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Literary Awards: 1970- 1979

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

1979 Winners

FICTION

The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
Call Number: PS3505.H6428A6 1978

ISBN: 0394500873

Publication Date: 1978-10-12

NONFICTION

On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
Call Number: GN365.9.W54

ISBN: 0674634411

Publication Date: 1978-10-02

HISTORY

The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher
Call Number: KF4545.S5F43

ISBN: 9780195145885

Publication Date: 2001-05-24

BIOGRAPHY

Days of Sorrow and Pain by Leonard Baker
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780195028003

Publication Date: 1980-08-28

POETRY

Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780394501642

Publication Date: 1978-07-12

1978 Winners

FICTION

Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780449213575

Publication Date: 1986-10-12

NONFICTION

The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
Call Number: BF431.S2

ISBN: 0394410459

Publication Date: 1986-12-12

HISTORY

The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780674940529

Publication Date: 1993-01-01

BIOGRAPHY

Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate; Walter Jackson Bate
Call Number: PR3533.B334

ISBN: 0151792607

Publication Date: 1998-06-01

POETRY

The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov by Howard Nemerov
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780226572598

Publication Date: 1981-07-15

1977 Winners

NONFICTION

Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (Afterword by); John Barth (Introduction by)
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780316923354

Publication Date: 1994-03-21

HISTORY

The Impending Crisis by David M. Potter
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780061319297

Publication Date: 2011-03-15

BIOGRAPHY

A Prince of Our Disorder by John E. Mack
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780674704947

Publication Date: 1998-04-01

POETRY

Divine Comedies by James Ingram Merrill
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780689108303

Publication Date: 1977-03-01

1976 Winners

FICTION

Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
Call Number: PS3503.E4488H8 1984

ISBN: 0140072713

Publication Date: 1984-04-03

NONFICTION

Why Survive? by Robert N. Butler
Call Number: HQ1064.U5B87 1985

ISBN: 006131997X

Publication Date: 2002-11-26

HISTORY

Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780819565327

Publication Date: 2003-03-05

BIOGRAPHY

Edith Wharton by R. W. B. Lewis
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780880640206

Publication Date: 1985-09-01

POETRY

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780140586688

Publication Date: 1990-01-01

1975 Winners

FICTION

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Call Number: PS3569.H2K55 2004

ISBN: 0679643249

Publication Date: 2004-11-02

NONFICTION

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Call Number: QH81.D56 1998

ISBN: 0060953020

Publication Date: 1998-10-06

HISTORY

Jefferson and the Rights of Man by Dumas Malone
Call Number: E332.M25 1951 v. 1

ISBN: 9780813923628

Publication Date: 2006-05-04

BIOGRAPHY

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
Call Number: NA9085.M68C37 1975

ISBN: 0394720245

Publication Date: 1975-07-12

POETRY

Turtle Island by Gary Snyder; Michael Corr (Illustrator)
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780811205467

Publication Date: 1974-01-17

1974 Winners

NONFICTION

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
Call Number: BD444.B36

ISBN: 0029021502

Publication Date: 1997-05-08

HISTORY

The Americans by Daniel J. Boorstin
Call Number: E169.1.B7513

ISBN: 0394487249

Publication Date: 1974-07-12

BIOGRAPHY

O'Neill by Louis Sheaffer
Call Number: PS3529.N5Z798

ISBN: 9780815412441

Publication Date: 2002-08-19

POETRY

The Dolphin by Robert Lowell
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780374141400

Publication Date: 1973-01-01

1973 Winners

FICTION

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Call Number: PS3545.E6O6 1972

ISBN: 0394480171

Publication Date: 1990-08-11

NONFICTION (TIE)

Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald
Call Number: DS556.9.F57 2002

ISBN: 0316159190

Publication Date: 2002-07-17
Children of Crisis, Volumes II and III by Robert Coles
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780316151764

Publication Date: 1973-03-30

HISTORY

People of Paradox by Michael G. Kammen
Call Number: E162.K2

ISBN: 9780801497551

Publication Date: 1990-08-02

BIOGRAPHY

Luce and His Empire by W. A. Swanberg
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780684125923

Publication Date: 1972-08-01

POETRY

Up Country by Maxine Kumin; Barbara Swan (Illustrator)
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780060124748

Publication Date: 1973-08-01

1972 Winners

FICTION

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Call Number: PS3537 .T316 A8 2000

ISBN: 0679603387

Publication Date: 2000-04-18

NONFICTION

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman; Pam Ward (Narrated by)
Call Number: E745.S68T8

ISBN: 9781433292996

Publication Date: 2012-01-20

HISTORY

Neither Black nor White by Carl N. Degler
Call Number: F2659.N4D42

ISBN: 9780299109141

Publication Date: 1986-05-15

BIOGRAPHY

Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
Call Number: E807.1.R48L355 2014

ISBN: 9780393349757

Publication Date: 2014-09-08

POETRY

Collected Poems by Robert Bly (Editor); Anne Wright (Editor); James Wright
Call Number: PS3545.R58A6 1971

ISBN: 0819540315

Publication Date: 2007-06-01

1971 Winners

NONFICTION

The Rising Sun by John Toland; John Toland
Call Number: D767.2.T58

ISBN: 9780812968583

Publication Date: 2003-05-27

HISTORY

Roosevelt by James MacGregor Burns
Call Number: E807.B386

ISBN: 0151788715

Publication Date: 1996-08-01

BIOGRAPHY

Robert Frost by L. Thompson (Editor)
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780030845307

Publication Date: 1970-08-01

POETRY

The Carrier of Ladders by W. S. Merwin
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780689103438

Publication Date: 1970-08-01

1970 Winners

FICTION

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford; Joyce Carol Oates (Introduction by)
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780374529932

Publication Date: 2005-09-14

NONFICTION

Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson
Call Number: DS481.G3E7

ISBN: 9780393310344

Publication Date: 1993-04-17

HISTORY

Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson
Call Number: E744.A2174

ISBN: 039307448X

Publication Date: 1987-09-01

BIOGRAPHY

Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
Call Number: E748.L86W48 1969

ISBN: 9780394747903

Publication Date: 1981-08-12

POETRY

Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard
Call Number: Not available- Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780689101366

Publication Date: 1969