1979 The Persistence of Vision by John Varley 1979 · Hugo Awards · Best Novella Hunter’s Moon by Poul Anderson 1979 · Hugo Awards · Best Novelette Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre 1979 · Hugo Awards · Best Novel Cassandra by C. J. Cherryh 1979 · Hugo Awards · Best Short Story The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever 1979 · Pulitzer Prize · Fiction The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher 1979 · Pulitzer Prize · History On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson 1979 · Pulitzer Prize · General Nonfiction Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren 1979 · Pulitzer Prize · Poetry Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker 1979 · Pulitzer Prize · Biography Buried Child by Sam Shepard 1979 · Pulitzer Prize · Drama Aftertones of Infinity by Joseph Schwantner 1979 · Pulitzer Prize · Music giANTS by Edward Bryant 1979 · Nebula Awards · Best Short Story The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke 1979 · Nebula Awards · Best Novel Sandkings by George R.R. Martin 1979 · Nebula Awards · Best Novelette Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear 1979 · Nebula Awards · Best Novella