National Book Award

Bartheleme, Donald  
1972 Children's Book: The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or the Hithering Thithering Djinn

Bly, Robert
1968 Poetry: The Light Around the Body 

Clifton, Lucille
2000 Poetry: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000

Emerson, Gloria  
1978 Contemporary Thought: Winners and Losers

Fritz, Jean
1983 Children's Book, Fiction: Homesick: My Own Story

Ginsberg, Allen  
1974 Poetry: The Fall of America: Poems of These States

Heinemann, Larry 
1987 Fiction: Paco's Story

Johnson, Charles  
1990 Fiction: Middle Passage

Kaplan, Justin  
1981 Autobiography/biography: Walt Whitman
1967 Arts & Letters: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain

Kingston, Maxine Hong
1981 General Nonfiction: China Men

Kinnell, Galway
1983 Poetry: Selected Poems

Levine, Philip
1991 Poetry: What Work Is
1980 Poetry: Ashes

Lopez, Barry
1986 Nonfiction: Arctic Dreams

Mueller, Lisel
1981 Poetry: The Need to Hold Still

O'Brien, Tim
1979 Fiction: Going After Cacciato

Oliver, Mary
1992 Poetry: New & Selected Poems

Paterson, Katherine
1979 Children's Book: The Great Gilly Hopkins
1977 Children's Book: The Master Puppeteer  

Shacochis, Bob  
1985 First Work of Fiction: Easy in the Islands

Settle, Mary Lee 
1978 Fiction: Blood Ties

Stern, Gerald
1998 Poetry: This Time: New and Selected Poems

Styron, William
1980 Fiction: Sophie's Choice  

Wright, Charles
1983 Country Music: Selected Early Poems