1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner
Young Men and Fire
Norman Maclean
On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were…
1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist
Breaking the Maya Code
Michael D. Coe
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America
Donald Katz
