Letters, Drama and Music Awards
- Fiction:
- Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press)
- Drama:
- The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn (Drama Book Specialists)
- History:
- The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (Belknap/Harvard University Press)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate (Harcourt)
- Poetry:
- Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov (Univ. of Chicago)
- General Non-Fiction:
- The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (Random House)
- Music:
- Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra by Michael Colgrass (Carl Fischer Music)
Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered by that orchestra October 20, 1977.
- Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra by Michael Colgrass (Carl Fischer Music)
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