1977 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Contemporary Thought
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Bruno Bettelheim |
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
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| Dorothy Dinnerstein |
The Mermaid and the Minotaur
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| Joseph Frank |
Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849
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| Ada Louise Huxtable |
Kicked a Building Lately?
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| Rufus E. Miles, Jr. |
Awakening from the American Dream
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National Book Award for Biography and Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Andrew Swanberg |
Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist
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| Peter Collier |
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty
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| David Horowitz |
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty
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| Anaïs Nin |
The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. VI
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| B. L. Reid |
The Lives of Roger Casement
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| E. B. White |
Letters of E. B. White
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National Book Award for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Irving Howe |
World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made
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| Lawrence Goodwyn |
Democratic Promise: The Populist Movement in America
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| Linda Gordon |
Woman's Body, Woman's Right: the History of Birth Control in America
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| Richard Kluger |
Simple justice
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| Joshua C. Taylor |
America as Art
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard Eberhart |
Collected Poems, 1930-1976
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| Irving Feldman |
Leaping clear and other poems
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| Margaret Newlin |
The snow falls upward
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| Muriel Rukeyser |
The gates
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| David Wagoner |
Collected Poems, 1956-1976
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National Book Award for Children's Books
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Barbara Wersba |
Tunes for a Small Harmonica
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| Mildred D. Taylor |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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| John Ney |
Ox Under Pressure
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| Milton Meltzer |
Never to Forget
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| Katherine Paterson |
The Master Puppeteer
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Raymond Carver |
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
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| Donald Heiney |
The Balloonist
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| Ursula K. Le Guin |
Orsinian Tales
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| Cynthia Seton |
A fine romance
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| Wallace Stegner |
The Spectator Bird
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Li-Li Ch'en |
Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance
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| Robert Fagles |
The Oresteia
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| Gregory Rabassa |
The Autumn of the Patriarch
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| Charles S. Singleton |
The Divine Comedy, Paradiso: Vols, I & II
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| Helen Weaver |
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings
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