Nominations 2013 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Rachel Kushner |
The Flamethrowers
|
Jhumpa Lahiri |
The Lowland
|
James McBride |
The Good Lord Bird
|
Thomas Pynchon |
Bleeding Edge
|
George Saunders |
Tenth of December: Stories
|
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Nominations 2012 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Louise Erdrich |
The Round House
|
Junot Díaz |
This is How You Lose Her
|
Dave Eggers |
A Hologram for the King
|
Ben Fountain |
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
|
Kevin Powers |
The Yellow Birds
|
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Nominations 2011 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Jesmyn Ward |
Salvage the Bones
|
Andrew Krivak |
The Sojourn
|
Téa Obreht |
The Tiger's Wife
|
Julie Otsuka |
The Buddha in the Attic
|
Edith Pearlman |
Binocular Vision
|
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Nominations 2010 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Peter Carey |
Parrot and Olivier in America
|
Nicole Krauss |
Great House
|
Lionel Shriver |
So Much for That
|
Karen Tei Yamashita |
I Hotel
|
Jaimy Gordon |
Lord of Misrule
|
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Nominations 2009 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Colum McCann |
Let the Great World Spin
|
Bonnie Jo Campbell |
American Salvage
|
Daniyal Mueenuddin |
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
|
Jayne Anne Philips |
Lark and Termite
|
Marcel Theroux |
Far North
|
|
Nominations 2008 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Peter Matthiessen |
Shadow Country
|
Aleksandar Hemon |
The Lazarus Project
|
Rachel Kushner |
Telex from Cuba
|
Marilynne Robinson |
Home
|
Salvatore Scibona |
The End
|
|
Nominations 2007 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Denis Johnson |
Tree of Smoke
|
Mischa Berlinski |
Fieldwork
|
Lydia Davis |
Varieties of Disturbance
|
Joshua Ferris |
Then We Came to the End
|
Jim Shepard |
Like You'd Understand, Anyway
|
|
Nominations 2006 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Richard Powers |
The Echo Maker
|
Mark Z. Danielewski |
Only Revolutions
|
Ken Kalfus |
A disorder peculiar to the country
|
Dana Spiotta |
Eat the Document
|
Jess Walter |
The Zero
|
|
Nominations 2005 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
William T. Vollmann |
Europe Central
|
E. L. Doctorow |
The March
|
Mary Gaitskill |
Veronica
|
Christopher Sorrentino |
Trance
|
Rene Steinke |
Holy Skirts
|
|
Nominations 2004 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Lily Tuck |
The News from Paraguay
|
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum |
Madeleine is Sleeping
|
Christine Schutt |
Florida
|
Joan Silber |
Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
|
Kate Walbert |
Our Kind
|
|
Nominations 2003 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Shirley Hazzard |
The Great Fire
|
T. Coraghessan Boyle |
Drop City
|
Edward P. Jones |
The Known World
|
Scott Spencer |
A Ship Made of Paper
|
Marianne Wiggins |
Evidence of Things Unseen
|
|
Nominations 2002 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Julia Glass |
Three Junes
|
Mark Costello |
Big if
|
Adam Haslett |
You Are Not a Stranger Here
|
Martha McPhee |
Gorgeous lies
|
Brad Watson |
The heaven of Mercury
|
|
Nominations 2001 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Jonathan Franzen |
The Corrections
|
Dan Chaon |
Among the Missing
|
Jennifer Egan |
Look at Me
|
Louise Erdrich |
The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse
|
Susan Straight |
Highwire Moon
|
|
Nominations 2000 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Susan Sontag |
In America
|
Charles Baxter |
The Feast of Love
|
Alan Lightman |
The diagnosis
|
Joyce Carol Oates |
Blonde
|
Francine Prose |
Blue Angel: A Novel
|
|
Nominations 1999 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Ha Jin |
Waiting: A Novel
|
Andre Dubus |
House of Sand and Fog
|
Kent Haruf |
Plainsong
|
Patricia Henley |
Hummingbird House
|
Jean Thompson |
Who Do You Love: Stories
|
|
Nominations 1998 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Alice McDermott |
Charming Billy
|
Allegra Goodman |
Kaaterskill Falls
|
Gayl Jones |
The healing
|
Robert Stone |
Damascus Gate
|
Tom Wolfe |
A Man in Full
|
|
Nominations 1997 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Charles Frazier |
Cold Mountain
|
Don DeLillo |
Underworld
|
Diane Johnson |
Le Divorce
|
Ward Just |
Echo House
|
Cynthia Ozick |
The Puttermesser Papers
|
|
Nominations 1996 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Andrea Barrett |
Ship Fever
|
Ron Hansen |
Atticus
|
Elizabeth McCracken |
The Giant's House
|
Steven Millhauser |
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
|
Janet Peery |
The river beyond the world
|
|
Nominations 1995 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Philip Roth |
Sabbath's Theater
|
Madison Smartt Bell |
All Souls' Rising
|
Edwidge Danticat |
Krik? Krak!
|
Stephen Dixon |
Interstate
|
Rosario Ferré |
The house on the lagoon
|
|
Nominations 1994 »
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
|
|
Nominations 1993 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
E. Annie Proulx |
The Shipping News
|
Amy Bloom |
Come to Me
|
Thom Jones |
The Pugilist at Rest
|
Richard Powers |
Operation Wandering Soul
|
Bob Shacochis |
Swimming in the volcano
|
|
Nominations 1992 »
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
|
|
Nominations 1991 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Norman Rush |
Mating
|
Louis Begley |
Wartime Lies
|
Stephen Dixon |
Frog: A Novel
|
Stanley Elkin |
The MacGuffin
|
Sandra Scofield |
Beyond deserving
|
|
Nominations 1990 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Charles R. Johnson |
Middle Passage
|
Felipe Alfau |
Chromos
|
Elena Castedo |
Paradise
|
Jessica Hagedorn |
Dogeaters
|
Joyce Carol Oates |
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
|
|
Nominations 1989 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
John Casey |
Spartina
|
E. L. Doctorow |
Billy Bathgate
|
Katherine Dunn |
Geek Love
|
Oscar Hijuelos |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
|
Amy Tan |
The Joy Luck Club
|
|
Nominations 1988 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Pete Dexter |
Paris Trout
|
Don DeLillo |
Libra
|
Mary McGarry Morris |
Vanished
|
J. F. Powers |
Wheat that springeth green
|
Anne Tyler |
Breathing Lessons
|
|
Nominations 1987 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Larry Heinemann |
Paco's Story
|
Alice McDermott |
That Night
|
Toni Morrison |
Beloved
|
Howard Norman |
The Northern Lights
|
Philip Roth |
The Counterlife
|
|
Nominations 1986 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
E. L. Doctorow |
World's Fair
|
Norman Rush |
Whites
|
Peter Taylor |
A Summons to Memphis
|
|
Nominations 1985 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Don DeLillo |
White Noise
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
Always Coming Home
|
Hugh Nissenson |
The Tree of Life
|
|
Nominations 1984 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Ellen Gilchrist |
Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
|
Alison Lurie |
Foreign Affairs
|
Philip Roth |
The Anatomy Lesson
|
|
Nominations 1979 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Tim O'Brien |
Going After Cacciato
|
John Cheever |
The Stories of John Cheever
|
John Irving |
The World According to Garp
|
Diane Johnson |
Lying low
|
David Plante |
The Family
|
|
Nominations 1978 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Mary Lee Settle |
Blood Tie
|
Robert Coover |
The Public Burning
|
Peter De Vries |
Madder Music
|
James Alan McPherson |
Elbow Room
|
John Sayles |
Union Dues
|
|
Nominations 1977 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Raymond Carver |
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
|
Donald Heiney |
The Balloonist
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
Orsinian Tales
|
Cynthia Seton |
A fine romance
|
Wallace Stegner |
The Spectator Bird
|
|
Nominations 1976 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
William Gaddis |
J R
|
Saul Bellow |
Humboldt's Gift
|
Hortense Calisher |
The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher
|
Johanna Kaplan |
Other People's Lives
|
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
|
Larry Woiwode |
Beyond the bedroom wall
|
|
Nominations 1975 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Robert Stone |
Dog Soldiers
|
Thomas Williams |
The Hair of Harold Roux
|
Donald Barthelme |
Guilty Pleasures
|
Gail Godwin |
The odd woman
|
Joseph Heller |
Something Happened
|
Toni Morrison |
Sula
|
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Look at the Harlequins!
|
Grace Paley |
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
|
Philip Roth |
My Life As a Man
|
Mark Smith |
The Death of a Detective
|
|
Nominations 1975 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Robert Stone |
Dog Soldiers
|
Thomas Williams |
The Hair of Harold Roux
|
Donald Barthelme |
Guilty Pleasures
|
Gail Godwin |
The odd woman
|
Joseph Heller |
Something Happened
|
Toni Morrison |
Sula
|
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Look at the Harlequins!
|
Grace Paley |
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
|
Philip Roth |
My Life As a Man
|
Mark Smith |
The Death of a Detective
|
|
Nominations 1974 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Thomas Pynchon |
Gravity's Rainbow
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
|
Doris Betts |
Beasts of the southern wild and other stories
|
John Cheever |
The World of Apples
|
Ellen Douglas |
Apostles of light
|
Stanley Elkin |
Searches and Seizures
|
John Gardner |
Nickel mountain
|
John Leonard |
Black conceit
|
Thomas McGuane |
Ninety-two in the shade.
|
Wilfrid Sheed |
People will always be kind
|
Gore Vidal |
Burr
|
Joy Williams |
State of grace
|
|
Nominations 1974 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Thomas Pynchon |
Gravity's Rainbow
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
|
Doris Betts |
Beasts of the southern wild and other stories
|
John Cheever |
The World of Apples
|
Ellen Douglas |
Apostles of light
|
Stanley Elkin |
Searches and Seizures
|
John Gardner |
Nickel mountain
|
John Leonard |
Black conceit
|
Thomas McGuane |
Ninety-two in the shade.
|
Wilfrid Sheed |
People will always be kind
|
Gore Vidal |
Burr
|
Joy Williams |
State of grace
|
|
Nominations 1973 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
John Barth |
Chimera
|
John Edward Williams |
Augustus
|
Brock Brower |
The Late Great Creature
|
Alan Friedman |
Hermaphrodeity
|
Barry Hannah |
Geronimo Rex
|
George V. Higgins |
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
|
R. M. Koster |
The prince
|
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Transparent Things
|
Ishmael Reed |
Mumbo jumbo
|
Thomas Rogers |
The Confession of a Child of the Century
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Enemies, A Love Story
|
Eudora Welty |
The Optimist's Daughter
|
|
Nominations 1973 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
John Barth |
Chimera
|
John Edward Williams |
Augustus
|
Brock Brower |
The Late Great Creature
|
Alan Friedman |
Hermaphrodeity
|
Barry Hannah |
Geronimo Rex
|
George V. Higgins |
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
|
R. M. Koster |
The prince
|
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Transparent Things
|
Ishmael Reed |
Mumbo jumbo
|
Thomas Rogers |
The Confession of a Child of the Century
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Enemies, A Love Story
|
Eudora Welty |
The Optimist's Daughter
|
|
Nominations 1972 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Flannery O'Connor |
The Complete Stories
|
Frederick Buechner |
Lion Country
|
E. L. Doctorow |
The Book of Daniel
|
Stanley Elkin |
The Dick Gibson show
|
Tom McHale |
Farragan's retreat
|
Joyce Carol Oates |
Wonderland
|
Cynthia Ozick |
The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories
|
Walker Percy |
Love in the Ruins
|
Earl Thompson |
A garden of sand
|
John Updike |
Rabbit Redux
|
|
Nominations 1971 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Saul Bellow |
Mr. Sammler's Planet
|
James Dickey |
Deliverance
|
Shirley Hazzard |
The bay of noon
|
John Updike |
Bech
|
Eudora Welty |
Losing Battles
|
|
Nominations 1970 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Joyce Carol Oates |
Them
|
Leonard Gardner |
Fat City
|
Leonard Michaels |
Going places
|
Jean Stafford |
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
|
Kurt Vonnegut |
Slaughterhouse-Five
|
|
Nominations 1969 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Jerzy Kosi?ski |
Steps
|
John Barth |
Lost in the Funhouse
|
Frederick Exley |
A Fan's Notes
|
Joyce Carol Oates |
Expensive People
|
Thomas Rogers |
The Pursuit of Happiness
|
|
Nominations 1968 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Thornton Wilder |
The Eighth Day
|
Norman Mailer |
Why Are We in Vietnam?
|
Joyce Carol Oates |
A Garden of Earthly Delights
|
Chaim Potok |
The Chosen
|
William Styron |
The Confessions of Nat Turner
|
|
Nominations 1967 »
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
|
|
Nominations 1966 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Katherine Anne Porter |
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
|
Jesse Hill Ford |
The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
|
Peter Matthiessen |
At play in the fields of the Lord
|
James Merrill |
The (Diblos) Notebook
|
Flannery O'Connor |
Everything That Rises Must Converge
|
Harry Mark Petrakis |
Pericles on 31st Street
|
|
Nominations 1965 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Saul Bellow |
Herzog
|
Louis Auchincloss |
The Rector of Justin
|
John Hawkes |
Second Skin
|
Richard E. Kim |
The Martyred
|
Wallace Markfield |
To an Early Grave
|
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
The Defense
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Short Friday
|
|
Nominations 1964 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
John Updike |
The Centaur
|
Bernard Malamud |
Idiots first
|
Mary McCarthy |
The Group
|
Thomas Pynchon |
V.
|
Harvey Swados |
The will
|
|
Nominations 1963 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
J. F. Powers |
Morte D'Urban
|
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Pale Fire
|
Katherine Anne Porter |
Ship of Fools
|
Dawn Powell |
The Golden Spur
|
Clancy Sigal |
Going away
|
John Updike |
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
|
|
Nominations 1962 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Walker Percy |
The Moviegoer
|
Hortense Calisher |
False entry
|
George P. Elliott |
Among the Dangs
|
Joseph Heller |
Catch-22
|
Bernard Malamud |
A New Life
|
William Keepers Maxwell |
The Chateau
|
J. D. Salinger |
Franny and Zooey
|
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
The Spinoza of Market Street
|
Edward Lewis Wallant |
The Pawnbroker
|
Joan Williams |
The morning and the evening
|
Richard Yates |
Revolutionary Road
|
|
Nominations 1961 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Conrad Richter |
The Waters of Kronos
|
Louis Auchincloss |
The House of Five Talents
|
Kay Boyle |
Generation Without Farewell
|
John Hersey |
The Child Buyer
|
John Knowles |
A Separate Peace
|
Harper Lee |
To Kill a Mockingbird
|
Wright Morris |
Ceremony in Lone Tree
|
Flannery O'Connor |
The Violent Bear It Away
|
Elizabeth Spencer |
The Light in the Piazza
|
Francis Steegmuller |
The Christening Party
|
John Updike |
Rabbit, Run
|
Mildred Walker |
The Body of a Young Man
|
|
Nominations 1960 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Philip Roth |
Goodbye, Columbus
|
Louis Auchincloss |
Pursuit of the prodigal
|
Hamilton Basso |
The Light Infantry ball
|
Saul Bellow |
Henderson the Rain King
|
Evan S. Connell |
Mrs. Bridge
|
William Faulkner |
The Mansion
|
Mark Harris |
Wake Up, Stupid
|
John Hersey |
The War Lover
|
Harold L. Humes |
Men Die
|
Shirley Jackson |
The Haunting of Hill House
|
Elizabeth Janeway |
The Third Choice
|
James Jones |
The Pistol
|
Warren Miller |
The Cool World
|
James Purdy |
Malcolm
|
Leo Rosten |
The Return of Hyman Kaplan
|
John Updike |
The Poorhouse Fair
|
Robert Penn Warren |
The Cave
|
Morris West |
The Devil's Advocate
|
|
Nominations 1959 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Bernard Malamud |
The Magic Barrel
|
J. P. Donleavy |
The Ginger Man
|
William Humphrey |
Home from the Hill
|
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Lolita
|
John O'Hara |
From the Terrace
|
J.R. Salamanca |
The lost country
|
Anya Seton |
The Winthrop Woman
|
John D. Voelker |
Anatomy of a murder
|
|
Nominations 1958 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
John Cheever |
The Wapshot Chronicle
|
James Agee |
A Death in the Family
|
James Gould Cozzens |
By Love Possessed
|
Mark Harris |
Something about a soldier
|
Andrew Nelson Lytle |
The Velvet Horn
|
Bernard Malamud |
The Assistant
|
Wright Morris |
Love Among the Cannibals
|
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Pnin
|
Ayn Rand |
Atlas Shrugged
|
Nancy Ross |
The return of Lady Brace
|
May Sarton |
The birth of a grandfather
|
|
Nominations 1957 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Wright Morris |
The Field of Vision
|
Nelson Algren |
A Walk on the Wild Side
|
James Baldwin |
Giovanni's Room
|
Saul Bellow |
Seize the Day
|
B. J. Chute |
Greenwillow
|
Alfred Bertram Guthrie |
These Thousand Years
|
John Hersey |
A single pebble
|
John Hunt |
Generations of Men
|
Edwin O'Connor |
The Last Hurrah
|
J. F. Powers |
Presence of Grace
|
Elizabeth Spencer |
The Voice at the Back Door
|
James Thurber |
Further fables for our time
|
|
Nominations 1956 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
John O'Hara |
Ten North Frederick
|
Paul Bowles |
The spider's house
|
Shirley Ann Grau |
The black prince and other stories
|
MacKinlay Kantor |
Andersonville
|
Flannery O'Connor |
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
|
May Sarton |
Faithful Are the Wounds
|
Robert Penn Warren |
Band of angels
|
Eudora Welty |
The bride of the Innisfallen
|
Herman Wouk |
Marjorie Morningstar
|
|
Nominations 1955 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
William Faulkner |
A Fable
|
Harriette Simpson Arnow |
The Dollmaker
|
Hamilton Basso |
The View from Pompey's Head
|
Davis Grubb |
The Night of The Hunter
|
Randall Jarrell |
Pictures from an Institution
|
Milton Lott |
The Last Hunt
|
Frederick Manfred |
Lord Grizzly
|
William March |
The Bad Seed
|
Wright Morris |
The Huge Season
|
Frank Rooney |
The Courts of Memory
|
John Steinbeck |
Sweet Thursday
|
|
Nominations 1954 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Saul Bellow |
The Adventures of Augie March
|
|
Nominations 1953 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Ralph Ellison |
Invisible Man
|
Isabel Bolton |
Many mansions
|
H. L. Davis |
Winds of Morning
|
Thomas Gallagher |
The Gathering Darkness
|
Ernest Hemingway |
The Old Man and the Sea
|
Carl Jonas |
Jefferson Selleck
|
Peter Martin |
The Landsmen
|
May Sarton |
A Shower of Summer Days
|
Jean Stafford |
Catherine Wheel
|
John Steinbeck |
East of Eden
|
William Carlos Williams |
The Build-Up
|
|
Nominations 1952 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
James Jones |
From Here to Eternity
|
James Agee |
Morning watch
|
Truman Capote |
The Grass Harp
|
William Faulkner |
Requiem for a Nun
|
Caroline Gordon |
The strange children
|
Thomas Mann |
The Holy Sinner
|
John P. Marquand |
Melville Goodwin, USA
|
J. D. Salinger |
The Catcher in the Rye
|
William Styron |
Lie Down in Darkness
|
Jessamyn West |
The witch diggers
|
Herman Wouk |
The Caine Mutiny
|
|
Nominations 1951 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
William Faulkner |
The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
|
|
Nominations 1950 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Nelson Algren |
The Man with the Golden Arm
|
|
Nominations 1940 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Richard Llewellyn |
How Green Was My Valley
|
|
Nominations 1939 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
John Steinbeck |
The Grapes of Wrath
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Sholem Asch |
The Nazarene
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Nominations 1938 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
Daphne du Maurier |
Rebecca
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Nominations 1937 »
Nominee |
Nominated Work |
A. J. Cronin |
The Citadel
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Conrad Richter |
The Sea of Grass
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Kenneth Roberts |
Northwest Passage
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Leo Rosten |
The education of H * Y * M * A * N K * A * P * L * A * N
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