Science, Hardcover:The Panda’s Thumb: More
Reflections on Natural Histor yby Stephen Jay
Gould
Science, Paperback:The Medusa and the Snailby
Lewis Thomas
Translation:The Letters of Gustave Flaubertby
Gustave Flaubert, translated by Francis
Steegmuller;Evening Edged in Goldby Arno
Schmidt, translated by John E. Woods
1982
Autobiography/Biography, Hardcover:Mornings
on Horsebackby David McCullough
Autobiography/Biography, Paperback:Walter
Lippmann and the American Centur yby Ronald
Steel
Children’s Book, Fiction, Hardcover:Westmarkby
Lloyd Alexander
Children’s Book, Fiction, Paperback:Words by
Heartby Ouida Sebestyen
Children’s Book, Nonfiction:A Penguin Yearby
Susan Bonners
Children’s Book, Picture Book, Hardcover:Outside
Over Thereby Maurice Sendak
Children’s Book, Picture Book, Paperback:Noah’s
Arkby Peter Spier
Fiction, Hardcover:Rabbit Is Richby John Updike
Fiction, Paperback:So Long, See You Tomorrowby
William Maxwell
First Novel:Dale Loves Sophie to Deathby Robb
Forman Dew
General Nonfiction, Hardcover:The Soul of a New
Machineby Tracy Kidder
General Nonfiction, Paperback:Naming Namesby
Victor S. Navasky
History, Hardcover:People of the Sacred Mountain:
A Histor y of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and
Warrior Societies, 1830-1879by Father Peter
John Powell
History, Paperback:The Generation of 1914by
Robert Wohl
Poetry:Life Supports: New and Collected Poemsby
William Bronk
Science, Hardcover:Lucy: The Beginnings of
Humankindby Donald C. Johanson and
Maitland A. Edey
Science, Paperback:Taking the Quantum Leap: The
New Physics for Nonscientistsby Fred Alan Wolf
Translation:In the Shade of Spring Leavesby Higuchi
Ichiyo, translated by Robert Lyons Danly;The
Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The
Man’Yoshu, Japan’s Premier Anthology of Classical
Poetr ytranslated by Ian Hideo Levy
1983
Autobiography/Biography, Hardcover:Isak
Dinesen: The Life of a Stor ytellerby Judith
Thurman
Autobiography/Biography, Paperback:Nathaniel
Hawthorne in His Timeby James R. Mellow
Children’s Book, Fiction, Hardcover:Homesick: My
Own Stor yby Jean Fritz
Children’s Book, Fiction, Paperback:A Place Apart
by Paula Fox;Marked by Fireby Joyce Carol
Thomas
Children’s Book, Nonfiction:Chimney Sweepsby
James Cross Giblin
Children’s Book, Picture Book, Hardcover:Miss
Rumphiusby Barbara Cooney;Doctor De Sotoby
William Steig
Children’s Book, Picture Book, Paperback:A
House Is a House for Meby Mary Ann Hoberman,
illustrated by Betty Fraser
Fiction, Hardcover:The Color Purpleby Alice
Walker
Fiction, Paperback:Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
First Novel:The Women of Brewster Placeby Gloria
Naylor
General Nonfiction, Hardcover:China: Alive in the
Bitter Seaby Fox Butterfield
General Nonfiction, Paperback:National Defenseby
James Fallows
History, Hardcover:Voices of Protest: Huey Long,
Father Couglin, and the Great Depressionby Alan
Brinkley
History, Paperback:Utopian Thought in the Western
Worldby Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P.
Manuel
Original Paperback:The Red Magicianby Lisa
Goldstein
Poetry:Selected Poemsby Galway Kinnell;Countr y
Music: Selected Early Poemsby Charles Wright
Science, Hardcover:“Subtle Is the Lord.. .” : The
Science and Life of Albert Einsteinby Abraham
Pais
Science, Paperback:The Mathematical Experienceby
Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
Translation:Les Fleurs du Malby Charles
Baudelaire, translated by Richard Howard
The Eighties in America Literature: Major Literary Awards 1117