National Book Awards - 1989
FICTION
Winner:
John Casey, Spartina
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Finalists:
E.L. Doctorow – Billy Bathgate
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- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
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NONFICTION
Winner:
Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem
Finalists:
Taylor Branch – Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
McGeorge Bundy – Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years
William Pfaff – Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends
Marilynne Robinson – Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution