Awards & Winners

1975 National Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 1975 National Book Award. Check awards winners of 1975 National Book Awards Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1975 National Book Awards Ceremony

National Book Award for Fiction

Robert Stone

Honored for : Dog Soldiers

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Stone Dog Soldiers
Thomas Williams The Hair of Harold Roux
Donald Barthelme Guilty Pleasures
Gail Godwin The odd woman
Joseph Heller Something Happened
Toni Morrison Sula
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Look at the Harlequins!
Grace Paley Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Philip Roth My Life As a Man
Mark Smith The Death of a Detective
National Book Award for Fiction

Thomas Williams

Honored for : The Hair of Harold Roux

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Stone Dog Soldiers
Thomas Williams The Hair of Harold Roux
Donald Barthelme Guilty Pleasures
Gail Godwin The odd woman
Joseph Heller Something Happened
Toni Morrison Sula
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Look at the Harlequins!
Grace Paley Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Philip Roth My Life As a Man
Mark Smith The Death of a Detective
National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)

Lewis Thomas

Honored for : The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

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Nominee Nominated Work
Roger Shattuck Marcel Proust
Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Calvin Bedient Eight Contemporary Poets
Alessandra Comini Egon Schieles Portraits
Peter Gay Style in history
Richard Gilman The making of modern drama
Elizabeth Hardwick Seduction and betrayal
Marjorie L. Hoover Meyerhold: The Art of Conscious Theater
H. W. Janson 16 Studies
Eleanor Perenyi Liszt: The Artist as Romantic Hero
Oliver Strunk Essays on Music in the Western World
National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)

Roger Shattuck

Honored for : Marcel Proust

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Nominee Nominated Work
Roger Shattuck Marcel Proust
Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Calvin Bedient Eight Contemporary Poets
Alessandra Comini Egon Schieles Portraits
Peter Gay Style in history
Richard Gilman The making of modern drama
Elizabeth Hardwick Seduction and betrayal
Marjorie L. Hoover Meyerhold: The Art of Conscious Theater
H. W. Janson 16 Studies
Eleanor Perenyi Liszt: The Artist as Romantic Hero
Oliver Strunk Essays on Music in the Western World
National Book Award for Children's Books

Virginia Hamilton

Honored for : M. C. Higgins, the Great

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Nominee Nominated Work
Virginia Hamilton M. C. Higgins, the Great
Natalie Babbitt The Devil's Storybook
Bruce Buchenholz Doctor in the Zoo
Bruce Clements I tell a lie every so often
James Lincoln Collier My Brother Sam Is Dead
Christopher Collier My Brother Sam Is Dead
Jason Laure? Joi Bangla!
Ettagale Blauer Joi Bangla!
Milton Meltzer World of Our Fathers
Milton Meltzer Remember the Days
Adrienne Richard Wings
Mary Stolz The Edge of Next Year
National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs

Theodore Rosengarten

Honored for : All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw

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Nominee Nominated Work
Theodore Rosengarten All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
Raoul Berger Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth
Carl Bernstein All the President's Men
Bob Woodward All the President's Men
Robert Wright Campbell The Chasm
Robert Caro The Power Broker
Joe Eszterhas Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse
Middleton Harris The Black Book
Andrew J. Levinson The Working Class Majority
Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Franz Schurmann The Logic of World Power
Rachel Scott Muscle and Blood
Studs Terkel Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
National Book Award for Biography

Richard B. Sewall

Honored for : The life of Emily Dickinson

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Nominee Nominated Work
Richard B. Sewall The life of Emily Dickinson
Richard Beeman Patrick Henry; a biography
Michael Collins Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
Ben Maddow Edward Weston; His Life
James R. Mellow Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company
Francis Steegmuller Your Isadora: The Love Story of Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig
Wallace Stegner The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto
Dick Sudhalter Bix: the Leon Bix Beiderbecke story
Philip R. Evans Bix: the Leon Bix Beiderbecke story
Glenn Watkins Gesualdo: the man and his music
James A Weisheipl Friar Thomas D'Aquino: his life, thought, and work
National Book Award for History

Bernard Bailyn

Honored for : The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson

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Nominee Nominated Work
Bernard Bailyn The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
Paul S. Boyer Salem Possessed
Stephen Nissenbaum Salem Possessed
Robert Brentano Rome before Avignon
Shelby Foote The Civil War: A Narrative
Eugene Genovese Roll, Jordan, Roll
John Gillis Youth and History
Erich S. Gruen The Last Generation of the Roman Republic
Christopher H. Johnson Utopian Communism in France
Gerald H. Meaker The Revolutionary Left in Spain
Edward Shorter Strikes in France, 1830-1968
Charles Tilly Strikes in France, 1830-1968
Mira Wilkins The maturing of multinational enterprise
Peter H. Wood Black Majority
National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion

Robert Nozick

Honored for : Anarchy, State, and Utopia

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Nozick Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Ian Barbour Myths, Models, and Paradigms: A Comparative Study in Science and Religion
Leonard Barrett Soul-Force : African Heritage in Afro-American Religion
John Murray Cuddihy The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity
Philip Garvin Religious America
Julia Welch Religious America
Guenter Lewy Religion and Revolution
Barbara Myerhoff Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians
Jaroslav Pelikan The Spirit of Eastern Christendom, Vol. II
Rosemary Radford Ruether Faith and Fratricide: The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism
National Book Award for Poetry

Marilyn Hacker

Honored for : Presentation Piece

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Nominee Nominated Work
Marilyn Hacker Presentation Piece
A. R. Ammons Sphere
John Balaban After Our War
Albert Goldbarth Jan. 31
Richard Howard Two-part inventions
Josephine Jacobsen The shade-seller; new and selected poems
Michael Ryan Threats instead of trees
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Granite lady; poems
David Wagoner Sleeping in the woods
Reed Whittemore The mother's breast and the father's house
National Book Award for The Sciences

Lewis Thomas

Honored for : The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

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Nominee Nominated Work
Lewis Samuel Feuer Einstein and the Generations of Science
Howard Gruber Darwin on Man
Paul H. Barrett Darwin on Man
Silvano Arieti Interpretation of Schizophrenia
Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
John L. Heilbron H. G. J. Moseley
Richard S. Lewis The Voyages of Apollo
John McPhee The Curve of Binding Energy
Stanley Milgram Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
Walter Sullivan Continents in Motion
Dorothy B. Vitaliano Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins
National Book Award for Translation

Anthony Kerrigan

Honored for : The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith

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Nominee Nominated Work
W. S. Merwin Selected Poems
Sheila Cudahy No way
Norman Thomas di Giovanni In Praise of Darkness
Michael Kandel The Cyberiad","The Futurological Congress
Helen Lane Conducting bodies
Ralph Manheim The Guiltless
Raymond Rosenthal Goethe
William Weaver Invisible Cities
Peter Kussi Life Is Elsewhere
Anthony Kerrigan The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith
Clarence Brown Selected Poems
National Book Award for The Sciences

Silvano Arieti

Honored for : Interpretation of Schizophrenia

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Nominee Nominated Work
Lewis Samuel Feuer Einstein and the Generations of Science
Howard Gruber Darwin on Man
Paul H. Barrett Darwin on Man
Silvano Arieti Interpretation of Schizophrenia
Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
John L. Heilbron H. G. J. Moseley
Richard S. Lewis The Voyages of Apollo
John McPhee The Curve of Binding Energy
Stanley Milgram Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
Walter Sullivan Continents in Motion
Dorothy B. Vitaliano Legends of the Earth: Their Geologic Origins