1973 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Barth |
Chimera
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| John Edward Williams |
Augustus
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| Brock Brower |
The Late Great Creature
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| Alan Friedman |
Hermaphrodeity
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| Barry Hannah |
Geronimo Rex
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| George V. Higgins |
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
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| R. M. Koster |
The prince
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| Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Transparent Things
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| Ishmael Reed |
Mumbo jumbo
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| Thomas Rogers |
The Confession of a Child of the Century
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Enemies, A Love Story
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| Eudora Welty |
The Optimist's Daughter
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Barth |
Chimera
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| John Edward Williams |
Augustus
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| Brock Brower |
The Late Great Creature
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| Alan Friedman |
Hermaphrodeity
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| Barry Hannah |
Geronimo Rex
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| George V. Higgins |
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
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| R. M. Koster |
The prince
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| Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Transparent Things
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| Ishmael Reed |
Mumbo jumbo
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| Thomas Rogers |
The Confession of a Child of the Century
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Enemies, A Love Story
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| Eudora Welty |
The Optimist's Daughter
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National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Arthur M. Wilson |
Diderot
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| Leo Braudy |
Jean Renoir: The World of His Films
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| Arlene Croce |
The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book
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| Stanley Fish |
Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature
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| Michael Goldman |
Shakespeare and the energies of drama
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| Daniel Hoffman |
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe
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| Albert Murray |
South to a very old place
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| Linda Nochlin |
Realism
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| Harold Rosenberg |
The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks
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| Leo Steinberg |
Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
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| Lionel Trilling |
Sincerity and Authenticity
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| Alec Wilder |
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900\u20131950
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| Vernon Young |
On Film: Unpopular Essays on a Popular Art
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National Book Award for Children's Books
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
The Farthest Shore
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| Betsy Byars |
The house of wings
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| Ingri Parin d'Aulaire |
Trolls
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| Jean Craighead George |
Julie of the Wolves
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| Betty Jean Lifton |
Children of Vietnam
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| Thomas C. Fox |
Children of Vietnam
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| Georgess McHargue |
The impossible people
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| Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
The Witches of Worm
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| William Steig |
Dominic
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National Book Award for Biography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James Thomas Flexner |
George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799
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| Ingrid Bengis |
Combat in the erogenous zone
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| Hortense Calisher |
Herself, An Autobiographical Work
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| Kenneth S. Davis |
FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882-1928
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| Leon Edel |
Henry James, the Master: 1901-1916
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| Eleanor Flexner |
Mary Wollstonecraft; a biography
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| Nikki Giovanni |
Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement My First Twenty-Five Years of Being Black Poet
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| John Houseman |
Run-through
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| Diane Johnson |
Lesser Lives
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| George F. Kennan |
Memoirs, 1950-1963
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| Joseph P. Lash |
Eleanor: the years alone
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| Margaret Mead |
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years
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| Peter Stansky |
The unknown Orwell
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| William Miller Abrahams |
The unknown Orwell
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National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Frances FitzGerald |
Fire in the Lake
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| Michael Barone |
The Almanac of American Politics
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| Grant Ujifusa |
The Almanac of American Politics
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| Douglas Matthews |
The Almanac of American Politics
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| Herblock |
Herblock's state of the Union
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| Lynn Eden |
Crisis in Watertown
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| David Halberstam |
The Best and the Brightest
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| Seymour Hersh |
Cover-up
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| Stanley Karnow |
Mao and China
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| Richard Sennett |
The hidden injuries of class
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| Jonathan Cobb |
The hidden injuries of class
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| Colin Turnbull |
The mountain people
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| Garry Wills |
Bare ruined choirs
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| New York State Special Commission on Attica |
Attica: The Official Report of the New York State Special Commission on Attica
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National Book Award for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Manson Myers |
The Children of Pride
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| Isaiah Trunk |
Judenrat
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| James David Barber |
Presidential character
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| John Patrick Diggins |
Mussolini and fascism
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| Richard Dunn |
Sugar and slaves
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| Loren Graham |
Science and philosophy in the Soviet Union
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| David Lovejoy |
The glorious Revolution in America
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| Jerre Mangione |
The dream and the deal
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| Robert O. Paxton |
Vichy France
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| Ed Rice |
Mao's Way
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National Book Award for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Manson Myers |
The Children of Pride
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| Isaiah Trunk |
Judenrat
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| James David Barber |
Presidential character
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| John Patrick Diggins |
Mussolini and fascism
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| Richard Dunn |
Sugar and slaves
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| Loren Graham |
Science and philosophy in the Soviet Union
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| David Lovejoy |
The glorious Revolution in America
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| Jerre Mangione |
The dream and the deal
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| Robert O. Paxton |
Vichy France
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| Ed Rice |
Mao's Way
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National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Sydney E. Ahlstrom |
A Religious History of the American People
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| Silvano Arieti |
Will to Be Human
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| Germaine Bree |
Camus and Sartre: crisis and commitment
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| Arthur Danto |
Mysticism and Morality
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| Stanley Cavell |
The senses of Walden
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| William A. Christian |
Person and God in a Spanish valley
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| William Leiss |
The Domination of Nature
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| Theodore Roszak |
Where the Wasteland Ends
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| Morton White |
Science and sentiment in America
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| Theodore Ziolkowski |
Fictional transfigurations of Jesus
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| A. R. Ammons |
Collected Poems, 1951-1971
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| W. H. Auden |
Epistle to a Godson
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| John Berryman |
Delusions, etc. of John Berryman
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| Richard Eberhart |
Fields of grace
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| Samuel John Hazo |
Once for the last bandit
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| John Hollander |
Town & country matters
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| Denise Levertov |
FootPrints
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| Archibald MacLeish |
The Human Season
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| James Merrill |
Braving the Elements
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| Frederick Morgan |
A book of change
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| Ishmael Reed |
Conjure; selected poems, 1963-1970
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| Louis Simpson |
Adventures of the letter I
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National Book Award for The Sciences
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| George Schaller |
The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations
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| John E. Bardach |
Aquaculture
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| Herman Heine Goldstine |
The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann
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| Garrett Hardin |
Exploring new ethics for survival
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| Morris Kline |
Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times
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| Peter Matthiessen |
The tree where man was born
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| H. Lewis McKinney |
Wallace and Natural Selection
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| Victor Richards |
Cancer
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| Ann Zwinger |
Land above the trees
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| Beatrice Willard |
Land above the trees
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Isaac Klein |
The Book of Women
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| Eleanore L. M. Schmidt |
Studies On the Interior of Russia
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| May Swenson |
Windows & stones
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| Victor Terras |
The Gambler
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| Lily Feiler |
Mayakovsky and his circle
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| Allen Mandelbaum |
The Aeneid
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| Michael Gallagher |
Spring Snow
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| Richard Howard |
A Happy Death
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| Edmund Keeley |
Cavafy\u2019s Selected Poems
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| Philip Sherrard |
Cavafy\u2019s Selected Poems
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