National Book Awards -
1959
FICTION
Winner:
Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
J.P. Donleavy - The Ginger Man
William Humphrey - Home from the Hill
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
John O'Hara - From the Terrace
J.R. Salamanca - The Lost Country
Anya Seton - The Winthrop Woman
Robert Travers - Anatomy of a Murder
NONFICTION
Winner:
J. Christopher Herold, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael
Finalists:
Hannah Arendt - The Human Condition
Lester Atwell - Private
Daniel J. Boorstin - The Americans
Anne Braden - The Wall Between
Charles Ferguson - Naked to Mine Enemies
Shelby Foote - The Civil War, Vol. I
John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society
Harry Golden - Only in America
George F. Kennan - Russia, the Atom and the West
Louis Kronenberger - Marlborough's Duchess
Flora Lewis - A Case History of Hope
Edgar Snow - Journey to the Beginnings
POETRY
Winner:
Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind> Read the acceptance speech by Daniel G. Hoffman
> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Roethke
Finalists:
John Ciardi - I Marry You
e.e. cummings - Poems
Archibald MacLeish - J.B.
Howard Nemerov - Mirrors and Windows
Theodore Roethke - Collected Poems
Karl Shapiro - Poems for a Jew
May Swenson - A Cage of Spines
William Carlos Williams - Paterson, Book IV