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National Book Awards - 1955
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

FICTION
A Fable
- William Faulkner
Read the acceptance speech

Read Neil Baldwin's National Book Award Classics Essay

Harriet Arnow - The Dollmaker
Hamilton Basso - The View from Pompey's Head
Davis Grubb - The Night of the Hunter
Randall Jarrell - Pictures from an Institution
Milton Lott - The Last Hunt
Frederick Manfred - Lord Grizzly
William March - The Bad Seed
Wright Morris - The Huge Season
Frank Rooney - The Courts of Memory
John Steinbeck - Sweet Thursday

NONFICTION
The Measure of Man
- Joseph Wood Krutch
Van Wyck Brooks - Scenes and Portraits
Harrison Brown - The Challenge of Man's Future
Elmer Davis - But We Were Born Free
Hermann Hagedorn - The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill
Paul Horgan - Great River
John La Farge - The Manner is Ordinary
David Lavender - Bent's Fort
Carl Sandburg - Abraham Lincoln
Wallace Stegner - Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
Norman Thomas - The Test of Freedom
E.B. White - The Second Tree from the Corner

POETRY
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
- Wallace Stevens
Read the acceptance speech
e.e. cummings - Poems, 1923-1954
Leonie Adams - Poems: A Selection
Louise Bogan - Collected Poems, 1923-1953
Robinson Jeffers - Hungerfield and Other Poems
Archibald MacLeish - Songs for Eve
Phyllis McGinley - The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley
Merrill Moore - The Verse Diary of a Psychiatrist
LeRoy Smith - A Character Invented
May Swenson - Poems in POETS OF TODAY
William Carlos Williams - The Desert Music and Other Poems
Marya Zaturenska - Selected Poems



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