1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941

Arnold Rampersad

Exhaustively researched in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University’s Beinecke Library, and featuring fifty illustrations per volume, this anniversary edition will offer a new ……

Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865

Joseph Frank

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale

Art Spiegelman

Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter

Theodore Rosengarten

Velázquez: Painter and Courtier

Jonathan Brown