National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerMinor CharactersJoyce JohnsonJoyce Johnson was part of the extraordinary circle that included Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi and Hettie Jones, Gregory Corso, Robert Frank, Willem de Kooning and Frank Kline and was witness to the art and lives of these artists who formed the Beats, a movement t...Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistBlack Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett JustKenneth R. ManningAmazonEleniNicholas GageAmazonThe Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeth’sE. Fuller TorreyAmazonThomas CarlyleFred KaplanAmazon

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerWriting Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her WorldCarol BrightmanNow that we know the public was duped by an administration looking for politically saleable motives for a "pre-emptive" invasion of Iraq, the question is: Why did the US invade? Carol Brightman takes us through the various stages of the war, documenting th...Amazon1992 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistKissingerWalter IsaacsonAmazonLooking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post WolcottPaul HendricksonAmazonThe Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958Jack BeattyAmazonTrumanDavid McCulloughAmazon

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerPatrimony: A True StoryPhilip RothPatrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that ...Amazon1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistAnne Sexton: A BiographyDiane MiddlebrookAmazonMaus IIArt SpiegelmanAmazonThe Journals of John CheeverJohn CheeverAmazonThe Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius RamanujanRobert KanigelAmazon

1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerMeans of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert CaroIn Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years. Here, Johnson’s almost mythic personality—part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating—is seen at ...Amazon1990 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistA Hole in the WorldRichard RhodesAmazonRighteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. IckesT.H. WatkinsAmazonStrong Drink, Strong LanguageJohn EspeyAmazonThe Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918Patricia O’TooleAmazon

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerA First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin RooseveltGeoffrey C. WardIn this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from cloistered youth to the bri...Amazon1989 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistGlenn Gould: A Life and VariationsOtto FriedrichAmazonGod Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil WarBil GilbertAmazonRichard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American PoliticianRoger MorrisAmazonThis Boy’s Life: A MemoirTobias WolffAmazon

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerOscar WildeRichard Ellmann...Amazon1988 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistBorrowed Time: An AIDS MemoirPaul MonetteAmazonThe Letters of T.S. Eliot, 1909-1922Valerie EliotAmazonThe Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981Paul JayAmazonThree Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of InformationRobert WrightAmazon

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerChaucer: His Life, His Work, His WorldDonald HowardIn this award-winning biography, the editor of the most popular edition of The Canterbury Tales re-creates the public, private, and poetic life and times of this extraordinary man. 16-page photo insert....Amazon1987 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistAn American ChildhoodAnnie DillardAmazoned., Don’t Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. PerelmanPrudence CrowtherAmazonPrivate DomainPaul TaylorAmazonTimebends: A LifeArthur MillerAmazon

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerThe Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941Arnold RampersadExhaustively researched in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University's Beinecke Library, and featuring fifty illustrations per volume, this anniversary edition will offer a new ......Amazon1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistDostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865Joseph FrankAmazonMaus: A Survivor’s TaleArt SpiegelmanAmazonTombee: Portrait of a Cotton PlanterTheodore RosengartenAmazonVelázquez: Painter and CourtierJonathan BrownAmazon

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerHenry James: A LifeLeon EdelThis is the one-volume edition of a famous biography of Henry James, which includes new material. Born in America, Henry James was educated both there and in Europe before settling in London, where he was to spend most of his life, in 1876. His novels repr...Amazon1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistBrigham Young: American MosesLeonard ArringtonAmazonGiacometti: A BiographyJames LordAmazonLouise BoganElizabeth FrankAmazonVisible Light: Four Creative BiographiesMichael LesyAmazon

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerDostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-59Joseph Frank...Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistHome Before DarkSusan CheeverAmazonJosephine HerbstElinor LangerAmazonOne Writer’s BeginningsEudora WeltyAmazonWalt Whitman: The Making of a PoetPaul ZweigAmazon