Finalist: Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor , by Diana Trilling (Harcourt Brace )
The Jury
The Jury
Edmund Fuller(Chair)
Book Critic, The Wall Street Journal
Paul Fussell
Professor of English, Rutgers University
Paul Gray
Associate Editor, Time
Winners in General Nonfiction
1982 Prize Winners
Martin Bernheimer
For classical music criticism.