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1998 Awards

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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerA Beautiful MindSylvia NasarIn this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a N...Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistEverybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love StoryAmanda VaillAmazonKing of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American HeroDavid RemnickAmazonRocket Boys: A MemoirHomer H. Hickman Jr.AmazonTitan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.Ron ChernowAmazon
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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerVisions of Jazz: The First CenturyGary GiddinsAn outstanding voice in the field, the jazz critic for The Village Voice leads readers through the first century of the music in a voluminous, expert account of the great jazz artists past and present and their distinctive contributions. UP....Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistHip Hop AmericaNelson GeorgeAmazonOut of Sheer RageGeoff DyerAmazonShakespeare: The Invention of the HumanHarold BloomAmazonThe Sounds of PoetryRobert PinskyAmazon
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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Love of a Good WomanAlice Munro**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of wom...Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistBirds of AmericaLorrie MooreAmazonNo Lease on LifeLynne TillmanAmazonPreston FallsDavid GatesAmazonThe HoursMichael CunninghamAmazon
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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerWe Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from RwandaPhilip GourevichAn unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone i...Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistKing Leopold’s GhostAdam HochschildAmazonMany Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North AmericaIra BerlinAmazonThe Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of HumanityRoy PorterAmazonThe Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxf...
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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe Bird CatcherMarie PonsotIn 1998, Marie Ponsot was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, confirming the praise that has been bestowed on her by critics and peers--among them Eavan Boland and Carolyn Kizer (who are quoted on the back of the book jacket) and Amy...Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistLast Chance for the Tarzan HollerThylias MossAmazonSelf-EvidencePamela White HadasAmazonThe Autobiography of Red: A Novel in VerseAnn CarsonAmazonThieves of ParadiseYusef KomunyakaaAmazon
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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1998 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1998 Nebula - Novel WinnerThe Moon and the SunVonda N. McIntyreSelected as a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and nominated for a Nebula Award, a novel of alternative history features a sea monster raised by King Louis XIV that portends a frightening future. Reprint....Amazon1998 Nebula - Novel ShortlistA Game of ThronesGeorge R. R. MartinAmazonAncient ShoresJack McDevittAmazonBellwetherConnie WillisAmazonCity on FireWalter Jon WilliamsAmazonKing's DragonKate ElliottAmazonMemoryLois McMaster BujoldAmazon
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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

1998 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

1998 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerThe TroikaStepan ChapmanBeneath the glare of three purple suns, three travelers - an old Mexican woman, an automated jeep, and a brontosaurus - have trudged across a desert for hundreds of years. They do not know if the desert has an end, and if it does, what they might find ther...Amazon1998 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistActs of ConscienceWilliam BartonAmazonAn Exchange of HostagesSusan R. MatthewsAmazonCarlucci's HeartRichard Paul RussoAmazonMother GrimmCatherine WellsAmazonOpalite MoonDenise VitolaAmazon
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