In 1961, the winner of the National Book Award for fiction was a novel titled The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter. I hadn’t heard of this book or it’s author until setting out on this project, but something interesting I discovered was how familiar I was with several of the books that had been longlisted. There are two books considered staples in pub…
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