1979 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tim O'Brien |
Going After Cacciato
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| John Cheever |
The Stories of John Cheever
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| John Irving |
The World According to Garp
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| Diane Johnson |
Lying low
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| David Plante |
The Family
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National Book Award for Biography and Autobiography
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
Robert Kennedy and His Times
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| Donald Hall |
Remembering Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions
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| William Manchester |
American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
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| William M. Murphy |
Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats
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| Phyllis Rose |
Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf
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National Book Award for Contemporary Thought
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Kenneth E. Boulding |
Stable Peace
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| Ivan Doig |
This House of Sky: Landscapes of the Western Wind
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| Alfred Kazin |
New York Jew
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| Meyer Schapiro |
Modern Art
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| Peter Matthiessen |
The Snow Leopard
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National Book Award for History
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard Beale Davis |
Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763
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| Reinhard Bendix |
Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule
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| Gordon Alexander Craig |
Germany, 1866-1945
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| John H. White |
The American Railroad Passenger Car
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| Garry Wills |
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James Merrill |
Mirabell: Books of Number
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| Robert Hayden |
American journal
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| Sandra McPherson |
The year of our birth
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| Philip Schultz |
Like wings
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| May Swenson |
New & selected things taking place
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National Book Award for Children's Books
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Katherine Paterson |
The Great Gilly Hopkins
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| Lloyd Alexander |
The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha
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| Vera Cleaver |
Queen of Hearts
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| Sid Fleischman |
Humbug Mountain
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| Paula Fox |
The Little Swineherd and Other Tales
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jonathan Chaves |
Pilgrim of the clouds
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| Clayton Eshleman |
The Complete Posthumous Poetry
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| José Rubia Barcia |
The Complete Posthumous Poetry
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| June Guicharnaud |
The Horse of Pride
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| Richard Howard |
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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| Reynolds Price |
A Palpable God
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