All 1929 Book Awards

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Newbery Medal – Children’s

The Trumpeter of Krakow

Eric P. Kelly

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page

Burton J. Hendrick

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Scarlet Sister Mary

Julia Peterkin

Pulitzer Prize – History

The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865

Fred Albert Shannon

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

John Brown’s Body

Stephen Vincent Benét