1959 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Bernard Malamud |
The Magic Barrel
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| J. P. Donleavy |
The Ginger Man
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| William Humphrey |
Home from the Hill
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| Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Lolita
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| John O'Hara |
From the Terrace
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| J.R. Salamanca |
The lost country
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| Anya Seton |
The Winthrop Woman
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| John D. Voelker |
Anatomy of a murder
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National Book Award for Nonfiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| J. Christopher Herold |
Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael
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| Hannah Arendt |
The Human Condition
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| Lester Atwell |
Private
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| Daniel J. Boorstin |
The Americans: The Colonial Experience
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| Anne Braden |
The Wall Between
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| Charles W. Ferguson |
Naked to Mine Enemies
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| Shelby Foote |
Fort Sumter to Perryville
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| John Kenneth Galbraith |
The Affluent Society
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| Harry Golden |
Only in America
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| George F. Kennan |
Russia, the Atom, and the West
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| Louis Kronenberger |
Marlborough's Duchess
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| Flora Lewis |
Case History of Hope
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| Edgar Snow |
Journey to the Beginning
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Theodore Roethke |
Words for the Wind","Collected poems
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| John Ciardi |
I Marry You
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| E. E. Cummings |
Poems
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| Archibald MacLeish |
J.B.
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| Howard Nemerov |
Mirrors and Windows
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| Karl Shapiro |
Poems of a Jew
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| May Swenson |
A cage of spines
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| William Carlos Williams |
Paterson, Book IV
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