National Book Award (US) - Fiction

year

name

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