All 1960 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Luck of Ginger Coffey

Brian Moore

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

In Search of Canadian Liberalism

Frank H. Underhill

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Winter Sun

Margaret Avison

Hugo Awards – Novel

Starship Troopers

Robert A. Heinlein

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

John Paul Jones

Samuel Eliot Morison

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

Advise and Consent

Allen Drury

Pulitzer Prize – History

In the Days of McKinley

Margaret Leech

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Heart’s Needle

W. D. Snodgrass

Caldecott – Picture Book

Nine Days to Christmas

Marie Hall Ets

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

The Making of Man

Dr IW Cornwall

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

The Grey Flannel Shroud

Henry Slesar

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Hours Before Dawn

Celia Fremlin

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Old Winkle and the Seagulls

Gerald Rose

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Onion John

Joseph Krumgold