National Book Awards - 1971
ARTS AND LETTERS
Winners:
Francis Steegmuller, Cocteau: A Biography
Finalists:
Harold Bloom - Yeats
Robert Coles - Erik H. Erikson
Nancy Milford - Zelda
Lewis Mumford - The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power
Kenneth Rexroth - The Alternative Society
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Winner:
Lloyd Alexander, The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
Finalists:
Vera and Bill Cleaver - Grover
Paula Fox - Blowfish Live in the Sea
Arnold Lobel - Frog and Toad Are Friends
E.B. White - The Trumpet of the Swan
FICTION
Winner:
Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
James Dickey - Deliverance
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Shirley Hazzard - The Bay of Noon
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >John Updike – Bech: A Book
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Eudora Welty - Losing Battles
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
Winner:
James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
Finalists:
David Donald - Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man
Andy Logan - Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal Affair
Dumas Malone - Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805
C.L. Sulzberger - The Last of the Giants
POETRY
Winner:
Mona Van Duyn, To See, To Take
> Read her acceptance speech
> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Van Duyn
Finalists:
Gregory Corso - Elegiac Feelings American
W.S. Merwin - The Carrier of Ladders
Mark Strand - Darker
May Swenson - Iconographs
THE SCIENCES
Winner:
Raymond Phineas Sterns, Science in the British Colonies of America
Finalists:
Gustav Eckstein - The Body Has a Head
Victor C. Ferkiss - Technological Man
Ian L. McHarg - Design with Nature
Theodore Rosebury - Life of Man
TRANSLATION
Winners:
Frank Jones, Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards
Edward G. Seidensticker, Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of The Mountain
Finalists:
Joseph Barnes – Platanov’s The Fierce and Beautiful World
Richard Howard – Jean Cocteau’s Autobiography, Professional Secrets
Norman Shapiro – Feydeau’s Four Farces