id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6124 National Book Award for Fiction - Wikipedia .html text/html 6574 1159 79 Authors who have won the award more than once include such noted figures as William Faulkner, John Updike, William Gaddis, Jesmyn Ward, and Philip Roth, each having won the award on two occasions along with numerous other nominations. National Book Awards for Fiction[edit] From 1935 to 1941 there were six annual awards for general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery" or "Most Original Book" was sometimes a novel. The Complete Stories was named the "Best of the National Book Awards"[35] as part of the Fiction Award's 60th anniversary celebration in 2009, by internet visitors voting on a ballot of the best six award winners selected by writers associated with the Foundation.[4] There was only one National Book Award for 1941, the Bookseller Discovery, which recognized the novel Hold Autumn In Your Hand by George Perry;[112] then none until the 1950 revival in three categories including Fiction. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6124.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6124.txt