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National Book Awards - 1958
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FICTION
The Wapshot Chronicle
- John Cheever
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
The Lion and the Throne
- Catherine Drinker Bowen
Read the acceptance speech
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
Promises: Poems, 1954-1956
- Robert Penn Warren
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



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