1960

The Pistol

By James Jones

Original Publisher: Charles Scribners & Sons, Inc.

Current Publisher: University of Chicago Press; Open Road Integrated Media (ebook)

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: Jones won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1952 for From Here to Eternity.

Links: www.nbafictionblog.org/nba-winning-books-blog/2009/6/18/1952.html