National Book Critics Circle Award
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The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle
(NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English.
The main awards fall into six categories: Fiction
, Nonfiction, Poetry
, Memoir
/Autobiography
, Biography
, and Criticism
. Awards are not given to titles that have been previously published in English, such as re-issues and paperback editions. They also do not "consider cookbooks, self help books (including inspirational literature), reference books, picture books or children's books." Titles are, however, eligible to be awarded if they are "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories above." The NBCC membership elects a 24 person all volunteer Board of Directors to nominate and judge books for the awards and guide all day-to-day activities.
Fiction
Nonfiction
Criticism
Biography
Autobiography
Poetry
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Fiction
General nonfiction
Criticism
Biography
Autobiography
Poetry
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Fiction
General nonfiction
Autobiography
Biography
Poetry
Criticism
The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Fiction
General nonfiction
Autobiography
Biography
Poetry
Criticism
The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
National Book Critics Circle
The National Book Critics Circle is an American tax-exempt organization for active book reviewers. Its flagship is the National Book Critics Circle Award....
(NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English.
The main awards fall into six categories: Fiction
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
, Nonfiction, Poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
, Memoir
Memoir
A memoir , is a literary genre, forming a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir set out below...
/Autobiography
Autobiography
An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
, Biography
Biography
A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...
, and Criticism
Criticism
Criticism is the judgement of the merits and faults of the work or actions of an individual or group by another . To criticize does not necessarily imply to find fault, but the word is often taken to mean the simple expression of an objection against prejudice, or a disapproval.Another meaning of...
. Awards are not given to titles that have been previously published in English, such as re-issues and paperback editions. They also do not "consider cookbooks, self help books (including inspirational literature), reference books, picture books or children's books." Titles are, however, eligible to be awarded if they are "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories above." The NBCC membership elects a 24 person all volunteer Board of Directors to nominate and judge books for the awards and guide all day-to-day activities.
2010
The 2010 winners were announced March 10, 2011. (winners in bold)Fiction
- Jennifer EganJennifer EganJennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction....
, A Visit From the Goon SquadA Visit From the Goon SquadA Visit From the Goon Squad is a work of fiction by American author Jennifer Egan. It won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...
(Knopf) - Jonathan FranzenJonathan FranzenJonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His third novel, The Corrections , a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...
, Freedom (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) - David GrossmanDavid GrossmanDavid Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have won numerous prizes.He is also a noted activist and critic of Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Yellow Wind, his non-fiction study of the life of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied...
, To The End Of The LandTo the End of the LandTo the End of the Land is a 2008 novel by Israeli writer David Grossman depicting the emotional strains that family members of soldiers experience when their loved ones are deployed into combat...
(Knopf) - Hans KeilsonHans KeilsonHans Alex Keilson was a Jewish German/Dutch novelist, poet, psychoanalyst, and child psychologist. He was best known for his novels set during the Second World War, during which he was an active member of the Dutch resistance....
, Comedy In A Minor Key (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) - Paul MurrayPaul Murray (author)Paul Murray is an Irish novelist, the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes and Skippy Dies.-Biography:Murray was born in Dublin in 1975, the son of a professor of Anglo-Irish Drama in UCD and a teacher mother. Murray attended Blackrock College in south Dublin, an experience that would...
, Skippy DiesSkippy DiesSkippy Dies is a 2010 tragicomic novel by Paul Murray. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards, longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.-Plot:...
(Faber & Faber)
Nonfiction
- Barbara DemickBarbara DemickBarbara Demick is an American journalist. She is currently Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood...
, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North KoreaNothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North KoreaNothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea is a part-novelization of interviews with refugees from Chongjin, North Korea, written by Los Angeles Times journalist Barbara Demick. In 2010 the book was awarded the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction...
(Spiegel & Grau) - S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American (Scribner)
- Jennifer Homans, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet (Random )
- Siddhartha MukherjeeSiddhartha MukherjeeSiddhartha Mukherjee is an Indian-born American physician, scientist and writer. He authored the 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction...
, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner ) - Isabel WilkersonIsabel WilkersonIsabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.-Biography:...
, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Random)
Criticism
- Elif BatumanElif BatumanElif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist.She won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.-Life:Born in New York to Turkish parents, she grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard College, and received her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, where she...
, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - Terry CastleTerry CastleTerry Castle is an American literary scholar. Once described by Susan Sontag as "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today," has published eight books, including the anthology The Literature of Lesbianism, which won the Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award...
, The Professor and Other Writings (Harper ) - Clare Cavanagh, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West (Yale University Press)
- Susie Linfield, The Cruel Radiance (University of Chicago Press)
- Ander MonsonAnder Monson-Life:He was raised in Houghton, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. His mother's death when he was seven years old is reflected in the themes of his later fiction. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois...
, Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir (Graywolf)
Biography
- Sarah Bakewell, How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne (Other Press)
- Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham: A Biography (Random House)
- Yunte Huang, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story Of The Honorable Detective And His Rendezvous With American History (Norton)
- Thomas PowersThomas PowersThomas Powers is an author, and an intelligence expert.He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 together with Lucinda Franks for his articles on Weatherman member Diana Oughton...
, The Killing Of Crazy Horse (Knopf) - Tom SegevTom SegevTom Segev is an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He is associated with Israel's so-called New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives.-Early life:Segev was born in Jerusalem in 1945...
, Simon Wiesenthal: The Lives And Legends (Doubleday)
Autobiography
- Kai BirdKai BirdKai Bird is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist, best known for his biographies of political figures.-Personal life:Bird was born in 1951 in Eugene, Oregon. His father was a U.S. Foreign Service officer, and he spent his childhood in Jerusalem, Beirut, Dhahran, Cairo and Bombay...
, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 (Scribner) - David Dow, The Autobiography of an Execution (Twelve)
- Christopher HitchensChristopher HitchensChristopher Eric Hitchens is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the...
, Hitch-22: A Memoir (Twelve) - Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Hiroshima in the Morning (Feminst Press)
- Patti SmithPatti SmithPatricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses....
, Just KidsJust KidsJust Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on January 19, 2010. In the book, Smith documents her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe.-Critical reception:Just Kids won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2010...
(Ecco) - Darin StraussDarin StraussDarin Strauss is an American writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Strauss's memoir Half a Life won the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for memoir/autobiography.-Biography:...
, Half a Life (McSweeney’s)
Poetry
- Anne CarsonAnne CarsonAnne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....
, Nox (New Directions) - Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City (Princeton University Press)
- Terrance HayesTerrance HayesTerrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry...
, Lighthead (Penguin Poets) - Kay RyanKay RyanKay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. Ryan was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate, from 2008 to 2010...
, The Best of It (Grove) - C.D. Wright, One With Others (Copper Canyon)
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
- Sarah L. Courteau
- William DeresiewiczWilliam DeresiewiczWilliam Deresiewicz , an associate professor of English at Yale University until 2008, is a widely published literary critic. His criticism directed at a popular audience appears in The Nation, The American Scholar, the London Review of Books, and The New York Times...
- Ruth Franklin
- Kathryn HarrisonKathryn HarrisonKathryn Harrison is an American author.-Background and education:Harrison's maternal grandparents raised her in Los Angeles, California...
- Parul SehgalParul SehgalParul Sehgal is an Indian American literary critic and Senior Editor at Publishers Weekly. Her reviews are also published in the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, the Literary Review, O Magazine, The Plain Dealer, The Irish Times, and Time Out New York.Sehgal is notable for winning the...
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
- Dalky Archive Press
2009
The 2009 winners were announced March 11, 2010 (winners in bold)Fiction
- Bonnie Jo CampbellBonnie Jo CampbellBonnie Jo Campbell is an American novelist, and short story writer.-Biography:Campbell attended Comstock High School , and received an B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1984. From Western Michigan University, she received an MA in mathematics in 1995 and an MFA in creative...
, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press) - Marlon James, The Book of Night Women (Riverhead)
- Michelle HunevenMichelle HunevenMichelle Huneven is a Californian novelist and journalist. Huneven was born and raised in Altadena, California, where she returned to live in 2001. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa.- Fiction :...
, Blame (Sarah Crichton Books/FSG) - Hilary MantelHilary MantelHilary Mary Mantel CBE , née Thompson, is an English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her work, ranging in subject from personal memoir to historical fiction, has been short-listed for major literary awards...
, Wolf HallWolf HallWolf Hall is a multi-award winning historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a fictionalized biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex in the court of Henry VIII of...
(Holt) - Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Knopf)
General nonfiction
- Wendy DonigerWendy DonigerWendy Doniger is an American Indologist and Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee on Social Thought...
, The Hindus: An Alternative History (Penguin Press) - Greg GrandinGreg GrandinGreg Grandin is an American historian, and professor of history at New York University. He is author of a number of books, including Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History, as well as for the National Book Award...
, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books) - Richard HolmesRichard Holmes (biographer)Richard Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.-Biography:...
, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon) - Tracy KidderTracy KidderJohn Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the 1981 nonfiction narrative, The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation...
, Strength in What Remain (Random House) - William T. VollmannWilliam T. VollmannWilliam Tanner Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, short story writer, essayist and winner of the National Book Award...
, ImperialImperial (book)Imperial is a 2009 study of south-east California by American author William T. Vollmann. The product of over a decade's research, the 1,344-page published text is Vollmann's longest single-volume work. The book is divided into thirteen sections and explores the history, economics and geography of...
(Viking)
Criticism
- Eula BissEula BissEula Biss is an American non-fiction writer.She won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.She is a Guggenheim Fellow....
, Notes From No Man's Land: American Essays (Graywolf Press) - Stephen BurtStephen BurtStephen Burt is a literary critic, poet, and a professor who teaches at Harvard University.-Elliptical Poetry:Burt received significant attention for coining the term "elliptical poetry" in a 1998 book review of Susan Wheeler's book, Smokes, in Boston Review magazine...
, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (Graywolf Press) - Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (Norton)
- David HajduDavid HajduDavid Hajdu is an American columnist, author and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the music critic for The New Republic....
, Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture (Da Capo Press) - Greg Milner, Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (Faber)
Biography
- Blake BaileyBlake BaileyBlake Bailey is an American writer. He has written biographies of Richard Yates and John Cheever, and is the editor of the Library of America omnibus editions of Cheever's stories and novels.-Personal:...
, Cheever: A Life (Knopf) - Brad GoochBrad GoochBrad Gooch is an American writer.-Biography:Born and raised in Kingston, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Columbia University with a bachelors in 1973 and a doctorate in 1986....
, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (Little, Brown) - Benjamin MoserBenjamin MoserBenjamin Moser is an American writer who lives in Utrecht, Netherlands with Arthur Japin and Lex Jansen since 2002.-Biography:...
, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Oxford University Press) - Stanislao G. Pugliese, Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Martha A. Sandweiss, Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (Penguin Press)
Autobiography
- Diana AthillDiana AthillDiana Athill OBE is a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the most important writers of the 20th century.-Life and writings:...
, Somewhere Towards the End (Norton) - Debra Gwartney, Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Mary KarrMary KarrMary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist. She rose to fame in 1995 with the publication of her bestselling memoir The Liars' Club...
, Lit (Harper) - Kati MartonKati MartonKati Marton is a Hungarian-American author and journalist. Her career has included reporting for ABC News as a foreign correspondent and National Public Radio, where she started as a production assistant 1971 in her 20s, as well as print journalism and writing a number of books.She is the former...
, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America (Simon & Schuster) - Edmund WhiteEdmund WhiteEdmund Valentine White III is an American author and literary critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.- Life and work :...
, City Boy ( Bloomsbury)
Poetry
- Rae ArmantroutRae ArmantroutRae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies...
, VersedVersedVersed is a book of poetry written by Rae Armantrout and published by Wesleyan University Press in 2009 . It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.-Awards:...
(Wesleyan) - Louise GlückLouise GlückLouise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
, A Village Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - D. A. PowellD. A. Powell-Life and career:Powell lived in various places growing up, then graduated high school from Lindhurst High School in Linda, California. He then worked in a number of jobs before eventually settling in Santa Rosa, California, where he attended Sonoma State University. He earned a bachelor's degree...
, Chronic (Graywolf Press) - Eleanor Ross TaylorEleanor Ross TaylorEleanor Ross Taylor is an American poet who has published six collections from 1960 to 2009. Her work received little recognition until 1998, but since then has received several of the major poetry prizes...
, Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008 (Louisiana State University Press) - Rachel ZuckerRachel ZuckerRachel Zucker is an American poet born in New York City in 1971. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently, Museum of Accidents . She also co-edited the book Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections with fellow poet, Arielle Greenberg...
, Museum of Accidents (Wave Books)
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
- Joan AcocellaJoan AcocellaJoan B. Acocella is an American journalist who is the dance and book critic for The New Yorker. She has written several books on dance, literature, and psychology....
- Michael Antman
- William DeresiewiczWilliam DeresiewiczWilliam Deresiewicz , an associate professor of English at Yale University until 2008, is a widely published literary critic. His criticism directed at a popular audience appears in The Nation, The American Scholar, the London Review of Books, and The New York Times...
- Donna Seaman
- Wendy Smith
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
- Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
2008
The 2008 winners were announced March 12, 2009 (winners in bold).Fiction
- Roberto BolañoRoberto BolañoRoberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999 he won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes , and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes...
, 26662666 (novel)2666 is the penultimate novel written by Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño. Released in 2004, it depicts the unsolved and ongoing serial murders of Ciudad Juárez , the Eastern Front in World War II, and the breakdown of relationships and careers...
. (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) - Aleksandar HemonAleksandar HemonAleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American fiction writer. He is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant. He has written four acclaimed books: Love and Obstacles: Stories , The Lazarus Project: A Novel , which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle...
, The Lazarus ProjectThe Lazarus Project (novel)The Lazarus Project is a novel by Bosnian fiction writer and journalist Aleksandar Hemon. It was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. It was the winner of the inaugural Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in 2010.-External links:*, book...
, (Riverhead) - Marilynne RobinsonMarilynne Robinson-Biography:Robinson was born and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, and did her undergraduate work at Pembroke College, the former women's college at Brown University, receiving her B.A., magna cum laude in 1966, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Ph.D...
, HomeHome (novel)Home is a novel written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Marilynne Robinson. Published in 2008, it is Robinson's third novel, preceded by Housekeeping in 1980 and Gilead in 2004....
, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) - Elizabeth StroutElizabeth StroutElizabeth Strout is an American author of fiction.She was born in Portland, Maine, and was raised in small towns in Maine and New Hampshire. After graduating from Bates College, she spent a year in Oxford, England, followed by studies at law school for another year...
, Olive KitteridgeOlive KitteridgeOlive Kitteridge is a collection of stories by American author Elizabeth Strout. It covers 13 connected short stories about a woman named Olive and her immediate family and friends in the town of Crosby in coastal Maine. It is also known as On the Coast of Maine...
, (Random House) - M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, (West Virginia University Press)
General nonfiction
- Drew Gilpin FaustDrew Gilpin FaustCatherine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian, college administrator, and the president of Harvard University. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvard's president and the university's 28th president overall. Faust is the fifth woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university, and...
, This Republic of Suffering, (Knopf) - Dexter FilkinsDexter FilkinsDexter Price Filkins is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The New York Times. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his dispatches from Afghanistan, and he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 as part of a team of New York Times...
, The Forever War, (Knopf) - George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776. (Oxford University Press)
- Allan LichtmanAllan LichtmanAllan Jay Lichtman is an American political historian who teaches at American University in Washington, D.C. He ran in the 2006 Maryland senate race for the seat vacated by Paul Sarbanes.-Early life, education, and family:...
, White Protestant Nation, (Atlantic) - Jane MayerJane MayerJane Mayer is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1995...
, The Dark SideThe Dark Side (book)The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals is a non-fiction book written by Jane Mayer concerning the War on Terrorism, Islamic radicalism, and the "closed-doors domestic struggle over whether" U.S. President George W. Bush should have "limitless...
, (Doubleday)
Autobiography
- Rick BassRick BassRick Bass is an American writer and an environmental activist.-Life:Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S., the son of a geologist, and he studied petroleum geology at Utah State University. He grew up in Houston, and started writing short stories on his lunch breaks while working as a petroleum...
, Why I Came West, (Houghton Mifflin) - Helene CooperHelene CooperHelene Cooper is a Liberian-born American journalist who is a White House correspondent for the New York Times. Before that, she was the paper's diplomatic correspondent in Washington, D.C....
, The House on Sugar Beach, (Simon and Schuster) - Honor MooreHonor MooreHonor Moore is an American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays.She is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir; two works of nonfiction, The White Blackbird and The Bishop's Daughter; and the play Mourning Pictures, which was produced on Broadway and...
, The Bishop’s Daughter, (W.W. Norton) - Andrew X. PhamAndrew X. Phamtrained and graduated from UCLA as an aerospace engineer. He worked at United Airlines as an aircraft engineer before switching career to become a writer while pursuing dual graduate degrees, M.B.A and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, specializing in orbital debris...
, The Eaves of Heaven, (Harmony Books) - Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, (Algonquin)
Biography
- Steve CollSteve CollSteve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and writer. Coll is currently president and CEO of the New America Foundation. Prior to assuming that post on September 17, 2007, Coll was a staff writer for The New Yorker, and served as managing editor of The Washington Post from 1998 to...
, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, (Penguin Press) - Patrick FrenchPatrick FrenchPatrick French is a British writer and historian, based in London. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he studied English and American literature....
, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. NaipaulThe World Is What It IsThe World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French.The biography has been extensively reviewed. including by his former acolyte Paul Theroux....
, (Knopf) - Paul J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, (Amistad)
- Annette Gordon-ReedAnnette Gordon-ReedAnnette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson. Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. She is Professor of Law and History at Harvard, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe...
, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American FamilyThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American FamilyThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family is a 2008 book by American historian Annette Gordon-Reed. It recounts the history of four generations of the African-American Hemings family, from their African and Virginia origins until the 1826 death of Thomas Jefferson, their master, Sally...
, (Norton) - Brenda WineappleBrenda WineappleBrenda Wineapple is an American nonfiction writer, literary critic, and essayist. Her books include White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Hawthorne: A Life; Sister Brother Gertrude and Leo Stein; and Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner...
, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (Knopf)
Poetry
- Juan Felipe HerreraJuan Felipe HerreraJuan Felipe Herrera is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist.The only son of María de la Luz Quintana and Felipe Emilio Herrera, the three were campesinos living from crop to crop, and from tractor to trailer to tents on the roads of the San Joaquín Valley, Southern...
, Half the World in Light, (University of Arizona Press) - Devin Johnston, Sources, (Turtle Point Press)
- August KleinzahlerAugust Kleinzahler-Life and career:Until he was 11, he went to school in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where he grew up. He then commuted to the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, graduating in 1967. He wrote poetry from this time, inspired by Keats and Kenneth Rexroth translations, among other works...
, Sleeping it Off in Rapid City, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) - Pierre Martory (trans. John AshberyJohn AshberyJohn Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...
), The Landscapist, (Sheep Meadow Press) - Brenda ShaughnessyBrenda Shaughnessy-Life:She grew up in Southern California. She received her B.A. in literature and women's studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and M.F.A...
, Human Dark with Sugar, (Copper Canyon Press)
Criticism
- Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, (Metropolitan Books)
- Vivian GornickVivian GornickVivian Gornick is an American critic, essayist, and memoirist. For many years she wrote for the Village Voice. She currently teaches writing at The New School. For the 2007-2008 academic year, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University...
, The Men in My Life. (Boston Review/MIT) - Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One Of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, (Doubleday)
- Seth LererSeth LererProfessor Seth Lerer is Dean of Arts and Humanities and Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California at San Diego. He had previously held the Avalon Foundation Professorship in Humanities at Stanford University...
, Children’s Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter, (University of Chicago Press) - Reginald Shepard, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, (University of Michigan Press)
The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
- Michael Antman
- Ron CharlesRon CharlesRon Charles is deputy editor and a weekly fiction critic of The Washington Post "Book World", the book review section of the Post...
- Kathryn HarrisonKathryn HarrisonKathryn Harrison is an American author.-Background and education:Harrison's maternal grandparents raised her in Los Angeles, California...
- Laila LalamiLaila LalamiLaila Lalami is a Moroccan American novelist and essayist.Lalami was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco, where she earned her B.A. in English from Université Mohammed V. In 1991, she received a British Council fellowship to study in England, and she went on to complete a M.A. in Linguistics at...
- Todd Shy
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
- PEN American CenterPEN American CenterPEN American Center , founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. The Center has a membership of 3,300 writers, editors, and translators...
2007
The 2007 award winners (bold) were announced on March 6, 2008.Fiction
- Vikram ChandraVikram ChandraVikram Chandra is an Indian writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book....
, Sacred GamesSacred Games (novel)Sacred Games is a book by Vikram Chandra published in 2006.It has received -Plot summary:Sacred Games combines the ambition of a 19th-century social novel with a cops-and-Bhais detective thriller...
(HarperCollins) - Junot DíazJunot DíazJunot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer and creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience...
, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a best-selling novel written by Dominican author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey where Díaz was raised and deals explicitly with his ancestral homeland's experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo...
(Riverhead) - Hisham MatarHisham MatarHisham Matar is a Libyan author. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Matar’s essays have appeared in the Asharq Alawsat, The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and The New York Times. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was published on...
, In the Country of MenIn the Country of MenIn the Country of Men is the debut novel from Libyan author Hisham Matar, first published in 2006 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books. It was nominated for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. It has so far been translated into 22 languages and was awarded the 2007 Royal...
(Dial Press) - Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
, The Gravedigger's DaughterThe Gravedigger's DaughterThe Gravedigger's Daughter is a 2007 novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It is her 36th published novel. The novel was based on the life of Oates's grandmother, whose father, a gravedigger settled in rural America, injured his wife, threatened his daughter, and then committed suicide...
(Ecco) - Marianne WigginsMarianne WigginsMarianne Wiggins is an American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. She has won the Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.- Biography :...
, The Shadow Catcher (Simon and Schuster)
General nonfiction
- Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism (Hill & Wang)
- Daniel Walker HoweDaniel Walker HoweDaniel Walker Howe is a historian of the early national period of American history and specializes in the intellectual and religious history of the United States. He is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University in England and Professor of History Emeritus at the University...
, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848 (Oxford University Press) - Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the PresentMedical ApartheidMedical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present is a 2007 book by Harriet A. Washington. It is a history of medical experimentation on African Americans...
(Doubleday) - Tim WeinerTim WeinerTim Weiner is a New York Times reporter, author of two books and co-author of a third, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award...
, Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (Doubleday) - Alan WeismanAlan WeismanAlan H. Weisman is an American author, professor, and journalist.- Education and career :Weisman holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in literature from Northwestern University...
, The World Without UsThe World Without UsThe World Without Us is a non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by American journalist Alan Weisman and published by St. Martin's Thomas Dunne Books. It is a book-length expansion of Weisman's own February 2005 Discover...
(Thomas Dunne BKs/St. Martin’s)
Autobiography
- Joshua ClarkJoshua Clark-Hurricane Katrina:Clark's book Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in a Disaster Zone was a National Book Critics Circle nominee in the category of Memoir/Autobiography. Clark, who lives in the Vieux Carré Pontalba Buildings overlooking Jackson Square, remained in New Orleans during...
, Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone (Free Press) - Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying (Knopf)
- Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
, The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 (Ecco) - Sara ParetskySara ParetskySara Paretsky is a modern American author of detective fiction.-Life and career:Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa and raised in Kansas, graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in...
, Writing in an Age of Silence (Verso) - Anna PolitkovskayaAnna PolitkovskayaAnna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist, author, and human rights activist known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and then-President of Russia Vladimir Putin...
, Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia (Random House)
Biography
- Tim JealTim JealTim Jeal is a British novelist, and biographer of notable Victorian men. His publications include biographies of Baden-Powell, Livingstone and his most recent, Henry Morton Stanley . In 2004 his memoir Swimming with my Father was acclaimed and was shortlisted for the J.R...
, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (Yale University Press) - Hermione LeeHermione LeeHermione Lee, CBE is President of Wolfson College, Oxford and was lately Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of New College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.-Biography:Hermione Lee grew up in...
, Edith Wharton (Knopf) - Arnold RampersadArnold RampersadArnold Rampersad is a biographer and literary critic. The first volume of his Life Of Langston Hughes was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He was born in Trinidad and Tobago....
, Ralph Ellison (Knopf) - John RichardsonJohn Richardson (art historian)John Richardson is a British art historian and Picasso biographer.-Life and work:John Patrick Richardson was born as the elder son of Sir Wodehouse Richardson, D.S.O., K.C.B., Quarter-Master General in the Boer War, and founder of London and the British Empire's Army & Navy Stores...
, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932 (Knopf) - Claire TomalinClaire TomalinClaire Tomalin is an English biographer and journalist. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge.She was literary editor of the New Statesman and of the Sunday Times, and has written several noted biographies...
, Thomas Hardy (Penguin Press)
Poetry
- Mary Jo BangMary Jo Bang-Life:She grew up in Ferguson, Missouri. She graduated from Northwestern University, in Sociology, from the Polytechnic of Central London, and from Columbia University, with an M.F.A. She teaches at Washington University in St...
, Elegy (Graywolf) - Matthea HarveyMatthea HarveyMatthea Harvey is a contemporary American poet, writer and professor. She has published three collections, most recently, Modern Life , which earned her the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and a New York Times Notable Book...
, Modern Life (Graywolf) - Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking (Flood)
- Tom PickardTom PickardTom Pickard is a poet, radio and film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival....
, The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood) - Tadeusz RóżewiczTadeusz RózewiczTadeusz Różewicz is a Polish poet and writer.Różewicz belongs to the first generation born and educated after Poland regained its independence in 1918. His youthful poems were published in 1938...
, New Poems (Archipelago)
Criticism
- Joan AcocellaJoan AcocellaJoan B. Acocella is an American journalist who is the dance and book critic for The New Yorker. She has written several books on dance, literature, and psychology....
, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (Pantheon) - Julia AlvarezJulia ÁlvarezJulia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.Alvarez rose to...
, Once Upon a Quniceanera (Viking) - Susan FaludiSusan FaludiSusan C. Faludi is an American feminist, journalist and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee thought showed the "human costs of high finance".-Biographical...
, The Terror Dream (Metropolitan/Holt) - Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
- Brooke Allen
- Sam Anderson, book critic for New YorkNew York (magazine)New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
magazine - Ron CharlesRon CharlesRon Charles is deputy editor and a weekly fiction critic of The Washington Post "Book World", the book review section of the Post...
- Walter KirnWalter KirnWalter Kirn is an American novelist, literary critic, and essayist. His latest book is the 2009 memoir Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever.-Overview:...
- Adam KirschAdam KirschAdam Kirsch is an American poet and literary critic.-Early life and education:Kirsch is the son of lawyer, author, and biblical scholar Jonathan Kirsch, and a 1997 graduate of Harvard College.-Career:...
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
- Emilie Buchwald, writer, editor, and founding publisher of Milkweed EditionsMilkweed EditionsMilkweed Editions is an independent, non-profit publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Milkweed's goal is to make a positive impact on society through the transformative art of literature. Milkweed is sometimes called the largest independent, non-profit literary publisher in the United...
, in Minneapolis.
Fiction
| 2010 | Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.... |
A Visit from the Goon Squad A Visit From the Goon Squad A Visit From the Goon Squad is a work of fiction by American author Jennifer Egan. It won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction... |
| 2009 | Hilary Mantel Hilary Mantel Hilary Mary Mantel CBE , née Thompson, is an English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her work, ranging in subject from personal memoir to historical fiction, has been short-listed for major literary awards... |
Wolf Hall Wolf Hall Wolf Hall is a multi-award winning historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a fictionalized biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex in the court of Henry VIII of... |
| 2008 | Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999 he won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes , and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes... |
2666 2666 (novel) 2666 is the penultimate novel written by Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño. Released in 2004, it depicts the unsolved and ongoing serial murders of Ciudad Juárez , the Eastern Front in World War II, and the breakdown of relationships and careers... |
| 2007 | Junot Diaz Junot Díaz Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer and creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience... |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a best-selling novel written by Dominican author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey where Díaz was raised and deals explicitly with his ancestral homeland's experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo... |
| 2006 | Kiran Desai Kiran Desai Kiran Desai is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award... |
The Inheritance of Loss The Inheritance of Loss The Inheritance of Loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai. It was first published in 2006. It won a number of awards, including the Man Booker Prize for that year, the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007, and the 2006 Vodafone Crossword Book Award.It was written over a... |
| 2005 | E.L. Doctorow | The March The March (novel) The March is a 2005 historical fiction novel by E. L. Doctorow. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award/Fiction .-Plot summary:... |
| 2004 | Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Robinson -Biography:Robinson was born and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, and did her undergraduate work at Pembroke College, the former women's college at Brown University, receiving her B.A., magna cum laude in 1966, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Ph.D... |
Gilead Gilead (novel) Gilead is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson and published in 2004. It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. The novel is the fictional autobiography of the Reverend John Ames, an elderly congregationalist pastor in the small, secluded town... |
| 2003 | Edward P. Jones Edward P. Jones Edward Paul Jones is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel The Known World received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-Biography:... |
The Known World The Known World The Known World is a 2003 historical novel by Edward P. Jones. It was his first novel and second book. Set in antebellum Virginia, it examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free black people as well as by whites... |
| 2002 | Ian McEwan Ian McEwan Ian Russell McEwan CBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist and screenwriter, and one of Britain's most highly regarded writers. In 2008, The Times named him among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".... |
Atonement Atonement (novel) Atonement is a 2001 novel by British author Ian McEwan.On a fateful day, a young girl makes a terrible mistake that has life-changing effects for many people... |
| 2001 | W.G. Sebald | Austerlitz Austerlitz (novel) Austerlitz is the final novel of W. G. Sebald, published in 2001. The book received the National Book Critics Circle Award.-Plot summary:... |
| 2000 | Jim Crace Jim Crace James "Jim" Crace is a contemporary English writer. The winner of numerous awards, Crace also has a large popular following. He currently lives in the Moseley area of Birmingham with his wife... |
Being Dead Being Dead (novel) Being Dead is a novel by the English writer Jim Crace, published in 1999.Its principal characters are married zoologists Joseph and Celice and their daughter Syl. The story tells of how Joseph and Celice, on a day trip to the dunes where they met as students, are murdered by an opportunistic thief... |
| 1999 | Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. It was followed by three more science fiction novels... |
Motherless Brooklyn Motherless Brooklyn Motherless Brooklyn is a Jonathan Lethem detective story set in Brooklyn and published in 1999. Lethem's protagonist, Lionel Essrog, has Tourette syndrome, a disorder marked by involuntary tics... |
| 1998 | Alice Munro Alice Munro Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize... |
The Love of a Good Woman The Love of a Good Woman The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998.The eight stories of this collection deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary... |
| 1997 | Penelope Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Early life:... |
The Blue Flower |
| 1996 | Gina Berriault Gina Berriault Gina Berriault , was an American novelist and short story writer.Berriault was born in Long Beach, California, to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents... |
Women in Their Beds Women in Their Beds Women in Their Beds is a short story collection by Gina Berriault. It received the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 1997 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.... |
| 1995 | Stanley Elkin Stanley Elkin Stanley Lawrence Elkin was a Jewish American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships.-Biography:... |
Mrs. Ted Bliss |
| 1994 | Carol Shields Carol Shields Carol Ann Shields, CC, OM, FRSC, MA was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.-Biography:Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois... |
The Stone Diaries The Stone Diaries The Stone Diaries is a 1993 award-winning novel by Carol Shields.It is the fictional autobiography about the life of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a seemingly ordinary woman whose life is marked by death and loss from the beginning, when her mother dies during childbirth... |
| 1993 | Ernest J. Gaines | A Lesson Before Dying A Lesson Before Dying A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993.-Point of view:The reader is given a unique outlook on the status of African Americans in the South, after World War II and before the Civil Rights Movement... |
| 1992 | Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road... |
All the Pretty Horses |
| 1991 | Jane Smiley Jane Smiley Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.-Biography:Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained an A.B. at Vassar College, then earned an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the... |
A Thousand Acres A Thousand Acres A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name.... |
| 1990 | John Updike John Updike John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.... |
Rabbit at Rest Rabbit At Rest Rabbit at Rest is a 1990 novel by John Updike. It is the fourth and final novel in a series beginning with Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; and Rabbit is Rich. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered... |
| 1989 | E.L. Doctorow | Billy Bathgate Billy Bathgate Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990 and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize... |
| 1988 | Bharati Mukherjee Bharati Mukherjee Bharati Mukherjee is an award-winning Indian-born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.-Background:... |
The Middleman and Other Stories The Middleman and Other Stories The Middleman and Other Stories, is a collection of short stories by Bharati Mukherjee. Stories from this volume are frequently anthologized, particularly Orbiting, A Wife's Story, and The Middleman... |
| 1987 | Philip Roth Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him a National Book Award... |
The Counterlife The Counterlife The Counterlife is a novel by the American author Philip Roth. It is the fourth full novel to feature the fictional novelist Nathan Zuckerman. When The Counterlife was published, Zuckerman had most recently appeared in a novella called The Prague Orgy, the epilogue to the omnibus volume Zuckerman... |
| 1986 | Reynolds Price Reynolds Price Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship... |
Kate Vaiden Kate Vaiden Kate Vaiden is a novel by Reynolds Price about a white woman from the American South who, after a teenage pregnancy, abandons her son shortly after giving birth to him and who does not get in touch with him for four decades.-Plot summary:... |
| 1985 | Anne Tyler Anne Tyler Anne Tyler is an American novelist.Tyler, the eldest of four children, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her father was a chemist and her mother a social worker. Her early childhood was spent in a succession of Quaker communities in the mountains of North Carolina and in Raleigh... |
The Accidental Tourist The Accidental Tourist The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction... |
| 1984 | Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich Karen Louise Erdrich, known as Louise Erdrich, is an author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American heritage. She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance... |
Love Medicine Love Medicine Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich’s first novel, published in 1984. Erdrich revised and expanded the novel for an edition issued in 1993, and this version was considered the definitive edition until 2009 when Erdrich re-edited it... |
| 1983 | William Kennedy | Ironweed Ironweed Ironweed is a 1983 novel by William Kennedy. It received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is the third book in Kennedy's Albany Cycle... |
| 1982 | Stanley Elkin Stanley Elkin Stanley Lawrence Elkin was a Jewish American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships.-Biography:... |
George Mills |
| 1981 | John Updike John Updike John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.... |
Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel of the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and concludes with Rabbit At Rest. There is also a related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered... |
| 1980 | Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard is an Australian author of fiction and nonfiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship in Great Britain and the United States... |
The Transit of Venus |
| 1979 | Thomas Flanagan Thomas Flanagan (writer) Thomas Flanagan was an American professor of English literature who specialized in Irish literature. He was also a successful novelist. Flanagan, who was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, graduated from Amherst College in 1945... |
The Year of the French |
| 1978 | John Cheever John Cheever John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy,... |
The Stories of John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer." It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction... |
| 1977 | Toni Morrison Toni Morrison Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved... |
Song of Solomon Song of Solomon (novel) Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by American author Toni Morrison. It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American male living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood.... |
| 1976 | John Gardner | October Light |
| 1975 | E.L. Doctorow | Ragtime Ragtime (novel) Ragtime is a 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow. This work of historical fiction is primarily set in the New York City area from about 1900 until the United States entry into World War I in 1917... |
General nonfiction
| 2010 | Isabel Wilkerson Isabel Wilkerson Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.-Biography:... |
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration |
| 2009 | Richard Holmes Richard Holmes (biographer) Richard Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.-Biography:... |
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science |
| 2008 | Dexter Filkins Dexter Filkins Dexter Price Filkins is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The New York Times. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his dispatches from Afghanistan, and he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 as part of a team of New York Times... |
The Forever War |
| 2007 | Harriet A. Washington | Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present Medical Apartheid Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present is a 2007 book by Harriet A. Washington. It is a history of medical experimentation on African Americans... |
| 2006 | Simon Schama Simon Schama Simon Michael Schama, CBE is a British historian and art historian. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University. He is best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC documentary series A History of Britain... |
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution Rough Crossings Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution is a history book and television series by Simon Schama.This gives an account of the history of thousands of enslaved African Americans who escaped to the British cause during the American War of Independence... |
| 2005 | Svetlana Alexievich Svetlana Alexievich Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and prose writer.-Life:Born in the Ukrainian town of Stanislav to a Belarusian father and a Ukrainian mother, she grew up in Belarus... |
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster is a 2005 book by Svetlana Alexievich. Alexievich was a journalist living in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, at the time of the Chernobyl disaster... |
| 2004 | Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch FBA, FSA, FR Hist S is Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford... |
The Reformation: A History The Reformation: A History The Reformation: A History is a history book by English historian Diarmaid MacCulloch. It is a survey of the European Reformation between 1490 and 1700. It won the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2003 Wolfson History Prize .... |
| 2003 | Paul Hendrickson | Sons of Mississippi |
| 2002 | Samantha Power Samantha Power Samantha Power is an Irish American academic, governmental official and writer. She is currently a Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and runs the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights as Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs on the Staff of the National Security Council... |
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide |
| 2001 | Nicholson Baker Nicholson Baker Nicholson Baker is a contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction. As a novelist, he often focuses on minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness, and has written about such provocative topics as voyeurism and planned assassination... |
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper |
| 2000 | Ted Conover Ted Conover Ted Conover is an American author and journalist. A graduate of Denver's Manual High School and Amherst College and a Marshall Scholar, he is also a distinguished writer-in-residence in the of New York University... |
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is a non-fiction book by Ted Conover, published in 2000. In the book, Conover, a journalist and university professor, recounts his experience of learning about the New York State correctional system by becoming a correctional officer for nearly a year... |
| 1999 | Jonathan Weiner Jonathan Weiner Jonathan Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment.... |
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior |
| 1998 | Philip Gourevitch Philip Gourevitch Philip Gourevitch , an American author and journalist, is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and the former editor of The Paris Review. His most recent book is The Ballad of Abu Ghraib , an account of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison under the American occupation... |
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda is a 1998 non-fiction book about the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1994, written by The New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch.... |
| 1997 | Anne Fadiman Anne Fadiman Anne Fadiman is an American author, editor and teacher.She is the daughter of the renowned literary, radio and television personality Clifton Fadiman and World War II correspondent and author Annalee Jacoby Fadiman... |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Sainyabuli Province, Laos, the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in... |
| 1996 | Jonathan Raban Jonathan Raban Jonathan Raban is a British travel writer and novelist. He has received several awards, such as the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers... |
Bad Land: An American Romance Bad Land: An American Romance Bad Land: An American Romance is a travelogue of Jonathan Raban's research, over a two year period, into the settlement of southeastern Montana in the early 20th century... |
| 1995 | Jonathan Harr Jonathan Harr Jonathan Harr is an American writer, best known for A Civil Action.Harr was born in Beloit, Wisconsin. He lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he has taught nonfiction writing at Smith College. He is a former staff writer at New England Monthly and has written for The New Yorker... |
A Civil Action A Civil Action A Civil Action is a 1998 American drama film starring John Travolta and Robert Duvall, based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Harr... |
| 1994 | Lynn H. Nicholas Lynn H. Nicholas Lynn H. Nicholas is the author of The Rape of Europa, an account of Nazi plunder of looted art treasures from occupied countries.She was born in New London, CT, and educated in the United States, Great Britain, and Spain.... |
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War The Rape of Europa The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War is a book and a subsequent documentary film of somewhat related material. The book, by Lynn H. Nicholas, explores the Nazi plunder of looted art treasures from occupied countries, and the consequences... |
| 1993 | Alan Lomax Alan Lomax Alan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.In his later career, Lomax advanced his theories of... |
The Land Where the Blues Began |
| 1992 | Norman Maclean Norman Maclean Norman Fitzroy Maclean was an American author and scholar noted for his books A River Runs Through It and Other Stories and Young Men and Fire .-Biography:... |
Young Men and Fire Young Men and Fire Young Men and Fire is a non-fiction book written by Norman Maclean. It is an account of Norman Maclean's research of the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 and the 13 men who died there. The fire occurred in Mann Gulch in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness on August 5... |
| 1991 | Susan Faludi Susan Faludi Susan C. Faludi is an American feminist, journalist and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee thought showed the "human costs of high finance".-Biographical... |
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women is the title of a 1991 nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Faludi, which argues for the existence of a media driven "backlash" against the feminist advances of the 1970s... |
| 1990 | Shelby Steele Shelby Steele -Awards:*National Book Critics Circle Award in the general non-fiction category for the book The Content of Our Character.*Emmy and Writers Guild Awards for his 1991 Frontline documentary film Seven Days in Bensonhurst.-External links:**... |
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America |
| 1989 | Michael Dorris Michael Dorris Michael Anthony Dorris was a prominent American novelist and scholar. During his career he presented himself as Native American and this identity was a key part of his professional activities and his public reputation; but its factuality is in doubt... |
The Broken Cord |
| 1988 | Taylor Branch Taylor Branch Taylor Branch is an American author and historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and some of the history of the American civil rights movement... |
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63 |
| 1987 | Richard Rhodes Richard Rhodes Richard Lee Rhodes is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non-fiction , including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb , and most recently, The Twilight of the Bombs... |
The Making of the Atomic Bomb The Making of the Atomic Bomb The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a book written by Richard Rhodes, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award... |
| 1986 | John W. Dower John W. Dower John W. Dower is an American author and historian.Dower earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Amherst College in 1959, and a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1972, where he studied under Albert M. Craig... |
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War |
| 1985 | J. Anthony Lukas J. Anthony Lukas Jay Anthony Lukas, aka J. Anthony Lucas , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, a classic study of race relations and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, as... |
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families Common Ground (book) Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families is a book by J. Anthony Lukas examining race relations in Boston, Massachusetts through the prism of desegregation busing... |
| 1984 | Freeman Dyson Freeman Dyson Freeman John Dyson FRS is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. Dyson is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists... |
Weapons and Hope |
| 1983 | Seymour M. Hersh | The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House |
| 1982 | Robert Caro Robert Caro Robert Allan Caro is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson... |
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
| 1981 | Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation.... |
The Mismeasure of Man The Mismeasure of Man The Mismeasure of Man , by Stephen Jay Gould, is a history and critique of the statistical methods and cultural motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that “the social and economic differences between human groups — primarily races, classes, and sexes — arise from inherited,... |
| 1980 | Ronald Steel Ronald Steel Ronald Lewis Steel is an award-winning American writer, historian, and professor. He is the author of the definitive biography of Walter Lippman.-Biography:Ronald Steel was born in 1931 in Morris, Illinois outside of Chicago... |
Walter Lippmann and the American Century |
| 1979 | Telford Taylor Telford Taylor Telford Taylor was an American lawyer best known for his role in the Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, his opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, and his outspoken criticism of U.S... |
Munich: The Price of Peace |
| 1978 | Maureen Howard Maureen Howard Maureen Howard is an American writer, editor, and lecturer known for her award-winning autobiography Facts of Life.She was born Maureen Kearns in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her father William L. Kearns worked for the State's Attorney's Office as a detective where he was assigned to the Harold Israel... |
Facts of Life |
| 1977 | Walter Jackson Bate Walter Jackson Bate Walter Jackson Bate was an American literary critic and biographer. He was born in Mankato, Minnesota.He is known for two Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies, of John Keats and Samuel Johnson... |
Samuel Johnson |
| 1976 | Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United... |
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts The Woman Warrior The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston, published by Vintage Books in 1975. Although there are many scholarly debates surrounding the official genre classification of the book, it can best be described as a work of creative non-fiction.Throughout... |
| 1975 | R. W. B. Lewis R. W. B. Lewis Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis was an American literary scholar and critic. He gained a wider reputation when he won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the first National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and a Bancroft Prize for his biography of Edith Wharton... |
Edith Wharton: A Biography |
Memoir/Autobiography
| 2010 | Darin Strauss Darin Strauss Darin Strauss is an American writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Strauss's memoir Half a Life won the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for memoir/autobiography.-Biography:... |
Half a Life Half a Life Half a Life may refer to:* Half a Life , a novel by V.S. Naipaul* Half A Life, a memoir by Darin Strauss* Half a Life , a movie by Romain Goupil* Half a Life , an anthology of science fiction by Kir Bulychev... |
| 2009 | Diana Athill Diana Athill Diana Athill OBE is a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the most important writers of the 20th century.-Life and writings:... |
Somewhere Towards the End |
| 2008 | Ariel Sabar | My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq |
| 2007 | Edwidge Danticat | Brother, I'm Dying Brother, I'm Dying Brother I'm Dying, published in 2007, is a family memoir by novelist Edwidge Danticat. In 2007, the title won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was also nominated for the National Book Award.-Book Summary:... |
| 2006 | Daniel Mendelsohn Daniel Mendelsohn -Life and career:Mendelsohn was born on Long Island. He graduated with a B. A. in Classics from the University of Virginia, which he attended from 1978 to 1982 as an Echols Scholar, and received his M. A. and Ph. D. in Classics from Princeton University, where he was a Mellon Fellow in the... |
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million is a non-fiction memoir by Daniel Mendelsohn, published in September 2006, which has received critical acclaim as a new perspective on Holocaust remembrance... |
| 2005 | Francine du Plessix Gray Francine du Plessix Gray -Biography:She was born September 25, 1930 in Warsaw, Poland where her father, Vicomte Bertrand Jochaud du Plessix, was a French diplomat - the commercial attaché. She spent her early years in Paris, where a milieu of mixed cultures and a multilingual family influenced her... |
Them: A Memoir of Parents |
Biography
| 2010 | Sarah Bakewell | How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne |
| 2009 | Blake Bailey Blake Bailey Blake Bailey is an American writer. He has written biographies of Richard Yates and John Cheever, and is the editor of the Library of America omnibus editions of Cheever's stories and novels.-Personal:... |
Cheever: A Life |
| 2008 | Patrick French Patrick French Patrick French is a British writer and historian, based in London. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he studied English and American literature.... |
The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French.The biography has been extensively reviewed. including by his former acolyte Paul Theroux.... |
| 2007 | Tim Jeal Tim Jeal Tim Jeal is a British novelist, and biographer of notable Victorian men. His publications include biographies of Baden-Powell, Livingstone and his most recent, Henry Morton Stanley . In 2004 his memoir Swimming with my Father was acclaimed and was shortlisted for the J.R... |
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer |
| 2006 | Julie Phillips Julie Phillips Julie Phillips is a writer who writes about books, film, and culture. In early adulthood she became interested in feminism. Her articles have appeared in Newsday, Mademoiselle, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. Her biography of James Tiptree, Jr., titled James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of... |
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon |
| 2005 | Kai Bird Kai Bird Kai Bird is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist, best known for his biographies of political figures.-Personal life:Bird was born in 1951 in Eugene, Oregon. His father was a U.S. Foreign Service officer, and he spent his childhood in Jerusalem, Beirut, Dhahran, Cairo and Bombay... and Martin J. Sherwin Martin J. Sherwin Martin J. Sherwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian. His scholarship mostly concerns the history of the development of atomic energy and nuclear proliferation.... |
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer |
Biography/Autobiography (discontinued)
| 2004 | Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan | De Kooning: An American Master |
| 2003 | William Taubman William Taubman William Chase Taubman is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003.... |
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
| 2002 | Janet Browne | Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II |
| 2001 | Adam Sisman | Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson |
| 2000 | Herbert P. Bix Herbert P. Bix Herbert P. Bix is the author of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, an acclaimed account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism.... |
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan |
| 1999 | Henry Wiencek Henry Wiencek Henry Wiencek is a prominent American historian and editor whose work has encompassed historically significant architecture, the Founding Fathers, various topics relating to slavery, and the Lego company... |
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White |
| 1998 | Sylvia Nasar Sylvia Nasar Sylvia Nasar is a German-born American economist and author, best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash, A Beautiful Mind.- Early life and history :... |
A Beautiful Mind A Beautiful Mind (book) A Beautiful Mind is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University... |
| 1997 | James Tobin | Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II |
| 1996 | Frank McCourt Frank McCourt Francis "Frank" McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, best known as the author of Angela’s Ashes, an award-winning, tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood.... |
Angela's Ashes Angela's Ashes Angela's Ashes is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt. The memoir consists of various anecdotes and stories of Frank McCourt's impoverished childhood and early adulthood in Brooklyn, New York and Limerick, Ireland, as well as McCourt's struggles with poverty, his father's... |
| 1995 | Robert Polito Robert Polito Robert Polito is an American academic, critic and poet. He has been Director of the Writing Program at The New School since 1992. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award and an Edgar Award for Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson.... |
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson |
| 1994 | Mikal Gilmore Mikal Gilmore Mikal Gilmore is an American writer. He was born "Michael Gilmore," but later changed the spelling of his name.-Life & career:Gilmore was born on February 9, 1951 in Portland, Oregon to Frank and Bessie Gilmore.... |
Shot in the Heart |
| 1993 | Edmund White Edmund White Edmund Valentine White III is an American author and literary critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.- Life and work :... |
Genet |
| 1992 | Carol Brightman | Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World |
| 1991 | Philip Roth Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him a National Book Award... |
Patrimony: A True Story Patrimony: A True Story Patrimony: A True Story is a memoir by American writer Philip Roth. It was first published by Simon & Schuster in 1991.-Summary:Roth's memoir recounts the life, decline, and death of his father, Herman Roth, from an inoperable brain tumor.-Composition:"In keeping with the unseemliness of my... |
| 1990 | Robert A. Caro | Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II |
| 1989 | Geoffrey C. Ward | A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt |
| 1988 | Richard Ellmann Richard Ellmann Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats... |
Oscar Wilde |
| 1987 | Donald R. Howard | Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World |
| 1986 | Theodore Rosengarten Theodore Rosengarten Theodore Rosengarten is an American historian.He graduated from Amherst College in 1966 with a BA, and received his PhD from Harvard for a thesis which became the National Book Award winning non-fiction All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, which was adapted into a one-man play starring... |
Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter |
| 1985 | Leon Edel Leon Edel Joseph Leon Edel was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.... |
Henry James: A Life |
| 1984 | Joseph Frank | Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859 |
| 1983 | Joyce Johnson Joyce Johnson Joyce Johnson is an American author of fiction and nonfiction who won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir Minor Characters about her relationship with Jack Kerouac.-Personal life:... |
Minor Characters |
Poetry
| 2010 | C.D. Wright | One With Others |
| 2009 | Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies... |
Versed |
| 2008 | Juan Felipe Herrera Juan Felipe Herrera Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist.The only son of María de la Luz Quintana and Felipe Emilio Herrera, the three were campesinos living from crop to crop, and from tractor to trailer to tents on the roads of the San Joaquín Valley, Southern... |
Half the World in Light |
| 2008 | August Kleinzahler August Kleinzahler -Life and career:Until he was 11, he went to school in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where he grew up. He then commuted to the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, graduating in 1967. He wrote poetry from this time, inspired by Keats and Kenneth Rexroth translations, among other works... |
Sleeping it Off in Rapid City |
| 2007 | Mary Jo Bang Mary Jo Bang -Life:She grew up in Ferguson, Missouri. She graduated from Northwestern University, in Sociology, from the Polytechnic of Central London, and from Columbia University, with an M.F.A. She teaches at Washington University in St... |
Elegy |
| 2006 | Troy Jollimore Troy Jollimore -Career & Education:Troy Jollimore was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and attended the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University in 1999, under the direction of Harry Frankfurt and Gilbert Harman. He has lived in the U.S. since... |
Tom Thomson in Purgatory |
| 2005 | Jack Gilbert Jack Gilbert -Life and career:Born and raised in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood of East Liberty, he attended Peabody High School then worked as a door-to-door salesman, an exterminator, and a steelworker... |
Refusing Heaven |
| 2004 | Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."-Early life:... |
The School Among the Ruins |
| 2003 | Susan Stewart | Columbarium |
| 2002 | B.H. Fairchild | Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest |
| 2001 | Albert Goldbarth Albert Goldbarth Albert Goldbarth is an American poet born January 31, 1948 in Chicago. He is known for his prolific production, his gregarious tone, his eclectic interests and his distinctive 'talky' style. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and won the National Book Critics Circle award in 1991 and 2001, the only... |
Saving Lives |
| 2000 | Judy Jordan Judy Jordan -Life:She grew up on a small farm near the Carolina border.Her parents were sharecroppers, and she was picking cotton by the time she was 5. She was the first member of her family to attend college, with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia in 1990, and a Master of Fine Arts degree... |
Carolina Ghost Woods |
| 1999 | Ruth Stone Ruth Stone Ruth Stone was an American poet, author, and teacher.-Life and career:In 1959, after her husband, professor Walter Stone, committed suicide, she was forced to raise three daughters alone... |
Ordinary Words |
| 1998 | Marie Ponsot Marie Ponsot Marie Ponsot, née Birmingham is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.-Life:Ponsot was born in Brooklyn, New York, but along with her brother grew up in Jamaica, Queens. She was already writing poems as a child, some of which were published in the Brooklyn Daily... |
The Bird Catcher |
| 1997 | Charles Wright Charles Wright (poet) Charles Wright is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award (19830 for... |
Black Zodiac |
| 1996 | Robert Hass Robert Hass Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:... |
Sun Under Wood |
| 1995 | William Matthews William Matthews (poet) William Matthews was an American poet and essayist.-Life:Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Matthews earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University, and a master's from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.In addition to serving as a Writer-in-Residence at Boston's Emerson College, Matthews... |
Time and Money |
| 1994 | Mark Rudman Mark Rudman Mark Rudman is an American poet.He was Professor at Columbia University and New York University.He graduated from The New School with a BA, and from Columbia University with an MFA.... |
Rider |
| 1993 | Mark Doty Mark Doty Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested... |
My Alexandria |
| 1992 | Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth was an American poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.-Life:Hayden Carruth grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut, and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Chicago. He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years... |
Collected Shorter Poems 1946–1991 |
| 1991 | Albert Goldbarth Albert Goldbarth Albert Goldbarth is an American poet born January 31, 1948 in Chicago. He is known for his prolific production, his gregarious tone, his eclectic interests and his distinctive 'talky' style. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and won the National Book Critics Circle award in 1991 and 2001, the only... |
Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology |
| 1990 | Amy Gerstler Amy Gerstler Amy Gerstler is an American poet. Her books of poetry include Ghost Girl ; Medicine - finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award; Crown of Weeds ; Nerve Storm ; Bitter Angel - winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - The True Bride and Dearest Creature, .Described by the Los... |
Bitter Angel |
| 1989 | Rodney Jones Rodney Jones Rodney Jones is an American poet and professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Jones was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Peter I.B... |
Transparent Gestures |
| 1988 | Donald Hall Donald Hall Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2006.-Personal life:... |
That One Day |
| 1987 | C.K. Williams | Flesh and Blood |
| 1986 | Edward Hirsch Edward Hirsch Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published eight books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems , which brings together thirty-five years of work. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial... |
Wild Gratitude |
| 1985 | Louise Glück Louise Glück Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000.... |
The Triumph of Achilles |
| 1984 | Sharon Olds Sharon Olds -Life:Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a “hellfire Calvinist”, as she describes it. She says she was by nature "a pagan and a pantheist" and notes "I was in a church where there was both great literary art and bad literary art, the great art being psalms and the bad... |
The Dead and the Living |
| 1983 | James Merrill James Merrill James Ingram Merrill was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Divine Comedies... |
The Changing Light at Sandover The Changing Light at Sandover The Changing Light at Sandover is a 560-page epic poem by James Merrill . Sometimes described as a postmodern apocalyptic epic, the poem was published in three separate installments between 1976 and 1980, and in its entirety in 1982... |
| 1982 | Katha Pollitt Katha Pollitt Katha Pollitt is an American feminist poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry... |
Antarctic Traveler |
| 1981 | A.R. Ammons | A Coast of Trees |
| 1980 | Frederick Seidel Frederick Seidel -Career:In 1962, his first book, Final Solutions, was chosen by a jury of Louise Bogan, Stanley Kunitz, and Robert Lowell for an award sponsored by the 92nd Street Y, with a $1,500 prize... |
Sunrise |
| 1979 | Philip Levine Philip Levine (poet) Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for over thirty years at the English Department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well... |
Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere |
| 1978 | L. E. Sissman | Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman |
| 1977 | Robert Lowell Robert Lowell Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress where he served from 1947 until 1948... |
Day by Day |
| 1976 | Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia... |
Geography III |
| 1975 | John Ashberry | Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror |
Criticism
| 2010 | Clare Cavanagh | Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West |
| 2009 | Eula Biss Eula Biss Eula Biss is an American non-fiction writer.She won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.She is a Guggenheim Fellow.... |
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays |
| 2008 | Seth Lerer Seth Lerer Professor Seth Lerer is Dean of Arts and Humanities and Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California at San Diego. He had previously held the Avalon Foundation Professorship in Humanities at Stanford University... |
Children’s Literature: A Readers’ History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter |
| 2007 | Alex Ross | The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century |
| 2006 | Lawrence Weschler Lawrence Weschler Lawrence Weschler is an author of works of creative nonfiction.A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz , Weschler was for over twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies... |
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences |
| 2005 | William Logan William Logan (poet) William Logan is an American poet, critic and scholar.-Life:Logan was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to W. Donald Logan, Jr. and Nancy Damon Logan. He lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, England with his wife, the poet and artist, Debora Greger... |
The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin |
| 2004 | Patrick Neate Patrick Neate Patrick Neate is an award-winning British novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and podcaster.-Early life:Born and raised as a Roman Catholic in South London, he was educated at St. Paul's School and Cambridge University. He spent a gap year in Zimbabwe and has since returned to Africa on many... |
Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet |
| 2003 | Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit is a writer who lives in San Francisco. She has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art.... |
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West |
| 2002 | William H. Gass William H. Gass William Howard Gass is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written two novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award... |
Tests of Time |
| 2001 | Martin Amis Martin Amis Martin Louis Amis is a British novelist, the author of many novels including Money and London Fields . He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, but will step down at the end of the 2010/11 academic year... |
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000 |
| 2000 | Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. She is the niece of the Hebraist Abraham Regelson.-Background:Cynthia Shoshana Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children... |
Quarrel & Quandary |
| 1999 | Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family... |
Selected Non-Fictions |
| 1998 | Gary Giddins Gary Giddins Gary Giddins is an American jazz critic, author, and director, best known for his longtime work with The Village Voice. Born in Brooklyn, and raised on Long Island, Giddins graduated from Grinnell College, Iowa, in 1970... |
Visions of Jazz: The First Century |
| 1997 | Mario Vargas Llosa Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation... |
Making Waves |
| 1996 | William H. Gass William H. Gass William Howard Gass is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written two novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award... |
Finding a Form |
| 1995 | Robert Darnton Robert Darnton Robert Darnton is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on 18th-century France.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb,... |
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France |
| 1994 | Gerald Early Gerald Early Gerald L. Early is an American essayist and American culture critic. He is currently the Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English, African studies, African American studies, American culture studies, and Director, Center for Joint Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences at ... |
The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture |
| 1993 | John Dizikes John Dizikes John Dizikes Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who served as Cowell College provost and who is a recipient of the UCSC Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching Award.... |
Opera in America: A Cultural History |
| 1992 | Garry Wills Garry Wills Garry Wills is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and prolific author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American politics, American political history and ideology and the Roman Catholic Church. Classically trained at a Jesuit high school and two universities, he is proficient in Greek and Latin... |
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America written by Garry Wills and published by Simon & Schuster in 1992, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.... |
| 1991 | Lawrence L. Langer | Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory |
| 1990 | Arthur C. Danto | Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present |
| 1989 | John Clive | Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History |
| 1988 | Clifford Geertz Clifford Geertz Clifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until... |
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author |
| 1987 | Edwin Denby Edwin Denby (poet) Edwin Orr Denby was one of the most important and influential American dance critics of the 20th century, as well as a poet and novelist. His dance reviews and essays were collected in Looking at the Dance , Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Streets and Dance Writings... |
Dance Writings |
| 1986 | Joseph Brodsky Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters... |
Less Than One: Selected Essays |
| 1985 | William H. Gass William H. Gass William Howard Gass is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written two novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award... |
Habitations of the Word: Essays |
| 1984 | Robert Hass Robert Hass Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2007 National Book Award and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials.-Life:... |
Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry |
| 1983 | John Updike John Updike John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.... |
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism |
| 1982 | Gore Vidal Gore Vidal Gore Vidal is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality... |
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays |
| 1981 | Virgil Thomson Virgil Thomson Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music... |
A Virgil Thomson Reader |
| 1980 | Helen Vendler Helen Vendler Helen Hennessy Vendler is a leading American critic of poetry.-Life and career:Vendler has written books on Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, and Seamus Heaney. She has been a professor of English at Harvard University since 1984; between 1981 and 1984 she taught... |
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets |
| 1979 | Elaine Pagels Elaine Pagels Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey , is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic Gospels... |
The Gnostic Gospels |
| 1978 | Meyer Schapiro Meyer Schapiro Meyer Schapiro was a Lithuanian-born American art historian known for forging new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works of art... |
Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2) |
| 1977 | Susan Sontag Susan Sontag Susan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, feminist and political activist whose works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.-Life:... |
On Photography On Photography On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977.-Contents:... |
| 1976 | Bruno Bettelheim Bruno Bettelheim Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American child psychologist and writer. He gained an international reputation for his work on Freud, psychoanalysis, and emotionally disturbed children.-Background:... |
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance and Importance of Fairy Tales The Uses of Enchantment The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales is a 1976 work by Bruno Bettelheim in which the author analyses fairy tales in terms of Freudian psychology.... |
| 1975 | Paul Fussell Paul Fussell Paul Fussell is an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor. His writings cover a variety of genres, from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commentary on America’s class system... |
The Great War and Modern Memory |
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
This award has also been presented as the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing and the Ivan Sandrof Award, Contribution to American Arts & Letters.- 2010: Dalky Archive Press
- 2009: Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
- 2008: PEN American CenterPEN American CenterPEN American Center , founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. The Center has a membership of 3,300 writers, editors, and translators...
- 2007: Emilie Buchwald, co-founder of the Milkweed EditionsMilkweed EditionsMilkweed Editions is an independent, non-profit publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Milkweed's goal is to make a positive impact on society through the transformative art of literature. Milkweed is sometimes called the largest independent, non-profit literary publisher in the United...
publishing house - 2006: John LeonardJohn Leonard (American critic)John Leonard was an American literary, television, film, and cultural critic.-Biography:John Leonard grew up in Washington, D.C., Jackson Heights, Queens, and Long Beach, California, where he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School...
- 2005: Bill Henderson, founder of Pushcart PressPushcart PressPushcart Press is a publishing house established in 1972 by Bill Henderson and is perhaps most famous for its Pushcart Prize and for the anthology of prize winners it publishes annually. The press has been honored by Publishers Weekly as one of the USA's "most influential publishers" with the 1979...
- 2004: Louis D. Rubin, Jr., founder of Algonquin Press and the author and editor of more than 50 books
- 2003: Studs TerkelStuds TerkelLouis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.-Early...
- 2002: Richard HowardRichard HowardRichard Howard is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches...
- 2001: Jason EpsteinJason EpsteinJason Epstein is an American editor and publisher.A 1949 graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University, Epstein was hired by Bennett Cerf at Random House, where he was the editorial director for forty years. He was responsible for the Vintage paperbacks, which published such authors as...
- 2000: Barney RossetBarney RossetBarnet Lee Rosset, Jr. is the former owner of the publishing house Grove Press, and publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Evergreen Review. He led a successful legal battle to publish the uncensored version of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, and later was the American...
- 1999: Lawrence FerlinghettiLawrence FerlinghettiLawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers...
and Pauline KaelPauline KaelPauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career, her work appeared in City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic.... - 1998:
- 1997: Leslie FiedlerLeslie FiedlerLeslie Aaron Fiedler was a Jewish-American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature. He was in practical terms one of the early postmodernist critics working...
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- 1995: Alfred KazinAlfred KazinAlfred Kazin was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America....
and Elizabeth Hardwick - 1994: William MaxwellWilliam Keepers Maxwell, Jr.William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. was an American novelist and editor.-Life:Maxwell was born in Lincoln, Illinois, and as a child, he survived the 1918 Influenza epidemic. He attended the University of Illinois and Harvard University...
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- 1989: James LaughlinJames LaughlinJames Laughlin was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishers.- Biography :He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry Hughart and Marjory Rea Laughlin...
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- 1984: The Library of AmericaLibrary of AmericaThe Library of America is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.- Overview and history :Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LoA has published over 200 volumes by a wide range of authors from Mark Twain to Philip...
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Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
This citation is awarded annually. It honors Nona Balakian, who was a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle. For 43 years, Balakian was an editor on the staff of the New York Times Book Review. Five finalists are announced each year, one of whom is selected as the winner of the citation. The award has been called "the most prestigious award for book criticism in the country".- 2010: Parul SehgalParul SehgalParul Sehgal is an Indian American literary critic and Senior Editor at Publishers Weekly. Her reviews are also published in the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, the Literary Review, O Magazine, The Plain Dealer, The Irish Times, and Time Out New York.Sehgal is notable for winning the...
of Publishers WeeklyPublishers WeeklyPublishers Weekly, aka PW, is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents... - 2009: Joan AcocellaJoan AcocellaJoan B. Acocella is an American journalist who is the dance and book critic for The New Yorker. She has written several books on dance, literature, and psychology....
of The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... - 2008: Ron CharlesRon CharlesRon Charles is deputy editor and a weekly fiction critic of The Washington Post "Book World", the book review section of the Post...
of The Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation... - 2007: Sam Anderson of New YorkNew York (magazine)New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
magazine - 2006: Steven G. KellmanSteven G. KellmanSteven G. Kellman is an American critic and academic, best known for his books Redemption:The Life of Henry Roth and The Translingual Imagination .-Background and Education:...
- 2005: Wyatt MasonWyatt Mason-Background and education:Mason was raised in Manhattan. He attended The Fieldston School in New York, the University of Pennsylvania, and also studied literature at Columbia University and the University of Paris.-Career:...
, a contributor to Harper'sHarper's MagazineHarper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts, with a generally left-wing perspective. It is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. . The current editor is Ellen Rosenbush, who replaced Roger Hodge in January 2010...
, The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, The New RepublicThe New RepublicThe magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States... - 2004: David OrrDavid Orr (journalist)David Orr is an American journalist, attorney, and poet who is noted for his reviews and essays on poetry.Orr grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. He earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from Princeton University in 1996, and subsequently a law degree from Yale University. While still...
, a contributor to The New York Times Book ReviewThe New York Times Book ReviewThe New York Times Book Review is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. The offices are located near Times Square in New York...
and Poetry Magazine - 2003: Scott McLemee
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- 2001: Michael GorraMichael GorraMichael Gorra is an American professor of English and literature, currently serving as the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English Language & Literature at Smith College.- Background :...
- 2000: Daniel MendelsohnDaniel Mendelsohn-Life and career:Mendelsohn was born on Long Island. He graduated with a B. A. in Classics from the University of Virginia, which he attended from 1978 to 1982 as an Echols Scholar, and received his M. A. and Ph. D. in Classics from Princeton University, where he was a Mellon Fellow in the...
- 1999: Benjamin SchwarzBenjamin Schwarz (writer)Benjamin Schwarz is the literary editor and national editor of the American monthly magazine The Atlantic.He has written articles and reviews on an array of subjects—from fashion to the American South, from current fiction to the archaeology, and from international economics to Hollywood.Since...
- 1998: Albert MobilioAlbert MobilioAlbert Mobilio is an American poet and critic.He teaches at Eugene Lang College, liberal arts college of The New School university.His work appears in Bomb, Salon, Postmodern Culture, Harper's.He is co-editor of Bookforum.-Awards:...
- 1997: Thomas MallonThomas MallonThomas Mallon is a novelist and critic. He was born in Glen Cove, New York. He attended Brown University as an undergraduate and earned a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. from Harvard. He received the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in 1994 and won a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1987...
- 1996: Dennis Drabelle
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- 1991: George ScialabbaGeorge ScialabbaGeorge Scialabba is a book critic living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His reviews have appeared in the Boston Globe, Dissent, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Nation, The American Prospect, and many others...