Literary Award Winners at HCTC Libraries

• Fiction
  • Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler
• Drama
  • The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy Wasserstein
• History
  • Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, by James M. McPherson
• Biography
  • Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellmann
• Poetry
  • New and Collected Poems, by Richard Wilbur
• General Nonfiction
  • A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan

• Fiction
  • Beloved, by Toni Morrison
• Biography
  • Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, by David Herbert Donald
• General Nonfiction
  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes

• Fiction
  • A Summons to Memphis, by Peter Taylor
• History
  • Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn
• Biography
  • Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, by David J. Garrow
• Poetry
  • Thomas and Beulah, by Rita Dove
• General Nonfiction
  • Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, by David K. Shipler 

• Fiction
  • Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
• History
  • ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, by Walter A. McDougall
• General Nonfiction
  • Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, by J. Anthony Lukas
  • Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, by Joseph Lelyveld

• Biography
  • The Life and Times of Cotton Mather, by Kenneth Silverman
• Poetry
  • Yin, by Carolyn Kizer
• General Nonfiction
  • The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two, by Studs Terkel

• Fiction
  • Ironweed, by William Kennedy
• Drama
  • Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet

• Fiction
  • The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
• Drama
  • Night, Mother, by Marsha Norman

• Fiction
  • Rabbit Is Rich, by John Updike
• Drama
  • A Soldier's Play, by Charles Fuller
• Biography
  • Grant: A Biography, by William McFeely

• Fiction
  • A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
• Drama
  • Crimes of the Heart, by Beth Henley
• General Nonfiction
  • Fin-De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture, by Carl E. Schorske

• Fiction
  • The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer
• Drama
  • Talley's Folly, by Lanford Wilson
• Biography
  • The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris
• General Nonfiction
  • Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter 

• Fiction
  • The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever 
• Drama
  • Buried Child, by Sam Shepard
• Poetry
  • Now and Then, by Robert Penn Warren 
• General Nonfiction
  • On Human Nature, by Edward O. Wilson

• Biography
  • Samuel Johnson, by Walter Jackson Bate 
• General Nonfiction
  • The Dragons of Eden, by Carl Sagan

• Drama

  • The Shadow Box, by Michael Cristofer

1976

• Fiction

  • Humboldt's Gift, by Saul Bellow

• Biography

  • Edith Wharton: A Biography, by R. W. B. Lewis 

• Poetry

  • Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, by John Ashbery

1975

• Fiction

  • The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara

• Drama

  • Seascape, by Edward Albee

• Poetry

  • Turtle Island, by Gary Snyder 

• General Nonfiction

  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard

1974

• History

  • The Americans: The Democratic Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin

• General Nonfiction

  • The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker

1973

• Fiction

  • The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty 

• History

  • People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization, by Michael Kammen 

• Biography

  • Luce and His Empire, by W. A. Swanberg 

• General Nonfiction

  • Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, by Frances FitzGerald

1972

• Biography

  • Eleanor and Franklin, by Joseph P. Lash 

• Poetry

  • Collected Poems, by James Wright 

1971

• Drama

  • The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds, by Paul Zindel

• History

  • Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom, by James MacGregor Burns

• Biography

  • Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915 -1938, by Lawrance Thompson

• Poetry

  • The Carrier of Ladders, by William S. Merwin 

• General Nonfiction

  • The Rising Sun, by John Toland

1970

• Fiction

  • Collected Stories, by Jean Stafford

• Drama

  • No Place To Be Somebody, by Charles Gordone

• History

  • Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department, by Dean Acheson

• Biography

  • Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams

• General Nonfiction

  • Gandhi's Truth, by Erik H. Erikson

• Fiction
  • House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday 
• History
  • Origins of the Fifth Amendment, by Leonard W. Levy 
• General Nonfiction
  • So Human An Animal, by Rene Jules Dubos 
  • The Armies Of The Night, by Norman Mailer

• Fiction
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron 
• History
  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn 
• Biography
  • Memoirs, by George F. Kennan 
• General Nonfiction
  • The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution, by Will and Ariel Durant

• Fiction
  • The Fixer, by Bernard Malamud
• Biography
  • Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, by Justin Kaplan
• General Nonfiction
  • The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, by David Brion Davis

• Fiction
  • Collected Stories, by Katherine Anne Porter 
• Biography
  • A Thousand Days, by Arthur M. Schlesinger

• Fiction
  • The Keepers Of The House, by Shirley Ann Grau
• History
  • The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879, by Irwin Unger 
• Poetry
  • 77 Dream Songs, by John Berryman 
• General Nonfiction
  • O Strange New World, by Howard Mumford Jones

• History
  • Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, by Sumner Chilton Powell
• Biography
  • John Keats, by Walter Jackson Bate
• Poetry
  • At The End Of The Open Road, by Louis Simpson
• General Nonfiction
  • Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, by Richard Hofstadter

• Fiction
  • The Reivers, by William Faulkner 
• History
  • Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878, by Constance McLaughlin Green 
• Biography
  • Henry James, by Leon Edel 
• General Nonfiction
  • The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman

• Fiction
  • The Edge of Sadness, by Edwin O'Connor
• Poetry
  • Poems, by Alan Dugan
• General Nonfiction
  • The Making of the President 1960, by Theodore H. White 

• Fiction
  • To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
• History
  • Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference, by Herbert Feis
• Poetry
  • Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades, by Phyllis McGinley

• Fiction
  • Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury
• History
  • In the Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech
• Biography
  • John Paul Jones, by Samuel Eliot Morison
• Poetry
  • Heart's Needle, by W. D. Snodgrass

• Fiction
  • The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, by Robert Lewis Taylor
• Drama
  • J. B., by Archibald Macleish

• Fiction

  • A Death In The Family, by James Agee

• Poetry

  • Promises: Poems 1954-1956, by Robert Penn Warren

1957

• Drama

  • Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill

• Biography

  • Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy 

1956

• Fiction

  • Andersonville, by MacKinlay Kantor

• Drama

  • Diary of Anne Frank, by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich

• History

  • The Age of Reform, by Richard Hofstadter

• Poetry

  • Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring, by Elizabeth Bishop

1955

• Fiction

  • A Fable, by William Faulkner

• Drama

  • Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams

• History

  • Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History, by Paul Horgan 

• Biography

  • The Taft Story, by William S. White 

• Poetry

  • Collected Poems, by Wallace Stevens

1954

• Drama

  • The Teahouse of the August Moon, by John Patrick

• History

  • A Stillness at Appomattox, by Bruce Catton

• Biography

  • The Spirit of St. Louis, by Charles A. Lindbergh

1953

• Fiction

  • The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

• Drama

  • Picnic, by William Inge

• History

  • The Era of Good Feelings, by George Dangerfield 

1952

• Fiction

  • The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk

• History

  • The Uprooted, by Oscar Handlin

• Biography

  • Charles Evans Hughes, by Merlo J. Pusey

• Poetry

  • Collected Poems, by Marianne Moore

1951

• Fiction

  • The Town, by Conrad Richter

• Biography

  • John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Louise Coit

• Poetry

  • Complete Poems, by Carl Sandburg

1950

• History

  • Art and Life in America, by Oliver W. Larkin

• Biography

  • John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, by Samuel Flagg Bemis

• Drama
  • Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
• History
  • The Disruption of American Democracy, by Roy Franklin Nichols
• Biography
  • Roosevelt and Hopkins, by Robert E. Sherwood

• Fiction
  • Tales of the South Pacific, by James A. Michener 
• Drama
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
• History
  • Across the Wide Missouri, by Bernard Devoto 
• Poetry
  • The Age of Anxiety, by W. H. Auden

• Novel
  • All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren 
• Poetry
  • Lord Weary's Castle, by Robert Lowell

• History
  • The Age of Jackson, by Arthur Meier Schlesinger

• Novel
  • A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey

• History
  • The Growth of American Thought, by Merle Curti 
• Poetry
  • Western Star, by Stephen Vincent Benét

• Drama
  • The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder
• History
  • Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, by Esther Forbes
• Biography
  • Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, by Samuel Eliot Morison

• History
  • Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, by Margaret Leech
• Biography
  • Crusader in Crinoline, by Forrest Wilson

• History
  • The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860, by Marcus Lee Hansen 

• Novel
  • The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
• History
  • Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, by Carl Sandburg 
• Poetry
  • Collected Poems, by Mark Van Doren

• Novel
  • The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 
• Drama
  • Abe Lincoln in Illinois, by Robert E. Sherwood
• Biography
  • Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren 

• Novel

  • The Late George Apley, by John Phillips Marquand

• Drama

  • Our Town, by Thornton Wilder

• History

  • The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900, by Paul Herman Buck 

• Biography

  • The Life of Andrew Jackson, by Marquis James 

1937

• Novel

  • Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

• Drama

  • You Can't Take It With You, by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

• History

  • The Flowering of New England 1815-1865, by Van Wyck Brooks

• Biography

  • Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration, by Allan Nevins

1935

• Novel

  • Now in November, by Josephine Winslow Johnson 

• History

  • The Colonial Period of American History, by Charles McLean Andrews 

• Biography

  • R. E. Lee, by Douglas S. Freeman

1934

• History

  • The People's Choice, by Herbert Agar 

1933

• History

  • The Significance of Sections in American History, by Frederick J. Turner

• Biography

  • Grover Cleveland, by Allan Nevins 

1932

• Novel

  • The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck

• Biography

  • Theodore Roosevelt, by Henry F. Pringle

1931

• Poetry

  • Collected Poems, by Robert Frost

1930

• Novel

  • Laughing Boy, by Oliver La Farge

• Drama

  • The Green Pastures, by Marc Connelly

• Biography

  • The Raven, by Marquis James 

• Poetry
  • John Browns Body, by Stephen Vincent Benét 

• Novel
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder
• Drama
  • Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill
• Poetry
  • Tristram, by Edwin Arlington Robinson

• Novel
  • Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis

• Novel
  • So Big, by Edna Ferber
• History
  • History of the American Frontier, by Frederic L. Paxson 

• History

  • The Supreme Court in United States History, by Charles Warren

1922

• Novel

  • Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington

• Drama

  • Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill

• Poetry

  • Collected Poems, by Edwin Arlington Robinson

1921

• Novel

  • The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

• Biography

  • The Americanization of Edward Bok, by Edward Bok

1920

• Drama

  • Beyond the Horizon, by Eugene O'Neill

• History

  • The War with Mexico, by Justin H. Smith

• Biography

  • The Life of John Marshall, by Albert J. Beveridge

• Novel
  • The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington
• Biography
  • The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams