National Book Award (US) - Fiction

year	writer	for
1950	Nelson Algren	The Man with the Golden Arm
1954	Saul Bellow	The Adventures of Augie March
1955	William Faulkner	A Fable
1958	John Cheever	The Wapshot Chronicle
1964	John Updike	The Centaur
1965	Saul Bellow	Herzog
1967	Bernard Malamud	The Fixer
1968	Thornton Wilder	The Eighth Day
1971	Saul Bellow	Mr. Sammler's Planet
1973	John Barth	Chimera
1974	Isaac Bashevis Singer	A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories
1980	William Styron	Sophie's Choice
1982	John Updike	Rabbit Is Rich
1983	Alice Walker	The Color Purple
1986	E.L. Doctorow	World's Fair
1992	Cormac McCarthy	All the Pretty Horses
1993	Annie Proulx	The Shipping News
1994	William Gaddis	A Frolic of His Own
1995	Philip Roth	Sabbath's Theater
1999	Ha Jin	Waiting
2016	Colson Whitehead	The Underground Railroad

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