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Winners of the National Book Award for Fiction
This prize has been awarded annually since 1950 by the Association of American Publishers.
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Bernard Malamud (born 1914, died 1986)
American novelist.
- Two-time National Book Award winner for Fiction, in 1959 for The Magic Barrel and in 1967 for The Fixer
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Conrad Richter (born 1890, died 1968)
American novelist.
- 1961 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for The Waters of Kronos
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Cormac McCarthy (born 1933)
American novelist.
- 1992 National Book Award winner for fiction, for All the Pretty Horses
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (born 1904, died 1991)
American Yiddish novelist and short-story writer of Polish origin.
- 1974 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for A Crown of Feathers & Other Stories
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John Updike (born 1932)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- Two-time National Book Award winner for Fiction, in 1964 for The Centaur and in 1982 for Rabbit is Rich
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John Barth (born 1930)
American novelist.
- 1973 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Chimera
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John O'Hara (born 1905, died 1970)
American novelist.
- 1956 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Ten North Frederick
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John Cheever (born 1912, died 1982)
American short-story writer.
- 1958 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for The Wapshot Chronicle
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Philip Roth (born 1933)
American novelist.
- Two-time National Book Award winner for Fiction, in 1960 for Goodbye, Columbus and in 1996 for Sabbath''s Theater
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Ralph Ellison (born 1914, died 1994)
American novelist and essayist.
- 1953 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Invisible Man
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Robert Stone (born 1937)
American novelist.
- 1975 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Dog Soldiers
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Thomas Pynchon (born 1937)
American novelist.
- 1974 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Gravity''s Rainbow
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William Styron (born 1925)
American novelist.
- 1980 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Sophie''s Choice
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William Gaddis (born 1922)
American novelist.
- Two-time National Book Award winner for Fiction, in 1976 for JR and in 1994 for A Frolic of His Own
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William Faulkner (born 1897, died 1962)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- Two-time National Book Award winner for Fiction, in 1951 for The Collected Stories and in 1955 for A Fable
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Wright Morris (born 1910, died 1998)
American novelist.
- Two-time National Book Award winner for Fiction, in 1957 for Field of Vision and in 1981 for Plains Song
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Edgar Laurence ''E.L.'' Doctorow (born 1931)
American novelist.
- 1986 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for World''s Fair
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Nelson Algren (born 1909, died 1981)
American novelist.
- 1950 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for The Man with the Golden Arm
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James Jones (born 1921, died 1977)
American novelist.
- 1952 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for From Here to Eternity
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Walker Percy (born 1916, died 1990)
American novelist.
- 1962 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for The Moviegoer
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James Farl Powers (born 1917, died 1999)
American short-story writer.
- 1963 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Morte d''Urban
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Jerzy Kosinski (born 1933, died 1991)
Polish-born American novelist.
- 1969 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Steps
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John Williams
- 1973 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Augustus
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Thomas Williams
- 1975 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for The Hair of Harold Roux
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Wallace Stegner (born 1909, died 1993)
American novelist.
- 1977 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for The Spectator Bird
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Tim O'Brien (born 1946)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1979 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Going After Cacciato
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Don DeLillo (born 1936)
American novelist.
- 1985 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for White Noise
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Larry Heinemann
- 1987 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Paco''s Story
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Pete Dexter
- 1988 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Paris Trout
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John Casey (born 1939)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1989 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Spartina
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Charles Johnson (born 1948)
American author.
- 1990 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for The Middle Passage
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Norman Rush (born 1933)
American novelist.
- 1991 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Mating
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Thornton Wilder (born 1897, died 1975)
American novelist and playwright.
- 1968 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for The Eighth Day
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Saul Bellow (born 1915)
American novelist.
- Three-time National Book Award winner for Fiction, in 1954 for The Adventures of Augie March, in 1965 for Herzog, and in 1971 for Mr. Sammler''s Planet
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Charles Frazier
American writer.
- 1997 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Cold Mountain
Winners of the National Book Award for Fiction
This prize has been awarded annually since 1950 by the Association of American Publishers.
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E. Annie Proulx (born 1935)
American novelist.
- 1993 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for The Shipping News
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Flannery O'Connor (born 1925, died 1964)
American short-story writer and novelist.
- 1972 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for The Complete Stories
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Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1970 National Book Award winner for fiction, for Them
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Mary Lee Settle (born 1918)
American novelist.
- 1978 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Blood Ties
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Alice Walker (born 1944)
American novelist, essayist and poet.
- 1983 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for The Color Purple
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Ellen Gilchrist (born 1935)
American novelist and short story writer.
- 1984 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Victory Over Japan
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Susan Sontag (born 1933)
American novelist, essayist and critic.
- 2000 National Book Award winner for In America
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Katherine Anne Porter (born 1890, died 1980)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1966 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for The Collected Stories
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Andrea Barrett
American author.
- 1996 National Book Award winner for Fiction, for Ship Fever and Other Stories
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Alice McDermott
American author
- 1998 National Book Award winner for Charming Billy
