National Book Award Winners, 1960-1969

1960 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth Recipient of the 2002 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters NONFICTION James Joyce by Richard Ellmann POETRY Life Studies by Robert Lowell
1961 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter NONFICTION The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer POETRY The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Randall Jarrell
1962 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION The Moviegoer by Walker Percy NONFICTION The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects by Lewis Mumford POETRY Poems by Alan Dugan
1963 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION Morte D'Urban by J. F. Powers NONFICTION Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years by Leon Edel POETRY Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford
1964 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION The Centaur by John Updike ARTS AND LETTERS (NONFICTION) John Keats: The Making of a Poet by Aileen Ward HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY (NONFICTION) The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeill SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION (NONFICTION) Man-made America by Christopher Tunnard & Boris Pushkarev POETRY Selected Poems by John Crowe Ransom
1965 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	ARTS AND LETTERS Oysters of Lockmariaquer by Eleanor Clark FICTION Herzog by Saul Bellow HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY The Life of Lenin by Louis Fischer POETRY The Far Field by Theodore Roethke SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion by Norbert Wiener
1966 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	ARTS AND LETTERS Paris Journal, 1944-1965 by Janet Flanner FICTION The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr POETRY Buckdancer's Choice: Poems by James Dickey SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION No award given
1967 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	ARTS AND LETTERS Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography by Justin Kaplan Read the acceptance speech FICTION The Fixer by Bernard Malamud HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism by Peter Gay POETRY Nights and Days by James Merrill SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION La Vida by Oscar Lewis TRANSLATION Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch Willard Trask -- Casanova's History of My Life by Gregory Rabassa
1968 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	ARTS AND LETTERS Selected Essays by William Troy FICTION The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY Memoirs: 1925-1950 by George F. Kennan POETRY The Light Around the Body by Robert Bly SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol TRANSLATION Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers by Howard & Edna Hong
1969 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	ARTS AND LETTERS The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History by Norman Mailer CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Journey from Peppermint Street by Meindert DeJong FICTION Steps by Jerzy Kosinski HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan POETRY His Toy, His Dream, His Rest by John Berryman THE SCIENCES Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert J. Lifton TRANSLATION Calvino's Cosmicomics by William Weaver