1978 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mary Lee Settle |
Blood Tie
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| Robert Coover |
The Public Burning
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| Peter De Vries |
Madder Music
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| James Alan McPherson |
Elbow Room
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| John Sayles |
Union Dues
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National Book Award for Contemporary Thought
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Gloria Emerson |
Winners & Losers
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| Kai T. Erikson |
Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood
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| Michael Harrington |
The Vast Majority
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| Louise Howe |
Pink Collar Workers
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| Julian Jaynes |
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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National Book Award for Biography and Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Walter Jackson Bate |
Samuel Johnson
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| James Atlas |
Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet
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| Will Davis Campbell |
Brother to a Dragonfly
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| Will Durant |
A Dual Autobiography
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| Ariel Durant |
A Dual Autobiography
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| Frank Vandiver |
Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing
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National Book Award for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David McCullough |
The Path Between the Seas
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| Henry Steele Commager |
The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment
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| Robert J. Donovan |
Conflict and Crisis
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| Joseph Kastner |
A Species of Eternity
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| Fritz Stern |
Gold and Iron
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Howard Nemerov |
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
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| Marvin Bell |
Stars which see, stars which do not see
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| Michael S. Harper |
Images of kin
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| Barbara Howes |
A private signal
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| Charles Simic |
Charon's cosmology
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National Book Award for Children's Books
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Steig |
Caleb & Kate
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| David McCord |
One at a Time
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| Ilse Koehn |
Mischling, second degree
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| Betty Sue Cummings |
Hew Against the Grain
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| Judith Kohl |
The View From the Oak
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| Herbert Kohl |
The View From the Oak
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard Winston |
In the Deserts of this Earth
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| Clara Winston |
In the Deserts of this Earth
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| Robert Martin Adams |
The Prince
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| David Lapeza |
The Ivankiad
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| Burton Watson |
Ryo?kan: Zen monk-poet of Japan
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| William Weaver |
History: A Novel
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