1975 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Stone |
Dog Soldiers
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| Thomas Williams |
The Hair of Harold Roux
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| Donald Barthelme |
Guilty Pleasures
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| Gail Godwin |
The odd woman
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| Joseph Heller |
Something Happened
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| Toni Morrison |
Sula
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| Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Look at the Harlequins!
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| Grace Paley |
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
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| Philip Roth |
My Life As a Man
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| Mark Smith |
The Death of a Detective
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Stone |
Dog Soldiers
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| Thomas Williams |
The Hair of Harold Roux
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| Donald Barthelme |
Guilty Pleasures
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| Gail Godwin |
The odd woman
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| Joseph Heller |
Something Happened
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| Toni Morrison |
Sula
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| Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
Look at the Harlequins!
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| Grace Paley |
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
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| Philip Roth |
My Life As a Man
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| Mark Smith |
The Death of a Detective
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National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Roger Shattuck |
Marcel Proust
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| Lewis Thomas |
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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| Calvin Bedient |
Eight Contemporary Poets
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| Alessandra Comini |
Egon Schieles Portraits
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| Peter Gay |
Style in history
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| Richard Gilman |
The making of modern drama
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| Elizabeth Hardwick |
Seduction and betrayal
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| Marjorie L. Hoover |
Meyerhold: The Art of Conscious Theater
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| H. W. Janson |
16 Studies
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| Eleanor Perenyi |
Liszt: The Artist as Romantic Hero
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| Oliver Strunk |
Essays on Music in the Western World
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National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Roger Shattuck |
Marcel Proust
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| Lewis Thomas |
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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| Calvin Bedient |
Eight Contemporary Poets
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| Alessandra Comini |
Egon Schieles Portraits
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| Peter Gay |
Style in history
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| Richard Gilman |
The making of modern drama
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| Elizabeth Hardwick |
Seduction and betrayal
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| Marjorie L. Hoover |
Meyerhold: The Art of Conscious Theater
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| H. W. Janson |
16 Studies
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| Eleanor Perenyi |
Liszt: The Artist as Romantic Hero
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| Oliver Strunk |
Essays on Music in the Western World
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National Book Award for Children's Books
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Virginia Hamilton |
M. C. Higgins, the Great
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| Natalie Babbitt |
The Devil's Storybook
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| Bruce Buchenholz |
Doctor in the Zoo
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| Bruce Clements |
I tell a lie every so often
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| James Lincoln Collier |
My Brother Sam Is Dead
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| Christopher Collier |
My Brother Sam Is Dead
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| Jason Laure? |
Joi Bangla!
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| Ettagale Blauer |
Joi Bangla!
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| Milton Meltzer |
World of Our Fathers
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| Milton Meltzer |
Remember the Days
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| Adrienne Richard |
Wings
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| Mary Stolz |
The Edge of Next Year
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National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Theodore Rosengarten |
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
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| Raoul Berger |
Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth
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| Carl Bernstein |
All the President's Men
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| Bob Woodward |
All the President's Men
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| Robert Wright Campbell |
The Chasm
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| Robert Caro |
The Power Broker
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| Joe Eszterhas |
Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse
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| Middleton Harris |
The Black Book
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| Andrew J. Levinson |
The Working Class Majority
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| Robert M. Pirsig |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
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| Franz Schurmann |
The Logic of World Power
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| Rachel Scott |
Muscle and Blood
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| Studs Terkel |
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
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National Book Award for Biography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard B. Sewall |
The life of Emily Dickinson
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| Richard Beeman |
Patrick Henry; a biography
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| Michael Collins |
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
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| Ben Maddow |
Edward Weston; His Life
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| James R. Mellow |
Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company
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| Francis Steegmuller |
Your Isadora: The Love Story of Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig
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| Wallace Stegner |
The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto
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| Dick Sudhalter |
Bix: the Leon Bix Beiderbecke story
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| Philip R. Evans |
Bix: the Leon Bix Beiderbecke story
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| Glenn Watkins |
Gesualdo: the man and his music
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| James A Weisheipl |
Friar Thomas D'Aquino: his life, thought, and work
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National Book Award for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Bernard Bailyn |
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
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| Paul S. Boyer |
Salem Possessed
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| Stephen Nissenbaum |
Salem Possessed
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| Robert Brentano |
Rome before Avignon
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| Shelby Foote |
The Civil War: A Narrative
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| Eugene Genovese |
Roll, Jordan, Roll
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| John Gillis |
Youth and History
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| Erich S. Gruen |
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic
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| Christopher H. Johnson |
Utopian Communism in France
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| Gerald H. Meaker |
The Revolutionary Left in Spain
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| Edward Shorter |
Strikes in France, 1830-1968
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| Charles Tilly |
Strikes in France, 1830-1968
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| Mira Wilkins |
The maturing of multinational enterprise
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| Peter H. Wood |
Black Majority
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National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Nozick |
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
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| Ian Barbour |
Myths, Models, and Paradigms: A Comparative Study in Science and Religion
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| Leonard Barrett |
Soul-Force : African Heritage in Afro-American Religion
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| John Murray Cuddihy |
The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity
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| Philip Garvin |
Religious America
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| Julia Welch |
Religious America
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| Guenter Lewy |
Religion and Revolution
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| Barbara Myerhoff |
Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians
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| Jaroslav Pelikan |
The Spirit of Eastern Christendom, Vol. II
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| Rosemary Radford Ruether |
Faith and Fratricide: The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Marilyn Hacker |
Presentation Piece
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| A. R. Ammons |
Sphere
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| John Balaban |
After Our War
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| Albert Goldbarth |
Jan. 31
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| Richard Howard |
Two-part inventions
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| Josephine Jacobsen |
The shade-seller; new and selected poems
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| Michael Ryan |
Threats instead of trees
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| Susan Fromberg Schaeffer |
Granite lady; poems
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| David Wagoner |
Sleeping in the woods
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| Reed Whittemore |
The mother's breast and the father's house
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National Book Award for The Sciences
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lewis Samuel Feuer |
Einstein and the Generations of Science
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| Howard Gruber |
Darwin on Man
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| Paul H. Barrett |
Darwin on Man
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| Silvano Arieti |
Interpretation of Schizophrenia
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| Lewis Thomas |
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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| John L. Heilbron |
H. G. J. Moseley
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| Richard S. Lewis |
The Voyages of Apollo
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| John McPhee |
The Curve of Binding Energy
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| Stanley Milgram |
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
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| Walter Sullivan |
Continents in Motion
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| Dorothy B. Vitaliano |
Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| W. S. Merwin |
Selected Poems
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| Sheila Cudahy |
No way
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| Norman Thomas di Giovanni |
In Praise of Darkness
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| Michael Kandel |
The Cyberiad","The Futurological Congress
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| Helen Lane |
Conducting bodies
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| Ralph Manheim |
The Guiltless
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| Raymond Rosenthal |
Goethe
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| William Weaver |
Invisible Cities
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| Peter Kussi |
Life Is Elsewhere
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| Anthony Kerrigan |
The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith
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| Clarence Brown |
Selected Poems
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National Book Award for The Sciences
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lewis Samuel Feuer |
Einstein and the Generations of Science
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| Howard Gruber |
Darwin on Man
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| Paul H. Barrett |
Darwin on Man
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| Silvano Arieti |
Interpretation of Schizophrenia
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| Lewis Thomas |
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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| John L. Heilbron |
H. G. J. Moseley
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| Richard S. Lewis |
The Voyages of Apollo
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| John McPhee |
The Curve of Binding Energy
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| Stanley Milgram |
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
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| Walter Sullivan |
Continents in Motion
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| Dorothy B. Vitaliano |
Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins
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