1953 Book Award Winners

Santiago is an old Cuban fisherman who has gone eighty four days without a fish, long enough that the parents of Manolin, the boy who loves him,...

The narrator has no name, and by the time he tells you his story he is living rent free in a forgotten basement on the edge of Harlem, burning...

George Dangerfield examines the years from the War of 1812 through Andrew Jackson's 1829 inauguration, a period contemporaries nicknamed the Era of...

David Mays was a practicing Richmond corporate lawyer, not an academic, who spent years of lunch hour research in archives before he finished this...

The Course of Empire is the story of three centuries of exploration of North America, from the first Spanish entradas to the moment in 1805 when...

Collected Poems 1917 to 1952 spans thirty five years of Archibald MacLeish's writing, from his earliest work through the modernist experiments that...

In the twenty fourth century murder has effectively ceased, because the Esper Guild supplies telepaths to the police, and a peeper reading...

Cusi, a young Inca boy, lives with an old llama herder named Chuto in a hidden valley high in the Peruvian Andes, tending a flock that includes his...

Johnny Orchard wants a bearskin to nail to the family barn like the ones his neighbors already have, so he sets off into the woods to shoot a bear,...

Churchill's history runs to six volumes, from the peace settlement that failed to prevent a second war through to the peace that ended it, and its...