1960

The Cave

By Robert Penn Warren

Original Publisher: Random House

Current Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Fiction Finalists That Year:

• Louis Auchincloss for Pursuit of the Prodigal
• Hamilton Basso for The Light Infantry Ball
• Saul Bellow for Henderson the Rain King
• Evan S. Connell, Jr. for Mrs. Bridge
• William Faulkner for The Mansion
• Mark Harris for Wake Up, Stupid
• John Hersey for The War Lover
• H.L. Humes for Men Die
• Shirley Jackson for The Haunting of Hill House
• Elizabeth Janeway for The Third Choice
• James Jones for The Pistol
• Warren Miller for The Cool World
• James Purdy for Malcolm
• Leo Rosten for The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N
• John Updike for The Poorhouse Fair
• Robert Penn Warren for The Cave
• Morris West for The Devil's Advocate

Fiction Winner That Year: Philip Roth for Goodbye, Columbus

Fiction Judges That Year: Kay Boyle, Brendan Gill, Alexander Laing, William Peden, Charles J. Rolo

The Year in Literature:

• Advise and Consent by Allen Drury won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
• Saint-John Perse won the Nobel Prize for literature. 

More Information: Warren won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1958 for Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 and was a Finalist three more times: in 1956 for Band of Angels (Fiction), in 1957 for Segregation (Nonfiction), and in 1981 for Being Here (Poetry).

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