National Book Award for Nonfiction 1977

Nominations

Winner	Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist	W. A. Swanberg
Winner	The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales	Bruno Bettelheim
	The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Volume VI 1955–1966	Anaïs Nin
	The Lives of Roger Casement	B. L. Reid
	Letters of E. B. White	E. B. White
	Awakening from the American Dream	Rufus E. Miles, Jr.
	The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise	Dorothy Dinnerstein
	Dostoyevsky: A Writer in His Time	Joseph Frank
	Kicked a Building Lately?	Ada Louise Huxtable
	The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty	Peter Collier