2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner

James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
Julie Phillips
James Tiptree, Jr. burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hard-edged, provocative short stories. Hailed as a brilliant masculine writer with a deep sympathy for his female characters, he penned such classics as Houston, Houston,…
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Shortlist

A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler
Jason Roberts

At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968
Taylor Branch

Flaubert: A Biography
Frederick Brown
