National Book Award for Nonfiction 1979

Nominations

Winner	The Snow Leopard	Peter Matthiessen
Winner	Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585–1763	Richard Beale Davis
Winner	Robert Kennedy and His Times	Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
	Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats	William M. Murphy
	Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf	Phyllis Rose
	Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule	Reinhard Bendix
	Germany, 1866–1945	Gordon A. Craig
	The American Railroad Passenger Car	John H. White, Jr.
	Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence	Garry Wills
	Stable Peace	Kenneth E. Boulding
	This House of Sky: Landscapes of the Western Wind	Ivan Doig
	New York Jew	Alfred Kazin
	Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries	Meyer Schapiro
	Remembering Poets	Donald Hall
	American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur	William Manchester