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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Deserter
Douglas LePan
Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

John Addington Symonds
Phyllis Grosskurth
Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

The Colour of the Times
Raymond Souster
Hugo Awards – Novel

Here Gather the Stars (book title Way Station)
Clifford D. Simak
Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

John Keats
Walter Jackson Bate
Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given
Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Anti-intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadter
Pulitzer Prize – History

Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
Sumner Chilton Powell
Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

At The End Of The Open Road
Louis Simpson
Caldecott – Picture Book

Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Nordy Bank
Sheena Porter
Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Florentine Finish
Cornelius Hirschberg
Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

Mystery of the Hidden Hand
Phyllis A. Whitney
Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Light of Day
Eric Ambler
Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Shakespeare’s Theatre
C. Walter Hodges
Newbery Medal – Children’s
