1969 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jerzy Kosi?ski |
Steps
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| John Barth |
Lost in the Funhouse
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| Frederick Exley |
A Fan's Notes
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| Joyce Carol Oates |
Expensive People
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| Thomas Rogers |
The Pursuit of Happiness
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National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Norman Mailer |
Armies of the Night
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| Hannah Arendt |
Men in Dark Times
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| Peter Gay |
Weimar culture: the outsider as insider
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| Gordon S. Haight |
George Eliot
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| Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Victorian minds
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National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Winthrop Jordan |
White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
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| Noel Pharr Davis |
Lawrence and Oppenheimer
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| Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. |
The Indian Heritage of America
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| Norman Mailer |
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
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| David M. Potter |
South and the sectional conflict
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Berryman |
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
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| Gwendolyn Brooks |
In the Mecca; Poems
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| Galway Kinnell |
Body rags
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| John Thompson |
The Talking Girl
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| Keith Waldrop |
A windmill near Calvary
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National Book Award for The Sciences
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Jay Lifton |
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima
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| René Dubos |
So Human an Animal
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| Frank Manuel |
A portrait of Isaac Newton
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| Karl Menninger |
The crime of punishment
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| James D. Watson |
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
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National Book Award for Children's Books
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Milton Meltzer |
Langston Hughes
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| Esther Hautzig |
The Endless Steppe
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| Patricia Clapp |
Constance
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| Lloyd Alexander |
The High King
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| Meindert DeJong |
Journey from Peppermint Street
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Weaver |
The Complete Cosmicomics
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| Joseph Hitrec |
The Pasha's Concubine and Other Tales
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| Rolfe Humphries |
The way things are
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| Ellen Conroy Kennedy |
Lyrical and critical essays
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| Burton Watson |
The complete works of Chuang Tzu
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