Thursday, December 26

National Book Critics Circle Award

1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerWeapons and HopeFreeman Dyson...Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBrothers and KeepersJohn Edgar WidemanAmazonSon of the Morning StarEvan S. ConnellAmazonThe Abandonment of the JewsDavid WymanAmazonThe Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural HistoryRobert DarntonAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe Dead and the LivingSharon OldsThe 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets. From the Trade Paperback edition....Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA WaveJohn AshberyAmazonGround Work: Before the WarRobert DuncanAmazonOvernight in the Guest House of the MysticDick AllenAmazonThe Other Side of the RiverCharles WrightAmazon
1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

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
1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerHabitations of the WordWilliam GassBrings together the author's reflections on literature, philosophy and the theory of language in pieces that examine a diversity of ideas and writers, including Emerson, Joyce, Dickens, and Pound...Amazon1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistHard Facts: Setting and Form in the American NovelPhillip FisherAmazonOccasional Prose: EssaysMary McCarthyAmazonOpera and Ideas: From Mozart to StraussPaul RobinsonAmazonPierrots on the Stage of Desire: 19th Century French Literary Artistis and Comic PantomimeRobert StoreyAmazon
1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Accidental TouristAnne Tyler#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating…One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this.” —The Washington Post In this irresistible novel, Anne Tyler explores the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, an...Amazon1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistLonesome DoveLarry McMurtryAmazonThe Old Forest and Other StoriesPeter TaylorAmazonThree Farmers on Their Way to a DanceRichard PowersAmazonWhite NoiseDon DeLilloAmazon
1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerCommon Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American FamiliesJ. Anthony LukasWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of...Amazon1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistDistant Neighbors: The Portrait of the MexicansAlan RidingAmazonHouseTracy KidderAmazonThe Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the WorldElaine ScarryAmazonThe Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient AthensEva KeulsAmazon
1985 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe Triumph of AchillesLouise Glück...Amazon1985 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistLate SettingsJames MerrillAmazonThe Lamplit AnswerGjertude SchnackenbergAmazonThe PastGalway KinnellAmazonWhat the Light Was LikeAmy ClampittAmazon
1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

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
1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerLess Than One: Selected EssaysJoseph BrodskyGenius . . . bringing ardent intelligence to bear upon poetry, politics and autobiography' Seamus Heaney Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays ...Amazon1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistA History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950: Vols. 5 & 6René WellekAmazonBohemian Paris: Culture, Politics and Boundaries of Bourgeois LifeJerrold SiegelAmazonThe Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its HistoryLeo BraudyAmazonThe Philosophical Disenfranchisement of ArtArthur DantoAmazon
1986 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerKate VaidenReynolds Price...Amazon1986 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistA Summons to MemphisPeter TaylorAmazonRoger’s VersionJohn UpdikeAmazonThe Beet QueenLouise ErdrichAmazonThe Moon PinnacleThomas WilliamsAmazon