Annal:1972 National Book Award for Fiction
From AwardAnnals
Results of the National Book Award in the year 1972. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1972 NBA–Fiction winner
- Score: 10.22
The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O’Connor’s monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O’Connor put together in her short lifetime—Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
O’Connor published her first story, “The Geranium,” in 1946, while she was working on her master’s degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last…
