User:P64/FSF/National Book Award

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Category:National Book Award

To Do
Graphics awards (at least 1980)

Children's
 * list) Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida


 * 1. ^ a b Beginning 2005, the official annual webpages (see References) provide more information: the panelists in each award category, the publisher of each finalist, some audio-visual interviews with authors, etc. For 1996 to date, annual webpages generally provide transcripts of acceptance speeches by winning authors.
 * 2. ^ a b c d e Books marked "original" may have been paperback reprints during the same calendar year as their hardcover first editions, so "original" may be a misnomer. They were first published during the calendar year preceding the award year, so they were not previously eligible for any previous National Book Award.

Fiction


 * ^ Evidently the July to September 2009 "Book-a-Day Blog" and September online poll covered 77 fiction winners. The online display of thumbnail cover images has been extended to cover 2009 and 2010 winners, as has the second numeral in its title, now "60 Years of the National Book Awards- 79 Fiction Winners" (as of 2012-01-05).

Poetry


 * ^ a b c The Poetry panels split the 1972, 1974, and 1983 awards, after which split awards were not permitted.

Nonfiction
 * nonfic) Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël

Organization
The institutional administrator is likely to be called "sponsor" in the sense of organizing not funding.

Count and Classification of Award Categories
Green highlights the scope of the "winners and finalists" tables below,.

Khaki indicates other categories whose losing finalists are not listed at wikipedia including this user space. (The indication isn't perfect because the main Fiction award is covered throughout its history and the one-year "General Reference" is below.)

No special background color means that coverage is complete at National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Book Award for Fiction, and National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

Ceremony
NBF publishes supplementary material such as acceptance speech or retrospective essay for the winners of all Fiction and Poetry awards from 1950 (about 80+60=140 award winners) and those other awards listed here --and only these if i scan correctly 2012-04-03.
 * 1952 nf Carson
 * 1953 nf DeVoto
 * 1954 nf Catton
 * 1957 nf Kennan
 * 1958 nf Drinker Bowen   * * * all noted in wikipedia biographies
 * 1960 nf Ellman
 * 1963 nf Edel
 * 1964 al Ward
 * 1967 al Kaplan
 * 1972 ch Barthelme
 * 1974 al Kael
 * 1975 al Thomas
 * 1975 h Bailyn
 * 1977 ch Paterson
 * 1986 nf Lopez
 * 1992 nf Monette
 * 1993 nf Vidal
 * 1995 nf Rosenberg
 * 1996 to date except 2000(nothing), 2004(blurb only), and 2006NF(blurb) -- Nonfiction and Young People's Literature (thus all four awards)

no plans to cover these
For these award categories I do not anticipate that I will do so much as list the winners and finalists with confirmed and improved links. POETRY, 1950 to date TRANSLATION, 1967 to 1983 plus these award categories 1980 to 1985. I have copied the nearly-raw data here. FIRST NOVEL William Wharton, Birdy > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog Finalists: Terry Davis - Vision Quest Stratis Haviaras - When the Tree Sings Philip F. O'Connor - Stealing Home Alan Saperstein - Mom Kills Kids and Self MYSTERY (HARDCOVER) John D. MacDonald, The Green Ripper > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog Finalists: Lucille Kallen - Introducing C.G. Greenfield William X. Kienzle - The Rosary Murders Arthur Maling - The Rheingold Route Lawrence Meyer - False Front MYSTERY (PAPERBACK) William F. Buckley, Jr., Stained Glass > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog Finalists: R. Wright Campbell - The Spy Who Sat and Waited Sean Flannery - The Kremlin Conspiracy Tony Hillerman - Listening Woman Michael Kurland - The Infernal Device POETRY
 * 1980

SCIENCE FICTION (HARDCOVER) Frederik Pohl, Jem > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog < Finalists: John Crowley - Engine Summer Thomas M. Disch - On Wings of Song Jerry Pournelle - Janissaries Kate Wilhelm - Juniper Time SCIENCE FICTION (PAPERBACK) Walter Wangerin, Jr., The Book of the Dun Cow > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog Finalists: Samuel R. Delany - Tales of Neveryon Vonda N. McIntyre - Dreamsnake Norman Spinrad - The Star-Spangled Future John Varley - The Persistence of Vision TRANSLATION split award William Arrowsmith, Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor Jane Gary Harris & Constance Link, Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters Finalist: George L. Hart, III – George Hart’s Poets of the Tamil Anthologies WESTERN Louis L'Amour, Bendigo Shafter > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog Finalists: Benjamin Capps - Woman Chief Loren D. Estleman - The High Rocks Brian Garfield - Wild Times G. Clifton Wisler - My Brother, the Wind FIRST NOVEL Ann Arensberg, Sister Wolf > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog Finalists: Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear Philip Caputo - Horn of Africa Johanna Kaplan - O My America Lynne Sharon Schwartz - Rough Strife POETRY
 * 1981

TRANSLATION split award Francis Steegmuller, The Letters of Gustave Flaubert John E. Woods, Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold Finalists: Guy Davenport – Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C.   John Glad – Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales Jean Milligan – Kao Ming’s The Lute

FIRST NOVEL Robb Forman Dew, Dale Loves Sophie to Death > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog Finalists: Celia Gittelson - Saving Grace Bette Bao Lord - Spring Moon Leonard Michaels - The Men's Club Ted Mooney - Easy Travel to Other Planets POETRY
 * 1982

TRANSLATION split award Robert Lyons Danly, Higuchi Ichiyo's In the Shade of Spring Leaves Ian Hideo Levy, The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry Finalists: W.S. DiPiero – Leopardi’s Pensieri Louis Iribarne – Milosz’s The Issa Valley Miller Williams – Sonnets of Giuseppe Belli

FIRST NOVEL Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place > Read Her Acceptance Speech > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog Finalists: Gail Albert - Matters of Chance John M. Del Vecchio - The 13th Valley Susanna Moore - My Old Sweetheart David Small - Almost Famous ORIGINAL PAPERBACK Lisa Goldstein, The Red Magician Finalists: David P. Barash, PhD., and Judith Eve Lipton, M.D. – Stop Nuclear War: A Handbook Mark Green – Winning Back America Ground Zero War Foundation – Nuclear War Marc Scott Zicree – The Twilight Zone Companion POETRY
 * 1983

TRANSLATION Richard Howard, Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal Finalists: Marion Faber – Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Mozart Allen Mandelbaum – Dante’s Purgatorio Philip B. Miller – An Abyss Deep Enough: Letters of Heinrich von Kleist Richard Wilbur – Racine’s Andromache FIRST WORK OF FICTION Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog Finalists: Kem Nunn – Tapping the Source Padgett Powell – Edisto FIRST WORK OF FICTION Easy in the Islands, Bob Shacochis > Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog Finalists: Elizabeth Benedict – Slow Dancing Cecile Pineda – Face
 * 1984
 * 1985

Children's Books, 1980 to 1983
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Tools

 * Citations


 * Alexander, Lloyd (1973). The Foundling, and Other Tales of Prydain. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 0-030-07431-2.
 * Alexander, Lloyd (1999). The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-805-06130-4.


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 * National Book Award for Young People's Literature


 * Boston Globe – Horn Book Award --usually unreferenced


 * Caldecott Medal (and Honor)


 * Newbery Medal (and Honor)


 * Michael L. Printz Award (and Honor)

"the American Library Association named it a Printz Honor Book, one of four runners up for the annual Michael L. Printz Award recognizing literary excellence in books for young adults.


 * ALSC, YALSA Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production (and Honor)


 * ALA "2012 Youth Media Awards"

Alex Awards : (10 announced today by YALSA)

Andrew Carnegie Medal : ref name=pr2012 (announced today by ALSC) "Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly Ellard win 2012 Carnegie Medal for Children Make Terrible Pets". ALA Press Release. January 23, 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-21.


 * Coretta Scott King Book Awards (2) : (African-American experience) (2 cats announced today)


 * Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement : (career/ announced today by ALA)

John Newbery Medal : ref name=pr2012newb/cald (announced today by ALSC) "Jack Gantos, Chris Raschka win Newbery, Caldecott Medals".

Margaret A. Edwards Award : ref name=pr2012 (career/ announced today by YALSA) "Susan Cooper wins 2012 Edwards Award for The Dark Is Rising Sequence".

May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture : ALSC ref name=pr2012 (career/ announced today by ALSC) "Michael Morpurgo to deliver 2013 Arbuthnot Honor Lecture".

Michael L. Printz Award : ref name=pr2012 (announced today by YALSA) "Where Things Come Back wins 2012 Printz Award".

Mildred L. Batchelder Award : ref name=pr2012 (announced today by ALSC) "2012 Batchelder Award honors Eerdmans Books for Young Readers for Soldier Bear".

Odyssey Award : ref name=pr2012 (announced today) "Listening Library wins 2012 Odyssey Award for "'Rotters''".


 * Pura Belpré Awards (2) : (Latino cultural experience) (2 cats announced today by ALSC)

Randolph Caldecott Medal : ref name=pr2012newb/cald (announced today by ALSC) "Jack Gantos, Chris Raschka win Newbery, Caldecott Medals".

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal : (announced today by ALSC) "Melissa Sweet wins 2012 Sibert Medal".


 * Schneider Family Book Award (3) : (disability experience) (3 cats announced today by ALA)


 * Stonewall Children's & Young Adult Literature Award : (LGBT experience) (1 cat announced today)

Theodore Seuss Geisel Award :(announced today by ALSC) "Josh Schneider wins Geisel Award for Tales for Very Picky Eaters".

William C. Morris Award : ref name=pr2012 (presented today by YALSA) "Where Things Come Back wins 2012 William C. Morris Award".

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults : ref name=pr2012 (presented today by YALSA) "The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery wins 2012 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults".
 * end 2012 Youth Media Awards

Speculative fiction

 * ISFDB


 * Pringle 100
 * Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels
 * Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
 * Locus Awards
 * all-time 1987 (see The Left Hand of Darkness, Dragonflight)
 * Anne McCaffrey. The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees.

In 1987, Locus magazine ranked The Shadow of the Torturer number four among the 33 "All-Time Best Fantasy Novels", based on a poll of subscribers.

The Shadow of the Torturer won the annual World Fantasy Award and British Science Fiction Association Award as the year's best novel. Among other annual awards for fantasy or science fiction novels, it placed second for the Locus (fantasy), third for the Campbell Memorial (SF), and was a finalist for the Nebula (SF).

Other awards

 * Pulitzer Prizes (below)
 * American Book Awards (below)
 * O. Henry Award
 * National Book Critics Circle Award --usually unreferenced
 * Modern Library (below)
 * Modern Library 100 Best Novels
 * Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction
 * TIME (below)
 * The 100 Best Books of All Time
 * Time's List of the 100 Best Novels

American Book Awards
"AMERICAN"

Time 100
TIME magazine named it one of the 100 best novels in the English language since "the beginning of TIME" (1923 to 2005).

named one of the 100 best novels in the English-language by TIME magazine (best in the history of TIME, 1923 to 2005)

Modern Library 100
and by Modern Library (number 81 of the editorial board's 20th-century hundred).

National Book Foundation
faq foundation history letters literarian2005 process selection winners

NONFICTION recent

National Book Award for Nonfiction

MULTIPLE NONFICTION 1980 to 1983 --or 1964 to 1983

a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in History.

Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints of books eligible for previous awards but the 1982 Science was original, Taking the Quantum Leap by Fred Alan Wolf.


 * or ... ; this one was original.

FINALIST 1980 Engine Summer (1979) was nominated for the 1980 National Book Award in one-year category Science Fiction;

PAPERBACKS PICTURE

60-YEAR ESSAY CONTENT

nba1951 (With essays by Neil Baldwin and Ross Gay from the Awards 50(?) and 60-year anniversary publications. Gay (2009) cites the 1949 title Selected Poems with some comment.)

nba1972(fiction)


 * 1970s to date --The New York Times, mix of ProQuest (subxn only) and NYT (some subxn only)
 * 1935 to 1950 --The New York Times at ProQuest Historical Newspapers (subscription only)

fehrman(2011column)

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nyt1967

nyt1973 nyt1974 nyt1975(afterword)

nyt1980a nyt1980 nyt1983 nyt1983vote nyt1984a(nom;revamp) nyt1984 nyt1985 nyt1987

List of winners of the National Book Award

nyt1936a(prelim) nyt1936 nyt1937 nyt1938 nyt1939 nyt1940 nyt1941a(Antoine dSE) nyt1941 nyt1942

Early awards
The first article announces the new annual award.


 * 35/36 - four
 * 36/37 - five (add Booksellers Discovery)
 * 37/38 - four with close seconds (drop Biography)
 * 38/39 - four
 * 39/40 - four with runners up
 * 40/41 - three (drop Most Original Book)
 * 41/42 - one (Discovery alone; drop Non-fiction and Novel)

1935/1936

 * The Most Distinguished Novel of the Year, Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind
 * The Most Original Novel of the Year, Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao
 * The Most Distinguished Biography of the Year, Vincent Sheean, Personal History
 * The Most Distinguished General Nonfiction, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient

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Books and Authors New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 12, 1936; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR12

new annual award to be given at the annual convention

voted by all booksellers from nominees by a central NY cmtee of seven and a national cmtee of fifteen
 * The Most Distinguished Novel of the Year
 * The Most Original Novel of the Year
 * The Most Distinguished Biography of the Year
 * The Most Distinguished General Nonfiction

The year's awards, May 11 annual banquet Virginia Kirkus, chair; E.S. McCawley, ABA president; three bookshops, Publishers Weekly, American News Co.

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 * 1936 adverts

Display Ad 28 -- No Title New York Times (1923-Current file); May 12, 1936; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 21

Vincent Sheean, Personal History, "one person's relationship to living history"
 * 'The most distinguished autobiography of 1935' advert. by publ Doubleday, Doran; "the top for the year" --Harry Hansen; award yesterday, presented by Christopher Morley

Anne Lindbergh, North to the Orient
 * 'The most distinguished general non-fiction book of 1935' advert. bty publ Harcourt, Brace & Co

Display Ad 22 -- No Title New York Times (1923-Current file); Jun 3, 1936; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 19

Sheean, one of 20 advert. Doubleday, Doran Book Shops

August, another

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 * nyt1936

LEWIS IS SCORNFUL OF RADIO CULTURE: Nothing Ever Will Replace the Old-Fashioned Book, He Tells Booksellers. New York Times (1923-Current file); May 12, 1936; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 25

"Enemies of the Book", address by Lewis on the 36th annual dinner of the ABA, concluding two-day convention at Hotel Pennsylvania

crit's teachers of English who scorn current writers, and publishers of cheap pulp magazines

all writers are booksellers

books will not be supplanted by radio, television, phonograph records, nor "any ingenious microscopic gadget whereby you can carry the entire works of Balzac in your cigarette case"
 * those are enemies; so are "the automobile, the bridge table and night clubs"
 * we publishers writers and dealers may expect smaller profits but we must/will be increasingly skilled; there will be no shelf space for "any anemic romance that happens along"

At the luncheon that preceded the afternoon session first NBAs announced by Christopher Morley
 * Dist Novel, Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind
 * Original Novel, Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao
 * Dist Biography, Vincent Sheean, Personal History
 * Dist general non-fiction, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North of the Orient

"the opinions of the booksellers of America, voting

best-seller lists discussed afternoon; most say inaccurate, maybe deliberately misleading; "the life of a book is shortened"; the joint cmtee of booksellers and publishers takes "no definite decision" but the general opinion is "detrimental"

also afternoon, attorney Morris L. Ernst spoke for resale price maintenance, advocated its enforcement by booksellers

next pres Lewis B. Traver

1936/1937

 * The Most Distinguished Novel of the Year, Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
 * The Most Original Novel of the Year, Della T. Lutes, The Country Kitchen
 * The Most Distinguished Biography of the Year, Victor Heiser, An American Doctor's Odyssey (autobiography)
 * (Heiser: Leprosy)
 * The Most Distinguished General Nonfiction, Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England
 * Booksellers' Discovery, Norah Lofts, I Met a Gypsy
 * (British)
 * -- we say Short Story Collection and gives "London: Metheun & New York: Knopf, 1935"

8 hits "n b award", all adverts; 0 "n b award"


 * non-fiction, Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England (pulitzer too; best history, American Writers Congress) 1031 Dutton advert 31st printing; 1128 national bestseller 65 weeks, special editions $4, $5 for Christmas

another advert, Graduation gift

hits "booksellers award"

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 * nyt1937

5 HONORS AWARDED ON THE YEAR'S BOOKS: Authors of Preferred Volumes Hailed at Luncheon New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 26, 1937; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 23

results of voting by the 600 members of the ABA ann Christopher Morley yday, annually five awards
 * biography, Victor Heiser, An American Doctor's Odyssey
 * general non-fiction, Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England
 * novel, Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
 * original, Della T. Lutes, The Country Kitchen
 * cookbook; gastronomical autobiography --Michigan cookbooks online
 * forgotten book of the year that least deserved to be forgotten, Norah Lofts, I Met a Gypsy
 * (British)

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 * 1937 convention

ROOSEVELT TO GET GIFT OF 200 BOOKS: Nation's Sellers to Reward Him for Example Set New York Times (1923-Current file); May 12, 1937; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 21

yesterday at the conclusion of the annual convention, Hotel Pennsylvania --voted to continue award five plaques next year to books "most deserving of popularity"; this year two garnered Pulitzer (Mitchell and Brooks)

Lewis B. Traver re-elected pres

1937/1938

 * Discovery, Lawrence Watkin, On Borrowed Time
 * --we say first novel
 * Non-fiction, Ève Curie, Madame Curie
 * (French)
 * --we say French, simult. publ. France and elsewhere
 * Novel, A. J. Cronin, The Citadel
 * --we say novel, groundsbreaking treatment of medical ethics (Scottish, UK)
 * Most Original, Carl Crow, Four Hundred Million Customers
 * --first Western advertising agency in Shanghai

"close seconds"
 * Conrad Richter, The Sea of Grass
 * --we say novel
 * Kenneth Roberts (author), Northwest Passage
 * --we say historical novel
 * Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
 * --we say Chinese 1935 immigrant; in US a "popularizer of Chinese philosophy and way of life"
 * Leonard Q. Ross (Leo Rosten), The Education of Hyman Kaplan
 * --we say collection of The New Yorker stories, humorist

0 hits "n b award"; 2 "n b awards", one being 0225 announcement of luncheon next Tuesday

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BOOKSELLERS GIVE PRIZE TO 'CITADEL': Cronin's Work About Doctors Their Favorite--'Mme. Curie' New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 2, 1938; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 14


 * long title

BOOKSELLERS GIVE PRIZE TO 'CITADEL': Cronin's Work About Doctors Their Favorite--'Mme. Curie' Gets Non-Fiction Award TWO OTHERS WIN HONORS Fadiman Is 'Not Interested' in What Pulitzer Committee Thinks of Selections Other High Favorites Paperweights As Prizes

four prizes announced yesterday at ABA book award luncheon


 * favorite novel, A. J. Cronin, The Citadel
 * non-fiction, Eve Curie, Madame Curie
 * discovery, Lawrence Watkin, On Borrowed Time
 * original, Carl Crow, 400 Million Customers

"close seconds"
 * Conrad Richter, Sea of Grass
 * Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage
 * Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
 * Leonard Q. Ross, The Education of Hyman Kaplan

ballots from 319 stores, three times so many as 1935/36

Fadiman on Pulitzer: "I, for one, do not care whether they ratify our stand or not." "Unlike the Pulitzer Prize committee, the booksellers merely vote for their favorite books. They do not say it is the best book or the one that will elevate the standard of manhood or womanhood. Twenty years from now we can decide which are the masterpieces. This year we can only decide which books we enjoyed reading the most."

... "Each year the booksellers of the country, who feel that they are closer to books than any jury of experts, select their favorite titles in each of these classifications. The balloting is carried on by the bookstore owners and their staffs."

Prizes "engraved bronze paperweights in the shape of an open book"

Dr. Francis Carter Wood, Inst Cancer Research Columbia U, accepting for Mlle. Curie,

1938/1939

 * Bookseller Discovery, David Fairchild, The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer
 * Non-fiction: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Listen! The Wind
 * Novel: Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
 * (British)
 * Original: Margaret Halsey, With Malice Toward Some

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BOOK ABOUT PLANTS RECEIVES AWARD: Dr. Fairchild's 'Garden' Work Cited by Booksellers New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 15, 1939; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 20

"favorite books of the past year in several classifications"

four winners announced at luncheon ABA & NYHT, 1000 att.

Bookseller Discovery Dr. David Fairchild, The World Was My Garden (autobiography, ex-head USDA)
 * "the most deserving book which failed to receive adequate sales and recognition"

favorite novel: Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca favorite non-fiction: Anne Morrow Lindbergh Listen! the Wind most original: Margaret Halsey, With Malice Toward Some

Halsey alone present, Du Maurier by transatlantic telephone

Clifton Fadiman presiding

Books and Authors New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 26, 1939; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 91
 * "In a nation-wide poll the members of the ABA ..."

1939/1940

 * Bookseller's Discovery, Elgin Groseclose, Ararat
 * a novel of adventure in Armenia; 'a book of "outstanding merit which failed to receive adequate sales and recognition"'
 * Favorite Fiction, annual ballot booksellers, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
 * having more sales than any other, 430000 printed
 * Most Original Book, Dalton Trumbo, screen writer, Johnny Got His Gun
 * depicting the horrors of war
 * --we say "(then known as an American Book Sellers Award)"
 * Favorite Non-fiction, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
 * noted French pilot
 * --French, France Feb 1939, transl. publ. US later 1939

Runners Up
 * Discovery: Chard Powers Smith, Artillery of Time, I
 * I: Artillery of Time is a novel about Yankee farm like of the 1850s and 1860s as the drift toward industrialization became a torrent. --Wildside Press
 * II: DURING April, 1860, the cholera as usual crossed the Ohio River at Cincinnati and spread northward with the spring. --first sentence, Amazon, no date


 * Novel: Sholom Asch, The Nazarene
 * Non-fiction: Pierre van Paassen, Days of Our Years (autobiography)
 * original: Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male

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 * nyt1940

1939 BOOK AWARDS GIVEN BY CRITICS: Elgin Groseclose's 'Ararat' Is Picked as Work Which Failed to Get Due Recognition", New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 14, 1940; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 25


 * "Winners in four classifications of the National Book Awards for 1939 were announced yesterday at a book and author luncheon in the Hotel Astor of the American Booksellers Association, which sponsors the award, and the New York Herald Tribune."

Announced by critic Harry Hansen.

Bookseller's Discovery, 'a book of "outstanding merit which failed to receive adequate sales and recognition"'
 * Elgin Groseclose, Ararat, a novel of adventure in Armenia

Favorite Fiction, annual ballot booksellers
 * John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, having more sales than any other, 430000 printed

Most Original Book
 * Dalton Trumbo, screen writer, Johnny Got His Gun, depicting the horrors of war

Favorite Non-fiction
 * Artoine de St. Exupery, noted French pilot, Wind, Sand and Stars

"engraved bronze paperweights in the form of an open book"
 * 17 people guessed 3 out of 4 at the last luncheon and received copies of the fourth

Runners up, one each category

Speakers two former winners
 * Victor Heiser, You're the Doctor
 * Vincent Sheean, Not Peace but a Sword

1940/1941

 * Booksellers' Discovery: Perry Burgess, Who Walk Alone (non-fiction?)
 * (at Google) (at Amazon: "A Spanish-American war veteran returns from the Phillipines to begin his young life only to find out a few years hence he was infected with leprosy.")
 * Favorite Novel: Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
 * (Welsh)
 * Favorite Non-Fiction: Hans Zinsser, As I Remember Him: The Biography of R.S. (autobiography)

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FRENCH FLIER GETS BOOK PRIZE FOR 1939: Antoine de St. Exupery Able at Last to Receive New York Times (1923-Current file); Jan 15, 1941; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 6

AdSE "was flying daily reconnaissance over the German lines a year ago when the award was first announced" yesterday rec'd the 1939 award at the luncheon (third of the season), att. 1500

presented by Elmer Davis, chairman at the luncheon

missing URL Display Ad 26 -- No Title New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 13, 1941; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 17
 * 1941 adverts

National Book Award Edition, ABA favorite novel
 * Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

missing URL Books and Authors New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 16, 1941; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR12
 * nyt1941

Books and Authors
 * Booksellers' Discovery: Perry Burgess, Who Walk Alone (listed first)
 * Booksellers' Favorite Non-Fiction: Hans Zinsser, As I Remember Him

selections "though a nationwide poll of American booksellers, who give their votes to the books they and their staffs enjoy selling and found worth recommending to their customers"

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 * 1941 advert

Display Ad 78 -- No Title New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 23, 1941; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR21

The Booksellers of America Announce Their National Awards [photocopy]
 * "Each year they choose, by a nation-wide poll, their favorite books."
 * "The Discovery award always goes to a book deserving far more attention than it has received. In effect, his ballot says, 'Of all the books of the year these are the three I enjoyed most--iin two ways! I enjoyed reading them; and I enjoyed selling them."
 * "The National Book Awards give you perhaps a greater guarantee of reading pleasure than do any other literary prizes."
 * half the advertisement is devoted to the three books by three publishers

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 * 1941 toward 1942?

Notes on Books and Authors New York Times (1923-Current file); Dec 29, 1941; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 19

Notes on Books and Authors

next year nominations?

1941/1942

 * Discovery, George Sessions Perry, Hold Autumn in Your Hand
 * --we say "a novel about a year in the life of a tenant farm"

0 "n b awards", 6 "n b award", 20 "booksellers award" mainly adverts

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 * 1942

Notes on Books and Authors New York Times (1923-Current file); Jan 11, 1942; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR12

at book and author luncheon Tue Jan 13, guests will cast straw votes for Booksellers' Discovery "to be presented with the National Book Award for 1941"

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 * 1942 prelim

Books -- Authors New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 5, 1942; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 19

announced by Publishers Weekly, to be presented next Tuesday

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 * nyt1942

NEGLECTED AUTHOR GETS HIGH HONOR: 1941 Book Award Presented to George Perry for 'Hold New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 11, 1942; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 18

fifth in the series of book and author luncheons at the Astor by ABA and NYHT

presented by Karl Placht, ABA president

Booksellers' Discovery "a sort of consolation prize that the booksellers hope will draw attention to his work";
 * George Sessions Perry, Hold Autumn in Your Hands, a realistic story of Texas farm life; 7000 sold, new edition with 'stamp "Booksellers' Discovery"'

1942/1943
no hits except "bookseller award", not fruitful (but Skinner Award continues)(Pulitzer too)(Southern Authors Award)

current series
1949, no hits "national book award" or "awards"

1950
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 * nyt1950a

BOOK TRADE PLANS TO HONOR WRITERS: Industry Will Award Annual Prizes for Poetry, Fiction New York Times (1923-Current file); Jan 22, 1950; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 68

three awards to works by Americans published here, announced yesterday, first to be given March 16

gold medal

sponsors ABPC, ABA, BMI

three boards of five judges

"the book industry itself had never united to honor the best contributions to American life and culture"


 * 4 Harper ads "Watch for"
 * 2 mentions "In and Out of Books" David Dempsey column
 * Eleanor Roos will speak at the book industry dinner
 * "first annual NBA dinner of the book industry in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Thursday"
 * speakers Sen Paul Douglas, Eleanor Roos, Frederick Lewis Allen

0316 radio listings http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/111464997/134A0886E375B3518B3/2?accountid=11311
 * nyt1950eve
 * PROGRAMS ON THE AIR

New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 16, 1950; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 46

9:30-10 National Book Awards Dinner: Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, Clifton Fadiman, Others WQXR; 10-10:30 WJZ (Recorded)

also today: a one-par notice of Mrs. Roosevelt's radio address and the following "Author Meets the Critics" from Waldorf-Astoria

http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/111467441/1342889A25B1601DD17/11?accountid=11311 BOOK PUBLISHERS MAKE 3 AWARDS: Nelson Algren, Dr. Ralph L. Rusk and Dr. W.C. Williams Receive New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 17, 1950; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 21
 * nyt1950

"The first literary awards ever made by the publishing trade as a whole ..." gold plaques

MC Clifton Fadiman

Algren, The Man With the Golden Arm, a lurid account of life in a Chicago slum Ralph L. Rusk, The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (publ nearly a year ago, nom. for 1949 Pulitzer)

William Carlos Williams, latest volume Paterson poems and selected verse ... "pediatrician-novelist-poet, has the reputation, like Whitman, of writing with too great complexity for the unskilled reader.''

five special citations in the non-fiction field

Lincoln Barnett, The Universe and Dr. Einstein Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember H. A. Overstreet, The Mature Mind Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream Kenneth P. Williams, Lincoln Finds a General

only Algern has been on the best-seller list and the three winners share "the common lot of being in part hard to read"

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 * 1950 after

THREE LITERARY PRIZES New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 18, 1950; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 12
 * THREE LITERARY PRIZES

"... the first annual National Book Awards ... Sponsored by the entire book industry in a gesture of cooperation, the awards created an occasion unprecedented in publishing history: the assembling of bookish people throughout the country to focus attention on the significance of books in general, and three books in particular which --according to a board of distinguished judges and the recommendations of the nation's reviewers-- contributed most to American life and culture in 1949." "... The three winners are serious writers, ... who have reflected on the meaning of America." ... "... we welcome the inauguration of an award that should draw spectacular atention to the solid, unspectacular creative talents which ... continue to nourish American literature."

1951
"national book awards"

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 * NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS: 3 'Most Distinguished' Works of 1950 to Be Honored March 6

0307 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/111824282/134A0886E375B3518B3/10?accountid=11311
 * Faulkner, Arvin, Stevens Honored By Publishers as Best U.S. Authors: RECIPIENTS OF SECOND ANNUAL NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

1964
0311 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/115576194/134A095EF2C34833EE7/2?accountid=11311
 * National Book Awards Are Presented to Six Authors: Prizes of $1,000 Given for the Best Works Published in '63

"NBA yday for the most distinguished ..."

0322 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/115729794/134B48E0C529315D27/4?accountid=11311
 * SPEAKING OF BOOKS SPEAKING OF BOOKS

By J. DONALD ADAMS New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 22, 1964; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR2

"National Book Awards are now firmly established, and as much a part of the literary year as the Pulitzer Prize. ... and since their[judges] decisions are not subject to review by a higher court ... there have been fewer miscarriages of justice."

"newly designated" categories covered without comment

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 * In and Out of Books IN AND OUT OF BOOKS

By LEWIS NICHOLS New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 22, 1964; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR8

"This year, for the first time, there were five--each carrying $1,000 and a citation declaring it the best book in its field, written and published by Americans during 1963."

Knopf and Random House (new merged) lead at 6 of 47 each; University Presses 7, two this year

0510 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/115778882/134B48E0C529315D27/6?accountid=11311
 * In and Out of Children's Books In and Out of Children's Books

By LEWIS NICHOLS New York Times (1923-Current file); May 10, 1964; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BRA38

2300 US titles last year, sales 80% schools & libraries (est.) --a bone betw bksellers & publers

three main awards: Newb, Cald, and "the Child Study Association award for best book of the year"

0528
 * Observer: Plan for Closing the Prize Gap

Russel Baker satire

0621
 * In and Out of Books

ABooksellersA recent convention, brings booksellers and publishers together as ABAwards week brings writers and publishers together

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 * BOOK COMMITTEE NAMES DIRECTOR: Jennison to Head Award and Library Week Programs

By HARRY GILROY New York Times (1923-Current file); Aug 22, 1964; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 19

Peter S. Jennison new ED "National Book Cmte, a nonprofit association that seeks to foster interest in books and reading"; has resigned asst mgg dir Amer Book Publ Council

creation of an ED is one recommendation of the recent evaluation of NBC by John R. Everett, former pres Encyc Brit Press, former chancellor UCNY

Jennison will direct National Library Week (NBC co-sponsor with ALibraryAssoc) and head administration of National Book Awards. "These have been given for what are described as 'the most distinguished books' written by [US] authors in each of the last ten years."

1115 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/115520596/134A095EF2C34833EE7/10?accountid=11311
 * Literary Letter From London

By WALTER ALLENLONDON. New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 15, 1964; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR54

comparing British literary awards, "Certainly they command nothing of the public attention, nothing of the effect on sales, that characterize the French Prix Goncourt or the American National Book Awards."

1967
at least

0131 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/117775713/134A0A66F8A10681DFF/1?accountid=11311
 * 1967 nom
 * 31 'Leading Nominees' Chosen For the National Book Awards

for five annual literary prizes tba 0308, Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center

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 * 1967 new translation prize
 * $1,000 National Book Prize Is Set Up for a Translation

New York Times (1923-Current file); Feb 8, 1967; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 29

donor National Transl Center, Austin TX; in turn supported by Ford Foundation grant to UT

NBCmte chair William I. Nichols: "to draw attention to the art of translation and to recognize achievements in writing abroad."

0305 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/117528113/134A0A66F8A10681DFF/4?accountid=11311
 * nyt1967
 * Book Award Goes to 'La Vida'; 'The Fixer' Wins Fiction Prize: 3 Others Will Be Honored at a Ceremony Wednesday at Lincoln Center

By HENRY RAYMONT New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 5, 1967; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 39

(Sunday) ann selections of five juries, Nat Book Cmte, at their final meetings Thursday night --obtained from trade sources; scheduled tb announced and tb presented Wed, VP Humphrey principal speaker

"The NBAwards enjoy great prestige in literary and publishing circles and are ranked in the trade on a level with the Pulitzer prizes." juries change, "outstanding figures" in their fields NBCmte, which estab. the awards in 1950, is a nonprofit edu assoc devoted to the wiser and wider use of books. The prizes are donated by the Amer Booksellers Assoc, the Amer Book Publ Council and the Book Manuf Institute

0305 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/117540948/134A0A66F8A10681DFF/5?accountid=11311
 * 1967 transl
 * IN AND OUT Of BOOKS: Translators

By LEWIS NICHOLS New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 5, 1967; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 295

new award to translators; $1000 from National Translation Center, Austin TX

0307
 * WORDS THE ISSUE AS WRITERS DINE: Best-Selling Authors Gather With Critics and Editors

ED Jennison read a statement by Cmte chair William I. Nichols (publisher and editor, This Week) crit NYTimes for premature incomplete disclosure of Award winners

0309 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/118144263/134A0A66F8A10681DFF/9?accountid=11311
 * 1967 official presentation three days later
 * National Book Awards

New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 9, 1967; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 38

covering only five winners, not Translation(s) --the first split award

0309 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/118144085/134B4A558B13E476130/16?accountid=11311
 * 1967
 * Malamud Asserts Novel Should Stress a Theme: He Quotes Melville at Awards Ceremony--Lewis Supports Value of Form and Content

By HARRY GILROY New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 9, 1967; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 42

prize winning authors speak; the translators agree "they were gratified by the simple fact that a translation prize had been established"

presenter Newton N. Minow, former chair FCC

0312
 * In The Nation: The Malaise Beyond Dissent

editorial re walkout by many intellectuals before VP Humphrey spoke at NBAwards ceremony

1968
0303 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/118375935/134B4B1E15A336F062A/5?accountid=11311
 * 1968 pre
 * American Notebook: Notebook

By LEWIS NICHOLS New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 3, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR32

National Book Award week; "a national convention of all those who have to do with books" [IS THIS THE BOOKSELLERS CONVENTION? NO MENTION OF THEM]

The History: three associations $1000 each

1950s "run by volunteers among publicity people for the publishers"

from 1960 National Book Cmte; now five donors including "American" Translation Center and AAUPresses

until 1964 there were formal addresses

1950 only, night club acts (embarr. Eleanor R)

five double winners: fiction Faulkner, Bellow, Malamud; poetry Stevens, Roethke

0305 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/118362843/134B4B1E15A336F062A/6?accountid=11311
 * 1968
 * Wilder's 'Eighth Day' Tops Styron's 'Nat Turner' and Three Other Novels for National Book Award

By HENRY RAYMONT New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 5, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 33

"the 19th annual NBAs"

"the book industry's highest awards"

tbp Newton N. Minow, chair NBCmte, tomorrow night

posth. award Mr. Troy, died 1961 "a rare decision"

"The awards ceremony [Wed night] will complete three days of literary discussions and functions organizaed by the NBCmte, an association of citizens that also sponsors the National Medal for Literature and the National Library Week Program."

0307 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/118389751/134B4B1E15A336F062A/12?accountid=11311
 * 1968 ceremony
 * BOOKS SPOTLIGHT HELD BY POLITICS: Dissent on Vietnam Voiced at National Awards

By HENRY RAYMONT New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 7, 1968; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 51

finally Nichols rebutted crit of NBCmte for "doing nothing about the war"

1969
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 * 1969
 * National Book Awards: The Winners

By HENRY RAYMONT New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 11, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 42

"The 1968 National Book Awards were announced yesterday" ... "ann by the jurors of each category after they had deliberated all morning in separate panels"; tbp tomorrow

NBCmte, nonprofit trade assoc

"the first prize in children's literature" without comment

two more for random house

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 * 1969
 * WRITER FEARFUL OF NUCLEAR PERIL: Lifton, Book Award Winner, Cites Weapons' Dangers

By HENRY RAYMONT New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 13, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 44

all seven winners present

presented by Mason W. Gross, pres. Rutgers U, chairman NBCmte

"writers, publishers, editors, and critics" --not the sellers

1973
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 * nyt1973

2 Book Awards Split for First Time: 'Serengeti' Lion' Wins Other Judges Shocked 'Multitudinous By ERIC PACE New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 11, 1973; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 38


 * $1000 prizes in ten categories, two split --Fiction, History
 * previous divided prizes: translation 1967, 1971; poetry 1972
 * National Book Cmte, a nonprofit org funded "by publishers and by org's involved in the book trade"

1974
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 * 1974
 * Pynchon, Singer Share Fiction Prize

New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 17, 1974; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 37

"publishing industry officials" confirmed some, ann others, in advance of tomorrow sched

"the book world's equivalent of the Academy Awards"[familiar from the 1960s]

National Medal for Literature, Vladimir Nabokov --also by NBCmte-- $10,000 and bronze medal, accepted by son last night NYPL

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 * nyt1974

World of Books Presents Its Oscars: Audience Wonders ,By STEVEN R. WEISMANAdrienne RichAllen Ginsberg New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 19, 1974; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 24


 * Singer, Israel resident who writes in Yiddish
 * 14 authors: fiction split; poetry split; translation split by three (NO MENTION OF CONTROVERSY)
 * Clive winner history; biography to Douglas Day, Malcolm Lowry: A Biography [NBF WEBSITE TWICE LISTS SHARED BIOGRAPHY AWARD]

0505 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/120027471/134B4EAEF54542A625B/5?accountid=11311
 * 1974 THE BEST
 * The Best of All 25 N.B.A.'s: The Guest Word

Cole, William New York Times (1923-Current file); May 5, 1974; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 63

present at all 25; "this year's was the best of them all" all week "an unaccustomed air of camaraderie" among ... inclg booksellers; speakers all good!; "the first year when no controversy raged concerning any of the winners"!

"One of the main contributions of the N.B.A. is that it serves as a sort of social focal point for the book year." four days

exec secy NBCmte Jack Frantz

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 * 1974 disband 1
 * Briefs on the Arts: Book Award Panel Weighs Disbanding Ballet Foundation Picks President CSC New York Times (1923-Current file); Sep 27, 1974;

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 49

John C. Frantz "executive chairman" NBCmte: among other options for exec cmte (24 members) NBC discussion Monday, "the question of ceasing to operate altogether"

chronic budget problems; funds from AAP and others; deficit $15K

if disband then outlook for awards is uncertain

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 * 1974 disband 2
 * Briefs on the Arts: Book Award Unit Begins Fund Drive Bernstein Talks Of His '76 Salute

New York Times (1923-Current file); Oct 1, 1974; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 36

NBCmte will "engage energetically in fundraising attempts" this month, determined yday exec cmte meeting, decision deferred

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 * 1974 disband 3
 * Briefs on the Arts: Book Committee Decides to Disband Keene and Katzive Named at Artpark Astaire New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 20, 1974;

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 54

Roger L. Stevens, chairman, "20-yr-old cmte" funded principally by publisher contributions; incr cost decr income force the vote

Mr. Stevens leads ad hoc cmte to continue the awards for 1975

ALA will continue National Library Week

Judges selected for 8 of 10 awards tba 0414

1975
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 * nyt1975

The Last of the National Book Awards?: The Guest Word By WILLIAM COLE New York Times (1923-Current file); May 4, 1975; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 288


 * subsequent to 1975 awards (spring)
 * National Book Cmte disbanded last year when publishers dropped support. temporary Cmte on Awards Policy handled this year. Cost $60,000 admin, prizes, judge fees, transportation, etc.
 * "begged not to split awards", Arts & Letters also did so


 * "The focal point of the book year, the N.B.A. ceremony itself, is preceded by three days of ancillary meetings, symposia, lunches, dinners and just plain parties attended by book reviewers, columnists, radio and TV people and publishing personnel."

1976
0321 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/146434774/134B51BE00B628B5004/12?accountid=11311
 * Book Award Nominees: Children's Literature

41 nominations but no Ragtime for "the prestigious annual awards, which are funded by the book industry with the aid of corporate grants and bewtowed by three-person panels of writers" tba 0419

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 * Voting for 'Literary Miss Rheingold,' A Guide to the National Book Awards

By JOHN LEONARD New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 19, 1976; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 45

Roger L. Stevens took personal responsibility ... "picked up by the NIAL, with a little help from CBS Inc., the I.B.M Corp, the Exxon Corp., the Pitney-Bowes Co., Reader's Digest Assoc Inc., and the Xerox Corp.

Harrison E. Salisbury will preside (this afternoon announcement, presentations later)

"In the past[1975 only?], judges have been chosen by a committee on awards policy, consisting of representatives from book-world trade organizations, literary editors and prominent critics, serving three-year terms on a staggered, and unpaid, basis." (the challenge was to recruit judges and get them together) "This committee, too, woke up one morning last year to find that it no longer existed. ..."

NIAL has instituted three-judge panels (down from five) chaired by one of its own members

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 * WEST VIEW: The National Book Awards Revisited

Diehl, Digby Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File); May 2, 1976; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. P3

"the least controversial in recent memory" "Under the new administration of the National Institute of Arts and Letters the awards this year were singularly Establishment"

NBA week

NIAL president Harrison E. Salisbury --defends cut from 10 to 6 categories and retention of children's books "added after pressure on the NBA from various children's literature groups";

Diehl: ambivalent reaction "is symptomatic of the entire publishing industry's shift from class to mass."

this year "elite selections chosen by elite juries which seem accessible only to elite audiences"; while "other award ceremonies clearly are moving in the direction of promoting public interest in their respective arts"

0509 http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/122638610/134B51BE00B628B5004/40?accountid=11311
 * The Guest Word: The National Book Awards 1976

By WILLIAM COLE New York Times (1923-Current file); May 9, 1976; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 210

saved by Roger L. Stevens with NIAL administration, "material backing from elements of the publishing industry and beneficent corparations [and]... getting a commitment that the backing will continue for five years."

"The N.B.A. is three concentrated days of talk, talk, talk."

two major improvements: 10 to 6, no splitting

children's books: who can choose from thousands? need one written and one picture, or drop the award

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 * Prize Winners

The Washington Post (1974-Current file); May 30, 1976; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. F9

compilation "the three major American books awards" (P, NBA, BCCircle)

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 * 1976 University Press convention
 * University Presses: A Least-Sellers List

By ISRAEL SHENKER Special to The New York Times New York Times (1923-Current file); Jun 30, 1976; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 63 0630

three days this week

400 reps of 70 nonprofit press

1977
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 * National Book Awards Cover 7 Categories

New York Times (1923-Current file); Jan 20, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 45

newly merged NIAL, AAAL =>Amer Acad and Inst of Arts and Lett, pres Jacques Barzun

seven rearranged cats (2=>Contemporary Thought; Hist & Biog=>2; Translation restored)

"underwritten by the book industry, private companies and individuals."

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 * BOOK ENDS

By Richard R. Lingeman New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 3, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 273

coalition under strain; Academy against commercialization, for dignity and control; publishers (and booksellers?) to draw greater attention, "to make this a public evenet rather than the Upper West Side book awards"

publishers proposed TV coverage [more than a year ago], pres. by Carter or Mondale

remains at Academy, no banquet, WNET only if it raises $60K

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 * BOOK ENDS: Prize Problems

By Richard R. Lingeman New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 10, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR19

Robert Gottlieb, Knopf: "the list was so bad, it signaled the end of the N.B.A."

children's literature: all YA books, no under-10s

complaints about nominees

few Book Review selections (2 of 17, not US-limited) few NBCC (finalists incl only 1 of 4 winners, 6 of 20 nominees)

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 * Howe Gets History Book Award

By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 12, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 34

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 * Book Awards: Are the Judges Too Old?

By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 13, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 75

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 * Publishing: Prize Change

By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); May 27, 1977; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 64

1978
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 * Book Awards Again Stir Controversy: 'Something Is Very Wrong'

New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 16, 1978; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C23

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 * BOOK ENDS: Prize Problems Bigness in Publishing Small Publishers Speak

By Richard R. Lingeman New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 9, 1978; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR11

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 * Book Prize for Perelman, Because...: But He went On Students Speculate

By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 10, 1978; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C22

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 * Book Awards to Mary Lee Settle, Gloria Emerson, W. Jackson Bate: Other Winners Listed 'Rumor' Is ...

By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 11, 1978; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. 34

1979
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 * BOOK ENDS: National Book Awards 1980 Of Poetry and Short Fiction Of Maps and History

By Thomas Lask New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 4, 1979; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR12

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 * National Book Awards Announce Nominations: Winners Get $1,000

By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 19, 1979; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C45

Publishing: Long-Shot Winner By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Jul 2, 1982; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C20
 * 1979a

to be named -04-23

35 nominations for 7 awards, inclg 9 university press

Assoc Amer Publ; $1000 prizes

lists of nominees and judges

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 * 1979

Publishing: Long-Shot Winner By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Jul 2, 1982; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C20

"Any notion that the 30th National Book Awards would represent establishment thinking be3cause of their sponsorship by the publishers' and booksellers' associations was shattered yesterday by the surprise winners --and losers-- in the major categories."

subseq Pulitzer(last week) and National Book Critics Circle, some influence expected (eg, Cheever not to win a third major award; he didn't)

ann. yday Townsend Hoopes, pres AAP

presented tomorrow Carnegie Hall

late 1979
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 * 1980 pre
 * National Book Awards Replaced by New Plan: When They Rejected 'Love Story' 'More Visible to the Public' An Academy to Be Established

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 * Publishing: The Battle of the Book Awards

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 * PAPERBACK TALK: PAPERBACK TALK

announcement a fortnight ago
 * 13 hc/ppb categories; 4 single winner; cover design and jacket design

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 * 50 Writers Demand Book-Award Boycott: Excluding of Authors Denied Initiated by Alison Lurie Translation Category Added Tilson Thomas and Maag To Lead Mostly Mozart

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 * National Medal to be part of ABA show next spring

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 * mixed support for ABA-in-progress, ALA vote to participate, PEN vote to decline

1980
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 * nyt1980a

Nominees Chosen for First American Book Awards: Chosen by Panels of 11 Ceremony on May 1 New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 19, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C25

AmerBooksellerAssoc sponsor

nominations (13 categories ann. yday, more to follow) made "by panels of 11 persons, comprising writers and critics, publishers, booksellers and librarians" 1300 submissions by publishers

winners "by a mail vote of 2000 persons representing the same four segments of the book trade in roughly equal numbers" tba May 1 ceremony Seventh Regiment Armory; $1000 and trophy

"The ABAwards were established last fall after the Amer Publ Assoc decided to withdraw its financial support from the prominent but highly controversial NBAwards, which had been decided in seven categories by panels of writers and critics." "The booksellers association decided the new awards would reflect, in the spokesman's words, "the taste of the larger book industry." As a result, the PEN American Center, an organization of writers, and the National Book Critics Circle declined to participate." ... "The format of the awards was denounced as overly commercial by many writers ..."

List: only "major hard-cover categories"

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National Book Critics Circle meets tomorrow, 200 book critics and editors

opening the award season, Pulitzer and TABA spring

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The Art and Business of Book Awards: Awards By MICHIKO KAKUTANI New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 13, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR1

covering the change, the debate

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"The American Book Awards: 1980 Nominees" Autobiography Biography Children's Books Current Interes... New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 13, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2008) pg. BR9

BY CATEGORY IN ORDER: (26 of 28 literary awards, overlooking 2 General Reference) 6 of 6 graphics awards
 * 2 Autobiography
 * 2 Biography
 * 2 Children's Books
 * 2 Current Interest
 * First Novel
 * 2 General Fiction
 * 2 General Nonfiction
 * 2 History
 * 2 Mystery
 * 2 Religion/Inspiration
 * 2 Science
 * 2 Science Fiction
 * Western
 * Translation
 * Poetry
 * Art/Illustrated (Hardcover - Collection)
 * Art/Illustrated (Hardcover - Original Art)
 * Art/Illustrated (Paperback)
 * Jacket Design (Hardcover)
 * Cover Design (Paperback)
 * Book Design (Hardcover & Paperback)

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Levin of Times Mirror "ABAwards --taba-- is at least making an effort to reach out to the subway reader. The National Book Awards was too much of a private club."

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LETTERS: TABA More 'Confessions' RONALD BUSCHCHARLES SACKREY New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 27, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR9

letter reply to Kakutani article -04-13, same issue as list of TABA nominations

"National Book Awards – 1980", NBF. Retrieved 2012-02-03.
 * 28 Categories

Autobiography ||4 hard 1 ppb Biography ||4 hard 4 ppb Children's B ||4 hard 5 ppb Current Int ||5 hard 5 ppb Fiction ||5 hard 4 ppb First Novel ||5 gen. Nonfiction ||5 hard 3 ppb gen. Reference ||5 hard 5 ppb History ||5 hard 5 ppb Mystery ||5 hard 5 ppb Poetry ||3 Religion/Insp ||5 hard 3 ppb Science ||5 hard 4 ppb Science Fic ||5 hard 5 ppb Translation ||3 Western ||5

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"Styron and Wolfe Lead Book-Award Winners" /Miss Welty Wins National Medal /Counterceremonies on West Side By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); May 2, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C25

"[34 hc and ppb] books, many of which nobody had heard of before, were named winners during a generally ragged presentation of the first American Book Awards in a ceremony at the Seventh Regiment Armory last night. The event was designed to resemble Hollywood's Oscars, but instead there was little glamour. All the winners were barred from accepting their awards, and most did not attend." ... "The awards are the successor to the [NBAs], which for the 30 years had honored a half-dozen major hard-cover books annually that had been selected by authors and critics, a jury of peers, in the view of the winners and their editors." "But the industry that underwrote the highly regarded NBAs] felt it was time to recognize more categories of books, paperback as well as hard-cover, picked by a broader representation of judges, adding librarians, booksellers, publishers and editors." "The major honor of the evening, the National Medal for Literature, was given to Eudora Welty ..." ... Last night, the emphasis by the newly formed Academy of TABA, which includes the marketing, bookclub, hard-cover and paperback divisions of the Assoc of Amer Publ; the [ALA], [AAUPresses], Children's Book Council, National Association of College Stores, Special Libraries Assoc, Women's National Book Assoc and Council of Writers Organizations, was on the affair's liveliness as well as on literary merit."

Chancellor, Buckley, taped for "firing line" this month with another show to cover the controversy

Some authors boycotted, as did Authors Guild, P.E.N.'s American Center, National Book Critics Circle

WINNERS named inline following the lead paragraph
 * Fiction (3)
 * General Nonfiction 2
 * History 2
 * Biography 2

WINNERS NOT LISTED AT ALL (8 of 34)
 * Religion/Inspiration 2
 * Science 2
 * Science Fiction 2
 * Translation 1
 * Western 1

WINNERS NOT LISTED BY NBF ONLINE: (7 of 17 "other winners ... included" at the foot of the article)

Autobiography 2
 * Art, hc collection: "Drawings and Digressions" by Larry Rivers with Carol Brightman. Herman Strobuck,designer.
 * Illustrated Art, hc original art: "The Birthday of the Infanta" by Oscar Wilde, illus. by Leonard Lubin.
 * Illustrated Art, pb: "Anatomy Illustrated" by Emily Blair Chewning. Designed by Dana Levy.
 * Book Design: "The Architect's Eye" by Debora Nevins and Robert A. M. Stern.
 * Children's Books 2
 * Cover Design: "Famous Potatoes" by Joe Cottonwood. David Myers, designer.
 * Current Interest 2
 * General Reference hc: "Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court" ed. Elder Witt
 * General Reference 1 more
 * Jacket Design: "Birdy" by William Wharton. Fred Marcellino, designer.
 * Mystery 2
 * Poetry 1

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 * 1980

TABA Winners: No Thanks and Thanks: Lasch Irving By CHRISTOPHER LASCH By JOHN IRVING New York Times (1923-Current file); May 25, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. BR1

unreserved Con and qualified Pro

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 * 1981 pre

American Book Awards Reduced From 33 to 18: Major Changes Planned Polling Method Abolished Two By HERBERT MITGANG New York Times (1923-Current file); Oct 20, 1980; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C14

1981
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 * 1981

American Book Awards Are Given for 22 Works: Buckley and Galbraith Hosts Choices Made by Juries By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); May 1, 1981; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C24

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 * 1982 pre

Publishing: Cutting Back on Book Awards 'Hype' McDowell, Edwin New York Times (1923-Current file); Dec 18, 1981; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C34

1982
Cheever Wins Letters Medal New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 13, 1982; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C13
 * (1982 not)

National Medal for Literature, $15000 from Guinzburg fund (founder Viking Press) recognizes "an American writer for a distinguished and continuing contribution to American letters." presentation -04-27 ABAwards ceremony

Publishing: Long-Shot Winner By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Jul 2, 1982; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C20
 * (1982 not) People of the Sacred Mountain

1983
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 * nyt1983

American Book Awards Announced By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 14, 1983; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C30

"The 1983 winners, in 27 categories of hardcover and paperback books published in the U.S. in 1982, were selected by juries composed of authors, critics, librarians, booksellers and editors. Each winner in the 19 categories of literary achievement will receive $1000 and a sculpture by Louise Nevelson. Winners of the graphics awards will receive the Nevelson sculpture only."
 * private celebration NYPL April 28
 * sponsored by the Association of American Publishers

Categories -- 22 winners in 19 lit cats -- children 7/5 grownups 15/14
 * Pictorial Design
 * Typographical Design
 * Illustration Collected Art
 * Illustration Original Art
 * Illustration Photographs
 * Cover Design
 * Jacket Design

Cowinners Children's Fiction, Children's Picture Books, Poetry

The prose preface to the list names only the (hardcover) hc fiction, hc general nonfiction, hc biography, hc history, first novel, and poetry(2)

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 * 1983 sales impact

Publishing: Do Prizes Sell Books? By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Apr 15, 1983; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C17

generally the awards are too late
 * Perhaps the most successful awards commercially are the John Newbery Medal... and the Randolph Caldecott Medal... Both frequently turn also-rans into huge sellers.

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 * nyt1983vote

"came close to expiring from lack of support by the publishing industry several months ago [there were no awards recognizing 1983 books], received a new lease on life yday from the bod of the Association of American Publishers.

Brooks Thomas, president Harper & Row and AAP foresees "probably fewer than ten" categories; "awards for paperback books will probably be only for original paperbacks, not reprints"

yesterday's vote provides funding, details tba

established 1980 "but a split quickly developed between hardcover publishers, who tended to view them as awards for quality books and paperback publishers, who were not averse to quality but who put their major emphasis on using the awards as a tool for increasing sales".

Thomas calls the result a failure on both accounts. Sponsoring cost $350-450K and AAP general publishing and mass-market publishing divisions paid $70K each. 1600 books were submitted last year; entry fees raise money, but merely $40K at $25 fee. --no windfall because ABA shipped books to judges

Barbara Prete, ABA E.D., says some judges needed to read 300 books.

"many book-industry officials hope ... [to] rank in importance with the $15K Booker McConnell Prize for fiction"(Br.)

[evidently the Booker is elite and all that, but also a TV and pulp phenom and sales windfall for all six finalist (from c. 300 submissions)]

Canadian to Head U.S. Booksellers BY EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Dec 5, 1983; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C20
 * 1983 Booksellers

American Booksellers Association; 5000 members; showcase is spring convention; a major trade show where publishers display fall titles: all big Amer publ, some small and some foreign

new E.D. -03-01 is Bernie Rath, current E.D. Canadian BA, 550 members

new $20 entry fee protested by Straus, Farrar & Giroux (adopted 1982; earlier for journalism categories)
 * 1984 Pulitzer

paid by 118 publishers for 496 submissions

Strauss is virtually alone in not belonging to the AAP and not submitting books to ABA

Welty Book Is First Harvard U. Best Seller By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Mar 13, 1984; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C16
 * Welty

number 14 on the nonfiction list last week, a first for HUP in 70 years

Welty wrote every word of her lectures in advance, but revised for book publication. Lectures inaugurated the Wm E Massey Sr Lectures in the History of Amer Civ

By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); May 25, 1984; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C24
 * Booksellers

May 26-29 Washington DC convention 84th annual; so-called "world's largest show of English-language books" 900 publishers(?) at 1500 booths

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 * Lessing ruse

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 * Asimov 300

1984
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 * nyt1984a

11 Nominated for American Book Awards By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Oct 18, 1984; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C25


 * "11 titles nominated for the revamped A.B.A." tba Nov 15 NYPL
 * "In marked contrast to last year, when 27 awards categories drew 1480 entries and infinite criticism, there are only three categories this year. And the number of entries plummeted to 300, about 200 of them for the nonfiction category."
 * "in hopes of restoring prestige to the awards" --Barbara Prete, Ex Dir A.B.A. -- 'reduction in categories "involved a terrible internal struggle" within the membership of the publishers' association', opposed espy by ppb publishers
 * no more graphics cats (8), children's cats (5), paperbacks --but ppb considered for the surviving awards
 * revamped by cmte Prete & four publishers
 * $10,000 prize and admin costs
 * financed by AAP membership dues and $100 submission fees
 * Simon & Schuster contrib $1000 to each of 11 nominees
 * "The nominees, for books written by American citizens and published in the United States between 1983-11-01 and 1984-10-31:

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 * nyt1984

Three Writers Win Book Awards New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 16, 1984; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C32


 * nonfiction chair Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., said they wanted to split with Eudora Welta, One Writer's Beginnings, but rules require single winners.
 * awards ceremony and champagne reception, Astor Room, NYPL
 * black-tie dinner, Trustee's Room NYPL --a change following protest by some publ officials, from the Century Club which does not permit female members
 * first fiction - 3 nominees, 3 judges (Doris Grumbach)
 * fiction - 3 nominees, 3 judges (Jonathan Yardley)
 * nonfiction - 5 nominees, 5 judges (Schlesinger)

1985
"American Book Award", november, for 1985 publication
 * nyt1985

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'85 Award To DeLillo For Novel By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 22, 1985; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C33
 * ann & presented last night NYPL
 * "Each of the winners receives $10,000 plus the Louise Nevelson sculpture created in 1979 for the A.B.A., the successor to the N.B.A.

1986
Publishing: Long-Shot Winner By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Jul 2, 1982; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C20
 * 1986 Newbery with some Newbery background

"Success and fame are in fact guaranteed ..."

"A common formula says a Newbery guarantees sales of 100,000 within a year and immortality on the publisher's backlist."

Newbery and Caldecott most influential

15 ALSC librarians "half" elected "half" appointed

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 * 'Three Cheers for Good Marks': Writers on Their Prizes: 'Good Marks'

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 * 1986 1118

Doctorow and Lopez Win U.S. Book Awards By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 18, 1986; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C20

1987
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 * 1987 1015
 * Nominees Announced For 1987 Book Awards

10 for two awards, ann yday

each carry a $10000 prize

more than 300 considered, a greater number than before --ED Prete

Awards ceremony, blacktie dinner 7:00 $300 benefit NBAsInc

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 * Book Award Nominees to Read at City Center

to be reading by four Fiction nominees Monday 5:30, tickets $12; winner ann later that evening

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 * nyt1987
 * An Upset at the Book Awards

By EDWIN McDOWELL New York Times (1923-Current file); Nov 10, 1987; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C13

... the name reverted only this year and the format has been changed several times. "In 1983, for example, 27 winners were chosen from 96 nominees."

chairman, Bd of Dir NBA, pres Heart Trade Book Group
 * "Book people are really not actors, and there's a realization now that we should not try to reward things like who did the best book blurb."

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 * Book Awards Are Pondered

apparent confirmation of 2-1 vote, avowed secrecy by all three judges

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 * Did 'Paco's Story' Deserve Its Award? (Kakutani)

[No]

"In its earliest incarnation, the NBA often helped establish new writers as major voices in American fiction" (1960, 1962!) "and its judges were also criticized for their tendency to select obscure works."

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 * (Letter from Fiction panelists) Majority Vote for National Book Award Novel

1988
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 * Book Notes: Judges for National Book Awards are increased to five Harcourt Brace continues to broaden its appeal A Shaw letter on display.

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 * Book Award Nominees

"the sponsoring organization National Book Awards Inc."

1123 Books of the Times http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/110400664/134A06A1F0F40839E79/31?accountid=11311
 * first distinguished contribution $10000 to Jason Epstein Random House

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 * Book on Vietnam War Wins National Award

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 * Critics Circle Nominates The 25 Best Books of 1988

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 * Book Notes: Erma Bombeck's three-book contract said to be worth $12 million National Book Awards reflect well on an editor. . . . . .and on sales.

1989
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 * nyt1989b
 * Book Notes: 'The Joy Luck Club' is to be in paperback, two ways Colleen McCullough's five-book contract The National Book Awards' new foundation.

Book Notes: 'The Joy Luck Club' is to be in paperback, two ways Colleen McCullough's five-book co... McDowell, Edwin New York Times (1923-Current file); Jul 5, 1989; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007) pg. C19

A New Foundation "To broaden its scope, the National Book Awards is establishing the National Book Foundation to administer its annual literary awards program and to develop programs to promote reading and literacy. The chairman of the National Book Awards, Al Silverman, saidhis group intended to take on "a more central and influential role in the literary, intellectual, and publishing life of this country." The executive director of the new foundation, effective tomorrow, is to be Neil Baldwin ..."

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 * The Finalists Are Named In National Book Awards

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 * Book Awards Honor Novelist and Journalist: 'Spartina' wins in fiction, 'From Beirut to Jerusalem' in nonfiction.

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 * Must You Actually Read The Books to Give the Prize?

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 * (Letter)