National Book Awards - 1972
ARTS AND LETTERS
Winner:
Charles Rosen, The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
Finalists:
M.H. Abrams - Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
James Dickey - Sorties
Thomas R. Edwards - Imagination and Power: A Study of Poetry on Public Themes
Norman Fruman - Coleridge, The Damaged Archangel
Cesar Grana - Fact and Symbol: Essays in the Sociology of Art and Literature
B.H. Haggin - Ballet Chronicle
Nathan Irving Huggins - Harlem Renaissance
Iris Origo - Images and Shadows
John Simon - Movies into Films: Film Criticism, 1967-1970
BIOGRAPHY
Winner:
Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship,
Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers
Finalists:
John Cody - After Great Pain: The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson
Emily Farnham - Charles Demuth
David Freeman Hawke - Benjamin Rush
Ralph Ketcham - James Madison
Harding Lemay - Inside, Looking Out: A Personal Memoir
D'Arcy McNickle - Indian Man: A Life of Oliver La Farge
Ronald Paulson - Hogarth, Vol. II
Lacey Baldwin Smith - Henry VIII
Barbara W. Tuchman - Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Winner:
Donald Barthelme, The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn
> Read the acceptance speech
CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS
Winner:
Stewart Brand, ed, The Last Whole Earth Catalogue
FICTION
Winner:
Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Frederick Buechner - Lion Country
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >E.L. Doctorow - The Book of Daniel
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Stanley Elkin - The Dick Gibson Show
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Tom McHale - Farragan’s Retreat
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Joyce Carol Oates - Wonderland
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Cynthia Ozick - The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Walker Percy - Love in the Ruins
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Earl Thompson - A Garden of Sand
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >John Updike - Rabbit Redux
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >
HISTORY
Winner:
Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863-1864 and
The Organized War to Victory
PHILSOPHY AND RELIGION
Winner:
Martin E. Marty, Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America
POETRY
Winners:
Howard Moss, Selected Poems
> Read his acceptance speech
> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for MossFrank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for O'Hara
THE SCIENCES
Winner:
George L. Small, The Blue Whale
TRANSLATION
Winner:
Austryn Wainhouse, Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity