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June 3, 2007 by kevinstilley

National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

  • 2006: Lawrence Weschler – Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
  • 2005: William Logan – The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin
  • 2004: Patrick Neate – Where You’re At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet
  • 2003: Rebecca Solnit – River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
  • 2002: William H. Gass – Tests of Time
  • 2001: Martin Amis – The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
  • 2000: Cynthia Ozick – Quarrel & Quandary
  • 1999: Jorge Luis Borges – Selected Non-Fictions
  • 1998: Gary Giddins – Visions of Jazz: The First Century
  • 1997: Mario Vargas Llosa – Making Waves
  • 1996: William H. Gass – Finding a Form
  • 1995: Robert Darnton – The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
  • 1994: Gerald Early – The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
  • 1993: John Dizikes – Opera in America: A Cultural History
  • 1992: Garry Wills – Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
  • 1991: Lawrence L. Langer – Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
  • 1990: Arthur C. Danto – Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present
  • 1989: John Clive – Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
  • 1988: Clifford Geertz – Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
  • 1987: Edwin Denby – Dance Writings
  • 1986: Edward Hirsch – Wild Gratitude
  • 1985: William H. Gass – Habitations of the Word: Essays
  • 1984: Robert Hass – Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
  • 1983: John Updike – Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
  • 1982: Gore Vidal – The Second American Revolution and Other Essays
  • 1981: Virgil Thomson – A Virgil Thomson Reader
  • 1980: Helen Vendler – Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
  • 1979: Elaine Pagels – The Gnostic Gospels
  • 1978: Meyer Schapiro – Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2)
  • 1977: Susan Sontag – On Photography
  • 1976: Bruno Bettelheim – The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance and Importance of Fairy Tales
  • 1975: Paul Fussell – The Great War and Modern Memory

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June 3, 2007 by kevinstilley

National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

  • 2006: Troy Jollimore – Tom Thomson in Purgatory
  • 2005: Jack Gilbert – Refusing Heaven
  • 2004: Adrienne Rich – The School Among the Ruins
  • 2003: Susan Stewart – Columbarium
  • 2002: B.H. Fairchild – Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
  • 2001: Albert Goldbarth – Saving Lives
  • 2000: Judy Jordan – Carolina Ghost Woods
  • 1999: Ruth Stone – Ordinary Words
  • 1998: Marie Ponsot – The Bird Catcher
  • 1997: Charles Wright – Black Zodiac
  • 1996: Robert Hass – Sun Under Wood
  • 1995: William Matthews – Time and Money
  • 1994: Mark Rudman – Rider
  • 1993: Mark Doty – My Alexandria
  • 1992: Hayden Carruth – Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
  • 1991: Albert Goldbarth – Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
  • 1990: Amy Gerstler – Bitter Angel
  • 1989: Rodney Jones – Transparent Gestures
  • 1988: Donald Hall – That One Day
  • 1987: C.K. Williams – Flesh and Blood
  • 1986: Edward Hirsch – Wild Gratitude
  • 1985: Louise Gluck – The Triumph of Achilles
  • 1984: Sharon Olds – The Dead and the Living
  • 1983: James Merrill – The Changing Light at Sandover
  • 1982: Katha Pollitt – Antarctic Traveler
  • 1981: A.R. Ammons – A Coast of Trees
  • 1980: Frederick Seidel – Sunrise
  • 1979: Philip Levine – Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere
  • 1978: L. E. Sissman – Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman
  • 1977: Robert Lowell – Day by Day
  • 1976: Elizabeth Bishop – Geography III
  • 1975: John Ashberry – Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror

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June 3, 2007 by kevinstilley

National Book Critics Circle Awards – Biography and Autobiography

Memoir/Autobiography

  • 2006: Daniel Mendelsohn – The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
  • 2005: Francine du Plessix Gray – Them: A Memoir of Parents

Biography

  • 2006: Julie Phillips – James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
  • 2005: Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin – American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Biography/Autobiography

  • 2004: Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan – De Kooning: An American Master
  • 2003: William Taubman – Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
  • 2002: Janet Browne – Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II
  • 2001: Adam Sisman – Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson
  • 2000: Herbert P. Bix – Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
  • 1999: Henry Wiencek – The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
  • 1998: Sylvia Nasar – A Beautiful Mind
  • 1997: James Tobin – Ernie Pyle’s War: America’s Eyewitness to World War II
  • 1996: Frank McCourt – Angela’s Ashes
  • 1995: Robert Polito – Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
  • 1994: Mikal Gilmore – Shot in the Heart
  • 1993: Edmund White – Genet
  • 1992: Carol Brightman – Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World
  • 1991: Philip Roth – Patrimony: A True Story
  • 1990: Robert A. Caro – Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II
  • 1989: Geoffrey C. Ward – A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
  • 1988: Richard Ellman – Oscar Wilde
  • 1987: Donald R. Howard – Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
  • 1986: Theodore Rosengarten – Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
  • 1985: Leon Edel – Henry James: A Life
  • 1984: Joseph Frank – Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
  • 1983: Joyce Johnson – Minor Characters

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Autobiography, Awards, biography, memoir, NBCC Award

June 3, 2007 by kevinstilley

National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction

  • 2006: Simon Schama – Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
  • 2005: Svetlana Alexievich – Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
  • 2004: Diarmaid MacCulloch – The Reformation: A History
  • 2003: Paul Hendrickson – Sons of Mississippi
  • 2002: Samantha Power – A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
  • 2001: Nicholson Baker – Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
  • 2000: Ted Conover – Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
  • 1999: Jonathan Weiner – Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
  • 1998: Philip Gourevitch – We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
  • 1997: Anne Fadiman – The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
  • 1996: Jonathan Raban – Bad Land: An American Romance
  • 1995: Jonathan Harr – A Civil Action
  • 1994: Lynn H. Nicholas – The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
  • 1993: Alan Lomax – The Land Where the Blues Began
  • 1992: Norman Maclean – Young Men and Fire
  • 1991: Susan Faludi – Backlash: The Undeclared War Against America Women
  • 1990: Shelby Steele – The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
  • 1989: Michael Dorris – The Broken Cord
  • 1988: Taylor Branch – Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63,
  • 1987: Richard Rhodes – The Making of the Atomic Bomb
  • 1986: John W. Dower – War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
  • 1985: J. Anthony Lukas – Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
  • 1984: Freeman Dyson – Weapons and Hope
  • 1983: Seymour M. Hersh – The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
  • 1982: Robert Caro – The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  • 1981: Stephen Jay Gould – The Mismeasure of Man
  • 1980: Ronald Steel – Walter Lippmann and the American Century
  • 1979: Telford Taylor – Munich: The Price of Peace
  • 1978: Maureen Howard – Facts of Life
  • 1977: Walter Jackson Bate – Samuel Johnson
  • 1976: Maxine Hong Kingston – The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
  • 1975: R. W. B. Lewis – Edith Wharton: A Biography

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June 3, 2007 by kevinstilley

National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

2007: Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2006: Kiran Desai – The Inheritance of Loss
2005: E.L. Doctorow – The March
2004: Marilynne Robinson – Gilead
2003: Edward P. Jones – The Known World
2002: Ian McEwan – Atonement
2001: W.G. Sebald – Austerlitz
2000: Jim Crace – Being Dead
1999: Jonathan Lethem – Motherless Brooklyn
1998: Alice Munro – The Love of a Good Woman
1997: Penelope Fitzgerald – The Blue Flower
1996: Gina Berriault – Women in Their Beds
1995: Stanley Elkin – Mrs. Ted Bliss
1994: Carol Shields – The Stone Diaries
1993: Ernest J. Gaines – A Lesson Before Dying
1992: Cormac McCarthy – All the Pretty Horses
1991: Jane Smiley – A Thousand Acres
1990: John Updike – Rabbit at Rest
1989: E.L. Doctorow – Billy Bathgate
1988: Bharati Mukherjee – The Middleman and Other Stories
1987: Philip Roth – The Counterlife
1986: Reynolds Price – Kate Vaiden
1985: Anne Tyler – The Accidental Tourist
1984: Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine
1983: William Kennedy – Ironweed
1982: Stanley Elkin – George Mills
1981: John Updike – Rabbit Is Rich
1980: Shirley Hazzard – The Transit Of Venus
1979: Thomas Flanagan – The Year of the French
1978: John Cheever – The Stories of John Cheever
1977: Toni Morrison – Song Of Solomon
1976: John Gardner – October Light
1975: E.L. Doctorow – Ragtime

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