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List: National Book Award Winners

From Here to Eternity (1951) - James Jones (11/06/1921 -5/09/1977) (Grade:A+)

The Fixer (1966) - Bernard Malamud (04/26/1914-03/18/1986) (Grade:A+)

Johnny Got His Gun (1939) - Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) (Grade:F)

The Book of the Dun Cow (1978) - Walter M. Wangerin, Jr. (02/13/1944-) (Grade:A+)

1940)

How Green Was My Valley (1939) - Richard Llewellyn (1906-1983)  (Grade:A+)

1950)   The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) - Nelson Algren (1909-1981)  (Grade:C)

1953)   Invisible Man (1952) - Ralph Ellison (3/01/1913 -4/16/1994)  (Grade:C)

1954)   The Adventures of Augie March (1953) - Saul Bellow (06/10/1915-04/05/2005)  (Grade:F)

1958)   The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) - John Cheever (1912-1982)  (Grade:D)

1962)   The Moviegoer (1961) - Walker Percy (05/28/1916 -05/10/1990)  (Grade:C+)

1969)   Steps (1968) - Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991)  (Grade:D+)

1980)   Sophie's Choice (1979) - William Styron (1925-)  (Grade:C)

1983)   The Color Purple (1982) - Alice Walker (1944 -)  (Grade:B+)

1985)   White Noise (1985) - Don DeLillo (11/20/1936 -)  (Grade:C)

1987)   Paco's Story (1986) - Larry Heinemann (1944-)  (Grade:C+)

1990)   Middle Passage (1990) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-)  (Grade:C)

1992)

All the Pretty Horses (1992) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933 -)  (Grade:A+)

1993)   The Shipping News (1993) - E. Annie Proulx (1935 -)  (Grade:C-)

1997)   Cold Mountain (1997) - Charles Frazier (1950-)  (Grade:C)

1998)   Charming Billy (1998) - Alice McDermott (1953-)  (Grade:C-)

1999)   Waiting (1999) - Ha Jin (1956-)  (Grade:A-)