1981 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Justin Kaplan |
Walt Whitman: A Life
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| Robert K. Massie |
Peter the Great: His Life and World
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| James R. Mellow |
Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time
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| Peter Stansky |
Orwell, the transformation
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| William Miller Abrahams |
Orwell, the transformation
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| Ronald Steel |
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
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National Book Award for Autobiography/Biography (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Deirdre Bair |
Samuel Beckett : a biography
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| E. K. Brown |
Willa Cather
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| Leon Edel |
Bloomsbury, a House of Lions
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| Maureen Howard |
Facts of life
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| Meryle Secrest |
Being Bernard Berenson
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National Book Award for First Novel
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ann Arensberg |
Sister Wolf
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| Jean M. Auel |
The Clan of the Cave Bear
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| Philip Caputo |
Horn of Africa
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| Johanna Kaplan |
O My America
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| Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
Rough Strife
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National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Maxine Hong Kingston |
China Men
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| Malcolm Cowley |
The Dream of the Golden Mountains
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| John Graves |
From a Limestone Ledge
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| Victor Saul Navasky |
Naming Names
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| Studs Terkel |
American Dreams: Lost and Found
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lisel Mueller |
The Need to Hold Still
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| Philip Booth |
Before Sleep
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| Isabella Gardner |
That Was Then
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| Mark Strand |
Selected Poems
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| Robert Penn Warren |
Being Here: Poetry 1977 \u2013 1980
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National Book Award for History (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Leon Litwack |
Been in the Storm So Long
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| Richard Drinnon |
Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building
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| Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr. |
In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process
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| Telford Taylor |
Munich: The Price of Peace
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| Howard Zinn |
A People's History of the United States
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National Book Award for History (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Boswell |
Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
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| James H. Billington |
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
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| Steven Ozment |
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550
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| Carl Emil Schorske |
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
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| Page Smith |
The shaping of America
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Beverly Cleary |
Ramona and Her Mother
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| Lloyd Alexander |
The High King
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| Sue Ellen Bridgers |
All together now
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| S. E. Hinton |
Tex
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| Ellen Raskin |
The Westing Game
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National Book Award for Science (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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| Claude C. Albritton |
The abyss of time, changing conceptions of the earth's antiquity after the sixteenth century
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| René Dubos |
The wooing of Earth
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| Timothy Ferris |
Galaxies
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| Carl Sagan |
Cosmos
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National Book Award for Science (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lewis Thomas |
The Medusa and the Snail
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| Carl Sagan |
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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| Joe Silk |
The Big Bang
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| Walter Sullivan |
Black Holes, the Edge of Space, the End of Time
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National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Cheever |
The Stories of John Cheever
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| Thomas Flanagan |
The Year of the French
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| Norman Mailer |
The Executioner's Song
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| Scott Spencer |
Endless Love
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| Herman Wouk |
War and Remembrance
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Betsy Byars |
The Night Swimmers
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| Katherine Paterson |
Jacob Have I Loved
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| Ouida Sebestyen |
Far from home
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| Jan Slepian |
The Alfred Summer
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| Paula Fox |
A Place Apart
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National Book Award for Fiction (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Wright Morris |
Plains Song
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| Shirley Hazzard |
The Transit Of Venus
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| William Keepers Maxwell |
So Long, See You Tomorrow
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| Walker Percy |
The Second Coming
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| Eudora Welty |
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jane Kramer |
The Last Cowboy
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| Joan Didion |
The White Album
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| David Halberstam |
The Powers That Be
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| Dan Morgan |
Merchants of Grain
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| Paul Theroux |
The Old Patagonian Express
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Nonfiction, Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Alison Cragin Herzig |
Oh, Boy! Babies
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| Jane Lawrence Mali |
Oh, Boy! Babies
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| Jean Fritz |
Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?
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| William Jaspersohn |
The Ballpark
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| Milton Meltzer |
All Times, All Peoples
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| Peter Spier |
People
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Francis Steegmuller |
The letters of Gustave Flaubert
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| John E. Woods |
Evening Edged in Gold
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| Guy Davenport |
Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C.
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| John Glad |
Varlam Shalamov\u2019s Kolyma Tales
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| Jean Milligan |
Kao Ming\u2019s The Lute
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Francis Steegmuller |
The letters of Gustave Flaubert
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| John E. Woods |
Evening Edged in Gold
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| Guy Davenport |
Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C.
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| John Glad |
Varlam Shalamov\u2019s Kolyma Tales
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| Jean Milligan |
Kao Ming\u2019s The Lute
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