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1977 Awards

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1977 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1977 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1977 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerThe Impending Crisis, 1848–1861David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive i...Amazon
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1977 World Fantasy Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1977 World Fantasy Awards - Novel WinnerDoctor RatWilliam KotzwinkleThis World Fantasy Award winner in the vein of Animal Farm delves into a lab worthy of a mad Nazi scientist—but run by a brilliantly sadistic rodent. In the annals of American literature, there has never been a character quite like Doctor Rat, PhD. From on...Amazon1977 World Fantasy Awards - Novel ShortlistDark CrusadeKarl Edward WagnerAmazonThe Acts of King Arthur and His Noble KnightsJohn SteinbeckAmazonThe Doll Who Ate His MotherRamsey CampbellAmazonThe Dragon and the GeorgeGordon R. DicksonAmazonThe Sailor on the Seas of FateMichael MoorcockAmazon
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1977 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1977 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerDivine ComediesJames MerrillFor the first time in a stand-alone edition, the acclaimed poet's classic poem about his communication with Ephraim, a guiding spirit in the Other World, is here introduced and annotated by poet and Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser. "The Book of Ephraim," wh...Amazon
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1977 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerOn PhotographySusan SontagWinner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, "On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as " a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs...Amazon1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAfterimagesArlene CroceAmazonGates of Eden: American Culture in the SixtiesMorris DicksteinAmazonMatters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays, 1973-1976Gore VidalAmazonRobert Frost: The Work of KnowingRichard PoirierAmazon
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1977 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerSong of SolomonToni MorrisonNew York Times Bestseller Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tr...Amazon1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistA Book of Common PrayerJoan DidionAmazonFalconerJohn CheeverAmazonThe Professor of DesirePhilip RothAmazonUnion DuesJohn SaylesAmazon
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