1962

Franny and Zooey

By J.D. Salinger

Original Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.

Current Publisher: Back Bay Books

Fiction Finalists That Year:

• Hortense Calisher for False Entry
• George P. Elliott for Among the Dangs
• Joseph Heller for Catch-22
• Bernard Malamud for A New Life
• William Maxwell for The Chateau
• J.D. Salinger for Franny and Zooey
• Isaac Bashevis Singer for The Spinoza of Market Street
• Edward Lewis Wallant for The Pawnbroker
• Joan Williams for The Morning and the Evening
• Richard Yates for Revolutionary Road

Fiction Winner That Year: Walker Percy for The Moviegoer

Fiction Judges That Year: Lewis Gannett, Herbert Gold, Jean Stafford

The Year in Literature:

• The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
• John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature. 

More Information: Salinger never won the National Book Award, but he was a Fiction Finalist once previously, in 1952 for The Catcher in the Rye.