Presenter of the National Book Awards
National
Book Awards - 1958
FICTION
Winner:
John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction
Blog
Finalists:
James Agee - A Death in the Family
James Gould Cozzens - By Love Possessed
Mark Harris - Something About a Soldier
Andrew Lytle - The Velvet Horn
Bernard Malamud - The Assistant
Wright Morris - Love Among the Cannibals
Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Nancy Wilson Ross - The Return of
Lady Brace
May Sarton - The Birth of a Grandfather
NONFICTION
Winner:
Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Lion and the Throne
> Read the acceptance speech
Finalists:
Margaret Coit - Mr. Baruch
Will Durant - The Reformation
Louis Hacker- Alexander Hamilton in
the American Tradition
Gilbert Highet - Poets in a Landscape
Mark deWolfe Howe - Justice Holmes:
The Shaping Years, 1841-1870
Henry A. Kissinger - Nuclear Weapons
and Foreign Policy
Mary McCarthy - Memories of a Catholic
Girlhood
Max F. Milliken & W. W. Rostow -
A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign
Policy
Vance Packard - The Hidden Persuaders
John Pullen - The Twentieth Maine
David Schoenbrun - As France Goes
Gwen Terasaki - Bridge to the Sun
W.S. White - The Citadel
POETRY
Winner:
Robert Penn Warren, Promises: Poems, 1954-1956
> NBA
Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Warren
Finalists:
Daniel Berrigan
- Time Without Number
Philip Booth - Letter from a Distant
Land
Edwin G. Burrows - The Arctic Tern
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) - Selected
Poems of H.D.
Richard Eberhart - Great Praises
Richmond Lattimore - Poems
Howard Moss - Swimmer in the Air
May Sarton - In Time Like Air
Eli Siegel - Hot Afternoons Have Been
in Montana
William Jay Smith – Poems: 1947-1957
Wallace Stevens - Opus Posthumous
James Wright - The Green Wall
