Awards & Winners

1987 National Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 1987 National Book Award. Check awards winners of 1987 National Book Awards Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1987 National Book Awards Ceremony

National Book Award for Fiction

Larry Heinemann

Honored for : Paco's Story

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Larry Heinemann Paco's Story
Alice McDermott That Night
Toni Morrison Beloved
Howard Norman The Northern Lights
Philip Roth The Counterlife
National Book Award for Nonfiction

Richard Rhodes

Honored for : The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb
David Herbert Donald Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
James Gleick Chaos: Making a New Science
Claudia Koonz Mothers in the Fatherland
Robert A. M. Stern New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars
Gregory Gilmartin New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars
Thomas Mellins New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars