1971 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Saul Bellow |
Mr. Sammler's Planet
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| James Dickey |
Deliverance
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| Shirley Hazzard |
The bay of noon
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| John Updike |
Bech
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| Eudora Welty |
Losing Battles
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National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Francis Steegmuller |
Cocteau: A Biography
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| Harold Bloom |
Yeats
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| Robert Coles |
Erik H. Erikson: the Growth of His Work
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| Nancy Milford |
Zelda
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| Lewis Mumford |
The Myth of the Machine
2nd of two vols |
| Kenneth Rexroth |
The Alternative Society: Essays from the Other World
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National Book Award for Children's Books
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lloyd Alexander |
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
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| Vera Cleaver |
Grover
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| Bill Cleaver |
Grover
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| Paula Fox |
Blowfish Live in the Sea
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| Arnold Lobel |
Frog and Toad are Friends
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| E. B. White |
The Trumpet of the Swan
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National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James MacGregor Burns |
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945
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| David Herbert Donald |
Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man
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| Andy Logan |
Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal Affair
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| Dumas Malone |
Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805
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| Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II |
The Last of the Giants
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mona Van Duyn |
To See, To Take
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| Gregory Corso |
Elegiac feelings American
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| W. S. Merwin |
The Carrier of Ladders
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| Mark Strand |
Darker
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| May Swenson |
Iconographs; poems
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National Book Award for The Sciences
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Raymond Phineas Sterns |
Science in the British Colonies of America
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| Gustav Eckstein |
The Body Has a Head
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| Victor C. Ferkiss |
Technological man
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| Ian McHarg |
Design with nature
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| Theodor Rosebury |
Life on man
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Frank Jones |
Saint Joan of the Stockyards
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| Edward Seidensticker |
The Sound of the Mountain
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| Norman R. Shapiro |
Four Farces
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| Richard Howard |
Professional secrets
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| Joseph Barnes |
The Fierce and Beautiful World
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Frank Jones |
Saint Joan of the Stockyards
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| Edward Seidensticker |
The Sound of the Mountain
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| Norman R. Shapiro |
Four Farces
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| Richard Howard |
Professional secrets
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| Joseph Barnes |
The Fierce and Beautiful World
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