2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner
Cheever: A Life
Blake Bailey
John Cheever was one of the foremost chroniclers of post-war America, a peerless writer who on his death in 1982 left some of the best short stories of the twentieth century, a number of highly acclaimed novels, and a private journal that runs to an astoni…
2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Shortlist
Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone
Stanislao G. Pugliese
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor
Brad Gooch
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Martha A. Sandweiss
