats (2=>Contemporary Thought; Hist & Biog=>2; Translation restored)

"underwritten by the book industry, private companies and individuals."

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BOOK ENDS

By Richard R. Lingeman New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 3, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 273

coalition under strain; Academy against commercialization, for dignity and control; publishers (and booksellers?) to draw greater attention, "to make this a public evenet rather than the Upper West Side book awards"

publishers proposed TV coverage [more than a year ago], pres. by Carter or Mondale

remains at Academy, no banquet, WNET only if it raises $60K

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BOOK ENDS: Prize Problems

By Richard R. Lingeman New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 10, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR19

Robert Gottlieb, Knopf: "the list was so bad, it signaled the end of the N.B.A."

children's literature: all YA books, no under-10s

complaints about nominees

few Book Review selections (2 of 17, not US-limited) few NBCC (finalists incl only 1 of 4 winners, 6 of 20 nominees)

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Howe Gets History Book Award

By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 12, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 34

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Book Awards: Are the Judges Too Old?

By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 13, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 75

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Publishing: Prize Change

By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); May 27, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 64

1978

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Book Awards Again Stir Controversy: 'Something Is Very Wrong'

New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 16, 1978; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C23

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BOOK ENDS: Prize Problems Bigness in Publishing Small Publishers Speak

By Richard R. Lingeman New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 9, 1978; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR11

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Book Prize for Perelman, Because...: But He went On Students Speculate

By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 10, 1978; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C22

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Book Awards to Mary Lee Settle, Gloria Emerson, W. Jackson Bate: Other Winners Listed 'Rumor' Is ...

By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 11, 1978; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 34

1979

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BOOK ENDS: National Book Awards 1980 Of Poetry and Short Fiction Of Maps and History

By Thomas Lask New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 4, 1979; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR12

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National Book Awards Announce Nominations: Winners Get $1,000

By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 19, 1979; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C45

1979a

Publishing: Long-Shot Winner By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Jul 2, 1982; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C20

to be named -04-23

35 nominations for 7 awards, inclg 9 university press

Assoc Amer Publ; $1000 prizes

lists of nominees and judges

1979

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Publishing: Long-Shot Winner By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Jul 2, 1982; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C20

"Any notion that the 30th National Book Awards would represent establishment thinking be3cause of their sponsorship by the publishers' and booksellers' associations was shattered yesterday by the surprise winners --and losers-- in the major categories."

subseq Pulitzer(last week) and National Book Critics Circle, some influence expected (eg, Cheever not to win a third major award; he didn't)

ann. yday Townsend Hoopes, pres AAP

presented tomorrow Carnegie Hall

American interlude

late 1979

1980 pre

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National Book Awards Replaced by New Plan: When They Rejected 'Love Story' 'More Visible to the Public' An Academy to Be Established

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Publishing: The Battle of the Book Awards

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PAPERBACK TALK: PAPERBACK TALK

announcement a fortnight ago

13 hc/ppb categories; 4 single winner; cover design and jacket design

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50 Writers Demand Book-Award Boycott: Excluding of Authors Denied Initiated by Alison Lurie Translation Category Added Tilson Thomas and Maag To Lead Mostly Mozart

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National Medal to be part of ABA show next spring

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mixed support for ABA-in-progress, ALA vote to participate, PEN vote to decline

1980

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Nominees Chosen for First American Book Awards: Chosen by Panels of 11 Ceremony on May 1 New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 19, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C25

AmerBooksellerAssoc sponsor

nominations (13 categories ann. yday, more to follow) made "by panels of 11 persons, comprising writers and critics, publishers, booksellers and librarians" 1300 submissions by publishers

winners "by a mail vote of 2000 persons representing the same four segments of the book trade in roughly equal numbers" tba May 1 ceremony Seventh Regiment Armory; $1000 and trophy

"The ABAwards were established last fall after the Amer Publ Assoc decided to withdraw its financial support from the prominent but highly controversial NBAwards, which had been decided in seven categories by panels of writers and critics."
"The booksellers association decided the new awards would reflect, in the spokesman's words, "the taste of the larger book industry." As a result, the PEN American Center, an organization of writers, and the National Book Critics Circle declined to participate."
...
"The format of the awards was denounced as overly commercial by many writers ..."

List: only "major hard-cover categories"

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National Book Critics Circle meets tomorrow, 200 book critics and editors

opening the award season, Pulitzer and TABA spring

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The Art and Business of Book Awards: Awards By MICHIKO KAKUTANI New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 13, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR1

covering the change, the debate

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"The American Book Awards: 1980 Nominees" Autobiography Biography Children's Books Current Interes... New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 13, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2008) pg. BR9

BY CATEGORY IN ORDER: (26 of 28 literary awards, overlooking 2 General Reference)

• 2 Autobiography
• 2 Biography
• 2 Children's Books
• 2 Current Interest
• First Novel
• 2 General Fiction
• 2 General Nonfiction
• 2 History
• 2 Mystery
• 2 Religion/Inspiration
• 2 Science
• 2 Science Fiction
• Western
• Translation
• Poetry

6 of 6 graphics awards

• Art/Illustrated (Hardcover - Collection)
• Art/Illustrated (Hardcover - Original Art)
• Art/Illustrated (Paperback)
• Jacket Design (Hardcover)
• Cover Design (Paperback)
• Book Design (Hardcover & Paperback)

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Levin of Times Mirror "ABAwards --taba-- is at least making an effort to reach out to the subway reader. The National Book Awards was too much of a private club."

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LETTERS: TABA More 'Confessions' RONALD BUSCHCHARLES SACKREY New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 27, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR9

letter reply to Kakutani article -04-13, same issue as list of TABA nominations

28 Categories

"National Book Awards – 1980", NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-03.

Autobiography ||4 hard
1 ppb Biography ||4 hard
4 ppb Children's B ||4 hard
5 ppb Current Int ||5 hard
5 ppb Fiction ||5 hard
4 ppb First Novel ||5 gen. Nonfiction ||5 hard
3 ppb gen. Reference ||5 hard
5 ppb History ||5 hard
5 ppb Mystery ||5 hard
5 ppb Poetry ||3 Religion/Insp ||5 hard
3 ppb Science ||5 hard
4 ppb Science Fic ||5 hard
5 ppb Translation ||3 Western ||5

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"Styron and Wolfe Lead Book-Award Winners" /Miss Welty Wins National Medal /Counterceremonies on West Side By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); May 2, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C25

"[34 hc and ppb] books, many of which nobody had heard of before, were named winners during a generally ragged presentation of the first American Book Awards in a ceremony at the Seventh Regiment Armory last night. The event was designed to resemble Hollywood's Oscars, but instead there was little glamour. All the winners were barred from accepting their awards, and most did not attend."
...
"The awards are the successor to the [NBAs], which for the 30 years had honored a half-dozen major hard-cover books annually that had been selected by authors and critics, a jury of peers, in the view of the winners and their editors."
"But the industry that underwrote the highly regarded NBAs] felt it was time to recognize more categories of books, paperback as well as hard-cover, picked by a broader representation of judges, adding librarians, booksellers, publishers and editors."
"The major honor of the evening, the National Medal for Literature, was given to Eudora Welty ..."
...
Last night, the emphasis by the newly formed Academy of TABA, which includes the marketing, bookclub, hard-cover and paperback divisions of the Assoc of Amer Publ; the [ALA], [AAUPresses], Children's Book Council, National Association of College Stores, Special Libraries Assoc, Women's National Book Assoc and Council of Writers Organizations, was on the affair's liveliness as well as on literary merit."

Chancellor, Buckley, taped for "firing line" this month with another show to cover the controversy

Some authors boycotted, as did Authors Guild, P.E.N.'s American Center, National Book Critics Circle

WINNERS named inline following the lead paragraph

• Fiction (3)
• General Nonfiction 2
• History 2
• Biography 2

WINNERS NOT LISTED AT ALL (8 of 34)

• Religion/Inspiration 2
• Science 2
• Science Fiction 2
• Translation 1
• Western 1

WINNERS NOT LISTED BY NBF ONLINE: (7 of 17 "other winners ... included" at the foot of the article)

• Art, hc collection: "Drawings and Digressions" by Larry Rivers with Carol Brightman. Herman Strobuck,designer.

Autobiography 2

• Illustrated Art, hc original art: "The Birthday of the Infanta" by Oscar Wilde, illus. by Leonard Lubin.
• Illustrated Art, pb: "Anatomy Illustrated" by Emily Blair Chewning. Designed by Dana Levy.
• Book Design: "The Architect's Eye" by Debora Nevins and Robert A. M. Stern.
• Children's Books 2
• Cover Design: "Famous Potatoes" by Joe Cottonwood. David Myers, designer.
• Current Interest 2
• General Reference hc: "Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court" ed. Elder Witt
• General Reference 1 more
• Jacket Design: "Birdy" by William Wharton. Fred Marcellino, designer.
• Mystery 2
• Poetry 1

1980

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TABA Winners: No Thanks and Thanks: Lasch Irving By CHRISTOPHER LASCH By JOHN IRVING New York Times (1923-Current file); May 25, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR1

unreserved Con and qualified Pro

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American Book Awards Reduced From 33 to 18: Major Changes Planned Polling Method Abolished Two By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); Oct 20, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C14

1981

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American Book Awards Are Given for 22 Works: Buckley and Galbraith Hosts Choices Made by Juries By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); May 1, 1981; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C24

1982 pre

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Publishing: Cutting Back on Book Awards 'Hype' McDowell, Edwin New York Times (1923-Current file); Dec 18, 1981; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C34

1982

(1982 not)

Cheever Wins Letters Medal New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 13, 1982; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C13

National Medal for Literature, $15000 from Guinzburg fund (founder Viking Press) recognizes "an American writer for a distinguished and continuing contribution to American letters." presentation -04-27 ABAwards ceremony

(1982 not) People of the Sacred Mountain

Publishing: Long-Shot Winner By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Jul 2, 1982; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C20

1983

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American Book Awards Announced By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 14, 1983; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C30

"The 1983 winners, in 27 categories of hardcover and paperback books published in the U.S. in 1982, were selected by juries composed of authors, critics, librarians, booksellers and editors. Each winner in the 19 categories of literary achievement will receive $1000 and a sculpture by Louise Nevelson. Winners of the graphics awards will receive the Nevelson sculpture only."

private celebration NYPL April 28

sponsored by the Association of American Publishers

Categories -- 22 winners in 19 lit cats -- children 7/5 grownups 15/14

Pictorial Design

Typographical Design

Illustration Collected Art

Illustration Original Art

Illustration Photographs

Cover Design

Jacket Design

Cowinners Children's Fiction, Children's Picture Books, Poetry

The prose preface to the list names only the (hardcover) hc fiction, hc general nonfiction, hc biography, hc history, first novel, and poetry(2)

1983 sales impact

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Publishing: Do Prizes Sell Books? By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 15, 1983; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C17

generally the awards are too late

Perhaps the most successful awards commercially are the John Newbery Medal... and the Randolph Caldecott Medal... Both frequently turn also-rans into huge sellers.

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"came close to expiring from lack of support by the publishing industry several months ago [there were no awards recognizing 1983 books], received a new lease on life yday from the bod of the Association of American Publishers.

Brooks Thomas, president Harper & Row and AAP foresees "probably fewer than ten" categories; "awards for paperback books will probably be only for original paperbacks, not reprints"

yesterday's vote provides funding, details tba

established 1980 "but a split quickly developed between hardcover publishers, who tended to view them as awards for quality books and paperback publishers, who were not averse to quality but who put their major emphasis on using the awards as a tool for increasing sales".

Thomas calls the result a failure on both accounts. Sponsoring cost $350-450K and AAP general publishing and mass-market publishing divisions paid $70K each. 1600 books were submitted last year; entry fees raise money, but merely $40K at $25 fee. --no windfall because ABA shipped books to judges

Barbara Prete, ABA E.D., says some judges needed to read 300 books.

"many book-industry officials hope ... [to] rank in importance with the $15K Booker McConnell Prize for fiction"(Br.)

[evidently the Booker is elite and all that, but also a TV and pulp phenom and sales windfall for all six finalist (from c. 300 submissions)]

1983 Booksellers

Canadian to Head U.S. Booksellers BY EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Dec 5, 1983; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C20

American Booksellers Association; 5000 members; showcase is spring convention; a major trade show where publishers display fall titles: all big Amer publ, some small and some foreign

new E.D. -03-01 is Bernie Rath, current E.D. Canadian BA, 550 members

1984 Pulitzer

new $20 entry fee protested by Straus, Farrar & Giroux (adopted 1982; earlier for journalism categories)

paid by 118 publishers for 496 submissions

Strauss is virtually alone in not belonging to the AAP and not submitting books to ABA

Welty

Welty Book Is First Harvard U. Best Seller By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 13, 1984; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C16

number 14 on the nonfiction list last week, a first for HUP in 70 years

Welty wrote every word of her lectures in advance, but revised for book publication. Lectures inaugurated the Wm E Massey Sr Lectures in the History of Amer Civ

Booksellers

By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); May 25, 1984; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C24

May 26-29 Washington DC convention 84th annual; so-called "world's largest show of English-language books" 900 publishers(?) at 1500 booths

Lessing ruse

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Asimov 300

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1984

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11 Nominated for American Book Awards By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Oct 18, 1984; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C25

"11 titles nominated for the revamped A.B.A." tba Nov 15 NYPL

"In marked contrast to last year, when 27 awards categories drew 1480 entries and infinite criticism, there are only three categories this year. And the number of entries plummeted to 300, about 200 of them for the nonfiction category."

"in hopes of restoring prestige to the awards" --Barbara Prete, Ex Dir A.B.A. -- 'reduction in categories "involved a terrible internal struggle" within the membership of the publishers' association', opposed espy by ppb publishers

no more graphics cats (8), children's cats (5), paperbacks ( )--but ppb considered for the surviving awards

revamped by cmte Prete & four publishers

$10,000 prize and admin costs

financed by AAP membership dues and $100 submission fees

Simon & Schuster contrib $1000 to each of 11 nominees

"The nominees, for books written by American citizens and published in the United States between 1983-11-01 and 1984-10-31:

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Three Writers Win Book Awards New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 16, 1984; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C32

nonfiction chair Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., said they wanted to split with Eudora Welta, One Writer's Beginnings, but rules require single winners.

awards ceremony and champagne reception, Astor Room, NYPL

black-tie dinner, Trustee's Room NYPL --a change following protest by some publ officials, from the Century Club which does not permit female members

first fiction - 3 nominees, 3 judges (Doris Grumbach)

fiction - 3 nominees, 3 judges (Jonathan Yardley)

nonfiction - 5 nominees, 5 judges (Schlesinger)

1985

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"American Book Award", november, for 1985 publication

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'85 Award To DeLillo For Novel By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 22, 1985; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C33

ann & presented last night NYPL

"Each of the winners receives $10,000 plus the Louise Nevelson sculpture created in 1979 for the A.B.A., the successor to the N.B.A.

1986

1986 Newbery with some Newbery background

Publishing: Long-Shot Winner By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Jul 2, 1982; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C20

"Success and fame are in fact guaranteed ..."

"A common formula says a Newbery guarantees sales of 100,000 within a year and immortality on the publisher's backlist."

Newbery and Caldecott most influential

15 ALSC librarians "half" elected "half" appointed

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'Three Cheers for Good Marks': Writers on Their Prizes: 'Good Marks'

1986 1118

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Doctorow and Lopez Win U.S. Book Awards By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 18, 1986; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C20

1987

1987 1015

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Nominees Announced For 1987 Book Awards

10 for two awards, ann yday

each carry a $10000 prize

more than 300 considered, a greater number than before --ED Prete

Awards ceremony, blacktie dinner 7:00 $300 benefit NBAsInc

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Book Award Nominees to Read at City Center

to be reading by four Fiction nominees Monday 5:30, tickets $12; winner ann later that evening

nyt1987

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An Upset at the Book Awards

By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 10, 1987; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C13

... the name reverted only this year and the format has been changed several times. "In 1983, for example, 27 winners were chosen from 96 nominees."

chairman, Bd of Dir NBA, pres Heart Trade Book Group

"Book people are really not actors, and there's a realization now that we should not try to reward things like who did the best book blurb."

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Book Awards Are Pondered

apparent confirmation of 2-1 vote, avowed secrecy by all three judges

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Did 'Paco's Story' Deserve Its Award? (Kakutani)

[No]

"In its earliest incarnation, the NBA often helped establish new writers as major voices in American fiction" (1960, 1962!) "and its judges were also criticized for their tendency to select obscure works."

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(Letter from Fiction panelists) Majority Vote for National Book Award Novel

1988

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Book Notes: Judges for National Book Awards are increased to five Harcourt Brace continues to broaden its appeal A Shaw letter on display.

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Book Award Nominees

"the sponsoring organization National Book Awards Inc."

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first distinguished contribution $10000 to Jason Epstein Random House

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Book on Vietnam War Wins National Award

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Critics Circle Nominates The 25 Best Books of 1988

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Book Notes: Erma Bombeck's three-book contract said to be worth $12 million National Book Awards reflect well on an editor. . . . . .and on sales.

1989

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Book Notes: 'The Joy Luck Club' is to be in paperback, two ways Colleen McCullough's five-book contract The National Book Awards' new foundation.

Book Notes: 'The Joy Luck Club' is to be in paperback, two ways Colleen McCullough's five-book co... McDowell, Edwin New York Times (1923-Current file); Jul 5, 1989; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C19

A New Foundation "To broaden its scope, the National Book Awards is establishing the National Book Foundation to administer its annual literary awards program and to develop programs to promote reading and literacy. The chairman of the National Book Awards, Al Silverman, saidhis group intended to take on "a more central and influential role in the literary, intellectual, and publishing life of this country." The executive director of the new foundation, effective tomorrow, is to be Neil Baldwin ..."

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The Finalists Are Named In National Book Awards

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Book Awards Honor Novelist and Journalist: 'Spartina' wins in fiction, 'From Beirut to Jerusalem' in nonfiction.

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Must You Actually Read The Books to Give the Prize?

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