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Ralph Ellison
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Ralph Ellison for Invisible Man
There was no prize awarded for fiction in 1954.
National Book Award was created in 1950.
National Book Critics Circle Award was created in 1975.
National Outdoor Book Award was created in 1997.
William Allen White Children's Book Award was created in 1953.
The Storm Book was published in 1953. It was named a Caldecott Honor Book for that year, but did not win the award.
Patricia Polacco has won multiple awards for her children's books, including the Newbery Honor, the Christopher Award, and the Sydney Taylor Book Award. She has also received the National Jewish Book Award and the Michigan Author Award.
The last book to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award was "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2020 and the National Book Award for Fiction in 2019.
Yes, J.D. Salinger received multiple awards and recognitions throughout his career, including the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1953 and the National Book Award's inaugural Young People's Literature Prize in 1960 for "The Catcher in the Rye."