Best of the National Book Awards Fiction
Categories: Award Winners , Fiction
The National Book Foundation is celebrating its 60th anniversary by asking readers to pick their favorite National Book Award fiction winner from the past 60 years. This is the first time in the Foundation's history that an award is open to a public vote. The six finalists, selected by 140 writers from across the country, are:
The Stories of John Cheever (1981), Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1953), The Collected Stories of William Faulkner (1951), The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor (1972), Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1974) and The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1983).
Starting this week through October 21st, you can vote at the National Book Foundation’s website, and the winner will be announced on November 18th, the day of the National Book Awards ceremony in NYC.
