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National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle is a not-for-profit organization
of book editors and critics with some 600 members nationwide. The
organization was founded in 1974 to encourage and raise the quality
of book criticism in all media and to create a way for critics
to communicate with one another about their professional concerns.
The NBCC has a Website at www.bookcritics.org.
2006 Winners
Fiction
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance
of Loss (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Non-Fiction
Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American
Revolution (Ecco)
Biography
Julie Phillips, James
Tiptree, Jr:. The Double Life of Alice B.
Sheldon (St. Martin's Press)
Autobiography
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (HarperCollins)
Poetry
Troy Jollimore, Tom Thomson in Purgatory (Margie/Intuit House)
Criticism
Lawrence Weschler, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (McSweeney's)
2005 Winners
Fiction
E.L. Doctorow, The
March (Random House)
Non-Fiction
Svetlana Alexievich, Voices
From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Dalkey
Archive Press)
Biography
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American
Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf)
Autobiography
Francine du Plessix Gray, Them:
A Memoir of Parents (Penguin Press)
Poetry
Jack Gilbert, Refusing
Heaven: Poems (Knopf)
2004 Winners
Fiction
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Non-Fiction
Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation: A History (Viking)
Biography/Autobiography
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, De Kooning: An American Master (Knopf)
Poetry
Adrienne Rich, The School Among the Ruins (Norton)
Criticism
Patrick Neate, Where You’re At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet (Riverhead)
2003 Winners
Fiction
Edward P. Jones, The
Known World (Amistad/HarperCollins)
Non-Fiction
Paul Hendrickson, Sons
of Mississippi (Knopf)
Biography/Autobiography
William Taubman, Khrushchev:
The Man and His Era (Norton)
Poetry
Susan Stewart, Columbarium (University
of Chicago Press)
Criticism
Rebecca Solnit, River
of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild
West (Viking) |
