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For a distinguished book by an American which is not eligible for consideration in any other existing category, Five hundred dollars ($500).

The Guns of August , by Barbara W. Tuchman (Macmillan )

The Jury

Hodding Carter*

Editor, Greenville, Mississippi

Lewis Gannett

Critic, West Cornwall, Connecticut

Winners in General Nonfiction

1963 Prize Winners

Frank Miller

For a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: "I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!"

Ira B. Harkey

For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.