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  2. List of winners of the National Book Award - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, all four had been losing finalists for the Fiction award in their hardcover editions (two 1979, two 1981). ^ a b Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell, won both the Arts and Letters and the Sciences awards in 1975. ^ a b John Clive, Thomas Babington Macaulay, won both the History and Biography awards in 1974.

  3. Pulitzer Prize for History - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the history of the United States. Thus it is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was ...

  4. David McCullough - Wikipedia

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    David Gaub McCullough ( / məˈkʌlə /; July 7, 1933 – August 7, 2022) was an American popular historian. He was a two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award. [ 2][ 3][ 4]

  5. No Ordinary Time - Wikipedia

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    No Ordinary Time. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II is a 1994 historical, biographical book by American author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin published by Simon & Schuster . Based on interviews with 86 people who knew them personally, the book chronicles the lives of President ...

  6. Barbara W. Tuchman - Wikipedia

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    Barbara W. Tuchman. Barbara Wertheim Tuchman ( / ˈtʌkmən /; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China ...

  7. National Book Award - Wikipedia

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    The National Book Awards were established in 1936 by the American Booksellers Association, [3] [4] abandoned during World War II, and re-established by three book industry organizations in 1950. Non-U.S. authors and publishers were eligible for the pre-war awards. Since then they are presented to U.S. authors for books published in the United ...

  8. Caldecott Medal - Wikipedia

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    The Caldecott and Newbery Medals are considered the most prestigious American children's book awards. Besides the Caldecott Medal, the committee awards a variable number of citations to runners-up they deem worthy, called the Caldecott Honor or Caldecott Honor Books . The Caldecott Medal was first proposed by Frederic G. Melcher in 1937.

  9. Number the Stars - Wikipedia

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    OCLC. 18947847. LC Class. PZ7.L9673 Nu 1989. Number the Stars is a work of historical fiction by the American author Lois Lowry about the escape of a family of Jews from Copenhagen, Denmark, during World War II . The story revolves around ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen, who lives with her mother, father, and sister Kirsti in Copenhagen in 1943.

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