Title	Author	Shortlisted
The Man with the Golden Arm	Nelson Algren	National Book Award for Fiction winner
The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ralph L. Rusk	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
The Universe and Dr. Einstein	Lincoln Barnett	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Mature Mind	Harry Allen Overstreet	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
This I Remember	Eleanor Roosevelt	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Killers of the Dream	Lillian Smith	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Lincoln Finds a General	Kenneth P. Williams	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted