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National Book Awards - 1952
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FICTION
From Here to Eternity
- James Jones
James Agee - The 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 the Darkness
Jessamyn West - The Witch Diggers
Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny

NONFICTION
The Sea Around Us
- Rachel Carson
Read the acceptance speech

Read Neil Baldwin's National Book Award Classics Essay

Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism
Marshall Davidson - Life in America
F.W. DuPee - Henry James
Waldo Frank - Birth of a World
Douglas S. Freeman - George Washington
Erich Fromm - The Forgotten Language
Oscar Handlin - The Uprooted
Walker Kazin - A Walker in the City
Dumas Malone - Jefferson and the Rights of Man
C. Wright Mills - White Collar
Arthur Mizener - The Far Side of Paradise
Lewis Mumford - Conduct of Life
Merlo Pusey - Charles Evans Hughes
Nathan Schachner - Thomas Jefferson
William Carlos Williams - The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
C. Vann Woodward - Reunion and Reaction

POETRY
Collected Poems
- Marianne Moore
Read the acceptance speech
W.H. Auden - Nones
William Rose Benèt - The Spirit of the Scene
Richard Eberhart - Selected Poems
Horace Gregory - Selected Poems of Horace Gregory
Randall Jarrell - The Seven-League Crutches
Theodore Roethke - Praise to the End
Muriel Rukeyser - Selected Poems
William Carlos Williams - Collected Earlier Poems
William Carlos Williams - Paterson


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