Year Poetry Fiction History Bio/Autobio Drama
1960.....Hearts Needle (Snodgrass, W. D.) Advice and Consent (Drury, Allen) In the Days of McKinley (Leech, Margaret) John Paul Jones (Morison, Samuel E.) Fiorello! (book, Jamesa Weidman and George Abbott; music, Jerry Bock; lyrics, Sheldon Harnick)
1961.....Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades (McGinley, Phillis) To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee, Harper) Between War And Peace: The Potsdam Conference (Feis, Herbert) Charles Sumner and The Coming of the Civil War (Donald, David) All the Way Home (Mosel, Tad)
1962.....Poems (Dugan, Alan) Edge of Sadness, The (OConnor, Edwin) Triumphant Empire: Thunderclouds Gather in the West, The (Gibson, Lawrence H.) no prize awarded How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Loesser, Frank and Burrows, Abe)
1963.....Pictures from Brueghel (Williams, William Carlos) Reivers, The (Faulkner, William) Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 (Green, Constance) Henry James: Vol. II: The Conquest of London; Vol. III: The Middle Years, 1881-1895 (Edel, Leon) no prize awarded
1964.....At the End of the Open Road (Simpson, Louis) no prize awarded Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town (Powell, Sumner C.) John Keats (Bate, Walter J.) no prize awarded
1965.....77 Dream Songs (Berryman, John) Keepers of the House, The (Grau, Shirley Ann) Greenback Era, The ( Unger, Irwin) Henry Adams (Samuels, Ernest) Subject Was Roses, The (Gilroy, Frank D.)
1966.....Selected Poems (Eberhart, Richard) Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (Porter, Katherin Anne) Life of the Mind in America (Miller, Perry) Thousand Days, A (Schlesinger, Arthur M.,Jr.) no prize awarded
1967.....Live or Die (Sexton, Anne) Fixer, The (Malamud, Bernard) Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and Scientist in the Winning of the American Way (Goetzmann, William H.) Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (Kaplan, Justin) A Delicate Balance (Albee, Edward)
1968.....Hard Hours, The (Hect, Anthony) Confessions of Nat Turner (Styron, William) Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Bailyn, Bernard) Memoirs (1925-1950) (Kennan, George) no prize awarded
1969.....Of Being Numerous (Oppen, George) House Made of Dawn (Momaday, M. Scott) Origins of the Fifth Amendment (Levy, Leonard W.) Man from New York, The (Reid, B. L.) Great White Hope, The (Sackler, Howard)
1970.....Untitled Subjects (Howard, Richard) Collected Stories (Stafford, Jean) Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (Acheson, Dean) Huey Long (Williams, T. Harry) No Place to Be Somebody (Gordone, Charles)