Awards & Winners

1980 National Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 1980 National Book Award. Check awards winners of 1980 National Book Awards Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1980 National Book Awards Ceremony

National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback)

John Irving

Honored for : The World According to Garp

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Nominee Nominated Work
John Irving The World According to Garp
Paul Bowles Collected stories
Gail Godwin Violet Clay
John Updike Too Far To Go: The Maples Stories
Marguerite Young Miss MacIntosh, my darling
National Book Award for Mystery (Hardcover)

John D. MacDonald

Honored for : The Green Ripper

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Nominee Nominated Work
John D. MacDonald The Green Ripper
Lucille Kallen Introducing C.B. Greenfield
William X. Kienzle The Rosary Murders
Arthur Maling The Rheingold Route
Lawrence Meyer False Front
National Book Award for Western

Louis L'Amour

Honored for : Bendigo Shafter

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Nominee Nominated Work
Louis L'Amour Bendigo Shafter
Benjamin Capps Woman Chief
Loren D. Estleman The High Rocks
Brian Garfield Wild times
G. Clifton Wisler My brother, the wind
National Book Award for First Novel

William Wharton

Honored for : Birdy

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Nominee Nominated Work
William Wharton Birdy
Terry Davis Vision Quest
Stratis Haviaras When the Tree Sings
Philip F. O'Connor Stealing Home
Alan Saperstein Mom Kills Kids and Self
National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Paperback)

Peter Matthiessen

Honored for : The Snow Leopard

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Nominee Nominated Work
Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard
Sissela Bok Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
Barry Lopez Of Wolves and Men
National Book Award for Poetry

Philip Levine

Honored for : Ashes: Poems New and Old

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Nominee Nominated Work
Philip Levine Ashes: Poems New and Old
Stanley Kunitz The Poems of Stanley Kunitz
David Wagoner In Broken Country
National Book Award for Religion/Inspiration (Paperback)

Sheldon Vanauken

Honored for : A Severe Mercy

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Nominee Nominated Work
Sheldon Vanauken A Severe Mercy
Richard Bach Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Catherine Marshall The helper
National Book Award for Current Interest (Paperback)

Christopher Lasch

Honored for : The Culture of Narcissism

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Nominee Nominated Work
Christopher Lasch The Culture of Narcissism
Frances Wells Burck Babysense: A Practical and Supportive Guide to Baby Care
Sim Van der Ryn The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City
Helga Olkowski The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City
Bill Olkowski The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City
Tracy Hotchner Pregnancy and Childbirth
Calvin Trillin Alice, let's eat
National Book Award for Current Interest (Hardcover)

Julia Child

Honored for : Julia Child and More Company

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Nominee Nominated Work
Julia Child Julia Child and More Company
Raymond Lifchez Design for Independent Living
Barbara Winslow Design for Independent Living
Gay Gaer Luce Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years
Nathan Pritikin Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise
Patrick M. McGrady Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise
Robert Ellis Smith Privacy, how to protect what's left of it
National Book Award for Autobiography (Paperback)

Malcolm Cowley

Honored for : And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978
National Book Award for Autobiography (Hardcover)

Lauren Bacall

Honored for : Lauren Bacall by Myself

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Nominee Nominated Work
Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall by Myself
Barbara Gordon I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
John Houseman Front and center
William Saroyan Obituaries
National Book Award for Biography (Paperback)

A. Scott Berg

Honored for : Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

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Nominee Nominated Work
A. Scott Berg Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Walter Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson
William Manchester American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Robert Kennedy and His Times
National Book Award for General Reference Books (Hardcover)

Elder Witt

Honored for : The Complete Directory

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Nominee Nominated Work
Elder Witt The Complete Directory
Fredric M. Kaplan Encyclopedia of China Today
Stephen Andors Encyclopedia of China Today
Julian M. Sopin Encyclopedia of China Today
Bernard Karpel Arts in America: A Bibliography
J. Gordon Melton Encyclopedia of American Religions
Carolyn Sue Peterson Index to children's songs
Ann D. Fenton Index to children's songs
National Book Award for Science Fiction (Hardcover)

Frederik Pohl

Honored for : Jem

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Nominee Nominated Work
Frederik Pohl Jem
John Crowley Engine Summer
Thomas M. Disch On Wings of Song
Jerry Pournelle Janissaries
Kate Wilhelm Juniper Time
National Book Award for Science Fiction (Paperback)

Walter Wangerin

Honored for : The Book of the Dun Cow

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Nominee Nominated Work
Walter Wangerin The Book of the Dun Cow
Samuel R. Delany Tales of Nevèrÿon
Vonda N. McIntyre Dreamsnake
Norman Spinrad The Star-Spangled Future
John Varley The Persistence of Vision
National Book Award for General Reference Books (Paperback)

Tim Brooks, Earle Marsh

Honored for : The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946\u2013Present

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Nominee Nominated Work
Tim Brooks The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946\u2013Present
Earle Marsh The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946\u2013Present
Cynthia W. Cooke The Ms. guide to a woman's health
Susan Dworkin The Ms. guide to a woman's health
Bruce Anderson The Solar Age Resource Book
Martin McPhillips The Solar Age Resource Book
Stuart Berg Flexner I hear America talking
Elizabeth L. Scharlatt Kids: Day In and Day Out
National Book Award for Biography (Hardcover)

Edmund Morris

Honored for : The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

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Nominee Nominated Work
Edmund Morris The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Millicent Bell Marquand: An American Life
Leon Edel Bloomsbury, a House of Lions
Ernest Samuels Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur
National Book Award for Mystery (Paperback)

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Honored for : Stained Glass

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Nominee Nominated Work
William F. Buckley, Jr. Stained Glass
Robert Wright Campbell The Spy Who Sat and Waited
David Hagberg The Kremlin Conspiracy
Tony Hillerman Listening Woman
Michael Kurland The Infernal Device
National Book Award for Children's Books (Hardcover)

Joan Blos

Honored for : A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal

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Nominee Nominated Work
Joan Blos A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal
David Kherdian The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
E. L. Konigsburg Throwing Shadows
Ouida Sebestyen Words by Heart
National Book Award for Children's Books (Paperback)

Madeleine L'Engle

Honored for : A Swiftly Tilting Planet

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Nominee Nominated Work
Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Myron Levoy Alan and Naomi
Arnold Lobel Frog and Toad are Friends
Katherine Paterson The Great Gilly Hopkins
Maurice Sendak Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life
National Book Award for Religion/Inspiration (Hardcover)

Elaine Pagels

Honored for : The Gnostic Gospels

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Nominee Nominated Work
Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Gospels
Peter L. Berger The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
Brevard Childs Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture
Peter Kreeft Love Is Stronger Than Death
Jack Bartlett Rogers Authority and Interpretation of the Bible
Donald K. McKim Authority and Interpretation of the Bible
National Book Award for History (Paperback)

Barbara W. Tuchman

Honored for : A Distant Mirror

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Nominee Nominated Work
Barbara W. Tuchman A Distant Mirror
James Lincoln Collier The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History
Daniel Kevles The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America
Allen Weinstein Perjury: The Hiss\u2013Chambers Case
Theodore White In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
National Book Award for History (Hardcover)

Henry Kissinger

Honored for : White House years

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Nominee Nominated Work
Henry Kissinger White House years
Robert Dallek Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945
George F. Kennan The Decline of Bismarck's European Order
Frank Manuel Utopian Thought in the Western World
Fritzie P. Manuel Utopian Thought in the Western World
Telford Taylor Munich: The Price of Peace
National Book Award for Science (Paperback)

Gary Zukav

Honored for : The Dancing Wu Li Masters

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gary Zukav The Dancing Wu Li Masters
William J. Kaufmann Black Holes and Warped Spacetime
Thomas Samuel Kuhn The Essential Tension
Anne W. Simon The thin edge
National Book Award for Science (Hardcover)

Douglas Hofstadter

Honored for : Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

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Nominee Nominated Work
Douglas Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Freeman Dyson Disturbing the universe
Douglas Faulkner Living corals
Richard Chesher Living corals
Bernd Heinrich Bumblebee Economics
Horace Freeland Judson The eighth day of creation
National Book Award for Fiction (Hardcover)

William Styron

Honored for : Sophie's Choice

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Nominee Nominated Work
William Styron Sophie's Choice
James Baldwin Just Above My Head
Norman Mailer The Executioner's Song
Philip Roth The Ghost Writer
Scott Spencer Endless Love
National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Hardcover)

Tom Wolfe

Honored for : The Right Stuff

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Nominee Nominated Work
Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff
Frances FitzGerald America revised
David Halberstam The Powers That Be
Frederic Morton A nervous splendor
Thomas Powers The Man Who Kept the Secrets
National Book Award for Translation

William Arrowsmith

Honored for : Hard Labor

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Nominee Nominated Work
William Arrowsmith Hard Labor
Jane Gary Harris The complete critical prose and letters
Constance Link The complete critical prose and letters
George L. Hart Poets of the Tamil Anthologies