1980 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Irving |
The World According to Garp
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| Paul Bowles |
Collected stories
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| Gail Godwin |
Violet Clay
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| John Updike |
Too Far To Go: The Maples Stories
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| Marguerite Young |
Miss MacIntosh, my darling
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National Book Award for Mystery (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John D. MacDonald |
The Green Ripper
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| Lucille Kallen |
Introducing C.B. Greenfield
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| William X. Kienzle |
The Rosary Murders
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| Arthur Maling |
The Rheingold Route
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| Lawrence Meyer |
False Front
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National Book Award for Western
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Louis L'Amour |
Bendigo Shafter
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| Benjamin Capps |
Woman Chief
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| Loren D. Estleman |
The High Rocks
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| Brian Garfield |
Wild times
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| G. Clifton Wisler |
My brother, the wind
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National Book Award for First Novel
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Wharton |
Birdy
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| Terry Davis |
Vision Quest
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| Stratis Haviaras |
When the Tree Sings
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| Philip F. O'Connor |
Stealing Home
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| Alan Saperstein |
Mom Kills Kids and Self
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National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Peter Matthiessen |
The Snow Leopard
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| Sissela Bok |
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
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| Barry Lopez |
Of Wolves and Men
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Philip Levine |
Ashes: Poems New and Old
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| Stanley Kunitz |
The Poems of Stanley Kunitz
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| David Wagoner |
In Broken Country
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National Book Award for Religion/Inspiration (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Sheldon Vanauken |
A Severe Mercy
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| Richard Bach |
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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| Catherine Marshall |
The helper
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National Book Award for Current Interest (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Christopher Lasch |
The Culture of Narcissism
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| Frances Wells Burck |
Babysense: A Practical and Supportive Guide to Baby Care
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| Sim Van der Ryn |
The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City
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| Helga Olkowski |
The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City
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| Bill Olkowski |
The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City
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| Tracy Hotchner |
Pregnancy and Childbirth
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| Calvin Trillin |
Alice, let's eat
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National Book Award for Current Interest (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Julia Child |
Julia Child and More Company
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| Raymond Lifchez |
Design for Independent Living
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| Barbara Winslow |
Design for Independent Living
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| Gay Gaer Luce |
Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years
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| Nathan Pritikin |
Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise
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| Patrick M. McGrady |
Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise
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| Robert Ellis Smith |
Privacy, how to protect what's left of it
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National Book Award for Autobiography (Paperback)
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National Book Award for Autobiography (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lauren Bacall |
Lauren Bacall by Myself
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| Barbara Gordon |
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
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| John Houseman |
Front and center
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| William Saroyan |
Obituaries
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National Book Award for Biography (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| A. Scott Berg |
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
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| Walter Jackson Bate |
Samuel Johnson
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| William Manchester |
American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
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| Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
Robert Kennedy and His Times
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National Book Award for General Reference Books (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Elder Witt |
The Complete Directory
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| Fredric M. Kaplan |
Encyclopedia of China Today
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| Stephen Andors |
Encyclopedia of China Today
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| Julian M. Sopin |
Encyclopedia of China Today
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| Bernard Karpel |
Arts in America: A Bibliography
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| J. Gordon Melton |
Encyclopedia of American Religions
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| Carolyn Sue Peterson |
Index to children's songs
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| Ann D. Fenton |
Index to children's songs
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National Book Award for Science Fiction (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Frederik Pohl |
Jem
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| John Crowley |
Engine Summer
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| Thomas M. Disch |
On Wings of Song
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| Jerry Pournelle |
Janissaries
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| Kate Wilhelm |
Juniper Time
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National Book Award for Science Fiction (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Walter Wangerin |
The Book of the Dun Cow
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| Samuel R. Delany |
Tales of Nevèrÿon
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| Vonda N. McIntyre |
Dreamsnake
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| Norman Spinrad |
The Star-Spangled Future
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| John Varley |
The Persistence of Vision
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National Book Award for General Reference Books (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tim Brooks |
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946\u2013Present
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| Earle Marsh |
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946\u2013Present
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| Cynthia W. Cooke |
The Ms. guide to a woman's health
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| Susan Dworkin |
The Ms. guide to a woman's health
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| Bruce Anderson |
The Solar Age Resource Book
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| Martin McPhillips |
The Solar Age Resource Book
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| Stuart Berg Flexner |
I hear America talking
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| Elizabeth L. Scharlatt |
Kids: Day In and Day Out
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National Book Award for Biography (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Edmund Morris |
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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| Millicent Bell |
Marquand: An American Life
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| Leon Edel |
Bloomsbury, a House of Lions
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| Ernest Samuels |
Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur
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National Book Award for Mystery (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William F. Buckley, Jr. |
Stained Glass
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| Robert Wright Campbell |
The Spy Who Sat and Waited
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| David Hagberg |
The Kremlin Conspiracy
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| Tony Hillerman |
Listening Woman
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| Michael Kurland |
The Infernal Device
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National Book Award for Children's Books (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Joan Blos |
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal
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| David Kherdian |
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
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| E. L. Konigsburg |
Throwing Shadows
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| Ouida Sebestyen |
Words by Heart
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National Book Award for Children's Books (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Madeleine L'Engle |
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
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| Myron Levoy |
Alan and Naomi
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| Arnold Lobel |
Frog and Toad are Friends
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| Katherine Paterson |
The Great Gilly Hopkins
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| Maurice Sendak |
Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life
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National Book Award for Religion/Inspiration (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Elaine Pagels |
The Gnostic Gospels
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| Peter L. Berger |
The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
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| Brevard Childs |
Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture
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| Peter Kreeft |
Love Is Stronger Than Death
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| Jack Bartlett Rogers |
Authority and Interpretation of the Bible
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| Donald K. McKim |
Authority and Interpretation of the Bible
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National Book Award for History (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Barbara W. Tuchman |
A Distant Mirror
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| James Lincoln Collier |
The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History
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| Daniel Kevles |
The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America
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| Allen Weinstein |
Perjury: The Hiss\u2013Chambers Case
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| Theodore White |
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
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National Book Award for History (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Henry Kissinger |
White House years
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| Robert Dallek |
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945
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| George F. Kennan |
The Decline of Bismarck's European Order
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| Frank Manuel |
Utopian Thought in the Western World
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| Fritzie P. Manuel |
Utopian Thought in the Western World
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| Telford Taylor |
Munich: The Price of Peace
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National Book Award for Science (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Gary Zukav |
The Dancing Wu Li Masters
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| William J. Kaufmann |
Black Holes and Warped Spacetime
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| Thomas Samuel Kuhn |
The Essential Tension
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| Anne W. Simon |
The thin edge
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National Book Award for Science (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Douglas Hofstadter |
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
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| Freeman Dyson |
Disturbing the universe
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| Douglas Faulkner |
Living corals
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| Richard Chesher |
Living corals
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| Bernd Heinrich |
Bumblebee Economics
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| Horace Freeland Judson |
The eighth day of creation
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National Book Award for Fiction (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Styron |
Sophie's Choice
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| James Baldwin |
Just Above My Head
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| Norman Mailer |
The Executioner's Song
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| Philip Roth |
The Ghost Writer
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| Scott Spencer |
Endless Love
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National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tom Wolfe |
The Right Stuff
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| Frances FitzGerald |
America revised
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| David Halberstam |
The Powers That Be
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| Frederic Morton |
A nervous splendor
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| Thomas Powers |
The Man Who Kept the Secrets
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Arrowsmith |
Hard Labor
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| Jane Gary Harris |
The complete critical prose and letters
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| Constance Link |
The complete critical prose and letters
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| George L. Hart |
Poets of the Tamil Anthologies
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