Faulkner, Others Get Book Awards

The second annual National Book Awards, for outstanding works by American authors, were made at the Hotel Commodore. Left to right are: Edward A. Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, who presented the awards; Wallace Stevens, the poetry award, for "The Auroras of Autumn;" Newton Arvin, who won a special citation for his first novel, "The Trouble of One House;" and Saxe Commins, Random House editor, who accepted the plaque for Nobel-Award Winner William Faulkner, for "The Collected Stories of William Faulkner."