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1976     The Great War and modern memory by Paul Fussell (25th anniv. edtn. here)
1975     Marcel Proust by Roger Shattuck; The lives of a cell : notes of a biology watcher by Lewis Thomas
1974     Deeper into movies by Pauline Kael
1973     Diderot by Arthur M. Wilson
1972     The classical style : Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven by Charles Rosen
1971     Cocteau, a biography by Francis Steegmuller
1970     An unfinished woman; a memoir by Lillian Hellman
1969     The armies of the night; history as a novel, the novel as history by Norman Mailer
1968     Selected essays by William Troy
1967     Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, a biography by Justin Kaplan
1966     Paris journal, 1944-65 by Janet Flanner
1965     The oysters of Locmariaquer by Eleanor Clark
1964     John Keats : the making of a poet by Aileen Ward