1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner

The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941
Arnold Rampersad
Exhaustively researched in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University’s Beinecke Library, and featuring fifty illustrations per volume, this anniversary edition will offer a new ……
1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Shortlist

Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
Joseph Frank

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
Art Spiegelman

Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
Theodore Rosengarten
