1979 National Book Awards
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
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Biography and Autobiography | Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
Children's Literature | The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson |
Contemporary Thought | The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen |
Fiction | Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien |
History | Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585–1763, Richard Beale Davis |
Poetry | Mirabell: Book of Numbers, James Merrill |
Translation | Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry, Clayton Eshleman and José Rubia Barcia |
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