Awards & Winners

1987 American Book Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1987 American Book Awards. Check awards winners of 1987 American Book Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

American Book Awards

Gary Giddins

Honored for : Celebrating Bird
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James Welch

Honored for : Fools Crow
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Ana Castillo

Honored for : The Mixquiahuala Letters
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Terry McMillan

Honored for : Mama
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John Wieners

Honored for : Selected poems, 1958-1984
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Dorothy Bryant

Honored for : Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow
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Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

Honored for : Liberazione Della Donna
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Septima Poinsette Clark, Cynthia Stokes Brown

Honored for : Ready from Within: A First Person Narrative
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Harvey Pekar

Honored for : The New American Splendor Anthology
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Etheridge Knight

Honored for : The essential Etheridge Knight
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Ai

Honored for : SIN
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Juan Felipe Herrera

Honored for : Face Games
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Cyn Zarco

Honored for : Circumnavigation
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Daniel McGuire

Honored for : Portrait of Little Boy in darkness
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Michael Mayo

Honored for : Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry