National Book Award
any of several awards given annually to an author whose book is judged the best in its category: presented 1936–42, reestablished 1950, and since 1998 administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. Abbreviation: NBA, N.B.A.
- Compare American Book Award.
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This book-in-verse, a National Book Award finalist, is part road-trip love story, part history lesson and part land acknowledgment.
Limón also wrote “Bright Dead Things,” a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award.
Recalling a pandemic year with poetry and machine learning art | Seth Blanchard, Shikha Subramaniam, Leo Dominguez | April 22, 2021 | Washington PostPerhaps the gravity of that debate explains why March’s novel was nominated for the 1955 National Book Award.
Why is ‘The Push’ so popular? Perhaps because it plays into a mother’s worst fears. | Maureen Corrigan | January 21, 2021 | Washington PostNominated for a National Book Award in 1970, her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings continues to move readers around the world today.
But the National Book Award-nominated author was already regarded as a modern master.
Why not write about Thomas Williams, that other neglected National Book Award winner with the same last name?
Famous for Not Being Famous: Enough About ‘Stoner’ | Drew Smith | October 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 2013 fiction judges: Charles Baxter was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2000 for The Feast of Love.
René Steinke was a 2005 National Book Award finalist in fiction for her novel Holy Skirts.
Someone By Alice McDermott The first novel in seven years from the National Book Award winner.
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