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All 1964 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Deserter

Douglas LePan

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

John Addington Symonds

Phyllis Grosskurth

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

The Colour of the Times

Raymond Souster

Hugo Awards – Novel

Here Gather the Stars (book title Way Station)

Clifford D. Simak

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

John Keats

Walter Jackson Bate

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Anti-intellectualism in American Life

Richard Hofstadter

Pulitzer Prize – History

Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town

Sumner Chilton Powell

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

At The End Of The Open Road

Louis Simpson

Caldecott – Picture Book

Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

Nordy Bank

Sheena Porter

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Florentine Finish

Cornelius Hirschberg

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

Mystery of the Hidden Hand

Phyllis A. Whitney

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

The Light of Day

Eric Ambler

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Shakespeare’s Theatre

C. Walter Hodges

Newbery Medal – Children’s

It’s Like This, Cat

Emily Cheney Neville