Annal: 1981 National Book Award for Nonfiction
Results of the National Book Award in the year 1981.
China Men
- 1981 NBA–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.31
The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here’s a storyteller’s tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
The Last Cowboy
- 1981 NBA–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.31
Portrays the life of a man who strives to be “a proper cowboy” despite radical changes which have propelled the Old West into a New Southwest characterized by industrialized agribusiness.
