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National Book Awards - 1970
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ARTS AND LETTERS
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
- Lillian Hellman
Richard Howard - Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950
Noel Perrin - Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America
John Unterecker – Voyage: A Life of Hart Crane
Gore Vidal - Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Vera and Bill Cleaver - Where the Lilies Bloom
Edna Mitchell Preston - Popcorn and Ma Goodness
William Steig - Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

Edwin Tunis - The Young United States, 1783-1830

FICTION
Them
- Joyce Carol Oates
Read the acceptance speech
Leonard Gardner - Fat City
Leonard Michaels - Going Places
Jean Stafford - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
Huey Long
- T. Harry Williams
Dean Acheson - Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Townsend Hoopes - The Limits of Intervention
John Womack, Jr. - Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
Gordon S. Wood - The Creation of the American Republic

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
- Erik H. Erikson
Kenneth E. Boulding - Beyond Economics
Loren Eiseley - The Unexpected Universe
Rollo May - Love and Will
Theodore Roszak - The Making of a Counter Culture

POETRY
The Complete Poems
- Elizabeth Bishop
Daniel Berrigan - False Gods, Real Men
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - The Secret Meaning of Things
Robert Lowell - Notebook, 1967-68
Philip Whalen - On Bear's Head
TRANSLATION
Celine's Castle to Castle
- Ralph Manheim
Denise Levertov – Guillevic’s Selected Poems
Philippe Radley – Berberova’s The Italics Are Mine
Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane- Breton’s Manifestos of Surrealism
John Upton – Sanchez’s Cumboto



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