1983 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Children's Books (Nonfiction)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James Cross Giblin |
Chimney Sweeps
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| Linda Grant De Pauw |
Seafaring Women
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| Patricia Lauber |
Journey to the planets
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| John Nance |
Lobo of the Tasaday
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| Judith St. George |
The Brooklyn Bridge
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National Book Award for Autobiography/Biography (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| William S. McFeely |
Grant: A Biography
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| Jean Strouse |
Alice James, A Biography
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| James R. Mellow |
Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time
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| Dumas Malone |
The Sage of Monticello
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| Paul Mariani |
William Carlos Williams : a new world naked
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National Book Award for Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Judith Thurman |
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
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| Russell Baker |
Growing up
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| Robert Caro |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
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| Robert J. Donovan |
Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1953
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| Lewis Mumford |
Sketches from life the autobiography of Lewis Mumford : the early years
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National Book Award for Original Paperback
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Lisa Goldstein |
The Red Magician
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| David P. Barash |
Stop Nuclear War: A Handbook
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| Mark J. Green |
Winning Back America
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| Ground Zero War Foundation |
Nuclear War
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| Marc Scott Zicree |
The twilight zone companion
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National Book Award for First Novel
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Gloria Naylor |
The Women of Brewster Place
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| Gail Albert |
Matters of Chance
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| John M. Del Vecchio |
Thirteenth Valley
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| Susanna Moore |
My Old Sweetheart
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| David Small |
Almost Famous
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National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Fox Butterfield |
China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
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| George F. Kennan |
The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age
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| David McClintick |
Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street
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| Jonathan Schell |
The Fate of the Earth
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| Susan Sheehan |
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Charles Wright |
Country Music: Selected Early Poems
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| Jack Gilbert |
Monolithos
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| Linda Pastan |
PM/AM, new and selected poems
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| Mona Van Duyn |
Letters from a father, and other poems
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| Galway Kinnell |
Selected Poems
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National Book Award for History (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| 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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| George M. Fredrickson |
White Supremacy
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| Ray Huang |
1587: A Year of No Significance
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| John Noble Wilford |
The mapmakers
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National Book Award for History (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Alan Brinkley |
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
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| Gordon Alexander Craig |
The Germans
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| Robert Darnton |
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
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| John Putnam Demos |
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
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| William McNeill |
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000
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| Bertram Wyatt-Brown |
Southern Honor
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Paula Fox |
A Place Apart
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| Joyce Carol Thomas |
Marked by Fire
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| Judy Blume |
Tiger Eyes
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| Sue Ellen Bridgers |
Notes for Another Life
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| Lois Lowry |
Anastasia Again!
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Jean Fritz |
Homesick
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| Lloyd Alexander |
The Kestrel
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| Edward Fenton |
The Refugee Summer
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| Virginia Hamilton |
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
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| Zibby Oneal |
A Formal Feeling
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Paula Fox |
A Place Apart
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| Joyce Carol Thomas |
Marked by Fire
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| Judy Blume |
Tiger Eyes
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| Sue Ellen Bridgers |
Notes for Another Life
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| Lois Lowry |
Anastasia Again!
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Picture Books, Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Barbara Cooney |
Miss Rumphius
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| William Steig |
Doctor DeSoto
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| Marcia Brown |
Shadow
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| Karla Kuskin |
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
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| Marc Simont |
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
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| Cynthia Rylant |
When I Was Young in the Mountains
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| Diane Goode |
When I Was Young in the Mountains
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Picture Books, Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Mary Ann Hoberman |
A House is a House for Me
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| Steven Kellogg |
Pinkerton, behave!
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| Peter Koeppen |
Robert Frost's A Swinger of Birches
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| James Marshall |
Space Case
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| Ellen Shire |
The Bungling Ballerinas
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National Book Award for Science (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Abraham Pais |
\"Subtle is the Lord...\": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein
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| Philip J. Hilts |
Scientific Temperaments: Three Lives in Contemporary Science
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| Melvin Konner |
The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
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| Ernst Mayr |
The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance
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| Heinz Pagels |
The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics As the Language of Nature
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National Book Award for Science (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Philip J. Davis |
The Mathematical Experience
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| Reuben Hersh |
The Mathematical Experience
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| Morris Kline |
Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
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| Cynthia Moss |
Portraits in the wild
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| Berton Roueché |
The Medical Detectives: The Classic Collection of Award-Winning Medical Investigative Reporting
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| G. Ledyard Stebbins |
Darwin to DNA, molecules to humanity
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National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Eudora Welty |
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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| David Bradley |
The Chaneysville Incident
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| Mary Gordon |
The Company of Women
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| Marilynne Robinson |
Housekeeping
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| Robert Stone |
A Flag for Sunrise
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National Book Award for Fiction (Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Alice Walker |
The Color Purple
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| Gail Godwin |
A mother and two daughters
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| Bobbie Ann Mason |
Shiloh and Other Stories
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| Anne Tyler |
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
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| Paul Theroux |
The Mosquito Coast
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National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Paperback)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| James Fallows |
National Defense
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| Edwin R. Bayley |
Joe McCarthy and the Press
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| Paul Fussell |
Abroad
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| Albert Santoli |
Everything We Had
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| Joanna Stratton |
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Charles Wright |
Country Music: Selected Early Poems
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| Jack Gilbert |
Monolithos
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| Linda Pastan |
PM/AM, new and selected poems
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| Mona Van Duyn |
Letters from a father, and other poems
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| Galway Kinnell |
Selected Poems
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National Book Award for Children’s Books (Picture Books, Hardcover)
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Barbara Cooney |
Miss Rumphius
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| William Steig |
Doctor DeSoto
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| Marcia Brown |
Shadow
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| Karla Kuskin |
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
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| Marc Simont |
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
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| Cynthia Rylant |
When I Was Young in the Mountains
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| Diane Goode |
When I Was Young in the Mountains
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National Book Award for Translation
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Richard Howard |
Flowers of Evil
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| Marion Faber |
Mozart
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| Allen Mandelbaum |
Purgatorio
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| Philip B. Miller |
An abyss deep enough
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| Richard Wilbur |
Andromache
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