National Book Award for Nonfiction 1977

Nominations

Winner	The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales	Bruno Bettelheim
Winner	World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made	Irving Howe
Winner	Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist	W. A. Swanberg
	The Lives of Roger Casement	B. L. Reid
	Letters of E. B. White	E. B. White
	Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America	Lawrence Goodwyn
	Woman's Body, Woman's Right: The History of Birth Control in America	Linda Gordon
	Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality	Richard Kluger
	America as Art	Joshua C. Taylor
	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
	Awakening from the American Dream	Rufus E. Miles, Jr.
	The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty	Peter Collier
	The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Volume VI 1955–1966	Anaïs Nin