PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
David Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antartica (Houghton Mifflin)
Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Thomas Hoisington, The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom by Ignacy Krasicki (Northwestern University Press)
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Frederick Crews, The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy (Random House)