Awards & Winners

1985 American Book Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1985 American Book Awards. Check awards winners of 1985 American Book Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

American Book Awards

Gary Soto

Honored for : Living Up the Street
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Louise Erdrich

Honored for : Love Medicine
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Sandra Cisneros

Honored for : The House on Mango Street
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May Sarton

Honored for : At Seventy
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Peter H. Irons

Honored for : Justice at war
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Sonia Sanchez

Honored for : Homegirls & Handgrenades
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Maureen Owen

Honored for : A. E. Earhart
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Ron Jones

Honored for : Say Ray
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Colleen J. McElroy

Honored for : Queen of the Ebony Isles
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Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen

Honored for : Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
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Robert Duncan

Honored for : Ground Work: Before the War
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Angela Jackson

Honored for : Solo in the Box Car Third Floor E
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Keiho Soga, Muin Pzaki, Taisanboku Mori, Sojin Takei

Honored for : Poets Behind Barbed Wire
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William Oandasan

Honored for : Round Valley Songs