1953

• The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
  1953 · Hugo Awards · Best Novel
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  1953 · Pulitzer Prize · Fiction
• The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
  1953 · Pulitzer Prize · History
• Picnic by William Inge
  1953 · Pulitzer Prize · Drama
• Edmund Pendleton 1721-1803 by David J. Mays
  1953 · Pulitzer Prize · Biography
• Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish
  1953 · Pulitzer Prize · Poetry