National
Book Awards - 1985
FICTION
Winner:
Don DeLillo, White Noise
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Ursula K. Le Guin – Always Coming Home
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Hugh Nissenson – The Tree of Life
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >
FIRST WORK OF FICTION
Winner:
Easy in the Islands, Bob Shacochis
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Elizabeth Benedict – Slow Dancing
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Cecile Pineda – Face
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >
NONFICTION
Winner:
J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
Finalists:
Daniel J. Kevles – In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Use of Human Heredity
Walter A. McDougall –…The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age