Honor roll: National Book Award for Arts and Letters authors
Each of these authors has been nominated for a National Book Award for Arts and Letters. They are ranked by honors given those books nominated for the aforementioned award.
| 1 | Lewis Thomas (20.25) | 4 | Pauline Kael (10.24) | 7 | Francis Steegmuller (10.21) |
| 2 | Paul Fussell (10.26) | 5 | Arthur McCandless Wilson (10.23) | 8 | Lillian Hellman (10.2) |
| 3 | Roger Shattuck (10.25) | 6 | Charles Rosen (10.22) |
