Awards & Winners

1983 National Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 1983 National Book Award. Check awards winners of 1983 National Book Awards Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1983 National Book Awards Ceremony

National Book Award for Children's Books (Nonfiction)

James Cross Giblin

Honored for : Chimney Sweeps

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Nominee Nominated Work
James Cross Giblin Chimney Sweeps
Linda Grant De Pauw Seafaring Women
Patricia Lauber Journey to the planets
John Nance Lobo of the Tasaday
Judith St. George The Brooklyn Bridge
National Book Award for Autobiography/Biography (Paperback)

James R. Mellow

Honored for : Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time

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Nominee Nominated Work
William S. McFeely Grant: A Biography
Jean Strouse Alice James, A Biography
James R. Mellow Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time
Dumas Malone The Sage of Monticello
Paul Mariani William Carlos Williams : a new world naked
National Book Award for Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover)

Judith Thurman

Honored for : Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

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Nominee Nominated Work
Judith Thurman Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
Russell Baker Growing up
Robert Caro The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
Robert J. Donovan Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1953
Lewis Mumford Sketches from life the autobiography of Lewis Mumford : the early years
National Book Award for Original Paperback

Lisa Goldstein

Honored for : The Red Magician

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Nominee Nominated Work
Lisa Goldstein The Red Magician
David P. Barash Stop Nuclear War: A Handbook
Mark J. Green Winning Back America
Ground Zero War Foundation Nuclear War
Marc Scott Zicree The twilight zone companion
National Book Award for First Novel

Gloria Naylor

Honored for : The Women of Brewster Place

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gloria Naylor The Women of Brewster Place
Gail Albert Matters of Chance
John M. Del Vecchio Thirteenth Valley
Susanna Moore My Old Sweetheart
David Small Almost Famous
National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Hardcover)

Fox Butterfield

Honored for : China: Alive in the Bitter Sea

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Nominee Nominated Work
Fox Butterfield China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
George F. Kennan The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age
David McClintick Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street
Jonathan Schell The Fate of the Earth
Susan Sheehan Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
National Book Award for Poetry

Charles Wright

Honored for : Country Music: Selected Early Poems

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Nominee Nominated Work
Charles Wright Country Music: Selected Early Poems
Jack Gilbert Monolithos
Linda Pastan PM/AM, new and selected poems
Mona Van Duyn Letters from a father, and other poems
Galway Kinnell Selected Poems
National Book Award for History (Paperback)

Fritzie P. Manuel, Frank Manuel

Honored for : Utopian Thought in the Western World

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Nominee Nominated Work
Frank Manuel Utopian Thought in the Western World
Fritzie P. Manuel Utopian Thought in the Western World
George M. Fredrickson White Supremacy
Ray Huang 1587: A Year of No Significance
John Noble Wilford The mapmakers
National Book Award for History (Hardcover)

Alan Brinkley

Honored for : Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression

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Nominee Nominated Work
Alan Brinkley Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
Gordon Alexander Craig The Germans
Robert Darnton The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
John Putnam Demos Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
William McNeill The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000
Bertram Wyatt-Brown Southern Honor
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Paperback)

Joyce Carol Thomas

Honored for : Marked by Fire

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Nominee Nominated Work
Paula Fox A Place Apart
Joyce Carol Thomas Marked by Fire
Judy Blume Tiger Eyes
Sue Ellen Bridgers Notes for Another Life
Lois Lowry Anastasia Again!
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Hardcover)

Jean Fritz

Honored for : Homesick

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jean Fritz Homesick
Lloyd Alexander The Kestrel
Edward Fenton The Refugee Summer
Virginia Hamilton Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Zibby Oneal A Formal Feeling
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Paperback)

Paula Fox

Honored for : A Place Apart

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Nominee Nominated Work
Paula Fox A Place Apart
Joyce Carol Thomas Marked by Fire
Judy Blume Tiger Eyes
Sue Ellen Bridgers Notes for Another Life
Lois Lowry Anastasia Again!
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Picture Books, Hardcover)

Barbara Cooney

Honored for : Miss Rumphius

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Nominee Nominated Work
Barbara Cooney Miss Rumphius
William Steig Doctor DeSoto
Marcia Brown Shadow
Karla Kuskin The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
Marc Simont The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
Cynthia Rylant When I Was Young in the Mountains
Diane Goode When I Was Young in the Mountains
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Picture Books, Paperback)

Mary Ann Hoberman

Honored for : A House is a House for Me

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Nominee Nominated Work
Mary Ann Hoberman A House is a House for Me
Steven Kellogg Pinkerton, behave!
Peter Koeppen Robert Frost's A Swinger of Birches
James Marshall Space Case
Ellen Shire The Bungling Ballerinas
National Book Award for Science (Hardcover)

Abraham Pais

Honored for : Subtle is the Lord...: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein

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Nominee Nominated Work
Abraham Pais \"Subtle is the Lord...\": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein
Philip J. Hilts Scientific Temperaments: Three Lives in Contemporary Science
Melvin Konner The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
Ernst Mayr The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance
Heinz Pagels The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics As the Language of Nature
National Book Award for Science (Paperback)

Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

Honored for : The Mathematical Experience

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Nominee Nominated Work
Philip J. Davis The Mathematical Experience
Reuben Hersh The Mathematical Experience
Morris Kline Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
Cynthia Moss Portraits in the wild
Berton Roueché The Medical Detectives: The Classic Collection of Award-Winning Medical Investigative Reporting
G. Ledyard Stebbins Darwin to DNA, molecules to humanity
National Book Award for Fiction (Paperback)

Eudora Welty

Honored for : The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

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Nominee Nominated Work
Eudora Welty The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
David Bradley The Chaneysville Incident
Mary Gordon The Company of Women
Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping
Robert Stone A Flag for Sunrise
National Book Award for Fiction (Hardcover)

Alice Walker

Honored for : The Color Purple

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Nominee Nominated Work
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Gail Godwin A mother and two daughters
Bobbie Ann Mason Shiloh and Other Stories
Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Paul Theroux The Mosquito Coast
National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Paperback)

James Fallows

Honored for : National Defense

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Nominee Nominated Work
James Fallows National Defense
Edwin R. Bayley Joe McCarthy and the Press
Paul Fussell Abroad
Albert Santoli Everything We Had
Joanna Stratton Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
National Book Award for Poetry

Galway Kinnell

Honored for : Selected Poems

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Charles Wright Country Music: Selected Early Poems
Jack Gilbert Monolithos
Linda Pastan PM/AM, new and selected poems
Mona Van Duyn Letters from a father, and other poems
Galway Kinnell Selected Poems
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Picture Books, Hardcover)

William Steig

Honored for : Doctor DeSoto

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Nominee Nominated Work
Barbara Cooney Miss Rumphius
William Steig Doctor DeSoto
Marcia Brown Shadow
Karla Kuskin The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
Marc Simont The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
Cynthia Rylant When I Was Young in the Mountains
Diane Goode When I Was Young in the Mountains
National Book Award for Translation

Richard Howard

Honored for : Flowers of Evil

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Nominee Nominated Work
Richard Howard Flowers of Evil
Marion Faber Mozart
Allen Mandelbaum Purgatorio
Philip B. Miller An abyss deep enough
Richard Wilbur Andromache