1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner
Samuel Johnson
W. Jackson Bate
A biographical study of the eighteenth-century lexicographer and critic combines narrative with psychological insights….
1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist
Coming Into the Country
John McPhee
Dispatches
Michael Herr
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Carl Sagan
