1962 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Walker Percy |
The Moviegoer
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| Hortense Calisher |
False entry
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| George P. Elliott |
Among the Dangs
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| Joseph Heller |
Catch-22
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| Bernard Malamud |
A New Life
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| William Keepers Maxwell |
The Chateau
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| J. D. Salinger |
Franny and Zooey
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
The Spinoza of Market Street
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| Edward Lewis Wallant |
The Pawnbroker
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| Joan Williams |
The morning and the evening
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| Richard Yates |
Revolutionary Road
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National Book Award for Nonfiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lewis Mumford |
The City in History
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| Robert Ardrey |
African Genesis
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| James Baldwin |
Nobody Knows My Name
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| Stringfellow Barr |
The Will of Zeus
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| Albert Bush-Brown |
The Architecture of America
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| John E. Burchard |
The Architecture of America
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| René Dubos |
The Dreams of Reason
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| Jane Jacobs |
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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| Oscar Lewis |
The Children of Sanchez
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| Virginia Peterson |
A Matter of Life and Death
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| Mark Schorer |
Sinclair Lewis
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| Elizabeth Stevenson |
Lafcadio Hearn
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| Theodore White |
The Making of the President, 1960
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| Ola Elizabeth Winslow |
John Bunyan
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Alan Dugan |
Poems
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| Robert Bagg |
Madonna of the cello
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| Philip Booth |
The Islanders
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| John Ciardi |
In the Stoneworks
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| H.D. |
Helen in Egypt
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| Abbie Huston Evans |
Facts of Crystal
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| Isabella Gardner |
The Looking Glass
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| Horace Gregory |
Medusa in Gramercy Park
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| John Holmes |
The Fortune Teller
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| Denise Levertov |
Jacob's Ladder
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| Ned O'Gorman |
Adam Before His Mirror
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| John Hall Wheelock |
The Gardner and other Poems
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