Awarded annually since 1950, The National Book Awards are given in the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature. A $10,000 cash award and a crystal sculpture is given to the winners which are selected by five-member, independent judging panels for each genre. The awards are considered by many to be the U.S.'s preeminent literary prizes and the awards ceremony quite an important event in literary calendars. From its inception in 1950 the goal of the award has been to bring exceptional books to the public's awareness and to increase the popularity of reading in general. Below you'll find a list of the award winners from 1950 to the present. The National Book Foundation sponsors this award. For more information visit their web site. 

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Year	Award	Category	Title	Author
2002	Finalist	Young People's Lit.	19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East	Nye, Naomi Shihab
2002	Finalist	Fiction	Big If	Costello, Mark
2002	Finalist	Nonfiction	Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science	Gawande, Atul
2002	Finalist	Young People's Lit.	Feed	Anderson, M. T.
2002	Finalist	Fiction	Gorgeous Lies	McPhee, Martha
2002	Finalist	Young People's Lit.	Hush	Woodson, Jacqueline
2002	Winner	Poetry	In the Next Galaxy	Stone, Ruth
2002	Finalist	Nonfiction	Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes	Olson, Steve
2002	Winner	Nonfiction	Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Culture	Caro, Robert A.
2002	Finalist	Poetry	Shadow of Heaven	Voigt, Ellen Bryant
2002	Finalist	Poetry	Sleeping with the Dictionary	Mullen, Harryette Romell
2002	Finalist	Fiction	Heaven of Mercury, The	Watson, Brad
2002	Winner	Young People's Lit.	House of the Scorpion, The	Farmer, Nancy
2002	Finalist	Nonfiction	Last American Man, The	Gilbert, Elizabeth
2002	Finalist	Poetry	Smallest Muscle in the Human Body, The	Rios, Alberto
2002	Finalist	Poetry	Unswept Room: Poems, The	Olds, Sharon
2002	Finalist	Young People's Lit.	This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie	Partridge, Elizabeth
2002	Winner	Fiction	Three Junes	Glass, Julia
2002	Finalist	Nonfiction	When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution	Davis, Devra
2002	Finalist	Fiction	You Are Not a Stranger Here	Haslett, Adam
2001	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	A Step from Heaven	Na, An
2001	Nominee	Nonfiction	American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood	Arana, Marie
2001	Nominee	Fiction	Among the Missing	Chaon, Dan
2001	Nominee	Poetry	Brutal Imagination	Eady, Cornelius
2001	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Carver: A Life in Poems	Nelson, Marilyn
2001	Nominee	Fiction	Highwire Moon	Straight, Susan
2001	Nominee	Fiction	Look at Me	Egan, Jennifer
2001	Nominee	Poetry	Mercurochrome: New Poems	Coleman, Wanda
2001	Nominee	Nonfiction	My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light,	Duncan, David James
2001	Nominee	Nonfiction	Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland	Gross, Jan T.
2001	Winner	Poetry	Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry	Dugan, Alan
2001	Nominee	Poetry	Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems	Ali, Agha Shahid
2001	Winner	Fiction	Corrections, The	Franzen, Jonathan
2001	Nominee	Fiction	Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The	Erdrich, Louise
2001	Nominee	Nonfiction	Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care, The	Bernstein, Nina
2001	Winner	Nonfiction	Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, The	Solomon, Andrew
2001	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Tiger Rising, The	Dicamillo, Kate
2001	Nominee	Poetry	They Can't Take That Away from Me	Mazur, Gail
2001	Winner	Young People's Lit.	True Believer	Wolff, Virginia Euwer
2001	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History	Hoose, Phillip M.
2000	Nominee	Poetry	A New Selected Poems	Kinnell, Galway
2000	Winner	Poetry	Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000	Clifton, Lucille
2000	Nominee	Fiction	Blonde	Oates, Joyce Carol
2000	Nominee	Fiction	Blue Angel	Prose, Francine
2000	Nominee	Nonfiction	Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon	Tierney, Patrick
2000	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Forgotten Fire	Bagdasarian, Adam
2000	Nominee	Nonfiction	From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present	Barzun, Jacques
2000	Winner	Young People's Lit.	Homeless Bird	Whelan, Gloria
2000	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Hurry Freedom!	Stanley, Jerry
2000	Winner	Fiction	In America	Sontag, Susan
2000	Winner	Nonfiction	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex	Philbrick, Nathaniel
2000	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Many Stones	Coman, Carolyn
2000	Nominee	Poetry	New Addresses: Poems	Koch, Kenneth
2000	Nominee	Poetry	Tell Me	Addonizio, Kim
2000	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Book of the Lion, The	Cadnum, Michael
2000	Nominee	Nonfiction	Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach, The	Kaplan, Alice
2000	Nominee	Fiction	Diagnosis, The	Lightman, Alan P.
2000	Nominee	Fiction	Feast of Love, The	Baxter, Charles
2000	Nominee	Poetry	Other Lover, The	Smith, Bruce
2000	Nominee	Nonfiction	W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963	Lewis, David Levering
1999	Nominee	Nonfiction	Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War	Bowden, Mark
1999	Nominee	Poetry	Configurations: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1998	Major, Clarence
1999	Winner	Nonfiction	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II	Dower, John W.
1999	Nominee	Fiction	House of Sand and Fog	Dubus, Andre, III
1999	Nominee	Fiction	Hummingbird House	Henley, Patricia
1999	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Monster	Myers, Walter Dean
1999	Nominee	Nonfiction	Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation	Santos, John Phillip
1999	Nominee	Fiction	Plainsong	Haruf, Kent
1999	Nominee	Poetry	Repair: Poems	Williams, C. K.
1999	Nominee	Nonfiction	Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette	Thurman, Judith
1999	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Speak	Anderson, Laurie Halse
1999	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Birchbark House, The	Erdrich, Louise
1999	Nominee	Poetry	Pilot Star Elegies, The	Santos, Sherod
1999	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Trolls, The	Horvath, Polly
1999	Winner	Poetry	Vice: New and Selected Poems	Ai
1999	Nominee	Poetry	Vita Nova	Gluck, Louise
1999	Winner	Fiction	Waiting	Jin, Ha
1999	Winner	Young People's Lit.	When Zachary Beaver Came to Town	Holt, Kimberly Willis
1999	Nominee	Fiction	Who Do You Love: Stories	Thompson, Jean
1999	Nominee	Nonfiction	Woman: An Intimate Geography	Angier, Natalie
1998	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories	Peck, Richard
1998	Nominee	Fiction	A Man in Full (Trade)	Wolfe, Tom
1998	Nominee	Nonfiction	A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage	Kephart, Beth
1998	Nominee	Nonfiction	All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery	Mayer, Henry
1998	Nominee	Poetry	Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems: 1968-1998	Pastan, Linda
1998	Winner	Fiction	Charming Billy	McDermott, Alice
1998	Nominee	Fiction	Damascus Gate	Stone, Robert B.
1998	Nominee	Poetry	From the Devotions: Poems	Phillips, Carl
1998	Winner	Young People's Lit.	Holes	Sachar, Louis
1998	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key	Gantos, Jack
1998	Nominee	Fiction	Kaaterskill Falls	Goodman, Allegra
1998	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War	Lobel, Anita
1998	Nominee	Nonfiction	Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human	Bloom, Harold
1998	Winner	Nonfiction	Slaves in the Family	Ball, Edward
1998	Nominee	Poetry	Art of the Lathe: Poems, The	Fairchild, B. H.
1998	Nominee	Fiction	Healing, The	Jones, Gayl
1998	Nominee	Poetry	Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998, The	Ostriker, Alicia
1998	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Secret Life of Amanda K Woods, The	Cameron, Ann
1998	Nominee	Nonfiction	There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok	Eliach, Yaffa
1998	Winner	Poetry	This Time: New and Selected Poems	Stern, Gerald
1997	Winner	Nonfiction	American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson	Ellis, Joseph J.
1997	Winner	Fiction	Cold Mountain	Frazier, Charles
1997	Winner	Young People's Lit.	Dancing on the Edge	Nolan, Han
1997	Nominee	Poetry	Desire	Bidart, Frank
1997	Nominee	Fiction	Echo House	Just, Ward
1997	Winner	Poetry	Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems	Meredith, William
1997	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Facts Speak for Themselves	Cole, Brock
1997	Nominee	Fiction	Le Divorce	Johnson, Diane
1997	Nominee	Poetry	Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems	Balaban, John
1997	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Mean Margaret	Seidler, Tor
1997	Nominee	Nonfiction	My Brother	Kincaid, Jamaica
1997	Nominee	Poetry	Primate Behavior	Lindsay, Sarah
1997	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Sons of Liberty	Griffin, Adele
1997	Nominee	Poetry	Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems, The	Nelson, Marilyn
1997	Nominee	Nonfiction	Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, The	Kertzer, David
1997	Nominee	Fiction	Puttermesser Papers, The	Ozick, Cynthia
1997	Nominee	Nonfiction	Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, The	Lynch, Thomas
1997	Nominee	Fiction	Underworld	DeLillo, Don
1997	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Where You Belong	McGuigan, Mary Ann
1997	Nominee	Nonfiction	Whittaker Chambers: A Biography	Tanenhaus, Sam
1996	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	A Girl Named Disaster	Farmer, Nancy
1996	Winner	Nonfiction	An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us	Carroll, James
1996	Nominee	Fiction	Atticus	Hansen, Ron
1996	Nominee	Nonfiction	Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Mother World	Roiphe, Anne
1996	Nominee	Fiction	Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer	Millhauser, Steven
1996	Winner	Young People's Lit.	Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida: A Novel	Martinez, Victor
1996	Winner	Poetry	Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey: Poems, 1991-1995	Carruth, Hayden
1996	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Send Me Down a Miracle	Nolan, Han
1996	Winner	Fiction	Ship Fever: Stories	Barrett, Andrea
1996	Nominee	Poetry	Sun Under Wood: Poems	Hass, Robert
1996	Nominee	Poetry	Crack in Everything, The	Ostriker, Alicia Suskin
1996	Nominee	Fiction	Giant's House: A Romance, The	McCracken, Elizabeth
1996	Nominee	Nonfiction	Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958, The	Reich, Cary
1996	Nominee	Nonfiction	Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War, The	Hendrickson, Paul
1996	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	Long Season of Rain, The	Kim, Helen S.
1996	Nominee	Fiction	River Beyond the World, The	Peery, Janet
1996	Nominee	Nonfiction	Temple Bombing, The	Green, Melissa Fay
1996	Nominee	Poetry	Terrible Stories, The	Clifton, Lucille
1996	Nominee	Poetry	Walking the Black Cat: Poems	Simic, Charles
1996	Nominee	Young People's Lit.	What Jamie Saw	Coman, Carolyn
1995	Nominee	Nonfiction	A Civil Action	Harr, Jonathan
1995	Nominee	Fiction	All Souls' Rising	Bell, Madison Smartt
1995	Nominee	Poetry	Collected Poems, 1945-1990	Howes, Barbara
1995	Nominee	Nonfiction	Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Touchstone)	Dennett, Daniel Clement
1995	Nominee	Nonfiction	Ghosts of Mississippi	Vollers, Maryanne
1995	Nominee	Poetry	In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems	Jacobsen, Josephine
1995	Nominee	Fiction	Interstate	Dixon, Stephen
1995	Nominee	Fiction	Krik? Krak!	Danticat, Edwidge
1995	Nominee	Poetry	New and Selected Poems	Justice, Donald
1995	Nominee	Poetry	New and Selected Poems	Soto, Gary
1995	Winner	Poetry	Passing Through: The Later Poems New and Selected	Kunitz, Stanley
1995	Winner	Fiction	Sabbath's Theater (Vintage Intl)	Roth, Philip
1995	Nominee	Nonfiction	Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia	Covington, Dennis
1995	Winner	Nonfiction	Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, The (Vintage Books)	Rosenberg, Tina
1995	Nominee	Fiction	House on the Lagoon: A Shattering Story of Love and Death, Privilege and Servitude, The	Ferre, Rosario
1994	Winner	Fiction	A Frolic of His Own (Scribner Pbk Fiction)	Gaddis, William
1994	Nominee	Poetry	An Altogether Different Language: Poems, 1934-1994	Porter, Anne
1994	Nominee	Nonfiction	Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society	Wideman, John Edgar
1994	Nominee	Poetry	Hinge and Sign: Poems, 1968-1993	McHugh, Heather
1994	Winner	Nonfiction	How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter	Nuland, Sherwin B.
1994	Nominee	Nonfiction	In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War (Vintage Books)	Wolff, Tobias
1994	Nominee	Poetry	Like Most Revelations: New Poems	Howard, Richard
1994	Nominee	Fiction	Moses Supposes	Currie, Ellen
1994	Nominee	Nonfiction	Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas	Mayer, Jane
1994	Nominee	Poetry	Study for the World's Body: New and Selected Poems	St John, David
1994	Nominee	Fiction	Bird Artist, The	Norman, Howard
1994	Nominee	Fiction	Collected Stories, The	Paley, Grace
1994	Nominee	Nonfiction	Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (Vintage Books)	Demos, John
1994	Nominee	Fiction	White Man's Grave	Dooling, Richard
1994	Winner	Poetry	Worshipful Company of Fletchers	Tate, James
1993	Nominee	Nonfiction	Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground	Svenson, Peter
1993	Nominee	Fiction	Come to Me	Bloom, Amy
1993	Winner	Poetry	Garbage: A Poem	Ammons, A. R.
1993	Nominee	Nonfiction	Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (Oklahoma Paperbacks)	Slotkin, Richard
1993	Nominee	Nonfiction	Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture	Leach, William
1993	Nominee	Poetry	My Alexandria	Doty, Mark
1993	Nominee	Fiction	Operation Wandering Soul	Powers, Richard
1993	Nominee	Fiction	Pugilist at Rest: Stories	Jones, Thom
1993	Nominee	Fiction	Swimming in the Volcano	Shacochis, Bob
1993	Nominee	Poetry	Museum of Clear Ideas: New Poems, The	Hall, Donald
1993	Winner	Fiction	Shipping News, The (Scribner Classics)	Proulx, E. Annie
1993	Nominee	Poetry	Vigil: A Poem in Four Voices, The	Gibson, Margaret
1993	Winner	Nonfiction	United States: Essays: 1952-1992 (Us)	Vidal, Gore
1993	Nominee	Nonfiction	W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat	Marable, Manning
1993	Nominee	Poetry	What We Don't Know about Each Other	Raab, Lawrence
1992	Winner	Fiction	All the Pretty Horses (Vintage Intl)	McCarthy, Cormac
1992	Nominee	Fiction	Bastard Out of Carolina	Allison, Dorothy
1992	Winner	Nonfiction	Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (H-C Pb)	Monette, Paul
1992	Nominee	Poetry	Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991	Carruth, Hayden
1992	Nominee	Fiction	Dreaming in Cuban (Ballantine Books)	Garcia, Cristina
1992	Nominee	Nonfiction	Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Vintage Books)	Gleick, James
1992	Nominee	Nonfiction	Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America	Wills, Garry
1992	Nominee	Fiction	Lost in the City: Stories (Harperperennial)	Jones, Edward P.
1992	Winner	Poetry	New and Selected Poems	Oliver, Mary
1992	Nominee	Poetry	No Nature: New and Selected Poems	Snyder, Gary
1992	Nominee	Fiction	Outerbridge Reach (Mariner Books)	Stone, Robert B.
1992	Nominee	Poetry	Rapture: Poems	Mitchell, Susan
1992	Nominee	Nonfiction	Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction, The	Ayers, Edward L.
1992	Nominee	Poetry	Wild Iris: Poems, The	Gluck, Louise
1992	Nominee	Nonfiction	Truman	McCullough, David
1991	Nominee	Poetry	An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988-1991	Rich, Adrienne
1991	Nominee	Nonfiction	Anne Sexton: A Biography (Vintage Books)	Middlebrook, Diane Wood
1991	Nominee	Fiction	Beyond Deserving	Scofield, Sandra Jean
1991	Nominee	Poetry	Eva-Mary	McCarriston, Linda
1991	Winner	Nonfiction	Freedom; Freedom in the Making of Western Culture: Vol. 1: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture	Patterson, Orlando
1991	Nominee	Fiction	Frog (Owl Book)	Dixon, Stephen
1991	Winner	Fiction	Mating (Vintage Intl)	Rush, Norman
1991	Nominee	Nonfiction	Praying for Sheetrock	Greene, Melissa Fay
1991	Nominee	Poetry	Homeplace: Poems, The	Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
1991	Nominee	Nonfiction	Jameses: A Family Narrative, The	Lewis, R. W. B.
1991	Nominee	Fiction	Macguffin, The	Elkin, Stanley
1991	Nominee	Poetry	Never-Ending: New Poems, The	Hudgins, Andrew
1991	Nominee	Fiction	Wartime Lies	Begley, Louis
1991	Winner	Poetry	What Work is: Poems	Levine, Philip
1991	Nominee	Nonfiction	Why Americans Hate Politics (Touchstone)	Dionne, E. J.
1990	Nominee	Fiction	Because It is Bitter, and Because It is My Heart	Oates, Joyce Carol
1990	Nominee	Fiction	Chromos	Alfau, Felipe
1990	Nominee	Fiction	Dogeaters	Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata
1990	Nominee	Nonfiction	Jackson Pollock: An American Saga	Smith, Gregory W.
1990	Winner	Fiction	Middle Passage (Scribner PB Fic)	Johnson, Charles R.
1990	Nominee	Fiction	Paradise	Castedo, Elena
1990	Nominee	Nonfiction	Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician	Morris, Roger
1990	Nominee	Nonfiction	Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952	Watkins, T. H.
1990	Nominee	Nonfiction	Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School	Freedman, Samuel G.
1990	Winner	Nonfiction	House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, The (Touchstone)	Chernow, Ron
1989	Nominee	Nonfiction	Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends	Pfaff, William
1989	Nominee	Fiction	Billy Bathgate	Doctorow, E. L.
1989	Nominee	Nonfiction	Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years	Bundy, McGeorge
1989	Winner	Nonfiction	From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated with a New Chapter	Friedman, Thomas L.
1989	Nominee	Fiction	Geek Love	Dunn, Katherine
1989	Nominee	Nonfiction	Mother Country: Britian, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution	Robinson, Marilynne
1989	Nominee	Nonfiction	Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 (Touchstone)	Branch, Taylor
1989	Winner	Fiction	Spartina	Casey, John
1989	Nominee	Fiction	Joy Luck Club, The	Tan, Amy
1989	Nominee	Fiction	Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The	Hijuelos, Oscar
1988	Winner	Nonfiction	A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Vintage Books)	Sheehan, Neil
1988	Winner	Fiction	Paris Trout	Dexter, Pete
1987	Winner	Nonfiction	Making of the Atomic Bomb	Rhodes, Richard
1987	Winner	Fiction	Paco's Story	Heinemann, Larry
1986	Winner	Nonfiction	Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape	Lopez, Barry
1986	Winner	Fiction	World's Fair	Doctorow, E. L.
1985	Winner	Nonfiction	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Vintage Books)	Lukas, J. Anthony
1985	Winner	Fiction	White Noise	DeLillo, Don
1984	Winner	Nonfiction	Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845, The	Remini, Robert Vincent
1984	Winner	Fiction	Victory Over Japan (Paperback)	Gilchrist, Ellen
1983	Winner	Picture Book	A House is a House for Me	Hoberman, Mary Ann
1983	Winner	Children Fiction	A Place Apart	Fox, Paula
1983	Winner	Children Nonfiction	Chimney Sweeps: Yesterday and Today	Giblin, James Cross
1983	Winner	General Nonfiction	China Alive in the Bitter Sea	Butterfly, Fox
1983	Winner	Picture Book	Doctor de Soto	Steig, William
1983	Winner	Children Fiction	Homesick: My Own Story	Fritz, Jean
1983	Winner	Children Fiction	Marked by Fire	Thomas, Joyce Carol
1983	Winner	Picture Book	Miss Rumphius	Cooney, Barbara
1983	Winner	Poetry	Selected Poems	Kinnell, Galway
1983	Winner	Fiction	Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, The	Welty, Eudora
1983	Winner	Fiction	Color Purple, The (Anniversary)	Walker, Alice
1982	Winner	Poetry	Life Supports: New and Collected Poems (NEW)	Bronk, William
1982	Winner	General Nonfiction	Naming Names	Navasky, Victor
1982	Winner	Picture Book	Noah's Ark	Spier, Peter
1982	Winner	Picture Book	Outside Over There	Sendak, Maurice
1982	Winner	Children Nonfiction	Penguin Year	Bonners, Susan
1982	Winner	Fiction	Rabbit is Rich	Updike, John
1982	Winner	Fiction	So Long, See You Tomorrow (Vintage Intl)	Maxwell, William F.
1982	Winner	General Nonfiction	Soul of a New Machine, The	Kidder, Tracy
1982	Winner	Children Fiction	Westmark	Alexander, Lloyd
1982	Winner	Children Fiction	Words by Heart	Sebestyen, Ouida
1981	Winner	General Nonfiction	China Men (Vintage Intl)	Kingston, Maxine Hong
1981	Winner	Fiction	Plains Song: For Female Voices	Morris, Wright
1981	Winner	Children Fiction	Ramona and Her Mother	Cleary, Beverly
1981	Winner	General Nonfiction	Last Cowboy, The	Kramer, Jane
1981	Winner	Poetry	Need to Hold Still: Poems, The	Mueller, Lisel
1981	Winner	Children Fiction	Night Swimmers, The	Byars, Betsy Cromer
1980	Winner	Children's	A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32: A Novel	Blos, Joan W.
1980	Winner	Children's	A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Commemorative)	L'Engle, Madeleine
1980	Winner	Fiction	Sophie's Choice (Trade)	Styron, William
1980	Winner	General Nonfiction	Right Stuff, The	Wolfe, Tim
1980	Winner	General Nonfiction	Snow Leopard, The	Matthiessen, Peter
1980	Winner	Fiction	World According to Garp, The (Anniversary)	Irving, John
1979	Winner	Fiction	Going After Cacciato	O'Brien, Tim
1979	Winner	Children's	Great Gilly Hopkins, The (Harper Trophy)	Paterson, Katherine
1978	Winner	Fiction	Blood Tie (Scribner Signature)	Settle, Mary Lee
1978	Winner	Children's	View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures, The	Kohl, Judith
1977	Winner	Poetry	Collected Poems 1930-76	Eberhart, Richard
1977	Winner	Children's	Master Puppeteer, The	Paterson, Katherine
1977	Winner	Fiction	Spectator Bird, The	Stegner, Wallace Earle
1976	Winner	Children's	Bert Breen's Barn (Syracuse Univ PR)	Edmonds, Walter D.
1976	Winner	Fiction	Jr	Gaddis, William
1975	Winner	Fiction	Dog Soldiers	Stone, Robert B.
1975	Winner	Children's	M.C. Higgins, the Great (Collier Books)	Hamilton, Virginia
1974	Winner	Fiction	Crown of Feathers (R)	Singer, Isaac Bashevis
1974	Winner	Poetry	Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971	Ginsberg, Allen
1974	Winner	Fiction	Gravity's Rainbow	Pynchon, Thomas
1973	Winner	Fiction	Chimera	Barth, John
1973	Winner	Poetry	Collected Poems, 1951-1971	Ammons, A. R.
1973	Winner	Children's	Farthest Shore	Le Guin, Ursula K.
1972	Winner	Poetry	Selected Poems	Moss, Howard
1972	Winner	Fiction	Complete Stories, The	O'Connor, Flannery
1971	Winner	Children's	Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian	Alexander, Lloyd
1971	Winner	Fiction	Mr. Sammler's Planet	Bellow, Saul
1970	Winner	Fiction	Them	Oates, Joyce Carol
1969	Winner	Fiction	Steps (GROVE PRESS)	Kosinski, Jerzy N.
1968	Winner	Fiction	Eighth Day	Wilder, Thornton
1967	Winner	Fiction	Fixer, The	Malamud, Bernard
1966	Winner	Poetry	Buckdancer's Choice	Dickey, James
1966	Winner	Fiction	Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, The	Porter, Katherine Anne
1965	Winner	Fiction	Herzog	Bellow, Saul
1965	Winner	Poetry	Far Field, The	Roethke, Theodore
1964	Winner	Poetry	Selected Poems (Rev and Enl)	Ransom, John Crowe
1964	Winner	Fiction	Centaur, The (BALLANTINE BKS TRADE)	Updike, John
1963	Winner	Fiction	Morte D'Urban	Powers, J. F.
1962	Winner	Nonfiction	City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects, The	Mumford, Lewis
1962	Winner	Nonfiction	Rise & Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, The	Shirer, William L.
1961	Winner	Nonfiction	Rise & Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, The	Shirer, William L.
1960	Winner	Fiction	Goodbye, Columbus (Modern Library)	Roth, Philip
1960	Winner	Nonfiction	James Joyce	Ellmann, Richard
1960	Winner	Poetry	Life Studies and for the Union Dead	Lowell, Robert
1959	Winner	Fiction	Magic Barrel, The	Malamud, Bernard
1959	Winner	Poetry	Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke	Roethke, Theodore
1958	Winner	Nonfiction	Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), The	Bowen, Catherine Drinker
1958	Winner	Fiction	Wapshot Chronicle, The	Cheever, John
1957	Winner	Nonfiction	Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920	Kennan, George Frost
1957	Winner	Fiction	Field of Vision, The	Morris, Wright
1956	Winner	Fiction	Ten North Frederick	O'Hara, John
1955	Winner	Fiction	A Fable	Faulkner, William
1955	Winner	Nonfiction	Measure of Man: On Freedom, Human Values, Survival and the Modern Temper	Krutch, Joseph W.
1955	Winner	Poetry	Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, The	Stevens, Wallace
1954	Winner	Nonfiction	A Stillness at Appomattox (Anchor Books)	Catton, Bruce
1954	Winner	Fiction	Adventures of Augie March, The	Bellow, Saul
1953	Winner	Fiction	Invisible Man	Bloom, Harold
1953	Winner	Nonfiction	Course of Empire, The	DeVoto, Bernard
1952	Winner	Poetry	Collected Poems: Moore	Moore, Marianne
1952	Winner	Fiction	From Here to Eternity	Jones, James
1952	Winner	Nonfiction	Sea Around Us, The	Carson, Rachel L.
1951	Winner	Fiction	Collected Stories of William Faulkner (Vintage Intl)	Faulkner, William
1950	Winner	Fiction	Man with the Golden Arm, The (Anniversary)	Algren, Nelson