National Book Awards

Currently, awards are presented annually only in the first four categories listed here. Inactive categories are followed by an asterisk (*).

Year

Author

Book

1950	William Carlos Williams	Paterson III
1951	Wallace Stevens	The Auroras of Autumn
1952	Marianne Moore	Collected Poems
1953	Archibald MacLeish	Collected Poems
1954	Conrad Aiken	Collected Poems
1955	Wallace Stevens	The Collected Poems
1956	W. H. Auden	The Shield of Achilles
1957	Richard Wilbur	Things of This World
1958	Robert Penn Warren	Promises: Poems, 1954-1956
1959	Theodore Roethke	Words for the Wind
1960	Robert Lowell	Life Studies
1961	Randall Jarrell	The Woman at the Washington Zoo
1962	Alan Dugan	Poems
1963	William Stafford	Traveling Through the Dark
1964	John Crowe Ransom	Selected Poems
1965	Theodore Roethke	The Far Field
1966	James Dickey	Buckdancer's Choice
1967	James Merrill	Nights and Days
1968	Robert Bly	The Light Around the Body
1969	John Berryman	His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
1970	Elizabeth Bishop	The Complete Poems
1971	Mona Van Duyn	To See, To Take
1972	Howard Moss Frank O'Hara	Selected Poems The Collected Poems
1973	A. R. Ammons	Collected Poems: 1951-1971
1974	Allen Ginsberg Adrienne Rich	The Fall of America: Poems of These States Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1971-1972
1975	Marilyn Hacker	Presentation Piece
1976	John Ashbery	Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
1977	Richard Eberhart	Collected Poems, 1930-1976
1978	Howard Nemerov	The Collected Poems
1979	James Merrill	Books of Number
1980	Philip Levine	Ashes
1981	Lisel Mueller	The Need to Hold Still
1982	William Bronk	Life Supports
1983	Galway Kinnell Charles Wright	Selected Poems Country Music
1991	Philip Levine	What Work Is
1992	Mary Oliver	New and Selected Poems
1993	A. R. Ammons	Garbage
1994	James Tate	Worshipful Company of Fletchers
1995	Stanley Kunitz	Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
1996	Hayden Carruth	Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey: Poems 1991-1995
1997	William Meredith	Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems
1998	Gerald Stern	This Time: New and Selected Poems
1999	Ai	Vice: New & Selected Poems
2000	Lucille Clifton	Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
2001	Alan Dugan	Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
2002	Ruth Stone	In the Next Galaxy
2003	C. K. Williams	The Singing: Poems
2004	Jean Valentine	Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
2005	W. S. Merwin	Migration
2006	Nathaniel Mackey	Splay Anthem
2007	Robert Hass	Time and Materials
2008	Mark Doty	Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems

Source: The National Book Foundation.

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National Book Awards; American Literature: Prose

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