1953

winners

Discover honored books by category:

WINNER

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

FINALISTS

Many Mansions

Isabel Bolton

Winds of Morning

H. L. Davis

The Gathering Darkness

Thomas Gallagher

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Jefferson Selleck

Carl Jonas

The Landsmen

Peter Martin

A Shower of Summer Days

May Sarton

The Catherine Wheel

Jean Stafford

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

The Build-Up

William Carlos Williams

Judges

Saul Bellow

Martha Foley

Irving Howe

Howard Mumford Jones

Alfred Kazin

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