1956

• The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
  1956 · Hugo Awards · Best Short Story
• Exploration Team” (alt: “Combat Team”) by Murray Leinster
  1956 · Hugo Awards · Best Novelette
• Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
  1956 · Hugo Awards · Best Novel
• The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
  1956 · Pulitzer Prize · History
• Symphony No. 3 by Ernst Toch
  1956 · Pulitzer Prize · Music
• Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring by Elizabeth Bishop
  1956 · Pulitzer Prize · Poetry
• Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
  1956 · Pulitzer Prize · Drama
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin
  1956 · Pulitzer Prize · Biography
• Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
  1956 · Pulitzer Prize · Fiction