Honor roll: National Book Award for Current Interest authors
Each of these authors has been nominated for a National Book Award for Current Interest. They are ranked by honors given those books nominated for the aforementioned award.
| 1 | Peter Matthiessen (20.3) | 5 | Gloria Emerson (10.28) | 9 | Murray Kempton (10.24) |
| 2 | Frances FitzGerald (20.23) | 6 | Bruno Bettelheim (10.27) | 10 | Stewart Brand (10.22) |
| 3 | Julia Child (10.3) | 7 | Michael J. Arlen (10.26) | ||
| 4 | Christopher Lasch (10.3) | 8 | Theodore Rosengarten (10.25) |
