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1990 National Book Awards

FictionMiddle Passage, Charles JohnsonNonfictionThe House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, Ron Chernow

1980 National Book Awards

AutobiographyHardcoverLauren Bacall by Myself, Lauren BacallPaperbackAnd I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918–1978, Malcolm CowleyBiographyHardcoverThe Rise of…

1981 National Book Awards

Autobiography/BiographyHardcoverWalt Whitman, Justin KaplanPaperbackSamuel Beckett, Deirdre BairChildren's Books, FictionHardcoverThe Night Swimmers, Betsy ByarsPaperbackRamona and Her Mother…

Brewer's: Wicked Prayer Book

(The). Printed 1686, octavo. The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity reads: “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery,…

Brewer's: Yellow Book of France

A report drawn up by government every year since 1861, designed to furnish historians with reliable information of the state, external and internal, of the French nation. It is called…

1996 National Book Awards

FictionShip Fever and Other Stories, Andrea BarrettNonfictionAn American Requiem: God, My Father and the War That Came Between Us, James CarrollPoetryScrambled Eggs and Whiskey: Poems 1991–…

1997 National Book Awards

The 48th Annual National Book Awards were presented November 18, 1997, at New York City's Marriott Marquis Hotel.Fiction:Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (Atlantic Monthly Press)Nonfiction:…

1995 National Book Awards

FictionSabbath's Theater, Philip RothNonfictionThe Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, Tina RosenbergPoetryPassing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected, Stanley Kunitz…

Brewer's: Fleet Book Evidence

No evidence at all. The books of the Old Fleet prison are not admissible as evidence to prove a marriage. (Wharton: Law Dictionary.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…