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National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
Christopher Bonanos
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caroline Fraser
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr
Jonathan Swift: His Life And His World
Leo Damrosch
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
George F. Kennan: An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis
How To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Sarah Bakewell
Cheever: A Life
Blake Bailey
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Patrick French
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer
Tim Jeal
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
Julie Phillips
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
de Kooning: An American Master
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
William Taubman
