National Book Awards - 1986
FICTION
Winner:
E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Norman Rush – Whites
Peter Taylor – A Summons to Memphis
NONFICTION
Winner:
Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
> Read His Acceptance Speech
Finalists:
John Dower – War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
Richard Kluger – The Paper: The Life and Times of the New York Herald Tribune
Michael Reynolds – The Young Hemingway
Theodore Rosengarten – Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter