1956 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John O'Hara |
Ten North Frederick
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| Paul Bowles |
The spider's house
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| Shirley Ann Grau |
The black prince and other stories
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| MacKinlay Kantor |
Andersonville
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| Flannery O'Connor |
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
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| May Sarton |
Faithful Are the Wounds
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| Robert Penn Warren |
Band of angels
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| Eudora Welty |
The bride of the Innisfallen
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| Herman Wouk |
Marjorie Morningstar
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National Book Award for Nonfiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Herbert Kubly |
An American in Italy
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| Gay Wilson Allen |
The Solitary Singer
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| Alan Barth |
Government by Investigation
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| Rachel Carson |
The Edge of the Sea
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| Clifford Dowdey |
Land They Fought For
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| John Gunther |
Inside Africa
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| Richard Hofstadter |
The Age of Reform
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| Murray Kempton |
Part of Our Time
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| Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Gift from the Sea
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| Milton Mayer |
They Thought They Were Free
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| Allan Temko |
Notre Dame of Paris
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| Harry S. Truman |
Year of Decisions
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| Edmund Wilson |
The scrolls from the Dead Sea
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Adrienne Rich |
The diamond cutters
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| William Carlos Williams |
Journey to Love
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| W. H. Auden |
The Shield of Achilles
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| Elizabeth Bishop |
Poems: North & south
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| John Ciardi |
As If
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| Isabella Gardner |
Birthdays from the ocean
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| Donald Hall |
Exiles and Marriages
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| Randall Jarrell |
Selected poems
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