1978 National Book Awards

Biography and Autobiography	Samuel Johnson, W. Jackson Bate
Children's Literature	The View From the Oak, Judith Kohl and Herbert Kohl
Contemporary Thought	Winners and Losers, Gloria Emerson
Fiction	Blood Ties, Mary Lee Settle
History	The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870–1914, David McCullough
Poetry	The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, Howard Nemerov
Translation	Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth, Richard Winston and Clara Winston

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