Read Neil Baldwin's National Book Award Classics Essay

Isabel Bolton - Many Mansions
H.L. Davis - Winds of Morning
Thomas Gallagher - The Gathering Darkness
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Carl Jones - Jefferson Selleck
Peter Martin - The Landsman
May Sarton - A Shower of Summer Days
Jean Stafford - The Gathering Wheel
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
William Carlos Williams - The Build-Up

Herbert Agar - A Declaration of Faith
Conrad Aiken - Ushant
Frederick L. Allen - The Big Change
Robert Brittain - Let There Be Bread
Van Wyck Brooks - The Confident Years
Whittaker Chambers - Witness
Eleanor Clark - Rome and a Villa
William O. Douglas - Beyond the High Himalayas
Douglas S. Freeman - George Washington, Vol. V
Eric Goldman - Rendezvous with Destiny
Learned Hand - The Spirit of Liberty
Irving Howe - William Faulkner
Herbert Muller - The Uses of the Past
F.S.C. Northrup - The Taming of the Nations
Katherine Anne Porter - The Days Before
J.G. Randall - Midstream: Lincoln the President
Benjamin Thomas - Abraham Lincoln
Dixon Wecter - Sam Clemens of Hannibal
Kenneth P. Williams - Lincoln Finds a General, Vol. III
Edmund Wilson - The Shores of Light

Stanley Burnshaw - Early and Late Testament
Thomas H. Ferril - New and Selected Poems
Robert Hillyer - The Suburb by the Sea
Ernest Kroll - Cape Horn and Other Poems
W.S. Merwin - A Mask for Janus
Byron H. Reece - A Song of Joy
Naomi Replansky - Ring Song
Kenneth Rexroth - The Dragon and the Unicorn
Jesse Stuart - Kentucky is My Land
Ridgely Torrence - Poems
Peter Viereck - The First Morning