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24 unusual facts about National Book Award


Arthur L. Liman

The commission's final report was published as a paperback in 1972 and was nominated for a National Book Award.

Charles Yu

In 2007, he was selected by the National Book Foundation as one of its "5 Under 35," a program which highlights the work of the next generation of fiction writers by asking five previous National Book Award fiction Winners and Finalists to select one fiction writer under the age of 35 whose work they find particularly promising and exciting.

Christopher Tunnard

which won the 1964 National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion.

Douglas Day

For that he shared the 1974 National Book Award in Biography.

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

The novel Holy Skirts, by Rene Steinke, a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award, is based on the life of the Freytag-Loringhoven.

Flight to Arras

Saint-Exupéry survived the French defeat but refused to join the Royal Air Force over political differences with de Gaulle and in late 1940 went to New York where he accepted the National Book Award for Wind, Sand and Stars.

Florida State University College of Arts and Sciences

The Creative Writing Program in the English department is home to recipients of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Harriet Doerr

Her first novel Stones for Ibarra was published in 1984 and won that year's National Book Award in category First Work of Fiction.

James Thomas Flexner

James Thomas Flexner (January 13, 1908 – February 13, 2003) was an American historian and biographer best known for the four-volume biography of George Washington that earned him a National Book Award

Jonathan Kozol

It was published in 1967 and won the National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion.

José Rubia Barcia

Rubia and Clayton Eshleman jointly prepared The Complete Posthumous Poetry of César Vallejo (1978) and won the U.S. National Book Award, category Translation.

Julian Jaynes

The book was a nominee for the National Book Award in 1978, and received dozens of positive book reviews, including those by well-known critics such as John Updike in The New Yorker, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times, and Marshall McLuhan in the Toronto Globe and Mail.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Though released to less critical acclaim than his debut, the novel was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award.

Michael J. Arlen

For Passages to Ararat, Arlen won the U.S. National Book Award in the category Contemporary Affairs.

National Book Award

The first National Book Awards were presented in May 1936 at the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association, one month after The New York Times reported institution of the "new annual award".

Virginia Kirkus chaired the central committee of seven including the ABA president, three bookshops, Publishers Weekly, and American News Company.

Recorder's Court

Boyle, Kevin, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, chronicles Sweet's life and trial, and was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Non-Fiction.

Robb Forman Dew

Dew's first novel, Dale Loves Sophie to Death, was published in 1981 and won the 1982 National Book Award in category First Novel.

Robert Nozick

For Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) Nozick received a National Book Award in category Philosophy and Religion.

Silvano Arieti

His Interpretation of Schizophrenia won the 1975 National Book Award in Science.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

The system's banned list includes some novels that were written by National Book Award winners, Nobel laureates, and Pulitzer Prize winners and some books of paintings made by famous artists.

The Brothers Frantzich

"The Brothers Frantzich are crammed with spirit; their music flies everywhere." -National Book Award winner and current Poet Laureate of Minnesota, Robert Bly,

The Green Ripper

It won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Mystery.

Uwe George

That work was recognized by the U.S. National Book Awardin category Translation.


Boise Contemporary Theater

Often a mix of brand new or in development plays and award-winning contemporary plays, notable premiere readings include plays by Maria Dahvana Headley (Author of The Year of Yes), Don DeLillo (Novelist/Playwright, Winner of The National Book Award), and Dano Madden, winner of the 2007 Kennedy Center National Student Playwriting Award.

Christopher Lasch

From 1980 to 1983 in National Book Award history there were dual awards for hardcover and paperback books in many categories.

Claudette Colvin

Phillip Hoose wrote a biography, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, which won the 2009 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

Creatures of a Day

Published in 2008, Creatures of a Day is the eighth book of poetry by Reginald Gibbons (b. 1947) and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.

Eliza Lynch

Lily Tuck, The News from Paraguay (2004), which won the National Book Award for that year

J. Neil Garcia

Professor Garcia has won several literary awards including the Palanca and the National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle.

Garcia's groundbreaking study, Philippine Gay Culture: The Last Thirty Years (1996), was awarded a National Book Award by the Manila Critics Circle in 1996.

Lastikman

Created in 1965, Lastikman comes to life through the writing of acclaimed comic book creator and inker Gerry Alanguilan (Wasted, Superman: Birthright), the art of two-time National Book Award winner Arnold Arre (Mythology Class, Trip to Tagaytay), and the brilliant colors of the talented Edgar Tadeo (Wolverine, Silver Surfer).

Linda Pastan

Two of her collections of poems were nominated for the National Book Award and one for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Martine Leavitt

Leavitt's books have won many awards, including winner of the 2003 Mr. Christie Award for Tom Finder, finalist for the 2006 National Book Award for Keturah and Lord Death, finalist for the 2004 Governor General's Awards for Heck Superhero, and winner of the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award for My Book of Life by Angel in 2013.

Ralph J. Menconi

Among his more than 900 works, Menconi created medals for the National Book Award, New York University Law School, Kenyon College, Hamilton College, the Capitol Historical Society in Washington, and the New York Historical Society.

Rene Villanueva

He won the following awards: TOYP, New York Film and TV Festival, First Latin American Video and Film Festival (Columbia), Japan Prize (Preschool Category), Prix Juenesse Winner (Germany), TOYM, CCP, Gawad Collantes, Gantipalang Quezon, National Book Award, and Palanca.

Sarah Lindsay

In addition to writing the two chapbooks Bodies of Water and Insomniac's Lullabye, Lindsay has authored two books in the Grove Press Poetry Series: Primate Behavior (a National Book Award finalist) and Mount Clutter.

This Is How You Lose Her

This Is How You Lose Her was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award.

Trauma model of mental disorders

In 1975 Silvano Arieti won the American National Book Award in the field of science for his book, Interpretation of Schizophrenia, which advances a psychological model for understanding all the regressive types of the disorder.

William Alfred

William Alfred was the recipient of the New York Drama Desk Award (for Hogan's Goat) and served on the poetry panels of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award committees.