2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

de Kooning: An American Master

Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

Traces the career of abstract expressionist Willem De Kooning, discussing his personal life with wife Elaine Fried, and his battle with alcoholism and Alzheimer’s disease….

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

Chronicles: Vol. 1

Bob Dylan

Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart

John Guy

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt