National Book Awards - 1988
FICTION
Winner:
Pete Dexter, Paris Trout
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Finalists:
Don DeLillo – Libra
Mary McGarry Morris – Vanished
James F. Powers – Wheat That Springeth Green
Anne Tyler – Breathing Lessons
NONFICTION
Winner:
Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Finalists:
Eric Foner – Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Peter Gay – The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
Brenda Maddox – Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom
Jack McLaughlin – Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder