National
Book Awards - 1987
FICTION
Winner:
Larry Heinemann, Paco's Story
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Alice McDermott – That Night
Toni Morrison – Beloved
Howard Norman – The Northern Lights
Philip Roth – The Counterlife
NONFICTION
Winner:
Richard Rhode, The Making of the Atom Bomb
Finalists:
David Herbert Donald – Look Homeward: The Life of Thomas Wolfe
James Gleick – Chaos: Making a New Science
Claudia Koonz – Mothers in the Fatherland
Robert A.M. Stern, Gregory Gilmartin and Thomas Mellins – New York 1930:
Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars