1953 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ralph Ellison |
Invisible Man
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| Isabel Bolton |
Many mansions
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| H. L. Davis |
Winds of Morning
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| Thomas Gallagher |
The Gathering Darkness
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| Ernest Hemingway |
The Old Man and the Sea
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| Carl Jonas |
Jefferson Selleck
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| Peter Martin |
The Landsmen
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| May Sarton |
A Shower of Summer Days
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| Jean Stafford |
Catherine Wheel
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| John Steinbeck |
East of Eden
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| William Carlos Williams |
The Build-Up
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National Book Award for Nonfiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Bernard DeVoto |
The Course of Empire
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| Herbert Agar |
A Declaration of Faith
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| Conrad Aiken |
Ushant
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| Frederick Lewis Allen |
The big change
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| Robert Brittain |
Let There Be Bread
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| Van Wyck Brooks |
The confident years
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| Whittaker Chambers |
Witness
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| Eleanor Clark |
Rome and a villa
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| William O. Douglas |
Beyond the high Himalayas
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| Douglas S. Freeman |
George Washington, Vol. V
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| Eric F. Goldman |
Rendezvous with Destiny
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| Learned Hand |
The Spirit of Liberty
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| Irving Howe |
William Faulkner
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| Herbert J. Muller |
The Uses of the Past
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| F. S. C. Northrop |
The taming of the nations
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| Katherine Anne Porter |
The Days Before
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| James G. Randall |
Midstream: Lincoln the President
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| Benjamin Platt Thomas |
Abraham Lincoln
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| Dixon Wecter |
Sam Clemens of Hannibal
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| Kenneth P. Williams |
Lincoln finds a general: a military study of the Civil War
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| Edmund Wilson |
The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Archibald MacLeish |
Collected Poems, 1917-1952
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| Stanley Burnshaw |
Early and Late Testament
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| Thomas Hornsby Ferril |
New and selected poems
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| Robert Hillyer |
The Suburb by the Sea
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| Ernest Kroll |
Cape Horn and Other Poems
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| W. S. Merwin |
A Mask for Janus
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| Byron Herbert Reece |
A song of joy, and other poems
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| Naomi Replansky |
Ring Song
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| Kenneth Rexroth |
The dragon and the unicorn
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| Jesse Stuart |
Kentucky is My Land
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| Ridgely Torrence |
Poems
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| Peter Viereck |
The First Morning
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