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Literary Awards: 1950- 1959

This guide gives a listing of some of the literary award winners.

1959 Winners

FICTION

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
Call Number: PS3539.A9654T7 1958
ISBN: 9780385422222
Publication Date: 1992-12-01

HISTORY

In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
Call Number: E711.6.L4
ISBN: 9780945707240
Publication Date: 1999-11-01

BIOGRAPHY

Woodrow Wilson by Arthur Walworth
Call Number: E767.W34 1965
ISBN: 9780393090123
Publication Date: 1979-03-01

POETRY

Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz
Call Number: PS3521.U7A17 1958
Publication Date: 1958

1958 Winners

FICTION

A Death in the Family by James Agee; Steve Earle (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3501.G35D4 2009
ISBN: 9780143105718
Publication Date: 2009-09-29

HISTORY

Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War by Bray Hammond
Call Number: HG2472.H3
ISBN: 9780691005539
Publication Date: 1991-09-01

BIOGRAPHY

Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman
Call Number: E312.F82 v. 1-7
ISBN: 9780684826370
Publication Date: 1995-12-01

POETRY

Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren
Call Number: PS3545.A748P7
ISBN: 9781127368983
Publication Date: 1957

1957 Winners

HISTORY

Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan
ISBN: 9780691008417
Publication Date: 1989-11-21

BIOGRAPHY

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy (Foreword by); Caroline Kennedy (Introduction by)
Call Number: E176.K4 2006
ISBN: 0060854936
Publication Date: 2006-04-11

POETRY

Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
Call Number: PS3545.I32165T5
Publication Date: 1956

1956 Winners

FICTION

Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
Call Number: PS3521.A47A7 1955
ISBN: 9780452269569
Publication Date: 1993-09-01

HISTORY

The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter; Richard Hofstadter
Call Number: E743.H63 1955
ISBN: 0394700953
Publication Date: 1960-02-12

BIOGRAPHY

Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan
ISBN: 9780195005639
Publication Date: 1955

1955 Winners

FICTION

A Fable by William Faulkner
Call Number: PS3511.A86F3
ISBN: 9780307946775
Publication Date: 2011-11-29

HISTORY

Great River by Paul Horgan
Call Number: F392.R5H65 1954
ISBN: 9780819562517
Publication Date: 1991-10-01

BIOGRAPHY

The Taft Story by William Smith White
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan
ISBN: 9781258214180
Publication Date: 2011-10-01

POETRY

Collect Poems of Stevens by Wallace Stevens
Call Number: PS3537.T4753 1954
ISBN: 0394403304
Publication Date: 1954-06-27

1954 Winners

HISTORY

A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
Call Number: E470.2 .C39
ISBN: 9780307773722
Publication Date: 1953

BIOGRAPHY

The Spirit of St. Louis by Reeve Lindbergh (Introduction by); Charles A. Lindbergh
Call Number: TL540.L5A85
ISBN: 9780743237055
Publication Date: 2003-12-09

POETRY

The Waking by Theodore Roethke
Call Number: Not available- Request via Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1953

1953 Winners

FICTION

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515.E37O4 1980
ISBN: 0684801221
Publication Date: 1995-05-05

HISTORY

The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
Call Number: E371.D3 1963
ISBN: 0929587146
Publication Date: 1989-08-01

BIOGRAPHY

Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803 by David J. Mays; Donald Haynes (Preface by)
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan
ISBN: 9780884901198
Publication Date: 1984-01-01

POETRY

Collected Poems by Archibald Macleish
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan
Publication Date: 1952

1952 Winners

FICTION

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Call Number: PS3545.O98C28 1951
ISBN: 9780316955102
Publication Date: 1992-04-15

HISTORY

The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin
Call Number: E184.A1H27
ISBN: 9780316343138
Publication Date: 1973-08-30

BIOGRAPHY

Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey
Call Number: KF8745.H8P8
Publication Date: 1951

POETRY

Complete Poems by Marianne Moore; Marianne Moore
Call Number: PS3525.O5616A6 1951a
ISBN: 9780140188516
Publication Date: 1994-11-01

1951 Winners

FICTION

The Town by Conrad Richter
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan
ISBN: 9780821409800
Publication Date: 1991-05-01

HISTORY

The Old Northwest by R. Carlyle Buley
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan
ISBN: 9780253341686
Publication Date: 1983-10-22

BIOGRAPHY

John C. Calhoun by Margaret L. Coit; Clyde N. Wilson (Introduction by)
Call Number: E340.C15C63
ISBN: 9780872497757
Publication Date: 1991-07-01

POETRY

The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg by Carl Sandburg
Call Number: PS3537.A618 1950
ISBN: 9780151207732
Publication Date: 1970-10-14

1950 Winners

FICTION

The Way West by A. B. Guthrie; A. B. Guthrie
Call Number: PS3513.U855W3 1949c
ISBN: 9781624062988
Publication Date: 2002-01-09

HISTORY

Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin
Call Number: N6505.L37
Publication Date: 1949

BIOGRAPHY

John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel F. Bemis
Call Number: E377.B45 1949
ISBN: 9780393006841
Publication Date: 1973-01-01

POETRY

Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan
ISBN: 9780837155616
Publication Date: 1972-01-01