1974

• A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker, by Margaret Walker Alexander (Howard University).
• ...The Other Room, by Borden Deal (Doubleday).
• The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox, history by Shelby Foote (Random House).
• A Voyage to Dauphin Island in 1720: The Journal of Bertet de la Clue, translated by Jay Higginbotham (Colonial Books).
• Water Tables, by James Seay (Wesleyan University Press).
• The First Horsemen, by Frank Trippett (Time-Life).
• Eight Moral Ladies Possessed, fiction by Tennessee Williams (New Directions).

Mildred D. Taylor receives the Council on Interracial Books for Children Award for her book Song of the Trees, which will be published by Dial Books in 1975.