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Literary Awards: 1980- 1989

This guide gives a listing of some of the literary award winners.

1989 Winners

FICTION

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Call Number: PS3570.Y45B74 1988

ISBN: 9780307761583

Publication Date: 1988-08-12

NONFICTION

A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
Call Number: DS558.S47 1989

ISBN: 0679724141

Publication Date: 1989-09-19

HISTORY (TIE)

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
Call Number: E470.M46 2003

ISBN: 019516895X

Publication Date: 2003-12-11
Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch
Call Number: E185.61.B7914 1988

ISBN: 0671460978

Publication Date: 1989-11-15

BIOGRAPHY

Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
Call Number: PR5823.E38 1988

ISBN: 0394554841

Publication Date: 1988-11-05

POETRY

New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780151652068

Publication Date: 1988-04-01

1988 Winners

FICTION

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563.O8749B4 1998

ISBN: 037540273X

Publication Date: 1998-09-29

NONFICTION

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Call Number: QC773.R46 1986

ISBN: 0671441337

Publication Date: 2012-06-12

HISTORY

The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780801494963

Publication Date: 1988-03-28

BIOGRAPHY

Look Homeward by David Herbert Donald
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780674008694

Publication Date: 2003-01-30

POETRY

Partial Accounts by William Meredith
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780394751917

Publication Date: 1987-04-12

1987 Winners

FICTION

A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780375701177

Publication Date: 1999-06-29

NONFICTION

Arab and Jew by David K. Shipler
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780142002292

Publication Date: 2001-12-31

HISTORY

Voyagers to the West by Bernard Bailyn
Call Number: JV7618.N7B35 1986

ISBN: 0394515692

Publication Date: 1988-04-12

BIOGRAPHY

Bearing the Cross by David J. Garrow; David Garrow
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780060566920

Publication Date: 2004-01-06

POETRY

Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780887480218

Publication Date: 1986-01-01

1986 Winners

FICTION

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Call Number: PS3563.A319L6 2000

ISBN: 068487122X

Publication Date: 2000-11-10

NONFICTION

Move Your Shadow by Joseph Lelyveld
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780140093261

Publication Date: 1986-10-07

HISTORY

The Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall
Call Number: TL789.8.U5M34 1985

ISBN: 046502887X

Publication Date: 1997-09-25

BIOGRAPHY

Louise Bogan by Elizabeth Frank
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780231063159

Publication Date: 1986-11-19

POETRY

The Flying Change by Henry Taylor
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780807112649

Publication Date: 1985-12-01

1985 Winners

FICTION

Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
Call Number: PS3562.U7F6 2006

ISBN: 0812976312

Publication Date: 2006-11-14

NONFICTION

The Good War by Studs Terkel
Call Number: D811.A2T45 1984

ISBN: 0394531035

Publication Date: 1997-01-01

HISTORY

Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
Call Number: HD3616.U46M38 1984

ISBN: 0674716078

Publication Date: 1986-10-15

BIOGRAPHY

The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
Call Number: F67.M43S57 1984

ISBN: 0060152311

Publication Date: 2001-11-21

POETRY

Yin by Carolyn Kizer; Antonio Tabucchi
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780918526458

Publication Date: 1984-06-01

1984 Winners

FICTION

Ironweed by William Kennedy
Call Number: PS3561.E428I7 1983

ISBN: 0670401765

Publication Date: 1983-01-01

NONFICTION

The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
Call Number: RA395.A3S77 1982

ISBN: 0465079342

Publication Date: 1984-06-05

BIOGRAPHY

Booker T. Washington by Louis R. Harlan
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780195042290

Publication Date: 1986-12-04

POETRY

American Primitive by Mary Oliver
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780316650045

Publication Date: 1983-04-30

1983 Winners

FICTION

Alice Walker's The Color Purple by Harold Bloom
Call Number: PS3573 .A425 C6325 2000

ISBN: 079105666X

Publication Date: 2000-01-01

NONFICTION

Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan; Robert Coles (Foreword by)
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780804169189

Publication Date: 2014-01-14

HISTORY

The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys Isaac
Call Number: F229.I8 1982

ISBN: 080781489X

Publication Date: 1999-04-27

BIOGRAPHY

Growing Up by Russell Baker
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780451168382

Publication Date: 1992-06-02

POETRY

Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780395320464

Publication Date: 1983-05-01

1982 Winners

FICTION

Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
Call Number: PS3571.P4R25 1981

ISBN: 0394520874

Publication Date: 1981-09-12

NONFICTION

The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Call Number: TK7885.4.K53

ISBN: 0316491705

Publication Date: 2000-06-01

HISTORY

Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward (Editor); Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780300029796

Publication Date: 1993-09-10

BIOGRAPHY

Grant by William S. McFeely; Katherine E. Speirs (Editor)
Call Number: E672.M15 1981

ISBN: 0393013723

Publication Date: 1996-06-01

POETRY

The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
Call Number: PS3566.L27A17 2008

ISBN: 9780061558894

Publication Date: 2008-09-02

1981 Winners

FICTION

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Call Number: PS3570 .O54 C66 1999

ISBN: 0807106577

Publication Date: 1980-05-01

NONFICTION

Fin-de-Siecle Vienna by Carl E. Schorske
Call Number: DB851.S42 1979

ISBN: 0394505964

Publication Date: 1980-12-12

HISTORY

American Education by Lawrence A. Cremin
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780060909215

Publication Date: 1982-03-01

BIOGRAPHY

Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
Call Number: DK131.M28

ISBN: 0394500326

Publication Date: 1981-10-12

POETRY

The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780374516222

Publication Date: 1981-04-01

1980 Winners

FICTION

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer; Dave Eggers (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3525.A4152E94 2012

ISBN: 044658438X

Publication Date: 2012-05-08

NONFICTION

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Preface by)
Call Number: QA9.8.H63 1999

ISBN: 0465026567

Publication Date: 1999-02-05

HISTORY

Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
Call Number: E185.2.L57 1979

ISBN: 0394500997

Publication Date: 1980-08-12

BIOGRAPHY

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris; David Ebershoff (Editor)
Call Number: E757.M883 2001

ISBN: 0375756787

Publication Date: 2001-11-20

POETRY

Selected Poems by Donald Justice
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780689110207

Publication Date: 1979-11-01