National Book Awards - 1982
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
Winner:
David McCullough , Mornings on Horseback
Finalists:
Gay Wilson Allen – Waldo Emerson
Dumas Malone – Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello
William S. McFeely – Grant
Milton Rugoff – The Beechers
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
Winner:
Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century
Finalists:
Joseph P. Lash – Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy
Robert K. Massie – Peter the Great
Ted Morgan – Maugham
Ernest Samuels – Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur
CHILDREN'S BOOKS, FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Winner:
Lloyd Alexander, Westmark
Finalists:
Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Deborah Hautzig - Second Star to the Right
Mildred D. Taylor - Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Cynthia Voigt – Homecoming
CHILDREN'S BOOKS, FICTION (PAPERBACK)
Winner:
Ouida Sebestyen, Words by Heart
Finalists:
Lloyd Alexander - The Wizard in the Tree
Katherine Paterson - Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson - The Master Puppeteer
CHILDREN'S BOOKS, NONFICTION
Winner:
Susan Bonners, A Penguin Year
Finalists:
Jean Fritz – Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold
James Howe; Mal Warshaw, photos – The Hospital Book
Patricia Lauber; Jerome Wexler, photos – Seeds: Pop, Stick, Glide
Melvin B. Zisfein; Robert Andrew Parker, Ill. – Flight: A Panorama of Aviation
CHILDREN'S BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
Winner:
Maurice Sendak, Outside Over There
Finalists:
Olaf Baker; Stephen Gammell, ill. - Where the Buffaloes Begin
Arnold Lobel; Anita Lobel, ill. - On Market Street
Chris Van Allsburg - Jumanji
Nancy Willard; Alice and Martin Provensen, ill. - A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
CHILDREN'S BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
Winner:
Peter Spier, Noah's Ark
Finalists:
Muriel Feelings; Tom Feelings, ill. - Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
Jane Langton - The Fledgling
Alice and Martin Provensen, ill. - A Peaceable Kingdom: The Shaker Abcedarius
William Sleator; Blair Lent, ill. - The Angry Moon
Rosemary Wells - Stanley and Rhoda
FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Winner:
John Updike, Rabbit is Rich
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Finalists:
Mark Helprin - Ellis Island and Other Stories
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >John Irving - The Hotel New Hampshire
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Robert Stone - A Flag for Sunrise
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >William Wharton - Dad
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FICTION (PAPERBACK)
Winner:
William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
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Finalists:
E.L. Doctorow - Loon Lake
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Walker Percy - The Second Coming
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Anne Tyler - Morgan's Passing
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FIRST NOVEL
Winner:
Robb Forman Dew, Dale Loves Sophie to Death
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Finalists:
Celia Gittelson - Saving Grace
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Bette Bao Lord - Spring Moon
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Leonard Michaels - The Men's Club
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Ted Mooney - Easy Travel to Other Planets
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GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
Winner:
Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine
Finalists:
Guy Davenport – The Geography of the Imagination
James Fallows – National Defense
Janet Malcolm – Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
Andrea Lee – Russian Journal
GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
Winner:
Victor S. Navasky, Naming Names
Finalists:
Norman Cousins – Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient
Edward Hoagland – African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan
Landon Y. Jones, Jr. – Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation
Barbara Novak – Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875
HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
Winner:
Father Peter John Powell, People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern
Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879
Finalists:
Ray Huang – 1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
Donald Neff – Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East
Russell F. Weigley – Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945
C. Vann Woodward, ed. – Mary Chestnut's Civil War
HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
Winner:
Robert Wohl, The Generation of 1914
Finalists:
Malcolm Cowley – The Dream of the Golden Mountains
Robert Dallek – Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945
Carl N. Degler – At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present
Charles Rembar – The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System
POETRY
Winner:
William Bronk, Life Supports: New and Collected Poems
> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Bronk
Finalists:
A.R. Ammons – A Coast of Trees
John Ashbery – Shadow Train
Douglas Crase – The Revisionist
Daniel Hoffman – Brotherly Love
SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
Winner:
Donald C. Johanson & Maitland A. Edey, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
Finalists:
Gene Bylinsky – Life in Darwin's Universe: Evolution and the Cosmos
Eric Chaisson – Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life
Steven J. Gould – The Mismeasure of Man
Steven M. Stanley – The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes and the Origin of Species
SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
Winner:
Fred Alan Wolf , Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists
Finalists:
Freeman Dyson – Disturbing the Universe
Howard E. Gruber – Darwin on Man: A Psychological study of Scientific Creativity
Bernd Heinrich – Bumblebee Economics
Guy Murchie – The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science and Philosophy
TRANSLATION
Winners:
Robert Lyons Danly, Higuchi Ichiyo's In the Shade of Spring Leaves
Ian Hideo Levy, The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry
Finalists:
W.S. DiPiero – Leopardi’s Pensieri
Louis Iribarne – Milosz’s The Issa Valley
Miller Williams – Sonnets of Giuseppe Belli