[1] The judging panel are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field".
The National Book Foundation accepts nominations from publishers until June 15, requires mailing nominated books to the panelists by August 1, and announces five finalists in October.
The award is $10,000 and a bronze sculpture; other finalists get $1000, a medal, and a citation written by the panel.
[20] From 1984 to 1995, the National Book Foundation did not present awards for young people's literature.
Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Children's Literature award in 1970 for A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw and shared the Fiction award in 1974 for A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.