Ten North Frederick

For the 1958 screen adaptation of this novel, see Ten North Frederick (film).

First edition
(publ. Random House, 1955)

Ten North Frederick is a novel by John O'Hara, published by Random House in 1955. It tells the story of Joe Chapin, an ambitious American who desires to become President, along with those of his patrician wife, two rebellious children, and mistress.

Ten North Frederick won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.^[1]

It was adapted as a 1958 film of the same name starring Gary Cooper as Chapin.

References

↑ "National Book Awards – 1956". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-31.
(With essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

National Book Award for Fiction (1950–1974)

The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren (1950) Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner (1951) From Here to Eternity by James Jones (1952) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1953) The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1954) A Fable by William Faulkner (1955) Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara (1956) The Field of Vision by Wright Morris (1957) The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever (1958) The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud (1959) Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (1960) The Waters of Kronos by Conrad Richter (1961) The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1962) Morte d'Urban by J. F. Powers (1963) The Centaur by John Updike (1964) Herzog by Saul Bellow (1965) The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter (1966) The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (1967) The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder (1968) Steps by Jerzy Kosiński (1969) them by Joyce Carol Oates (1970) Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow (1971) The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (1972) Chimera by John Barth (1973) Augustus by John Williams (1973) Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1974) A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1974)

Complete list (1950–1974) (1975–1999) (2000–2024)

Awards
Preceded by A Fable William Faulkner	National Book Award for Fiction 1956	Succeeded by The Field of Vision Wright Morris

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