| 1970 |
Fiction |
Them |
Joyce Carol Oates |
|
Children's Literature |
A Day of Pleasure |
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
|
Arts and Letters (nonfiction) |
An Unfinished Woman |
Lillian Hellman |
|
History and biography |
Huey Long |
T. Harry Williams |
|
Philosophy and Religion |
Gandhi's Truth |
Erik Erikson |
|
Poetry |
The Complete Poems |
Elizabeth Bishop |
| 1969 |
Fiction |
Steps |
Jerzy Kosinski |
|
Arts and Letters (nonfiction) |
The Armies of the Night |
Norman Mailer |
|
History and biography |
White over Black |
Winthrop Jordan |
|
The Sciences |
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima |
Robert Lifton |
|
Poetry |
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest |
John Berryman |
|
Children's Literature |
Journey from Pepperment Street |
Meindert DeJong |
| 1968 |
Fiction |
The Eighth Day |
Thronton Wilder |
|
Arts and Letters (nonfiction) |
Selected Essays |
William Troy |
|
History and biography |
Memoirs |
George Kennan |
|
Science, Philosophy and Religion |
Death at an Early Age |
Jonathan Kozol |
|
Poetry |
The Light Around the Body |
Robert Bly |
| 1967 |
Fiction |
The Fixer |
Bernard Malamud |
|
Arts and Letters (nonfiction) |
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
Justin Kaplan |
|
History and biography |
The Enlightenment, Vol. I |
Peter Gay |
|
Science, Philosophy and Religion |
la Vida |
Oscar Lewis |
|
Poetry |
Nights and Days |
James Merrill |
| 1966 |
Fiction |
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter |
Katherine Anne Porter |
|
Arts and Letters (nonfiction) |
Paris Journal |
Janet Flanner |
|
History and biography |
A Thousand Days |
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
|
Poetry |
Buckdancer's Choice |
James Dickey |
| 1965 |
Fiction |
Herzog |
Saul Bellow |
|
Arts and Letters (nonfiction) |
Oysters of Lockmariaquer |
Eleanor Clark |
|
History and biography |
The Life of Lenin |
Louis Fischer |
|
Science, Philosophy and Religion |
God and Golem, Inc. |
Norbert Wiener |
|
Poetry |
The Far Field |
Theodore Roethke |
| 1964 |
Fiction |
The Centaur |
John Updike |
|
Arts and Letters (nonfiction) |
John Keats: The Making of a Poet |
Aileen Ward |
|
History and biography |
The Rise of the West |
William McNeill |
|
Science, Philosophy and Religion |
Man-made America |
Christopher Tunnard and Boris Pushkarev |
|
Poetry |
Selected Poems |
John Crowe Ransom |
| 1963 |
Fiction |
Morte D'Urban |
J.F. Powers |
|
Nonfiction |
Henry James, Vol. II |
Leon Edel |
|
Poetry |
Traveling Through the Dark |
William Stafford |
| 1962 |
Fiction |
The Moviegoer |
Walker Percy |
|
Nonfiction |
The City in History |
Lewis Mumford |
|
Poetry |
Poems |
Alan Dugan |
| 1961 |
Fiction |
The Waters of Kronos |
Conrad Richter |
|
Nonfiction |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
William Shirer |
|
Poetry |
The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
Randall Jarrell |
| 1960 |
Fiction |
Goodbye, Columbus |
Philip Roth |
|
Nonfiction |
James Joyce |
Richard Ellmann |
|
Poetry |
Life Studies |
Robert Lowell |
| 1959 |
Fiction |
The Magic Barrel |
Bernard Malamud |
|
Nonfiction |
Mistress to an Age |
J. Christopher Herald |
|
Poetry |
Words for the Wind |
Theodore Roethke |
| 1958 |
Fiction |
The Wapshot Chronicle |
John Cheever |
|
Nonfiction |
The Lion and the Throne |
Catherine Drinker Bowen |
|
Poetry |
Promises |
Robert Penn Warren |
| 1957 |
Fiction |
The Field of Vision |
Wright Morris |
|
Nonfiction |
Russia Leaves the War |
George Kennan |
|
Poetry |
Things of the World |
Richard Wilbur |
| 1956 |
Fiction |
Ten North Frederick |
John O'Hara |
|
Nonfiction |
An American in Italy |
Herbert Kubly |
|
Poetry |
The Shield of Achilles |
W.H. Auden |
| 1955 |
Fiction |
A Fable |
William Faulkner |
|
Nonfiction |
The Measure of Man |
Joseph Wood Krutch |
|
Poetry |
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens |
Wallace Stevens |
| 1954 |
Fiction |
The Adventures of Augie March |
Saul Bellow |
|
Nonfiction |
A Stillness at Appomattox |
Bruce Catton |
|
Poetry |
Collected Poems |
Conrad Aiken |
| 1953 |
Fiction |
Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
|
Nonfiction |
The Course of Empire |
Bernard De Voto |
|
Poetry |
Collected Poems |
Archibald MacLeish |
| 1952 |
Fiction |
From Here to Eternity |
James Jones |
|
Nonfiction |
The Sea Around Us |
Rachel Carson |
|
Poetry |
Collected Poems |
Marianne Moore |
| 1951 |
Fiction |
The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
William Faulkner |
|
Nonfiction |
Herman Melville |
Newton Arvin |
|
Poetry |
The Auroras of Autumn |
Wallace Stevens |
| 1950 |
Fiction |
The Man With the Golden Arm |
Nelson Algren |
|
Nonfiction |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Ralph L. Rusk |
|
Poetry |
Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems |
William Carlos Williams |
