All 1958 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

Execution

Colin McDougall

Governor General’s Literary Award – Juvenile

Nkwala

Edith L. Sharp

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Klondike

Pierre Berton

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

A Suit of Nettles

James Reaney

Hugo Awards – Novel

The Big Time

Fritz Leiber

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

George Washington, Volumes I-VII

Douglas Southall Freeman with John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

A Death in the Family

James Agee

Pulitzer Prize – History

Banks and Politics in America

Bray Hammond

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Promises: Poems 1954-1956

Robert Penn Warren

Caldecott – Picture Book

Time of Wonder

Robert McCloskey

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Tom’s Midnight Garden

Philippa Pearce

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Knock and Wait a While

William Rawle Weeks

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

Room to Swing

Ed Lacy

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Rifles for Watie

Harold Keith