National Book Awards - 1984
FICTION
Winner:
Ellen Gilchrist, Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories
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Finalists:
Alison Lurie – Foreign Affairs
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Philip Roth – The Anatomy Lesson
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FIRST WORK OF FICTION
Winner:
Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
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Finalists:
Kem Nunn – Tapping the Source
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Padgett Powell – Edisto
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NONFICTION
Winner:
Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845
Finalists:
Howard M. Feinstein – Becoming William James
Richard Marius – Thomas More
Ernst Pawel – The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka
Eudora Welty – One Writer's Beginnings