Awards & Winners

1992 National Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 1992 National Book Award. Check awards winners of 1992 National Book Awards Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1992 National Book Awards Ceremony

National Book Award for Fiction

Cormac McCarthy

Honored for : All the Pretty Horses

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
Dorothy Allison Bastard Out of Carolina
Cristina García Dreaming in Cuban
Edward P. Jones Lost in the City
Robert Stone Outerbridge Reach
National Book Award for Nonfiction

Paul Monette

Honored for : Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Paul Monette Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
Edward L. Ayers The Promise of the New South
James Gleick Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
David McCullough Truman
Garry Wills Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
National Book Award for Poetry

Mary Oliver

Honored for : New and Selected Poems

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Hayden Carruth Collected shorter poems, 1946-1991
Louise Glück The Wild Iris
Susan Mitchell Rapture
Gary Snyder No nature
Mary Oliver New and Selected Poems