2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
“Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never …
2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Shortlist

Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
T.J. Stiles

Dietrich and Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives
Karin Wieland translated by Shelley Frisch

Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
Terry Alford
