Saturday, November 23

National Book Critics Circle Award

1994 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1994 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1994 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Rape of EuropaLynn NicholasWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci t...Amazon1994 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistHow We DieSherwin NulandAmazonMy Own CountryAbraham VergheseAmazonStrange JusticeJane Mayer & Jill AbramsonAmazonThe Unredeemed CaptiveJohn DemosAmazon
1994 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1994 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1994 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerRiderMark RudmanWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (1995) Mark Rudman – poet, essayist, translator, and teacher – has consistently pursued questions of human relationship and identity, and in Rider he takes the poetry of autobiography and confessi...Amazon1994 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistSunday SkatersMary Jo SalterAmazonThe Simple TruthPhilip LevineAmazonWhat We CarryDorianne LauxAmazonWinter NumbersMarilyn HackerAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerSavage Art: A Biography of Jim ThompsonRobert PolitoThe art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a death ...Amazon1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistEmerson: The Mind on FireRobert Richardson Jr.AmazonMoving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of IndependenceJohn HockenberryAmazonThe Liars’ ClubMary KarrAmazonWalt Whitman’s AmericaDavid S. ReynoldsAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolution FranceRobert DarntonIn this remarkable book, Robert Darnton addresses one of the classic 'big questions' of history - what caused the French Revolution? - by beginning with a query of a different order, a more manageable one that can be answered: what did the ......Amazon1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAfter the FactClifford GeertzAmazonPaul Celan: Poet, Survivor, JewJohn FelstinerAmazonThe All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994Stanley CrouchAmazonThe Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets and PoetastersThomas M. DischAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerMrs. Ted BlissStanley ElkinElkin’s National Book Critics Circle Award–winning classic: The story of an elderly woman who suddenly becomes mixed up in a world of criminals and con artists After her beloved husband dies of cancer, Dorothy Bliss is consigned to a life of tedium, waitin...Amazon1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistGalatea 2.2Richard PowersAmazonIndependence DayRichard FordAmazonMooJane SmileyAmazonThe Tent of Orange MistPaul WestAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerA Civil ActionJonathan HarrThis true story of an epic courtroom showdown, where two of the nation's largest corporations were accused of causing the deaths of children from water contamination, was a #1 national bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Descri...Amazon1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for BooksNicholas BasbanesAmazonAll God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of ViolenceFox ButterfieldAmazonIn These Girls, Hope Is a MuscleMadeleine BlaisAmazonMr. Wilson’s Cabinet of WonderLawrence WeschlerAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerTime & MoneyWilliam MatthewsOffers the poet's observations on topics including time, music, loss, sports, and women...Amazon1995 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA Scattering of SaltsJames MerrillAmazonCortegeCarl PhillipsAmazonKyrieEllen Bryant VoigtAmazonThe Only WorldLynda HullAmazon
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
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
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