1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

Angela’s Ashes

Frank McCourt

The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies. 40,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. First serial, The New Yorker….

Charles Ives: A Life in Music

Jan Swafford

Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

David Hajdu

Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography

Peter Conn

The Last Happy Occasion

Alan Shapiro