Awards & Winners

1967 National Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 1967 National Book Award. Check awards winners of 1967 National Book Awards Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1967 National Book Awards Ceremony

National Book Award for Fiction

Bernard Malamud

Honored for : The Fixer

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Nominee Nominated Work
Bernard Malamud The Fixer
Louis Auchincloss The Embezzler
Edwin O'Connor All in the Family
Walker Percy The Last Gentleman
Harry Mark Petrakis A Dream of Kings
Wilfrid Sheed Office Politics
National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)

Justin Kaplan

Honored for : Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography

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Nominee Nominated Work
Justin Kaplan Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
Oliver Waterman Larkin Daumier, Man of His Time
Frederick A. Pottle James Boswell: The Earlier Years
Isaac Bashevis Singer In My Father's Court
Susan Sontag Against Interpretation
Lawrence Thompson Robert Frost
National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction)

Peter Gay

Honored for : The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism

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Nominee Nominated Work
Peter Gay The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism
James H. Billington The Icon and the Axe
David Brion Davis The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Martin Duberman James Russell Lowell
Barrington Moore Jr. Social origins of dictatorship and democracy
Peter Stansky Journey to the Frontier
William Miller Abrahams Journey to the Frontier
National Book Award for Poetry

James Merrill

Honored for : Nights and Days

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Nominee Nominated Work
James Merrill Nights and Days
John Ashbery Rivers and mountains
Barbara Howes Looking up at leaves
Marianne Moore Tell me, tell me
Adrienne Rich Necessities of life
William Jay Smith The tin can, and other poems
National Book Award for Science, Philosophy, and Religion (Nonfiction)

Oscar Lewis

Honored for : La Vida

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Nominee Nominated Work
Oscar Lewis La Vida
Howard B. Adelmann Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology
George Wells Beadle The Language of Life
Muriel Beadle The Language of Life
Wassily Leontief Essays in economics
Philip Rieff The triumph of the therapeutic
Erwin Straus Phenomenological Psychology
National Book Award for Translation

Gregory Rabassa

Honored for : Hopscotch

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gregory Rabassa Hopscotch
Willard R. Trask History of My Life
Ben Belitt Selected Poems
Ralph Manheim Death on the Installment Plan
National Book Award for Translation

Willard R. Trask

Honored for : History of My Life

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gregory Rabassa Hopscotch
Willard R. Trask History of My Life
Ben Belitt Selected Poems
Ralph Manheim Death on the Installment Plan