1963

Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories

By John Updike

Original Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Current Publisher: Ballantine Books

Fiction Finalists That Year:

• Vladimir Nabokov for Pale Fire
• Katherine Anne Porter for Ship of Fools
• Dawn Powell for The Golden Spur
• Clancy Sigal for Going Away
• John Updike for Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories 

Fiction Winner That Year: J.F. Powers for Morte D’Urban

Fiction Judges That Year: Elizabeth Hardwick, Harry Levin, Gore Vidal

The Year in Literature: 

• The Reivers by William Faulkner won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
• Giorgos Seferis won the Nobel Prize for literature.

More Information: Updike won the National Book Award twice: in 1964 for The Centaur and in 1982 for Rabbit Is Rich. He was a Fiction Finalist five other times: in 1960 for The Poorhouse Fair; in 1961 for Rabbit, Run; in 1971 for Bech: A Book; in 1972 for Rabbit Redux; and in 1980 for Too Far to Go. Updike also received the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1998.

Links:

• www.nbafictionblog.org/nba-winning-books-blog/2009/7/17/1964.html
• www.nbafictionblog.org/nba-winning-books-blog/1982-2.html
• www.nationalbook.org/nbaacceptspeech_jupdike_dcal.html