1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
Robert Polito
The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer’s psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father’s demise in an old people’s home, inventing a death …
1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Shortlist
Emerson: The Mind on Fire
Robert Richardson Jr.
Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence
John Hockenberry
The Liars’ Club
Mary Karr
