National Book Award Winners

Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)
1964 - John Keats: The Making of a Poet by Aileen Ward

1965 - Oysters of Locmariaquer by Eleanor Clark

1966 - Paris Journal, 1944-1965 by Janet Flanner

1967 - Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Justin Kaplan

1968 - Selected Essays by William Troy

1969 - The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History by Norman Mailer

1970 - An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir by Lillian Hellman

1971 - Cocteau: A Biography by Francis Steegmuller

1972 - The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen

1973 - Diderot by Arthur M. Wilson

1974 - Deeper into the Movies by Pauline Kael

1975 - Marcel Proust by Roger Shattuck

1975 - The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas

1976 - The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell

Autobiography (Hardcover)
1980 - Lauren Bacall by Myself by Lauren Bacall

Autobiography (Paperback)
1980 - And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978 by Malcolm Cowley

Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover)
1981 - Walt Whitman by Justin Kaplan

1982 - Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

1983 - Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman

Autobiography/Biography (Paperback)
1981 - Samuel Beckett by Deirdre Bair

1982 - Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel

1983 - Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times by James R. Mellow

Biography and Autobiography
1977 - Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist by W. A. Swanberg

1978 - Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate

1979 - Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Biography
1972 - Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers by Joseph P. Lash

1973 - George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799 by James Thomas Flexner

1974 - Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian by John Clive

1974 - Malcolm Lowry: A Biography by Douglas Day

1975 - The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall

Biography (Hardcover)
1980 - ﻿The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Biography (Paperback)
1980 - Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg

Children's Books
1969 - Journey from Peppermint Street by Meindert DeJong

1970 - A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1971 - The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian by Lloyd Alexander

1972 - The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn by Donald Barthelme

1973 - The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin

1974 - The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron

1975 - M.C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton

1976 - Bert Breen's Barn by Walter D. Edmonds

1977 - The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson

1978 - The View From the Oak by Judith Kohl & Herbert Kohl

1979 - The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

Children's Books (Hardcover)
1980 - A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal by Joan W. Blos

Children's Books (Paperback)
1980 - A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

Children's Books, Fiction (Hardcover)
1981 - The Night Swimmers by Betsy Byars

1982 - Westmark by Lloyd Alexander

1983 - Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz

Children's Books, Fiction (Paperback)
1981 - Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary

1982 - Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen

1983 - A Place Apart by Paula Fox

1983 - Marked by Fire by Joyce Carol Thomas

Children's Books, Nonfiction
1982 - A Penguin Year by Susan Bonners

1983 - Chimney Sweeps by James Cross Giblin

Children's Books, Nonfiction (Hardcover)
1981 - ''Oh, Boy! Babies'' by Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence Mali

Children's Books, Picture Books (Hardcover)
1982 - Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak

1983 - Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

1983 - Doctor De Soto by William Steig

Children's Books, Picture Books (Paperback)
1982 - Noah's Ark by Peter Spier

1983 - A House Is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman & Betty Fraser, ill.

Contemporary Affairs
1972 - The Last Whole Earth Catalogue by Stewart Brand, ed.

1973 - Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald

1974 - The Briar Patch by Murray Kempton

1975 - All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw by Theodore Rosengarten

1976 - Passage to Ararat by Michael J. Arlen

Contemporary Thought
1977 - The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim

1978 - Winners & Losers by Gloria Emerson

1979 - The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

Current Interest (Hardcover)
1980 - Julia Child and More Company by Julia Child

Current Interest (Paperback)
1980 - The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

Fiction
1950 - The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

1951 - The Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner

1952 - From Here to Eternity by James Jones

1953 - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

1954 - The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner

1956 - Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara

1957 - The Field of Vision by Wright Morris

1958 - The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever

1959 - The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud

1960 - Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth

1961 - The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter

1962 - The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

1963 - Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers

1964 - The Centaur by John Updike

1965 - Herzog by Saul Bellow

1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter

1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

1968 - The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder

1969 - Steps by Jerzy Kosinski

1970 - Them by Joyce Carol Oates

1971 - Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow

1972 - The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor

1973 - Chimera by John Barth

1973 - Augustus by John Williams

1974 - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

1974 - A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1975 - Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone

1975 - The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams

1976 - JR by William Gaddis

1977 - The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner

1978 - Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle

1979 - Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

1984 - Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist

1985 - White Noise by Don DeLillo

1986 - World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow

1987 - Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann

1988 - Paris Trout by Pete Dexter

1989 - Spartina by John Casey

1990 - Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

1991 - Mating by Norman Rush

1992 - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

1993 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

1994 - A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis

1995 - Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth

1996 - Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett

1997 - Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

1998 - Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

1999 - Waiting by Ha Jin

2000 - In America by Susan Sontag

2001 - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

2002 - Three Junes by Julia Glass

2003 - The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

2004 - The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck

2005 - Europe Central by William T. Vollmann

2006 - The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

2007 - Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

2008 - Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen

2009 - Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

2010 - Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon

Fiction (Hardcover)
1980 - Sophie's Choice by William Styron

1981 - Plains Song by Wright Morris

1982 - ﻿Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Fiction (Paperback)
1980 - The World According to Garp by John Irving

1981 - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

1982 - So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

1983 - Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

First Novel
1980 - Birdy by William Wharton

1981 - Sister Wolf by Ann Arensberg

1982 - Dale Loves Sophie to Death by Robb Forman Dew

1983 - The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

First Work of Fiction
1984 - Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr

1985 - Easy in the Islands by Bob Shacochis

Original Paperback
1983 - The Red Magician by Lisa Goldstein

General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
1980 - The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

1981 - China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston

1982 - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

1983 - China: Alive in the Bitter Sea by Fox Butterfield

General Nonfiction (Paperback)
1980 - The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

1981 - The Last Cowboyby Jane Kramer

1982 - Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky

1983 - National Defense by James Fallows

Nonfiction
1950 - Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph L. Rusk

1951 - Herman Melville by Newton Arvin

1952 - The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

1953 - The Course of Empire by Bernard A. De Voto

1954 - A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

1955 - The Measure of Man by Joseph Wood Krutch

1956 - An American in Italy by Herbert Kubly

1957 - Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan

1958 - The Lion and the Throne by Catherine Drinker Bowen

1959 - Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael by J. Christopher Herold

1960 - James Joyce by Richard Ellmann

1961 - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

1962 - The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects by Lewis Mumford

1963 - Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years by Leon Edel

1984 - Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 by Robert V. Remini

1985 - Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas

1986 - Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez

1987 - The Making of the Atom Bomb by Richard Rhodes

1988 - A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

1989 - From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

1990 - The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow

1991 - Freedom by Orlando Patterson

1992 - Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette

1993 - United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal

1994 - How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland

1995 - The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg

1996 - An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us by James Carroll

1997 - American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis

1998 - Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

1999 - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower

2000 - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

2001 - The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

2002 - Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro

2003 - Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire

2004 - Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle

2005 - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

2006 - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

2007 - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner

2008 - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

2009 - The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles

2010 - Just Kids by Patti Smith

General Reference Books (Hardcover)
1980 - The Complete Dictionary by Elder Witt, ed.

General Reference Books (Paperback)
1980 - The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh

History and Biography (Nonfiction)
1964- The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeill

1965 - The Life of Lenin by Louis Fischer

1966 - A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

1967 - The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter Gay

1968 - Memoirs: 1925-1950 by George F. Kennan

1969 - White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan

1970 - Huey Long by T. Harry Williams

1971 - Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns

1976 - The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis

History
1972 - Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863-1864 and The Organized War to Victory by Allan Nevins

1973 - The Children of Pride by Robert Manson Myers

1973 - Judenrat by Isaiah Trunk

1974 - The Shaping of the Historian by John Clive

1975 - The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn

1977 - World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe

1978 - The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 by David McCullough

1979 - Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 by Richard Beale Davis

History (Hardcover)
1980 - The White House Years by Henry A. Kissinger

1981 - Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality by John Boswell

1982 - People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Cheifs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879 by Father Peter John Powell

1983 - Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley

History (Paperback)
1980 - A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

1981 - Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slaveryby Leon F. Litwak

1982 - The Generation of 1914 by Robert Wohl

1983 - Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank E. Manuel & Fritzie P. Manuel

Mystery (Hardcover)
1980 - The Green Ripper by John D. MacDonald

Mystery (Paperback)
1980 - Stained Glass by William F. Buckley, Jr.

Poetry
1950 - Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams

1951 - The Auroras of Autumn by Wallace Stevens

1952 - Collected Poems by Marianne Moore

1953 - Collected Poems, 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish

1954 - Collected Poems by Conrad Aiken

1955 - The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens

1956 - The Shield of Achilles by W.H. Auden

1957 - Things of the World by Richard Wilbur

1958 - Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren

1959 - Words for the Wind by Theodore Roethke

1960 - Life Studies by Robert Lowell

1961 - The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Randall Jarrell

1962 - Poems by Alan Dugan

1963 - Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford

1964 - Selected Poems by John Crowe Ransom

1965 - The Far Field by Theodore Roethke

1966 - Buckdancer's Choice: Poems by James Dickey

1967 - Nights and Days by James Merrill

1968 - The Light Around the Body by Robert Bly

1969 - His Toy, His Dream, His Rest by John Berryman

1970 - The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop

1971 - To See, To Take by Mona Van Duyn

1972 - Selected Poems by Howard Moss and Frank O'Hara

1973 - Collected Poems, 1951-1971 by A. R. Ammons

1974 - The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 by Allen Ginsberg

1974 - Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 by Adrienne Rich

1975 - Presentation Piece by Marilyn Hacker

1976 - Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery

1977 - Collected Poems, 1930-1976 by Richard Eberhart

1978 - The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov by Howard Nemerov

1979 - Mirabell: Books of Number by James Merrill

1980 - Ashes by Philip Levine

1981 - The Need to Hold Still by Lisel Mueller

1982 - Life Supports: New and Collected Poems by William Bronk

1983 - Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell

1983 - Country Music: Selected Early Poems by Charles Wright

1991 - What Work Is by Philip Levine

1992 - New & Selected Poems by Mary Oliver

1993 - Garbage by A.R. Ammons

1994 - Worshipful Company of Fletchers by James Tate

1995 - Passing Through: The Later Poems by Stanley Kunitz

1996 - Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, Poems 1991-1995 by Hayden Carruth

1997 - Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems by William Meredith

1998 - This Time: New and Selected Poems by Gerald Stern

1999 - Vice: New & Selected Poems by Ai

2000 - Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton

2001 - Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan

2002 - In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone

2003 - The Singing by C.K. Williams

2004 - Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 by Jean Valentine

2005 - Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin

2006 - Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey

2007 - Time and Materials by Robert Hass

2008 - Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems by Mark Doty

2009 - Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop

2010 - Lighthead by Terrance Hayes

Philosophy and Religion
1970 - Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson

1972 - Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America by Martin E. Marty

1973 - A Religious History of the American People by S. E. Ahlstrom

1974 - Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks by Maurice Natanson

1975 - Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick

Religion/Inspiration (Hardcover)
1980 - The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Religion/Inspiration (Paperback)
1980 - A Sever Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken

Science, Philosophy, and Religion (Nonfiction)
1964 - Man-made America by Christopher Tunnard & Boris Pushkarev

1965 - God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion by Norbert Wiener

1967 - La Vida by Oscar Lewis

1968 - Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol

The Sciences
1969 - Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert J. Lifton

1971 - Science in the British Colonies of America by Raymond Phineas Sterns

1972 - The Blue Whale by George L. Small

1973 - The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations by George B. Schaller

1974 - Life: The Unfinished Experiment by S. E. Luria

1975 - Interpretation of Schizophrenia by Silvano Arieti

1975 - The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas

Science (Hardcover)
1980 - Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

1981 - The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould

1982 - Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind by Donald C. Johanson & Maitland A. Edey

1983 - "Subtle is the Lord...": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais

Science (Paperback)
1980 - The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav

1981 - The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas

1982 - Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists by Fred Alan Wolf

1983 - The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh

Science Fiction (Hardcover)
1980 - Jem by Frederik Pohl

Science Fiction (Paperback)
1980 - The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, Jr.

Translation
1967 - Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch by Gregory Rabassa

1967 - Casanova's History of My Life by Willard Trask

1968 - Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers by Howard & Edna Hong

1969 - Calvino's Cosmicomics by William Weaver

1970 - Celine's Castle to Castle by Ralph Manheim

1971 - Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards by Frank Jones

1971 - Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of The Mountain by Edward G. Seidensticker

1972 - Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity by Austryn Wainhouse

1973 - The Aeneid of Virgil by Allen Mandelbaum

1974 - The Confessions of Lady Nijo by Karen Brazell

1974 - Octavio Paz's Alternating Current by Helen R. Lane

1974 - Paul Valery's Monsieur Teste by Jackson Matthews

1975 - Miguel D. Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith by Anthony Kerrigan

1977 - Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance by Li-Li Ch'en

1978 - Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth by Howard Nemerov

1979 - Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry by Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubin Barcia

1980 - Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor by William Arrowsmith

1980 - Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters by Jane Gary Harris & Constance Link

1981 - The Letters of Gustave Flaubert by Francis Steegmuller

1981 - Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold by John E. Woods

1982 - Higuchi Ichiyo's In the Shade of Spring Leaves by Robert Lyons Danly

1982 - The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of the Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry by Ian Hideo Levy

1983 - Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal by Richard Howard

Western
1980 - Bendigo Shafter by Louis L'Amour

Young People's Literature
1996 - Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida by Victor Martinez

1997 - Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan

1998 - Holes by Louis Sachar

1999 - When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

2000 - Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

2001 - True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2002 - The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

2003 - The Canning Season by Polly Horvath

2004 - Godless by Pete Hautman

2005 - The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

2006 - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1

2006 - The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson

2007 - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

2008 - What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

2009 - Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose

2010 - Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine