Awards & Winners

1988 National Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 1988 National Book Award. Check awards winners of 1988 National Book Awards Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1988 National Book Awards Ceremony

National Book Award for Fiction

Pete Dexter

Honored for : Paris Trout

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Pete Dexter Paris Trout
Don DeLillo Libra
Mary McGarry Morris Vanished
J. F. Powers Wheat that springeth green
Anne Tyler Breathing Lessons
National Book Award for Nonfiction

Neil Sheehan

Honored for : A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jack McLaughlin Jefferson and Monticello
Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Eric Foner Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Peter Gay The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism
Brenda Maddox Nora