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1955 National Book Awards
FictionA Fable, William FaulknerNonfictionThe Measure of Man, Joseph Wood KrutchPoetryThe Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Wallace StevensSpecial CitationPoems, 1923–1954, e. e. cummings…1956 National Book Awards
FictionTen North Frederick, John O'HaraNonfictionAn American in Italy, Herbert KublyPoetryThe Shield of Achilles, W. H. Auden1971 National Book Awards
Arts and LettersCocteau: A Biography, Francis SteegmullerChildren's BooksThe Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian, Lloyd AlexanderFictionMr. Sammler's Planet, Saul BellowHistory and…1979 National Book Awards
Biography and AutobiographyRobert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Children's LiteratureThe Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine PatersonContemporary ThoughtThe Snow Leopard, Peter…Brewer's: Fleet Book Evidence
No evidence at all. The books of the Old Fleet prison are not admissible as evidence to prove a marriage. (Wharton: Law Dictionary.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Doctor My-Book
Dr. John Abernethy, so called because he used to say to his patients, “Read my book ”—on Surgical Observations. (1765-1830.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…1950 National Book Awards
FictionThe Man With the Golden Arm, Nelson AlgrenNonfictionRalph Waldo Emerson, Ralph L. RuskPoetryPaterson: Book III and Selected Poems, William Carlos Williams1951 National Book Awards
William FaulknerArchive PhotosFictionThe Collected Stories of William Faulkner, William FaulknerNonfictionHerman Melville, Newton ArvinPoetryThe Auroras of Autumn, Wallace Stevens1952 National Book Awards
FictionFrom Here to Eternity, James JonesNonfictionThe Sea Around Us, Rachel CarsonPoetryCollected Poems, Marianne Moore1953 National Book Awards
FictionInvisible Man, Ralph EllisonNonfictionThe Course of an Empire, Bernard A. De VotoPoetryCollected Poems, 1917–1952, Archibald MacLeishTrending
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