PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
Amy Wilentz, The Rainy Season (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
William Weaveri, Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Bernard Knox, Essays Ancient and Modern (Johns Hopkins)