2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
Janet Browne
2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
Adam Sisman
2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Herbert P. Bix
1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
Henry Wiencek
1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar
1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Ernie Pyle’s War
James Tobin
1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Angela’s Ashes
Frank McCourt
1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
Robert Polito
1994 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Shot in the Heart
Mikal Gilmore
1993 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Genet
Edmund White
1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World
Carol Brightman
1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Patrimony: A True Story
Philip Roth
1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert Caro
1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
Geoffrey C. Ward
1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann
1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Chaucer: His Life, His Work, His World
Donald Howard
1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941
Arnold Rampersad
1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Henry James: A Life
Leon Edel
1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-59
Joseph Frank
1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography
