Two alumni, two faculty members, and one adjunct faculty member have been recipients of the book publishing industry’s major prize, the National Book Award. Alumnus Joseph Wood Krutch’s The Measure of Man: On Freedom, Human Values, Survival, and the Modern Temper won the award for nonfiction in 1955. Alumnus Cormac McCarthy received the 1992 prize for fiction for All the Pretty Horses. Richard Beale Davis, professor of English and former head of the English Department, won the award for Intellectual Life in the Colonial South: 1585–1763, published by the UT Press. Joyce Carol Thomas, also of the English Department, won the fiction award in 1983 for her novel Marked by Fire. Adjunct Professor Alex Haley also won the award for Roots.