All 1940 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

Thirty Acres (translation) Ringuet (pseud.)Thirty Acres (translation) Ringuet (pseud.)

Thirty Acres (translation)

Ringuet (pseud.)

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Slava Bohu J.F.C. WrightSlava Bohu J.F.C. Wright

Slava Bohu

J.F.C. Wright

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Brébeuf and His Brethren E.J. PrattBrébeuf and His Brethren E.J. Pratt

Brébeuf and His Brethren

E.J. Pratt

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII Ray Stannard BakerWoodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII Ray Stannard Baker

Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII

Ray Stannard Baker

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Grapes of Wrath John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Pulitzer Prize – History

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years

Carl Sandburg

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Collected Poems

Mark Van Doren

Caldecott – Picture Book

Abraham Lincoln

Ingri D’Aulaire

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Visitors from London

Kitty Barne

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Daniel Boone

James Daugherty