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National Book Award for Fiction

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Nelson Algren

<< 1950 >>

Awarded annually by the National Book Foundation for the best fiction in the United States.

Prize Winners

Winners year-by-year, or publication dates for lists. Click highlighted authors for reference info.

1950:

Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm

1951:

William Faulkner, The Collected Stories

1952:

James Jones, From Here to Eternity

1953:

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

1954:

Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

1955:

William Faulkner, A Fable

1956:

John O'Hara, Ten North Frederick

1957:

Wright Morris, The Field of Vision

1958:

John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle

1959:

Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel

1960:

Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus

1961:

Conrad Richter, The Waters of Kronos

1962:

Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

1963:

J.F. Powers, Morte D'Urban

1964:

John Updike, The Centaur

1965:

Saul Bellow, Herzog

1966:

Katherine Anne Porter, Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

1967:

Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

1968:

Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day

1969:

Jerzy Kosinski, Steps

1970:

Joyce Carol Oates, Them

1971:

Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet

1972:

Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories

1973:

John Barth, Chimera

1973:

John Williams, Augustus

1974:

Isaac Bashevis Singer, A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories

1974:

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

1975:

Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers

1975:

Thomas Williams, The Hair of Harold Roux

1976:

William Gaddis, JR

1977:

Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird

1978:

Mary Lee Settle, Blood Tie

1979:

Tim O'Brien, Going After Cacciato

1980:

William Styron, Sophie's Choice

1981:

Wright Morris, Plains Song

1982:

John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich

1983:

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

1983:

Eudora Welty, The Collected Stories

1984:

Ellen Gilchrist, Victory Over Japan

1985:

Don DeLillo, White Noise

1986:

E.L. Doctorow, World's Fair

1987:

Larry Heinemann, Paco's Story

1988:

Pete Dexter, Paris Trout

1989:

John Casey, Spartina

1990:

Charles Johnson, Middle Passage

1991:

Norman Rush, Mating

1992:

Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

1993:

E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

1994:

William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

1995:

Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater

1996:

Andrea Barrett, Ship Fever and Other Stories

1997:

Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

1998:

Alice McDermott, Charming Billy

1999:

Ha Jin, Waiting

2000:

Susan Sontag, In America

2001:

Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

2002:

Julia Glass, Three Junes

2003:

Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire

2004:

Lily Tuck, The News from Paraguay

2005:

William T. Vollmann, Europe Central

2006:

Richard Powers, The Echo Maker

2007:

Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke

2008:

Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country

2009:

Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

2010:

Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule

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