The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

Biography:Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
by David Herbert Donald
Poetry:Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poemsby
William Meredith

1989
Fiction:Breathing Lessonsby Anne Tyler
Drama:The Heidi Chroniclesby Wendy Wasserstein
History:Battle Cr y of Freedom: The Civil War Eraby
James M. McPherson;Parting the Waters: America
in the King Years, 1954-1963by Taylor Branch
Biography:Oscar Wildeby Richard Ellmann
Poetry:New and Collected Poemsby Richard Wilbur

National Book Awards

1980
Autobiography, Hardcover:Lauren Bacall by Myself
by Lauren Bacall
Autobiography, Paperback:And I Worked at the
Writer’s Trade: Chapters of Literar y Histor y, 1918-
1978 by Malcolm Cowley
Biography, Hardcover:The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
Biography, Paperback:Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
by A. Scott Berg
Children’s Book, Hardcover:A Gathering of Days: A
New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-1832by Joan W.
Blos
Children’s Book, Paperback:A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L’Engle
Current Interest, Hardcover:Julia Child and More
Companyby Julia Child
Current Interest, Paperback:The Culture of
Narcissismby Christopher Lasch
Fiction, Hardcover:Sophie’s Choiceby William
Styron
Fiction, Paperback:The World According to Garpby
John Irving
First Novel:Birdyby William Wharton
General Nonfiction, Hardcover:The Right Stuffby
Tom Wolfe
General Nonfiction, Paperback:The Snow Leopard
by Peter Matthiessen
General Reference Book, Hardcover:The Complete
Director yedited by Elder Witt
General Reference, Paperback:The Complete
Director y of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-
Presentby Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh
History, Hardcover:The White House Yearsby Henry
A. Kissinger

History, Paperback:A Distant Mirror: The

Calamitous Fourteenth Centur yby Barbara W.

Tuchman

Mystery, Hardcover:The Green Ripperby John D.

MacDonald;Stained Glassby William F.

Buckley, Jr.

Poetry:Ashesby Philip Levine

Religion/Inspiration, Hardcover:The Gnostic

Gospelsby Elaine Pagels

Religion/Inspiration, Paperback:A Severe Mercyby

Sheldon Vanauken

Science, Hardcover:Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal

Golden Braidby Douglas Hofstadter

Science, Paperback:The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An

Overview of the New Physicsby Gary Zukav

Science Fiction, Hardcover:Jemby Frederik Pohl

Science Fiction, Paperback:The Book of the Dun

Crowby Walter Wangerin, Jr.

Translation:Hard Laborby Cesare Pavese, edited by

William Arrowsmith;Complete Critical Prose and

Lettersby Osip Mandelstam, edited by Jane Gary

Harris and Constance Link

Western:Bendigo Shafterby Louis L’Amour

1981

Autobiography/Biography, Hardcover:Walt

Whitmanby Justin Kaplan

Autobiography/Biography, Paperback:Samuel

Beckettby Deirdre Bair

Children’s Book, Fiction, Hardcover:The Night

Swimmersby Betsy Byars

Children’s Book, Fiction, Paperback:Ramona and

Her Motherby Beverly Cleary

Children’s Book, Nonfiction, Hardcover:Mali—Oh

Boy! Babiesby Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane

Lawrence

Fiction, Hardcover:Plains Songby Wright Morris

Fiction, Paperback:The Stories of John Cheeverby

John Cheever

First Novel:Sister Wolfby Anne Arensberg

General Nonfiction, Hardcover:China Menby

Maxine Hong Kingston

General Nonfiction, Paperback:The Last Cowboyby

Jane Kramer

History, Hardcover:Christianity, Social Tolerance,

and Homosexualityby John Boswell

History, Paperback:Been in the Storm So Long: The

Aftermath of Slaver yby Leon F. Litwack

Poetry:The Need to Hold Stillby Lisel Mueller

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Literature: Major Literary Awards The Eighties in America