National Book Awards: Quick Facts

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Facts

Notable Honorees

William Faulkner • Stephen King • John Steinbeck • Cormac McCarthy • Joan Didion • Ralph Ellison • Patti Smith • Alice Walker • W. H. Auden • Louise Erdrich • Terrance Hayes • Jesmyn Ward • Rita Dove • Arthur Sze • Annie Proulx • Jacqueline Woodson • Frank O’Hara • Sigrid Nunez • Robert Lowell • Joyce Carol Oates • Sherman Alexie • Isaac Bashevis Singer • Ta-Nehisi Coates • Thomas Pynchon • Saul Bellow • Stephen Greenblatt • Ibram X. Kendi • Robert Caro • Flannery O’Connor • Julia Child • W.S. Merwin • Adrienne Rich • Tim O’Brien • John Cheever • Ha Jin • Norman Mailer • John Updike • George F. Kennan • Robert Bly • Peter Matthiessen • Gore Vidal • Philip Roth • Elizabeth Bishop • Robert Penn Warren • E.L. Doctorow • Jonathan Franzen • Nelson Algren • Tom Wolfe • David McCullough • Ursula K. Le Guin • Thomas L. Friedman • Maxine Hong Kingston • Robert Hass • Don DeLillo • Allen Ginsberg • John Barth • Wallace Stevens • John Berryman • Katherine Anne Porter • Jerzy Kosinski • C.K. Williams • Conrad Aiken • William Styron • Philip Levine • Mona Van Duyn • James Merrill • Wallace Stegner • Rachel Carson • Penelope Lively • Mary Oliver • William Carlos Williams • Charles Simic • Archibald MacLeish • Daniel Hoffman • Thornton Wilder • William H. McNeill • John Crowe Ransom • Audre Lorde • William Gaddis • James Dickey • Lucille Clifton • Stanley Kunitz • Shirley Hazzard • Bernard Malamud • John Ashbery • Walker Percy • Lewis Mumford • Marianne Moore • William Meredith • Susan Sontag • Leon Edel • Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. • Justin Kaplan • Wright Morris • James Tate • Randall Jarrell • Lisel Mueller • Paul Monette • William Stafford • William L. Shirer • John O’Hara • Hayden Carruth • Richard Wilbur • Gloria Naylor • A.R. Ammons • Bruce Catton • Carolyn Kizer • Theodore Roethke • Robert Stone • Galway Kinnell • Barry Lopez • James Jones • Bernard De Voto • Richard Eberhart • Richard Ellmann • Alan Dugan • Conrad Michael Richter • Howard Moss • Donald Barthelme • Joseph Wood Krutch • W. Jackson Bate

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Related Topics and References

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Key People

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