1955 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Faulkner |
A Fable
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| Harriette Simpson Arnow |
The Dollmaker
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| Hamilton Basso |
The View from Pompey's Head
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| Davis Grubb |
The Night of The Hunter
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| Randall Jarrell |
Pictures from an Institution
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| Milton Lott |
The Last Hunt
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| Frederick Manfred |
Lord Grizzly
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| William March |
The Bad Seed
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| Wright Morris |
The Huge Season
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| Frank Rooney |
The Courts of Memory
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| John Steinbeck |
Sweet Thursday
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National Book Award for Nonfiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Joseph Wood Krutch |
The Measure of Man
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| Van Wyck Brooks |
Scenes and portraits
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| Harrison Brown |
The Challenge of Man's Future
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| Elmer Davis |
But we were born free
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| Hermann Hagedorn |
The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill
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| Paul Horgan |
Great River
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| John LaFarge, Jr. |
The Manner is Ordinary
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| David Lavender |
Bent's Fort
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| Carl Sandburg |
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
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| Wallace Stegner |
Beyond the hundreth meridian
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| Norman Thomas |
The test of freedom
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| E. B. White |
The second tree from the corner
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Wallace Stevens |
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
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| E. E. Cummings |
Poems, 1923-1954
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| Léonie Adams |
Poems: A Selection
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| Louise Bogan |
Collected Poems, 1923-1953
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| Robinson Jeffers |
Hungerfield and other poems
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| Archibald MacLeish |
Songs for Eve
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| Phyllis McGinley |
The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley
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| Merrill Moore |
The Verse Diary of a Psychiatrist
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| LeRoy Smith |
A character invented
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| May Swenson |
Another Animal
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| William Carlos Williams |
The Desert Music and Other Poems
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| Marya Zaturenska |
Selected Poems
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