National Book Award for Nonfiction 1979

Nominations

Winner	Robert Kennedy and His Times	Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Winner	The Snow Leopard	Peter Matthiessen
	American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur	William Manchester
	Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats	William M. Murphy
	Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf	Phyllis Rose
	Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries	Meyer Schapiro
	Stable Peace	Kenneth E. Boulding
	This House of Sky: Landscapes of the Western Wind	Ivan Doig
	New York Jew	Alfred Kazin
	Remembering Poets	Donald Hall