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1969 National Book Awards

Arts and Letters	The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History, Norman Mailer
Children's Literature	Journey From Peppermint Street, Meindert DeJong
Fiction	Steps, Jerzy Kosinski
History and Biography	White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812, Winthrop D. Jordan
Poetry	His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, John Berryman
The Sciences	Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, Robert J. Lifton
Translation	Calvino's Cosmicomics, William Weaver

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1970 National Book Awards

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1968 National Book Awards

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