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National Book Awards - 1957
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FICTION
The Field of Vision
- Wright Morris
Nelson Algren - Walk on the Wild Side
James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
Saul Bellow - Seize the Day
B.J. Chute - Greenwillow
A.B. Guthrie – These Thousand Years
John Hersey - A Single Pebble
John Hunt - Generations of Men
Edwin O'Connor - The Last Hurrah
J.F. Powers - The Presence of Grace
Elizabeth Spencer – The Voice at the Back Door
James Thurber - Further Fables for Our Time

NONFICTION
Russia Leaves the War
- George F. Kennan
Read the acceptance speech
Samuel F. Bemis - John Quincy Adams and the Union
James MacGregor Burns – Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox
Bruce Catton - This Hallowed Ground
William Chambers - Old Bullion Benton
Stuart Chase - Guides to Straight Thinking
Arthur H. Compton - The Atomic Quest
Frank Freidel - Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph
Eric Goldman - The Crucial Decade
Kathryn Hulme - The Nun's Story
Paul Murray Kendall - Richard III
John F. Kennedy - Profiles in Courage
Samuel Lubell - The Revolt of the Moderates
Perry Miller - The Raven and the Whale
Lewis Mumford - Transformations of Man
Edwin W. Teale - Autumn Across America
Robert Penn Warren - Segregation
William Whyte, Jr. - The Organization Man

POETRY
Things of the World
- Richard Wilbur
Read the acceptance speech
Edgar Bowers - The Form of Loss
Leah B. Drake - This Tilting Dust
Charles E. Eaton - Greenhouse in the Garden
Kenneth Fearing - New and Selected Poems
Robert Fitzgerald - In the Rose of Time
Katherine Haskins - Villa Narcisse
Rolfe Humphries - Green Armor on Green Ground
Joseph Langland - Poems in POEMS OF TODAY, III
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - The Unicorn
W.S. Merwin - Green with Beasts
Marianne Moore - Like a Bulwark
Ezra Pound – Section: Rock Drill
Kenneth Rexroth - In Defense of the Earth
John Hall Wheelock - Poems Old and New


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