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- History of categories
- Current award categories Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Young People's Literature Award for Translated Literature
- Children's Books
- Nonfiction subcategories 1964 to 1983 Arts and Letters History and (Auto)biography History and Biography History Biography Biography and Autobiography Autobiography Autobiography/Biography Science, Philosophy and Religion Science, Philosophy and Religion The Sciences Science Philosophy and Religion Religion/Inspiration Contemporary Contemporary Affairs Contemporary Thought Current Interest General Nonfiction
- Other Fiction 1980 to 1985 First Work of Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Western
- Miscellaneous General Reference Books Original Paperback
- 1935 to 1941
- Graphics awards
- Repeat winners Books Authors "Children's" and "Young People's" categories "Fiction" "Fiction" and another category "Nonfiction" and nonfiction subcategories "Poetry"
- Split awards
- Notes
- References
- External links
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2013}}These authors and books have won the annual National Book Awards, awarded to American authors by the National Book Foundation based in the United States. History of categoriesThe National Book Awards were first awarded to four 1935 publications in May 1936. Contrary to that historical fact, the National Book Foundation currently recognizes only a history of purely literary awards that begins in 1950. The pre-war awards and the 1980 to 1983 graphics awards are covered below following the main list of current award categories. There have been four award categories since 1996, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature. The main list below is organized by the current award categories and by year. The four categories' winners are selected from hundreds of preliminary nominees. For example, in the 2010 cycle the preliminary phase nominees ranged from 148 in the Poetry category to 435 in the Nonfiction category.[1] In the 2013 cycle, the long−list phase nominees totaled 40 in September, 10 finalists for each of the four categories, with the year's 4 winners announced in November. [2] Lists of five finalists were announced October 16[2][3] Repeat winners and split awards are covered at the bottom of the page. Current award categories For pre-1950 awards in all categories, see 1935 to 1941. This section covers awards starting in 1950 in the four current categories as defined by their names. Some awards in "previous categories" may have been equivalent except in name.[5] Fiction {{for|a list of winners and finalists|National Book Award for Fiction}}General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel. 1950 | Nelson Algren | The Man with the Golden Arm | 1951 | William Faulkner | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | 1952 | James Jones | From Here to Eternity | 1953 | Ralph Ellison | Invisible Man | 1954 | Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March | 1955 | William Faulkner | A Fable | 1956 | John O'Hara | Ten North Frederick | 1957 | Wright Morris | The Field of Vision | 1958 | John Cheever | The Wapshot Chronicle | 1959 | Bernard Malamud | The Magic Barrel | 1960 | Philip Roth | Goodbye, Columbus | 1961 | Conrad Richter | The Waters of Kronos | 1962 | Walker Percy | The Moviegoer | 1963 | J. F. Powers | Morte d'Urban | 1964 | John Updike | The Centaur | 1965 | Saul Bellow | Herzog | 1966 | Katherine Anne Porter | The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter | 1967 | Bernard Malamud | The Fixer | 1968 | Thornton Wilder | The Eighth Day | 1969 | Jerzy Kosinski | Steps | 1970 | Joyce Carol Oates | them | 1971 | Saul Bellow | Mr. Sammler's Planet | 1972 | Flannery O'Connor | The Complete Stories | 1973 | John Barth | Chimera | name=split73 |1= Split award. In 1973 there were 12 winning books in 10 award categories.[6][4] }} | John Edward Williams | Augustus | 1974 | Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow | name=split74 |1= Split award. In 1974 there were 14 winning books in 10 award categories.[6][5] }} | Isaac Bashevis Singer | A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories | 1975 | Robert Stone | Dog Soldiers | name=split75 |1= Split award. In 1975 there were 12 winners in 10 award categories,[6] although the Committee on Awards Policy, temporary administrator, "begged" judges not to split awards.[6] }} | Thomas Williams | The Hair of Harold Roux | 1976 | William Gaddis | J R | 1977 | Wallace Stegner | The Spectator Bird | 1978 | Mary Lee Settle | Blood Tie | 1979 | Tim O'Brien | Going After Cacciato | Dozens of new categories were introduced in 1980, including "General fiction", hardcover and paperback, which are both listed here.[ The comprehensive "Fiction" genre and hard-or-soft format were both restored three years later.] | 1980 hard | William Styron | Sophie's Choice | 1980 pb[ ]John Irving | The World According to Garp | | 1981 hard | Wright Morris | Plains Song: For Female Voices | 1981 pb[ ]John Cheever | The Stories of John Cheever | | 1982 hard | John Updike | Rabbit is Rich | 1982 pb[ ]William Maxwell | So Long, See You Tomorrow | | 1983 hard | Alice Walker | The Color Purple | 1983 pb[ ]Eudora Welty | The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty | | 1984 | Ellen Gilchrist | Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories | 1985 | Don DeLillo | White Noise | 1986 | E.L. Doctorow | World's Fair | 1987 | Larry Heinemann | Paco's Story | 1988 | Pete Dexter | Paris Trout | 1989 | John Casey | Spartina | 1990 | Charles Johnson | Middle Passage | 1991 | Norman Rush | Mating | 1992 | Cormac McCarthy | All the Pretty Horses | 1993 | E. Annie Proulx | The Shipping News | 1994 | William Gaddis | A Frolic of His Own | 1995 | Philip Roth | Sabbath's Theater | 1996 | Andrea Barrett | Ship Fever and Other Stories | 1997 | Charles Frazier | Cold Mountain | 1998 | Alice McDermott | Charming Billy | 1999 | Ha Jin | Waiting | 2000 | Susan Sontag | In America | 2001 | Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections | 2002 | Julia Glass | Three Junes | 2003 | Shirley Hazzard | The Great Fire | 2004 | Lily Tuck | The News from Paraguay | 2005 | William T. Vollmann | Europe Central | 2006 | Richard Powers | The Echo Maker | 2007 | Denis Johnson | Tree of Smoke | 2008 | Peter Matthiessen | Shadow Country | 2009 | Colum McCann | Let the Great World Spin | 2010 | Jaimy Gordon | Lord of Misrule | 2011 | Jesmyn Ward | Salvage the Bones | 2012 | Louise Erdrich | The Round House[7] | 2013 | James McBride | The Good Lord Bird[3] | 2014 | Phil Klay | Redeployment[8] | 2015 | Adam Johnson | Stories.[9][10] | 2016 | Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad | 2017 | Jesmyn Ward | Sing, Unburied, Sing | 2018 | Sigrid Nunez | The Friend |
Nonfiction {{for|a list of winners and finalists |National Book Award for Nonfiction}}General nonfiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category continuous only from 1984, when the general award was restored after two decades of awards in several nonfiction categories. From 1935 to 1941 there were six annual awards for general nonfiction, two for biography, and the Bookseller Discovery or Most Original Book was sometimes nonfiction. 1950 | Ralph L. Rusk | The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (biog. Ralph Waldo Emerson) | 1951 | Newton Arvin | Herman Melville (biog. Herman Melville) | 1952 | Rachel Carson | The Sea Around Us | 1953 | Bernard A. DeVoto | The Course of Empire | 1954 | Bruce Catton | A Stillness at Appomattox (third of 3 vols) | 1955 | Joseph Wood Krutch | The Measure of Man | 1956 | Herbert Kubly | An American in Italy | 1957 | George F. Kennan | Russia Leaves the War | 1958 | Catherine Drinker Bowen | The Lion and the Throne (see Edward Coke) | 1959 | J. Christopher Herold | Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël (biog. Madame de Staël) | 1960 | Richard Ellmann | James Joyce (biog. James Joyce) | 1961 | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | 1962 | Lewis Mumford | The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects | 1963 | Leon Edel | Henry James, volumes II and III (biog. Henry James) | Multiple nonfiction categories were introduced in 1964, initially Arts and Letters; History and Biography; and Science, Philosophy and Religion. See also Contemporary and General Nonfiction. The comprehensive "Nonfiction" genre was restored twenty years later. | 1984 | Robert V. Remini | Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 (biog. Andrew Jackson) | 1985 | J. Anthony Lukas | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families | 1986 | Barry Lopez | Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape | 1987 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | 1988 | Neil Sheehan | John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | 1989 | Thomas L. Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem | 1990 | Ron Chernow | The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance | 1991 | Orlando Patterson | Freedom, Vol. 1: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture | 1992 | Paul Monette | Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story | 1993 | Gore Vidal | United States: Essays 1952-1992 | 1994 | Sherwin B. Nuland | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter | 1995 | Tina Rosenberg | Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism | 1996 | James P. Carroll | An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us | 1997 | Joseph J. Ellis | The Character of Thomas Jefferson | 1998 | Edward Ball | Slaves in the Family | 1999 | John W. Dower | Japan in the Wake of World War II | 2000 | Nathaniel Philbrick | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | 2001 | Andrew Solomon | An Atlas of Depression | 2002 | Robert A. Caro | The Years of Lyndon Johnson | 2003 | Carlos Eire | Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy | 2004 | Kevin Boyle | Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age | 2005 | Joan Didion | The Year of Magical Thinking | 2006 | Timothy Egan | The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl | 2007 | Tim Weiner | Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA | 2008 | Annette Gordon-Reed | An American Family | 2009 | T.J. Stiles | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (biog. Cornelius Vanderbilt) | 2010 | Patti Smith | Just Kids | 2011 | Stephen Greenblatt | How the World Became Modern | 2012 | Katherine Boo | Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity[7] | 2013 | George Packer | The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America[3] | 2014 | Evan Osnos | Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China[11] | 2015 | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Between the World and Me[9][10] | 2016 | Ibram X. Kendi | The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | 2017 | Masha Gessen | The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia | 2018 | Jeffrey C. Stewart | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke |
Poetry {{for|a list of winners and finalists |National Book Award for Poetry}}1950 | William Carlos Williams | Paterson: Book Three and Selected Poems | 1951 | Wallace Stevens | The Auroras of Autumn | 1952 | Marianne Moore | Collected Poems | 1953 | Archibald MacLeish | Collected Poems, 1917-1952 | 1954 | Conrad Aiken | Collected Poems | 1955 | Wallace Stevens | The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens | 1956 | W. H. Auden | The Shield of Achilles | 1957 | Richard Wilbur | Things of This World | 1958 | Robert Penn Warren | Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 | 1959 | Theodore Roethke | Words for the Wind | 1960 | Robert Lowell | Life Studies | 1961 | Randall Jarrell | The Woman at the Washington Zoo | 1962 | Alan Dugan | Poems | 1963 | William Stafford | Traveling Through the Dark | 1964 | John Crowe Ransom | Selected Poems | 1965 | Theodore Roethke | The Far Field | 1966 | James Dickey | Buckdancer's Choice | 1967 | James Merrill | Nights and Days | 1968 | Robert Bly | The Light Around the Body | 1969 | John Berryman | His Toy, His Dream, His Rest | 1970 | Elizabeth Bishop | The Complete Poems | 1971 | Mona Van Duyn | To See, To Take | 1972 | Frank O'Hara | The Collected Works of Frank O'Hara | name=split72 |1= Split award. In 1972 there were 11 winners in 10 award categories.[6] }} | Howard Moss | Selected Poems | 1973 | A. R. Ammons | Collected Poems, 1951-1971 | 1974 | Allen Ginsberg | The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 | name=split74}} | Adrienne Rich | Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 | 1975 | Marilyn Hacker | Presentation Piece | 1976 | John Ashbery | Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror | 1977 | Richard Eberhart | Collected Poems, 1930-1976 | 1978 | Howard Nemerov | The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov | 1979 | James Merrill | Mirabell: Book of Numbers | 1980 | Philip Levine | Ashes: Poems New and Old | 1981 | Lisel Mueller | The Need to Hold Still | 1982 | William Bronk | Life Supports: New and Collected Poems | 1983 | Galway Kinnell | Selected Poems | name=split83 |1= Split award. In 1983 there were 22 winners in 19 award categories.[28] }} | Charles Wright | Country Music: Selected Early Poems | Major reorganization in 1984 eliminated the 30-year-old Poetry award along with dozens of younger ones. Poetry alone was restored seven years later. | 1991 | Philip Levine | What Work Is | 1992 | Mary Oliver | New and Selected Poems | 1993 | A. R. Ammons | Garbage | 1994 | James Tate | A Worshipful Company of Fletchers | 1995 | Stanley Kunitz | Passing Through: The Later Poems | 1996 | Hayden Carruth | Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey | 1997 | William Meredith | Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems | 1998 | Gerald Stern | This Time: New and Selected Poems | 1999 | Ai | Vice: New and Selected Poems | 2000 | Lucille Clifton | Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 | 2001 | Alan Dugan | Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry | 2002 | Ruth Stone | In the Next Galaxy | 2003 | C. K. Williams | The Singing | 2004 | Jean Valentine | Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 | 2005 | W. S. Merwin | Migration: New and Selected Poems | 2006 | Nathaniel Mackey | Splay Anthem | 2007 | Robert Hass | Time and Materials: Poems, 1997-2005 | 2008 | Mark Doty | Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems | 2009 | Keith Waldrop | Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy | 2010 | Terrance Hayes | Lighthead | 2011 | Nikky Finney | Head Off & Split | 2012 | David Ferry | Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations | 2013 | Mary Szybist | Incarnadine[3] | 2014 | Louise Glück | Faithful and Virtuous Night[11] | 2015 | Robin Coste Lewis | Voyage of the Sable Venus.[9][10] | 2016 | Daniel Borzutzky | The Performance of Becoming Human | 2017 | Frank Bidart | Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 | 2018 | Justin Phillip Reed | Indecency |
Young People's Literature {{for|a list of winners and finalists |National Book Award for Young People's Literature}}See also the "Children's" award categories, immediately below. 1996 | Victor Martinez | Parrott in the Oven: MiVida | 1997 | Han Nolan | Dancing on the Edge | 1998 | Louis Sachar | Holes | 1999 | Kimberly Willis Holt | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | 2000 | Gloria Whelan | Homeless Bird | 2001 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | True Believer | 2002 | Nancy Farmer | The House of the Scorpion | 2003 | Polly Horvath | The Canning Season | 2004 | Pete Hautman | Godless | 2005 | Jeanne Birdsall | A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy | 2006 | M.T. Anderson | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I | 2007 | Sherman Alexie | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | 2008 | Judy Blundell | What I Saw and How I Lied | 2009 | Phillip Hoose | Twice Toward Justice | 2010 | Kathryn Erskine | Mockingbird | 2011 | Thanhha Lai | Inside Out and Back Again | 2012 | William Alexander | Goblin Secrets[7] | 2013 | Cynthia Kadohata | The Thing About Luck[3] | 2014 | Jacqueline Woodson | Brown Girl Dreaming[11] | 2015 | Neal Shusterman | Challenger Deep[9][10] | 2016 | John Lewis, Nate Powell, and Andrew Aydin | March: Book Three | 2017 | Robin Benway | Far from the Tree | 2018 | Elizabeth Acevedo | The Poet X |
Award for Translated Literature The first translation award ran from 1968-1983 and was for fiction only, the translated author could be living or dead (eg. Virgil won in 1973). The Award for Translated Literature was inaugurated in 2018 for fiction or non-fiction, where both author and translator were alive at the beginning of the awards cycle.[12] 1967 | Gregory Rabassa | Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch | name=split67 |1= Split award. In 1967 there were 7 winners in 6 award categories.[39]
This was the first split National Book Award. It was also the inaugural award in a new category, Translation, with the standard $1000 cash prize donated by the National Translation Center. Judging by next-day coverage in The New York Times, only the five established award categories were covered by the January 31 announcement of nominees (finalists) and the March 4 announcement of winners (four days before the presentation). Henry Raymont, who would also cover the presentation, was evidently unaware of the new award, or of the increase in number to six categories. But the newspaper had announced it February 8 ("$1,000 National Book Prize Is Set Up for a Translation") and Lewis Nichols mentioned it again when Raymont did not ("IN AND OUT Of BOOKS: Translators"). }} | Willard Trask | Casanova's History of My Life (first of 6 vols.) | 1968 | Howard Hong Edna Hong | Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers (first of 7 vols.) | 1969 | William Weaver | Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics | 1970 | Ralph Manheim | Céline's Castle to Castle | 1971 | Frank Jones | Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards | name=split71 |1= Split award. In 1971 there were 8 winners in 7 award categories.[6] }} | Edward G. Seidensticker | Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain | 1972 | Austryn Wainhouse | Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity | 1973 | Allen Mandelbaum | The Aeneid of Virgil | 1974 | Karen Brazell | The Confessions of Lady Nijo | name=split74}} | Helen R. Lane | Octavio Paz's Alternating Current | name=split74}} | Jackson Matthews | Paul Valéry's Monsieur Teste | 1975 | Anthony Kerrigan | Miguel de Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith | 1977 | Li-Li Ch'en | Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance | 1978 | Richard and Clara Winston | Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth | 1979 | Clayton Eshleman José Rubia Barcia | César Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry | 1980 | William Arrowsmith | Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor | name=split80 |1= Split award. In 1980 there were 29 winners in 28 literary award categories.[28] }} | Jane Gary Harris Constance Link | Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters | 1981 | Francis Steegmuller | The Letters of Gustave Flaubert | name=split81 |1= Split award. In 1981 there were 17 winners in 16 literary award categories.[28] }} | John E. Woods | Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold | 1982 | Robert Lyons Danly | Higuchi Ichiyō's In the Shade of Spring Leaves | name=split82 |1= Split award. In 1982 there were 19 winners in 18 literary award categories.[28] }} | Ian Hideo Levy | The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry | 1983 | Richard Howard | Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal | 1984-2017 | (no award) | 2018 | Margaret Mitsutani | Tawada Yoko's The Emissary | {{anchor|Children's Literature}} Children's Books {{for|a list of winners and finalists |National Book Award for Young People's Literature}}- Children's Literature
"Children's Books" from 1970 to 1975. 1969 | Meindert DeJong | Journey from Peppermint Street | 1970 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw | 1971 | Lloyd Alexander | The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian | 1972 | Donald Barthelme | The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn | 1973 | Ursula K. Le Guin | The Farthest Shore | 1974 | Eleanor Cameron | The Court of the Stone Children | 1975 | Virginia Hamilton | M. C. Higgins the Great | 1976 | Walter D. Edmonds | Bert Breen's Barn | 1977 | Katherine Paterson | The Master Puppeteer | 1978 | Judith Kohl Herbert Kohl | The View From the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures | 1979 | Katherine Paterson | The Great Gilly Hopkins | 1980 hard | Joan Blos | A New England Girl's Journal | 1980 pb | Madeleine L'Engle | A Swiftly Tilting Planet |
- Children's Books, Fiction
"Children's Book, Fiction" in 1981; "Children's Fiction" in 1983. 1981 hard | Betsy Byars | The Night Swimmers | 1981 pb | Beverly Cleary | Ramona and Her Mother | 1982 hard | Lloyd Alexander | Westmark | 1982 pb | Ouida Sebestyen | Words by Heart | 1983 hard | Jean Fritz | Homesick: My Own Story | 1983 pb | Paula Fox | A Place Apart | name=split83}} | Joyce Carol Thomas | Marked by Fire |
- Children's Books, Non-fiction
"Children's Book, Nonfiction" in 1981. 1981 hard | Alison Cragin Herzig Jane Lawrence Mali | Oh, Boy! Babies | 1982 | Susan Bonners | A Penguin Year | 1983 | James Cross Giblin | Chimney Sweeps |
- Children's Books, Picture Books
1982 hard | Maurice Sendak | Outside Over There | 1982 pb | Peter Spier | Noah's Ark | 1983 hard | Barbara Cooney | Miss Rumphius | name=split83}} | William Steig | Doctor De Soto | 1983 pb | Mary Ann Hoberman Betty Fraser, illustrator | A House is a House for Me |
Nonfiction subcategories 1964 to 1983 For early awards in all categories, see 1935 to 1941. This section covers awards from 1964 to 1983 in categories that differ from the "current categories" in name. Some of them were substantially equivalent to current categories.[5] Arts and Letters "Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)" in 1964. 1964 | Aileen Ward | John Keats: The Making of a Poet (biog. John Keats) | 1965 | Eleanor Clark | The Oysters of Locmariaquer | 1966 | Janet Flanner | Paris Journal, 1944-1965 | 1967 | Justin Kaplan | Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography (biog. Mark Twain) | 1968 | William Troy | Selected Essays | 1969 | Norman Mailer | The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History | 1970 | Lillian Hellman | An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir | 1971 | Francis Steegmuller | Cocteau: A Biography (biog. Cocteau) | 1972 | Charles Rosen | The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven | 1973 | Arthur M. Wilson | Diderot (biog. Denis Diderot) | 1974 | Pauline Kael | Deeper into Movies | 1975 | Roger Shattuck | Marcel Proust (biog. Marcel Proust) | name=split75}} | Lewis Thomas | Notes of a Biology Watcher[13] | 1976 | Paul Fussell | The Great War and Modern Memory |
History and (Auto)biography History and Biography"History and Biography (Nonfiction)" in 1964. 1964 | William H. McNeill | A History of the Human Community | 1965 | Louis Fischer | The Life of Lenin (biog. Lenin) | 1966 | Arthur Schlesinger | A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House | 1967 | Peter Gay | The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism (first of 2 vols) | 1968 | George F. Kennan | Memoirs: 1925-1950 (first of 2 vols) | 1969 | Winthrop D. Jordan | White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 | 1970 | T. Harry Williams | Huey Long (biog. Huey Long) | 1971 | James MacGregor Burns | Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (biog. Franklin D. Roosevelt) | 1976 | David Brion Davis | The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 |
History 1972 | Allan Nevins | The Organized War (Ordeal of the Union, vols 7-8 of eight) | 1973 | Robert Manson Myers | The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War | 1973 {{efn>name=split73}} | Isaiah Trunk | Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation | 1974 | John Clive | Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian[14] | 1975 | Bernard Bailyn | The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (biog. Thomas Hutchinson) | 1977 | Irving Howe | World of Our Fathers: The journey of the East European Jews to America and the life they found and made | 1978 | David McCullough | The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 | 1979 | Richard Beale Davis | Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 | 1980 hard | Henry A. Kissinger | The White House Years (first of 3 vols) | 1980 pb | Barbara W. Tuchman | The Calamitous 14th Century | 1981 hard | John Boswell | Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality | 1981 pb | Leon F. Litwack | The Aftermath of Slavery | 1982 hard | Peter J. Powell | People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879 | 1982 pb | Robert Wohl | The Generation of 1914 | 1983 hard | Alan Brinkley | Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression | 1983 pb | Frank E. Manuel Fritzie P. Manuel | Utopia in the Western World |
Biography 1972 | Joseph P. Lash | Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers (biog. Eleanor Roosevelt) | 1973 | James Thomas Flexner | George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799 | 1974 | John Clive | Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian (biog. Thomas Babington Macaulay)[14] | name=split74}} | Douglas Day | Malcolm Lowry: A Biography (biog. Malcolm Lowry) | 1975 | Richard B. Sewall | The Life of Emily Dickinson (biog. Emily Dickinson) | 1980 hard | Edmund Morris | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt | 1980 pb | A. Scott Berg | Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (biog. Max Perkins) |
Biography and Autobiography 1977 | W.A. Swanberg | Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist (biog. Norman Thomas) | 1978 | W. Jackson Bate | Samuel Johnson (biog. Samuel Johnson) | 1979 | Arthur Schlesinger | Robert Kennedy and His Times (biog. Robert F. Kennedy) |
Autobiography 1980 hard | Lauren Bacall | Lauren Bacall by Myself | 1980 pb | Malcolm Cowley | And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978 |
Autobiography/Biography 1981 hard | Justin Kaplan | Walt Whitman: A Life (biog. Walt Whitman) | 1981 pb | Deirdre Bair | Samuel Beckett: A Biography (biog. Samuel Beckett) | 1982 hard | David McCullough | Mornings on Horseback (biog. Theodore Roosevelt) | 1982 pb | Ronald Steel | Walter Lippmann and the American Century (biog. Walter Lippmann) | 1983 hard | Judith Thurman | Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller (biog. Isak Dinesen) | 1983 pb | James R. Mellow | Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times (biog. Nathaniel Hawthorne) |
Science, Philosophy and Religion Science, Philosophy and Religion "Science, Philosophy and Religion (Nonfiction)" in 1964. 1964 | Christopher Tunnard Boris Pushkarev | Man-made America: Chaos or Control? | 1965 | Norbert Wiener | God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion | 1966 | No Award (four finalists, none selected)[39] | 1967 | Oscar Lewis | La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty—San Juan and New York | 1968 | Jonathan Kozol | Death at an Early Age |
The Sciences 1969 | Robert Jay Lifton | Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima | 1971 | Raymond Phineas Sterns | Science in the British Colonies of America | 1972 | George L. Small | The Blue Whale | 1973 | George B. Schaller | The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations | 1974 | S. E. Luria | Life: The Unfinished Experiment | 1975 | Silvano Arieti | Interpretation of Schizophrenia | name=split75}} | Lewis Thomas | Notes of a Biology Watcher[13] |
Science 1980 hard | Douglas Hofstadter | An Eternal Golden Braid | 1980 pb | Gary Zukav | The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics | 1981 hard | Stephen Jay Gould | The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History | 1981 pb | Lewis Thomas | The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher | 1982 hard | Donald C. Johanson Maitland A. Edey | Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind | 1982 pb | Fred Alan Wolf | Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists | 1983 hard | Abraham Pais | "Subtle is the Lord ...": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein (biog. Albert Einstein) | 1983 pb | Philip J. Davis Reuben Hersh | The Mathematical Experience |
Philosophy and Religion 1970 | Erik H. Erikson | On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence | 1972 | Martin E. Marty | Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America | 1973 | S. E. Ahlstrom | A Religious History of the American People | 1974 | Maurice Natanson | Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks | 1975 | Robert Nozick | Anarchy, State, and Utopia |
Religion/Inspiration 1980 hard | Elaine Pagels | The Gnostic Gospels (about Gnostic Gospels) | 1980 pb | Sheldon Vanauken | A Severe Mercy | {{anchor|Current}}Contemporary Contemporary Affairs 1972 | Stewart Brand, editor | The Last Whole Earth Catalogue | 1973 | Frances FitzGerald | The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam | 1974 | Murray Kempton | The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al. | 1975 | Theodore Rosengarten | All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (see Ned Cobb) | 1976 | Michael J. Arlen | Passage to Ararat |
Contemporary Thought 1977 | Bruno Bettelheim | The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales | 1978 | Gloria Emerson | Winners and Losers | 1979 | Peter Matthiessen | The Snow Leopard[15] |
Current Interest 1980 hard | Julia Child | Julia Child and More Company | 1980 pb | Christopher Lasch | The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations |
General Nonfiction 1980 hard | Tom Wolfe | The Right Stuff | 1980 pb | Peter Matthiessen | The Snow Leopard[15] | 1981 hard | Maxine Hong Kingston | China Men | 1981 pb | Jane Kramer | The Last Cowboy: Europeans and The Politics of Memory | 1982 hard | Tracy Kidder | The Soul of a New Machine | 1982 pb | Victor S. Navasky | Naming Names (about the Hollywood blacklist) | 1983 hard | Fox Butterfield | China: Alive in the Bitter Sea | 1983 pb | James Fallows | National Defense |
Other Fiction 1980 to 1985 {{anchor|Miscellaneous 1980 to 1985}}{{anchor|First Novel}}First Work of Fiction- First Novel
1980 | William Wharton | Birdy[52] | 1981 | Ann Arensberg | Sister Wolf | 1982 | Robb Forman Dew | Dale Loves Sophie to Death | 1983 | Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place |
- First Work of Fiction
1984 | Harriet Doerr | Stones for Ibarra | 1985 | Bob Shacochis | Easy in the Islands |
Mystery 1980 hard | John D. MacDonald | The Green Ripper | 1980 pb | William F. Buckley | Stained Glass |
Science Fiction 1980 hard | Frederik Pohl | Jem | 1980 pb | Walter Wangerin | The Book of the Dun Cow |
Western 1980 | Louis L'Amour | Bendigo Shafter |
Miscellaneous General Reference Books 1980 hard | Elder Witt, editor | The Complete Directory | 1980 pb | Tim Brooks Earle Marsh | The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946–Present |
Original Paperback 1983 | Lisa Goldstein | The Red Magician |
1935 to 1941 (Milan: Harlin Quist Books, distributed by Dial/ Delacorte) |