All 1946 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

Continental Revue Winifred BambrickContinental Revue Winifred Bambrick

Continental Revue

Winifred Bambrick

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Colony to Nation A.R.M. LowerColony to Nation A.R.M. Lower

Colony to Nation

A.R.M. Lower

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Poems Robert FinchPoems Robert Finch

Poems

Robert Finch

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir Linnie Marsh WolfeSon of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir Linnie Marsh Wolfe

Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir

Linnie Marsh Wolfe

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given No award given

No award given

Pulitzer Prize – History

The Age of Jackson

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

No award given

Caldecott – Picture Book

The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles

Maud Fuller Petersham and Miska Petersham

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

The Little White Horse

Elizabeth Goudge

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Watchful at Night

Julius Fast

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Strawberry Girl

Lois Lenski