The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20110909065656/http://www.nationalbook.org:80/nba1975.html
link to email nationalbook@nationalbook.org.
National Book Awards - 1975
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

Share |

ARTS AND LETTERS
Marcel Proust
- Roger Shattuck
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (also won The Sciences award)
- Lewis Thomas
Read His Acceptance Speech
Calvin Bedient - Eight Contemporary Poets
Alessandra Comini - Egon Schiele's Portraits
Peter Gay - Style in History
Richard Gilman - The Making of Modern Drama
Elizabeth Hardwick - Seduction and Betrayal
Marjorie L. Hoover - Meyerhold
H.W. Janson - Six Studies
Eleanor Perenyi - Liszt
Oliver Strunk - Essays on Music in the Modern World

BIOGRAPHY
The Life of Emily Dickinson
- Richard B. Sewall
Richard R. Beeman - Patrick Henry
Michael Collins - Carrying the Fire
Ben Maddow - Edward Weston
James R. Mellow - Charmed Circle
Francis Steegmuller - 'Your Isadora'
Wallace Stegner - The Uneasy Chair
Richard M. Sudhalter & Philip R. Evans - Bix
Glenn Watkins - Gesualdo
James A. Weisheipl - Friar Thomas D'Aquino

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
M. C. Higgins the Great
- Virginia Hamilton
Natalie Babbitt - The Devil's Storybook
Bruce Buchenholz - Doctor in the Zoo
Bruce Clements - I Tell a Lie Every So Often
James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier - My Brother Sam is Dead
Jason Laure & Ettagale Laure - Joi Bangla! The Children of Bangladesh
Milton Meltzer - World of Our Fathers
Milton Meltzer - Remember the Days
Adrienne Richard - Wings
Mary Stoltz - The Edge of Next Year

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
- Theodore Rosengarten
Raoul Berger - Executive Privilege
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men
Robert Campbell - The Chasm
Robert A. Caro - The Power Broker
Joe Eszterhas - Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse
Middleton Harris, Ed. - The Black Book
Andrew Levinson - The Working Class Majority
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Franz Schurman - The Logic of World Power
Rachel Scott - Muscle and Blood
Studs Terkel - Working

FICTION
Dog Soldiers
- Robert Stone
Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
The Hair of Harold Roux
- Thomas Williams
Read his acceptance speech
Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Donald Barthelme - Guilty Pleasures
Gail Godwin - The Odd Woman
Joseph Heller - Something Happened
Toni Morrison - Sula
Vladimir Nabokov - Look at the Harlequins!
Grace Paley - Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Philip Roth - My Life as a Man
Mark Smith - The Death of a Detective

HISTORY
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
- Bernard Bailyn
Read His Acceptance Speech
Paul Boyer & Stephen Nissenbaum - Salem Possessed
Robert Brentano - Rome Before Avignon
Shelby Foote - The Civil War
Eugene D. Genovese - Roll, Jordan, Roll
John R. Gillis - Youth and History
Erich S. Gruen - The Last Generation of the Roman Republic
Christopher H. Johnson - Utopian Communism in France
Gerald H. Meaker - The Revolutionary Left in Spain
Edward Shorter & Charles Tilly - Strikes in France
Mira Wilkins - The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise
Peter H. Wood - Black Majority

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Anarchy, State and Utopia
- Robert Nozick
Ian G. Barbour - Myths, Models and Paradigms
Leonard E. Barrett - Soul-Force
John Murray Cuddihy - The Ordeal of Civility
Philip Garvin & Julia Welch - Religious American
Guenter Lewy - Religion and Revolution
Barbara G. Meyerhoff - Peyote Hunt
Jaroslav Pelikan - The Spirit of Eastern Christendom, Vol. II
Rosemary Radford Ruether - Faith and Fratricide

POETRY
Presentation Piece
- Marilyn Hacker
Read Her Acceptance Speech
NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Hacker
A.R. Ammons - Sphere
John Balaban - After Our War
Albert Goldbarth - Jan.31
Richard Howard - Two-Part Inventions
Josephine Jacobsen - The Shade-Seller
Michael Ryan - Threats Instead of Trees
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer - Granite Lady
David Wagoner - Sleeping in the Woods
Reed Whittemore - The Mother's Breast and the Father's House

THE SCIENCES
Interpretation of Schizophrenia
- Silvano Arieti
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
- Lewis Thomas
Lewis S. Feuer - Einstein and the Generation of Science
Howard E. Gruber & Paul Barrett - Darwin on Man
J.L. Heilbron - H.G.J. Moseley
Richard S. Lewis - The Voyages of Apollo
John McPhee - The Curve of Binding Energy
Stanley Milgram - Obedience to Authority
Walter Sullivan - Continents in Motion
Dorothy B. Vitaliano - Legends of the Earth

TRANSLATION
Miguel D. Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith
- Anthony Kerrigan
Clarence Brown & W.S. Merwin – Mandelstam’s Selected Poems
Sheila Cudahy – Natalia Ginzburg’s No Way
Norman Thomas di Giovanni – Borges’s In Praise of Darkness
Michael Kandel – Stanislaw Lem’s The Cyberiad and The Futurological Congress
Peter Kussi – Kundera’s Life is Elsewhere
Helen R. Lane – Claude Simon’s Conducting Bodies
Ralph Manheim – Hermann Broch’s The Guiltless
Raymond Rosenthal – Pietro Citati’s Goethe
William Weaver – Italio Calvino’s Invisible Cities


 



Copyright © 2007 National Book Foundation. Privacy Policy
pFad - Phonifier reborn

Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.

Note: This service is not intended for secure transactions such as banking, social media, email, or purchasing. Use at your own risk. We assume no liability whatsoever for broken pages.


Alternative Proxies:

Alternative Proxy

pFad Proxy

pFad v3 Proxy

pFad v4 Proxy