1979 Book Award Winners

More than sixty stories in the order he wrote them, from the late 1940s to the 1970s, covering the same ground so consistently that reading them...

A handful of people live on old barges moored at Battersea Reach on the Thames in the early 1960s, neither properly on land nor properly at sea,...

Cacciato, a round faced, dim, sweet natured private, walks away from the war. He leaves a note, more or less: gone to Paris. On the map it is some...

In 1798 a small French force under General Humbert lands at Killala on the coast of County Mayo. The French expect to be the advance guard for...

Edward Wilson had already provoked a furious scientific and public argument with his 1975 book Sociobiology, which applied evolutionary theory to...

Don E. Fehrenbacher devotes his own Pulitzer winning book to the 1857 Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott versus Sandford, the case that denied...

Leonard Baker's biography follows Leo Baeck from his ordination as a rabbi in Germany and his rise, on the strength of his 1905 book The Essence of...

In the fall of 1973 Peter Matthiessen set out on a 250 mile walk into Dolpo, the Tibetan plateau country of northwest Nepal, with the field...

Now and Then: Poems 1976 to 1978 collects Robert Penn Warren's late poems, work written in his seventies that circles back repeatedly to memory,...

Snake is a healer on an Earth left broken by nuclear war, and she travels the desert with three serpents in a case. Grass, Mist and Sand are her...

Vannevar Morgan built the longest bridge on Earth and now wants to build something considerably harder: a tower from the equator to geostationary...

Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen is set in Albion, an empire that stretches from Virginia to the borders of Tartary and looks something like...

British intelligence calls him Die Nadel, the Needle, for the stiletto that is his signature: Henry Faber, the Reich's best agent in England, a...

Sixteen unlikely heirs, from a Polish immigrant dressmaker to a teenage bookie to a judge on the rise, are summoned to the newly opened Sunset...

A girl who feels closer to the horses than to her own village people goes out with the rest of her camp on a hunt, and when a thunderstorm sends...

This is a long poem, published in 1959, built in three parts, Genesis, The Passion and The Gloria, that take their titles and their shape from...