1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley

This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that …

Mating

Norman Rush

The Gold Bug Variations

Richard Powers

Typical American

Gish Jen

Wartime Lies

Louis Begley