Winners of the National Book Award in Fiction
Winners in alphabetical order
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1950: Nelson Algren: The Man With the Golden Arm
1951: William Faulkner: Collected Stories:
1952: James Jones: From Here to Eternity
1953: Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
1954: Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March
1955: William Faulkner: A Fable
1956: John OHara: Ten North Federick
1957: Wright Morris: Field of Vision
1958: John Cheever: The Wapshot Chronicle
1959: Bernard Malamud: The Magic Barrel
1960: Philip Roth: Goodbye, Columbus
1961: Conrad Richter: The Waters of Kronos
1962: Walker Percy: The Moviegoer
1963: J.F. Powers: Morte DUrban
1964: John Updike: The Centaur
1965: Saul Bellow: Herzog
1966: Katherine Anne Porter: The Collected Stories
1967: Bernard Malamud: The Fixer
1968: Thorton Wilder: The Eighth Day
1969: Jerzy Kosinski: Steps
1970: Joyce Carol Oates: Them
1971: Saul Bellow: Mr. Sammlers Planet
1972: Flannery OConnor: The Complete Stories
1973: John Barth: Chimera
1974: Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow; Issac Bashevis Singer
1975: Robert Stone: Dog Soldiers; Thomas Williams: The Hair of Harold Roux
1976: William Gaddis: J.R.
1977: Wallace Stegner: The Spectator Bird
1978: Mary Lee Settle: Blood Ties
1979: Tim OBrien: Going After Cacciato
1980: William Styron: Sophies Choice
1981: Wright Morris: Plains Song
1982: John Updike: Rabbit is Rich
1983: Alice Walker: The Color Purple
1984: Ellen Gilchrist: Victory Over Japan
1985: Don DeLillo: White Noise
1986: E.L. Doctorow: Worlds Fair
1987: Larry Heinemann: Pacos Story
1988: Pete Dexter: Paris Trout
1989: John Casey: Spartina
1990: Charles Johnson: Middle Passage
1991: Norman Rush: Mating
1992: Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses
1993: E. Anne Proulx: The Shipping News
1994: William Gaddis: Frolic of his Own
1995: Philip Roth: Sabbath's Theater
1996: Andrea Barrett: Ship Fever & Other Stories
1997: Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain
1998: Alice McDermott: Charming Billy
1999: Ha Jin: Waiting
2000: Susan Sontag: In America
2001: Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
2002: Julia Glass: Three Junes
2003: Shirley Hazzard: The Great Fire
2004: Lily Tuck: "The News From Paraguay"
2005: William Vollmann: "Europe Central"
2006: Richard Powers: "The Echo Maker"
2007: Denis Johnson: "Tree of Smoke"
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