National Book Award for Nonfiction 1978

Nominations

Winner	Samuel Johnson	Walter Jackson Bate
Winner	Winners and Losers	Gloria Emerson
	Brother to a Dragonfly	Will D. Campbell
	A Dual Autobiography	Will Durant
	Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing	Frank Vandiver
	The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind	Julian Jaynes
	Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood	Kai T. Erikson
	The Vast Majority	Michael Harrington
	Pink Collar Workers	Louise Kapp Howe
	Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet	James Atlas