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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1996 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1996 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerGod: A BiographyJack MilesThis is the task that Jack Miles—a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages—accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in God: A Biography....Amazon1996 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography ShortlistMozart: A LifeMaynard SolomonAmazonOrwell: The Authorized BiographyMichael SheldenAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerAngela’s AshesFrank McCourtThe author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies. 40,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. First serial, The New Yorker....Amazon1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistCharles Ives: A Life in MusicJan SwaffordAmazonLush Life: A Biography of Billy StrayhornDavid HajduAmazonPearl S. Buck: A Cultural BiographyPeter ConnAmazonThe Last Happy OccasionAlan ShapiroAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerFinding a FormWilliam Gass"Gass's commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein . . . the avant garde . . . the demands of autobiography; the Pulitzer Prize Commi...Amazon1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistArt for Art’s Sake and Literary LifeGene H. Bell-VilladaAmazonFame and FollyCynthia OzickAmazonThe Love Affair as a Work of ArtDan HofstadterAmazonThe True Story of the NovelMargaret Anne DoodyAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerWomen in Their BedsGina Berriault“In these 35 stories, one struggles to find a sentence that is anything less than jewel-box perfect.” —The New York Times Book Review Gina Berriault is known for the complexity and compassion with which she weaves her characters, and her stories are such m...Amazon1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistAbout SchmidtLouis BegleyAmazonDancing After HoursAndre DubusAmazonFrom BondageHenry RothAmazonThe Autobiography of My MotherJamaica KincaidAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerBad LandJonathan RabanJonathan Raban takes the reader on an enthralling journey into the least populated and least known region in the United States, Montana, and finds there the heart and soul of the country. Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the prairie and the ...Amazon1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAshes to AshesRichard KlugerAmazonHitler’s Willing ExecutionersDaniel GoldhagenAmazonThe Great BooksDavid DenbyAmazonThe Middle EastBernard LewisAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerSun Under WoodRobert HassRobert Hass demonstrates once again the unmistakable intelligence and original voice that have won him both literary acclaim and the affection of a broad general readership. Here Hass extends and deepens his ongoing explorations of nature and human history...Amazon1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistImagine the Angels of BreadMartín EspadaAmazonLoosestrifeStephen DunnAmazonMusic Minus OneJane ShoreAmazonThe VigilC.K. WilliamsAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1996 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1996 Nebula - Novel WinnerThe Terminal Experiment (serial title “Hobson's Choice“)Robert J. SawyerThis book provides insights on how emerging technosciences come together with new forms of governance and ethical questioning. Combining science and technologies and ethics approaches, it looks at the emergence of three key technoscientific domains - body ...Amazon1996 Nebula - Novel ShortlistBeggars and ChoosersNancy KressAmazonCaldé of the Long SunGene WolfeAmazonCelestisPaul ParkAmazonMetropolitanWalter Jon WilliamsAmazonMother of StormsJohn BarnesAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

1996 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

1996 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerHeadcrashBruce BethkeA winner of the Philip K. Dick Award offers a savagely funny look at life in the fast lane of the information super-highway, where a young computer programmer learns that no high-tech come-on can be trusted. Reissue....Amazon1996 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistCarlucci's EdgeRichard Paul RussoAmazonPermutation CityGreg EganAmazonReluctant VoyagersÉlisabeth VonarburgAmazonThe Color of DistanceAmy ThomsonAmazonVirtual DeathShale AaronAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1996 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1996 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerIndependence DayRichard FordIndependence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of extraordinary empathy and perception....Amazon1996 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistMr. Ives' ChristmasOscar HijuelosAmazonSabbath's TheaterPhilip RothAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1996 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1996 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After CommunismTina RosenbergThe Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe...Amazon1996 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistDarwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and The Meanings of LifeDaniel C. DennettAmazonMr. Wilson's Cabinet of WonderLawrence WeschlerAmazon