• W. Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson
• David Cairns, Berlioz
• Otis Ferguson, The Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson
• Moss Hart, Act One
• John P. Marquand, Point of No Return
• Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood
• Fairfield Porter, Art in Its Own Terms
• Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time
• Dawn Powell, The Locusts Have No King
• Evelyn Waugh, Black Mischief