2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner

How To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Sarah Bakewell
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and exper…
2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Shortlist

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History
Yunte Huang

Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends
Tom Segev

The Killing of Crazy Horse
Thomas Powers
