1982 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Children's Books (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Susan Bonners |
A Penguin Year
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| Jean Fritz |
Traitor, the case of Benedict Arnold
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| James Howe |
The hospital book
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| Mal Warshaw |
The hospital book
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| Patricia Lauber |
Seeds
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| Jerome Wexler |
Seeds
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| Robert Andrew Parker |
Flight: A Panorama of Aviation
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| Melvin B. Zisfein |
Flight: A Panorama of Aviation
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National Book Award for Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| David McCullough |
Mornings on Horseback
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| Gay Wilson Allen |
Waldo Emerson
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| Dumas Malone |
The Sage of Monticello
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| William S. McFeely |
Grant: A Biography
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| Milton Rugoff |
The Beechers
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National Book Award for First Novel
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Bette Lord |
Spring Moon
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| Leonard Michaels |
The Men's Club
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| Ted Mooney |
Easy Travel to Other Planets
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| Robb Forman Dew |
Dale Loves Sophie to Death
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| Celia Gittelson |
Saving Grace
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National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tracy Kidder |
The Soul of a New Machine
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| Guy Davenport |
The Geography of the Imagination
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| James Fallows |
National Defense
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| Janet Malcolm |
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
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| Andrea Lee |
Russian Journal
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Bronk |
Life Supports: New and Collected Poems
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| A. R. Ammons |
A Coast of Trees
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| John Ashbery |
Shadow train
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| Douglas Crase |
The revisionist
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| Daniel Hoffman |
Brotherly Love
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National Book Award for Autobiography/Biography (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ronald Steel |
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
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| Joseph P. Lash |
Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy
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| Robert K. Massie |
Peter the Great: His Life and World
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| Ted Morgan |
Maugham: A Biography
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| Ernest Samuels |
Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur
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National Book Award for History (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Peter John Powell |
People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879
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| Ray Huang |
1587: A Year of No Significance
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| Donald Neff |
Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East
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| Russell Weigley |
Eisenhower's Lieutenants
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| C. Vann Woodward |
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
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National Book Award for History (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Wohl |
The Generation of 1914
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| Malcolm Cowley |
The Dream of the Golden Mountains
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| Robert Dallek |
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945
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| Carl N. Degler |
At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present
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| Charles Rembar |
The Law of the Land
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Ouida Sebestyen |
Words by Heart
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| Lloyd Alexander |
The Wizard in the Tree
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| Katherine Paterson |
Jacob Have I Loved
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| Katherine Paterson |
The Master Puppeteer
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lloyd Alexander |
Westmark
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| Beverly Cleary |
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
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| Deborah Hautzig |
Second star to the right
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| Mildred D. Taylor |
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
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| Cynthia Voigt |
Homecoming
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Picture Books, Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Maurice Sendak |
Outside Over There
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| Stephen Gammell |
Where the Buffaloes Begin
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| Olaf Baker |
Where the Buffaloes Begin
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| Arnold Lobel |
On Market Street
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| Anita Lobel |
On Market Street
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| Chris Van Allsburg |
Jumanji
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| Nancy Willard |
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
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| Martin Provensen |
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
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| Alice Provensen |
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Picture Books, Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Peter Spier |
Noah's Ark
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| Muriel Feelings |
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
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| Tom Feelings |
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
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| Jane Langton |
The Fledgling
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| Alice Provensen |
A Peaceable Kingdom
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| Martin Provensen |
A Peaceable Kingdom
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| William Sleator |
The Angry Moon
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| Blair Lent |
The Angry Moon
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| Rosemary Wells |
Stanley and Rhoda
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National Book Award for Science (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Donald Johanson |
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
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| Maitland A. Edey |
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
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| Gene Bylinsky |
Life in Darwin's Universe: Evolution and the Cosmos
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| Eric Chaisson |
Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life
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| Stephen Jay Gould |
The Mismeasure of Man
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| Steven M. Stanley |
The new evolutionary timetable: fossils, genes, and the origin of species
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National Book Award for Science (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Fred Alan Wolf |
Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists
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| Freeman Dyson |
Disturbing the universe
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| Howard Gruber |
Darwin on Man
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| Bernd Heinrich |
Bumblebee Economics
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| Guy Murchie |
The Seven Mysteries of Life
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National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William Keepers Maxwell |
So Long, See You Tomorrow
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| E. L. Doctorow |
Loon Lake
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| Shirley Hazzard |
The Transit Of Venus
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| Walker Percy |
The Second Coming
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| Anne Tyler |
Morgan's Passing
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National Book Award for Fiction (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Updike |
Rabbit Is Rich
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| Mark Helprin |
Ellis Island and Other Stories
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| John Irving |
The Hotel New Hampshire
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| Robert Stone |
A Flag for Sunrise
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| William Wharton |
Dad
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National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Victor Saul Navasky |
Naming Names
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| Norman Cousins |
Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient
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| Edward Hoagland |
African calliope
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| Landon Jones |
Great Expectations
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| Barbara Novak |
Nature and culture
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Lyons Danly |
In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo, a Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan
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| Hideo Levy |
The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of the Man Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry
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| W. S. Di Piero |
Pensieri
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| Louis Iribarne |
The Issa Valley
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| Miller Williams |
Sonnets of Giuseppe Belli
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Robert Lyons Danly |
In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyo, a Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan
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| Hideo Levy |
The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of the Man Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry
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| W. S. Di Piero |
Pensieri
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| Louis Iribarne |
The Issa Valley
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| Miller Williams |
Sonnets of Giuseppe Belli
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