Awards & Winners

1994 National Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 1994 National Book Award. Check awards winners of 1994 National Book Awards Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1994 National Book Awards Ceremony

National Book Award for Fiction

William Gaddis

Honored for : A Frolic of His Own

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
William Gaddis A Frolic of His Own
Ellen Currie Moses Supposes
Richard Dooling White man's grave
Howard Norman The Bird Artist
Grace Paley The Collected Stories
National Book Award for Nonfiction

Sherwin B. Nuland

Honored for : How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sherwin B. Nuland How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
John Putnam Demos The Unredeemed Captive
Jane Mayer Strange Justice
John Edgar Wideman Fatheralong
Tobias Wolff In Pharaoh's Army
National Book Award for Poetry

James Tate

Honored for : A Worshipful Company of Fletchers

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Nominee Nominated Work
James Tate A Worshipful Company of Fletchers
Richard Howard Like Most Revelations: New Poems
Heather McHugh Hinge & sign
Anne Porter An altogether different language
David St. John Study for the world's body