All 1977 Book Awards

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British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel

The Dragon and the George

Gordon R. Dickson

Costa Book Award – Novel

Injury Time

Beryl Bainbridge

Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

The Wars

Timothy Findley

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Essays on the Constitution

Frank Scott

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Under the Thunder the Flowers Light up the Earth

D.G. Jones

Hugo Awards – Novel

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Kate Wilhelm

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography

Chateaubriand: The Longed-for Tempests, 1768-1793

George D. Painter

James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction

The Honourable Schoolboy

John le Carré

John W. Campbell – Novel

The Alteration

Kingsley Amis

National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism

On Photography

Susan Sontag

National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

Samuel Johnson

W. Jackson Bate

National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry

Day by Day

Robert Lowell

Nebula – Novel

Man Plus

Frederik Pohl

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence

John E. Mack

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

No award given

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Beautiful Swimmers

William W. Warner

Pulitzer Prize – History

The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861

David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

Divine Comedies

James Merrill

World Fantasy Awards – Novel

Doctor Rat

William Kotzwinkle

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

Child of the Owl

Laurence Yep

Boston Globe – Nonfiction

Chance, Luck and Destiny

Peter Dickinson

Boston Globe – Picture Book

Granfa’ Grig Had a Pig and Other Rhymes Without Reason from Mother Goose compiled and

Wallace Tripp

Caldecott – Picture Book

Ashanti to Zulu

Margaret Musgrove

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler

Gene Kemp

Coretta Scott King – Author

The Story of Stevie Wonder

James Haskins

Costa – Children’s

No End to Yesterday

Shelagh Macdonald

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

The Thomas Berryman Number

James Patterson

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

Are You in the House Alone?

Richard Peck

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

Promised Land

Robert B. Parker

Edgar Allan Poe – Paperback Original

Confess, Fletch

Gregory McDonald

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

Dogger

Shirley Hughes

Hemingway – PEN

Speedboat

Renata Adler

Newbery Medal – Children’s

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor