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The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle
National Book Critics Circle

The National Book Critics Circle is an United States non-profit organization of approximately nine hundred active book reviewers. Jane Ciabattari is the current president....
 (NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
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The main awards fall into six categories: Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
, Nonfiction, Poetry
Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
, Memoir
Memoir

As a literature genre, a memoir , or a reminiscence, forms a subclass of autobiography ? although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are today almost interchangeable....
/Autobiography
Autobiography

An autobiography is a biography written by its subject . The term was first used by the poet Robert Southey in 1809 in the English language Periodical publication Quarterly Review, but the form goes back to antiquity....
, Biography
Biography

A biography is a description of someone's life, usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film. An autobiography is a biography by the same person it is about....
, 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.

2008 winners will be announced March 12, 2009 (winners in bold).

Fiction

General nonfiction

Autobiography

Biography

Poetry

Criticism

The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

2007 award winners (bold) were announced on March 6, 2008.

Fiction

General nonfiction

Autobiography

Biography

Poetry

Criticism

The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

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2007 Junot Diaz
Junot Díaz

Junot D?az is a Dominican Republic-United States writer and professor at MIT. Central to D?az's work is the duality of 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 Republic-United States author Junot D?az. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey where D?az 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 in literature 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 India author Kiran Desai. It was first published in 2006 in literature and won the Man Booker Prize for that year as well as the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007....
2005 E.L.






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The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle
National Book Critics Circle

The National Book Critics Circle is an United States non-profit organization of approximately nine hundred active book reviewers. Jane Ciabattari is the current president....
 (NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
.

The main awards fall into six categories: Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
, Nonfiction, Poetry
Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
, Memoir
Memoir

As a literature genre, a memoir , or a reminiscence, forms a subclass of autobiography ? although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are today almost interchangeable....
/Autobiography
Autobiography

An autobiography is a biography written by its subject . The term was first used by the poet Robert Southey in 1809 in the English language Periodical publication Quarterly Review, but the form goes back to antiquity....
, Biography
Biography

A biography is a description of someone's life, usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film. An autobiography is a biography by the same person it is about....
, 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.

2008 finalists and winners

The 2008 winners will be announced March 12, 2009 (winners in bold).

Fiction
  • Roberto Bolaño
    Roberto Bolaño

    Roberto Bola?o ?valos was a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999 he won the R?mulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes ....
    , 2666. (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
  • Marilynne Robinson
    Marilynne Robinson

    Marilynne Robinson is an United States author. Her 1980 novel Housekeeping won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....
    , Home
    Home (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)
  • Aleksandar Hemon
    Aleksandar Hemon

    Aleksandar Hemon is an Bosnian American writer and journalist. He sometimes publishes in the The New Yorker magazine, and has written an acclaimed novel, Nowhere Man and a collection of short stories, The Question of Bruno....
    , The Lazarus Project
    The Lazarus Project (novel)

    The Lazarus Project is a novel by Bosnian-Herzegovinian fiction writer and journalist Aleksandar Hemon. It was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award....
    , (Riverhead)
  • M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, (West Virginia University Press)
  • Elizabeth Strout
    Elizabeth Strout

    Elizabeth Strout is an American author. She was raised in small towns in New Hampshire and Maine. After graduating from Bates College, she spent a year in Oxford, England, followed by studies at law school for another year....
    , Olive Kittredge, (Random House)


General nonfiction
  • Dexter Filkins
    Dexter Filkins

    Dexter Price Filkins is an United States journalist who reports for The New York Times Magazine. He has been reporting from Iraq since 2003....
    , The Forever War, (Knopf)
  • Drew Gilpin Faust
    Drew Gilpin Faust

    Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust is an United States historian, college administrator, and the first female president of Harvard University of Harvard University....
    , This Republic of Suffering, (Knopf)
  • Jane Mayer, The Dark Side
    The 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" US President George W....
    , (Doubleday)
  • Allan Lichtman
    Allan Lichtman

    Allan Jay Lichtman is an United States political history who teaches at American University in Washington, D.C. He ran in the Maryland United States Senate election, 2006 for the seat vacated by Paul Sarbanes....
    , White Protestant Nation, (Atlantic)
  • George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776. (Oxford University Press)


Autobiography
  • Rick Bass
    Rick Bass

    Rick Bass is a critically-acclaimed United States writer and an environmental activist.Raised the son of a geologist in Texas, Bass studied petroleum geology at Utah State University....
    , Why I Came West, (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Helene Cooper
    Helene Cooper

    Helene Cooper is a Liberian-born United States journalist who has been the diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, based in Washington, D.C., since 2006....
    , The House on Sugar Beach, (Simon and Schuster)
  • Honor Moore
    Honor Moore

    Honor Moore is an American writer who has written poetry and plays.She is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir, and her play Mourning Pictures, was produced on Broadway and published in The New Women?s Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women, which she edited....
    , The Bishop’s Daughter, (W.W. Norton)
  • Andrew X. Pham
    Andrew X. Pham

    Andrew X. Pham is a Vietnamese American author.Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967 and moved to California with his family in 1977 as one of the Vietnamese boat people....
    , 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
  • Paul J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, (Amistad)
  • Steve Coll
    Steve Coll

    Steve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States 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 2004....
    , The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, (Penguin Press)
  • Patrick French
    Patrick French

    Patrick French is an England writer and historian. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he studied literature. He is best known for his biography of Francis Younghusband which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature W....
    , 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....
    , (Knopf)
  • Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
    The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

    The 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 Sally Hemings, from their Virginia origins until the 1826 death Thomas Jefferson....
    , (Norton)
  • Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (Knopf)


Poetry
  • August Kleinzahler, Sleeping it Off in Rapid City, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
  • Juan Felipe Herrera
    Juan Felipe Herrera

    Juan Felipe Herrera was born December 27, 1948, in Fowler, California. The only son of Lucha 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 Joaqu?n Valley, Southern California and the Salinas Valley....
    , Half the World in Light, (University of Arizona Press)
  • Devin Johnston, Sources, (Turtle Point Press)
  • Pierre Martony (trans. John Ashbery
    John Ashbery

    John Ashbery is an American poet. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets....
    ), The Landscapist, (Sheep Meadow Press)
  • Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar, (Copper Canyon Press)


Criticism
  • Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, (Metropolitan Books)
  • Vivian Gornick
    Vivian Gornick

    Vivian 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....
    , The Men in My Life. (Boston Review/MIT)
  • Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One Of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, (Doubleday)
  • Reginald Shepard, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, (University of Michigan Press)
  • Seth Lerer
    Seth Lerer

    Professor Seth Lerer is a contemporary Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University, specialising in historical analyses of the English language, in addition to critical analyses of the works of several authors, including in particular Geoffrey Chaucer....
    , Children’s Literature: A Readers’ History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter, (University of Chicago Press)


The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
  • Michael Antman
  • Kathryn Harrison
    Kathryn Harrison

    Kathryn Harrison is an United States author, wife of Colin Harrison....
  • Laila Lalami
    Laila Lalami

    Laila Lalami is a Moroccan American author and essayist.Lalami was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco, where she earned her B.A. in English from Mohammed V University....
  • Todd Shy


Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
  • PEN American Center
    PEN American Center

    PEN 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....


2007 finalists and winners

The 2007 award winners (bold) were announced on March 6, 2008.

Fiction
  • Vikram Chandra
    Vikram Chandra

    Vikram Chandra is an Indian writer who has won awards and critical acclaim for his novels and short stories. He is married to writer Melanie Abrams, who, like Chandra, teaches creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley....
    , Sacred Games
    Sacred Games (novel)

    'Sacred Games' is a book by Vikram Chandra published in 2006.It has receivedPatricia Lay Brown in writes:...
     (HarperCollins)
  • Junot Díaz
    Junot Díaz

    Junot D?az is a Dominican Republic-United States writer and professor at MIT. Central to D?az's work is the duality of 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 Republic-United States author Junot D?az. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey where D?az was raised and deals explicitly with his ancestral homeland's experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo....
     (Riverhead)
  • Hisham Matar
    Hisham Matar

    Hisham Matar is a Libyan author. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 in literature Man Booker Prize.. Matar?s essays have appeared in the Asharq Alawsat, The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and The New York Times....
    , In the Country of Men
    In the Country of Men

    In 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 Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award....
     (Dial Press)
  • Joyce Carol Oates
    Joyce Carol Oates

    Joyce Carol Oates is an United States author. Raised in rural, working-class New York, Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction....
    , The Gravedigger's Daughter
    The Gravedigger's Daughter

    The Gravedigger's Daughter is a 2007 in literature 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 Wiggins
    Marianne Wiggins

    Marianne Wiggins is an United Statesn author. She is noted for the unusual characters and story lines in her novels....
    , The Shadow Catcher (Simon and Schuster)


General nonfiction
  • Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism (Hill & Wang)
  • Daniel Walker Howe
    Daniel Walker Howe

    Daniel 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....
    , 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 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....
     (Doubleday)
  • Tim Weiner
    Tim Weiner

    Tim Weiner is a New York Times reporter who has won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.Weiner attended Columbia University and has worked for the Times since 1993, and has worked as foreign correspondent in Mexico as well as a national security correspondent in Washington, DC....
    ,     Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (Doubleday)
  • Alan Weisman
    Alan Weisman

    Alan H. Weisman is an USA author, professor, and journalist....
    ,     The World Without Us
    The World Without Us

    The World Without Us is a non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural environment and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by American journalist Alan Weisman and published by St....
     (Thomas Dunne BKs/St. Martin’s)


Autobiography
  • Joshua Clark
    Joshua Clark

    Joshua Clark is an American writer....
    ,     Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone (Free Press)
  • Edwidge Danticat
    Edwidge Danticat

    Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American author....
    ,     Brother, I'm Dying (Knopf)
  • Joyce Carol Oates
    Joyce Carol Oates

    Joyce Carol Oates is an United States author. Raised in rural, working-class New York, Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction....
    ,     The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 (Ecco)
  • Sara Paretsky
    Sara Paretsky

    Sara Paretsky is a modern United States author of detective fiction. Paretsky was raised in Kansas, and graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in political science....
    ,     Writing in an Age of Silence (Verso)
  • Anna Politkovskaya
    Anna Politkovskaya

    Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist, author and human rights activist well known for her opposition to the Second Chechen War and then-Russian President Vladimir Putin....
    ,     Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia (Random House)


Biography
  • Tim Jeal
    Tim Jeal

    Tim Jeal is a United Kingdom novelist, and biographer of notable Victorian era men. His publications include biographies of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, David Livingstone and his most recent, Henry Morton Stanley ....
    ,     Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (Yale University Press)
  • Hermione Lee
    Hermione Lee

    Hermione Lee, Order of the British Empire 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, Oxford....
    ,     Edith Wharton (Knopf)
  • Arnold Rampersad
    Arnold Rampersad

    Arnold Rampersad is an acclaimed biographer and literary critic. The first volume his Life Of Langston Hughes was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He was born in Trinidad....
    ,     Ralph Ellison (Knopf)
  • John Richardson
    John Richardson (art historian)

    John Richardson is a Great Britain art historian who lives in London, England, and New York USAJohn Richardson is best known for his acclaimed biography of the artist Pablo Picasso, A Life of Picasso, of which he has so far written three out of four planned volumes....
    ,     A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Knopf)
  • Claire Tomalin
    Claire Tomalin

    Claire Tomalin is an England biographer and journalist. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge.She was literary editor of the New Statesman and of the The Sunday Times , and has written several noted biographies....
    ,     Thomas Hardy (Penguin Press)


Poetry
  • Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf)
  • Matthea Harvey
    Matthea Harvey

    Matthea Harvey is a contemporary American poet. She has published three collections, Modern Life , Sad Little Breathing Machine , and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form , and authored the forthcoming children's book, The Little General and The Giant Snowflake ....
    ,     Modern Life (Graywolf)
  • Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking (Flood)
  • Tom Pickard
    Tom Pickard

    Tom Pickard is a poet, radio and film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival.Pickard left school at the age of fourteen....
    ,     The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood)
  • Tadeusz Rózewicz
    Tadeusz Rózewicz

    Tadeusz R?zewicz is a Poland poet and writer.R?zewicz belongs to the first generation born and educated after Poland regained its independence in 1918....
    ,     New Poems (Archipelago)


Criticism
  • Joan Acocella
    Joan Acocella

    Joan B. Acocella is an United States journalist who is the modern dance critic for The New Yorker. She has written several books on dance, literature, and psychology....
    ,     Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (Pantheon)
  • Julia Alvarez
    Julia Álvarez

    Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York City 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....
    ,     Once Upon a Quniceanera (Viking)
  • Susan Faludi
    Susan Faludi

    Susan C. Faludi is an United States Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of two well-known books. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee thought showed the "human costs of high finance"....
    ,     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 York
    New York (magazine)

    New York is a weekly magazine 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 offers less national news and more gossipy, tabloid-like stories, but has also published noteworthy articles on city and state politics and cultur...
     magazine
  • Ron Charles
  • Walter Kirn
    Walter Kirn

    Walter Kirn is an American novelist and critic who lives in Montana. A 1983 graduate of Princeton University, he has published a collection of short stories and several novels, including Thumbsucker, which was made into a 2005 film featuring Keanu Reeves and Vince Vaughn; Up in the Air, currently in production as a feature film direct...
  • Adam Kirsch
    Adam Kirsch

    Adam Kirsch is an American poet and literary critic. He was the book critic for the New York Sun until it ceased publishing in 2008. He was previously the assistant literary editor for The New Republic, ?no small achievement for a writer in his 20s.? He is also the author of the weekly column "The Reader" on Nextbook.com....


Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Emilie Buchwald, writer, editor, and founding publisher of Milkweed Editions
    Milkweed Editions

    Milkweed Editions is an Independent publisher, 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....
    , in Minneapolis.


Fiction

2007 Junot Diaz
Junot Díaz

Junot D?az is a Dominican Republic-United States writer and professor at MIT. Central to D?az's work is the duality of 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 Republic-United States author Junot D?az. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey where D?az 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 in literature 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 India author Kiran Desai. It was first published in 2006 in literature and won the Man Booker Prize for that year as well as the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007....
2005 E.L. Doctorow The March
2004 Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is an United States author. Her 1980 novel Housekeeping won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....
 		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....
2003 Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones

Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at both the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia....
 		The Known World
The Known World

The Known World is a 2003 in literature 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 slavery in the United States by free black people as well as by whites....
2002 Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan, CBE, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Literature, is a Booker Prize-winning England novelist and screenwriter....
 		 Atonement
Atonement (novel)

Atonement is a novel written by British author Ian McEwan. It tells the story of Briony Tallis's terrible mistake and how it changes her, Cecilia Tallis's and Robbie Turner's lives forever, and consequentially her effort to find atonement....
2001 W.G. Sebald Austerlitz
Austerlitz (novel)

Austerlitz is the final novel of W. G. Sebald, published in 2001. It is one of the most significant German language works of fiction for the period since the Second World War....
2000 Jim Crace
Jim Crace

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....
1999 Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American writer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, Lethem trained to be an artist before moving to California and devoting his time to writing....
 		 Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn

Motherless Brooklyn is a Jonathan Lethem novel published in 1999 in literature. It is ostensibly a detective story set in Brooklyn. The novel won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the 2000 Gold Dagger award for crime fiction....
1998 Alice Munro
Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro is a Canada short story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life....
 		 The Love of a Good Woman
The Love of a Good Woman

The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short story by Canada writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998 in literature....
1997 Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Knox was a Booker Prize-winning England novelist, poet, essayist and biographer....
 		 The Blue Flower
1996 Gina Berriault
Gina Berriault

Gina Berriault , was an United States novelist and short story writer.Berriault was born in Long Beach, California to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents....
 		 Women in Their Beds
1995 Stanley Elkin
Stanley Elkin

Stanley Elkin was an United States novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships....
 		 Mrs. Ted Bliss
1994 Carol Shields
Carol Shields

Carol Ann Shields, Order of Canada, Order of Manitoba, Royal Society of Canada was an United States-born Canada author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S....
 		 The Stone Diaries
The Stone Diaries

The Stone Diaries is a 1993 in literature 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....
1992 Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy , is an United States novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, Western fiction, and Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction genres, and has also written plays and screenplays....
 		 All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses is a novel by U.S. author Cormac McCarthy published in 1992. Its romanticism brought the writer much public attention....
1991 Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States novelist....
 		 A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by United States author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted to A Thousand Acres ....
1990 John Updike
John Updike

John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ....
 		 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 List of novelists from the United States. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley....
 		 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 United States novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus , cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman....
 		 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....
1986 Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price is an United States novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price has 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 U.S. Southern states 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....
1985 Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning United States novelist. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tyler grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, graduated at age nineteen from Duke University, and completed graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University in New York, New York....
 		 The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist

The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 in literature 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 a Native Americans in the United States author of novels, poetry, and Children's literature....
 		 Love Medicine
Love Medicine

Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich?s first novel, published in 1984 in literature. Erdrich revised and expanded the novel for an edition issued in 1993, and this version is now considered the definitive edition....
1983 William Kennedy Ironweed
Ironweed

Ironweed is a 1983 in literature novel by William Kennedy . It received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is part of Kennedy's Albany Cycle....
1982 Stanley Elkin
Stanley Elkin

Stanley Elkin was an United States novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships....
 		 George Mills
1981 John Updike
John Updike

John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ....
 		 Rabbit Is Rich
Rabbit Is Rich

Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel in the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and concludes with Rabbit At Rest....
1980 Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard is an author of fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship in Great Britain and in the United States....
 		 The Transit Of Venus
1979 Thomas Flanagan
Thomas Flanagan (writer)

Thomas Flanagan was an United States professor of English literature who specialized in Irish literature. He was also a successful novelist. Flanagan graduated from Amherst College in 1945....
 		 The Year of the French
1978 John Cheever
John Cheever

John Cheever was an United States novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Anton Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester County, New York suburbs, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born....
 		 The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by United States 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 and the National Book Critics Circle...
1977 Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison , is a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic poetry themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon , and Beloved , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988...
 		 Song Of Solomon
Song of Solomon (novel)

Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Nobel Prize for Literature-winning United States 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 in literature novel by E. L. Doctorow. This work of historical fiction is mostly set in New York City from about 1900 until the United States entry into World War I in 1917....


General nonfiction

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....
2006 Simon Schama
Simon Schama

Simon Michael Schama, Order of the British Empire is a British professor of history and art history at Columbia University. His many works on history and art include Landscape and Memory, Dead Certainties, Rembrandt's Eyes, and his history of the French Revolution, Citizens ....
 		 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 Empire cause during the American War of Independence....
2005 Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist and prose writer....
 		 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 is Professor of the History of the Church in 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 Protestant Reformation between 1490 and 1700....
2003 Paul Hendrickson Sons of Mississippi
2002 Samantha Power
Samantha Power

Samantha Power is an Irish American journalist, writer, academic, and government official. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government....
 		 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, his writings focus on minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' Stream of consciousness writing....
 		 Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
2000 Ted Conover
Ted Conover

Ted Conover is an United States 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 Department of Journalism at New York University....
 		 Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
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 Gal?pagos 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 United States-Jewish author and journalist, is the editor of "The Paris Review" and a longtime staff writer of The New Yorker....
 		 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 Rwandan 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 in is an United States 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 people refugee family and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California....
1996 Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban

Jonathan Raban is a British travel writer and novelist. He is the author of Waxwings , Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America, Coasting , Old Glory: An American Voyage, Arabia Through the Looking Glass and Soft City....
 		 Bad Land: An American Romance
1995 Jonathan Harr
Jonathan Harr

Jonathan Harr is best known as the author of A Civil Action and The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece. Harr was born in Beloit, Wisconsin....
 		 A Civil Action
1994 Lynn H. Nicholas The Rape of Europa
The Rape of Europa

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War is the title of a book and a subsequent documentary film....
: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
1993 Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax was an United States folklore and musicology. He was one of the great Field work collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the West Indies, Italy, and Spain....
 		 The Land Where the Blues Began
1992 Norman Maclean
Norman Maclean

Norman Fitzroy Maclean was an American author and scholar most noted for his books A River Runs Through It and Young Men and Fire ....
 		 Young Men and Fire
Young Men and Fire

Young Men and Fire is a non-fiction book written by Norman Maclean and edited by his son, John 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....
1991 Susan Faludi
Susan Faludi

Susan C. Faludi is an United States Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of two well-known books. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buy-out of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee thought showed the "human costs of high finance"....
 		 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

Shelby Steele is an United States author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, specialising in the study of race relations, multiculturalism and affirmative action....
 		 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 Academia. During his career he presented himself as Native Americans in the United States 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....
 		 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, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race ....
 		 The Making of the Atomic Bomb
1986 John W. Dower
John W. Dower

John W . Dower is an United States author, professor, and historian; his primary focus is modern Japan and U.S.-Japan relations. He is perhaps best known for his book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Letters for General Nonfiction, the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the Bancroft Pr...
 		 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 United States journalist and author, probably best known for his 1985 book Common Ground , a classic study of race relations and school busing in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, as seen through the eyes of three families: one upper-middle-class white, one...
 		 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 Fellow of the Royal Society is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, and nuclear engineering....
 		 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 a biographer most noted for his studies of Politics of the United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson....
 		 The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Years of Lyndon Johnson

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Three volumes have published, running to more than 2,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career....
1981 Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American Paleontology, Evolution, and History 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 is a controversial 1981 book written by the Harvard University paleontology Stephen Jay Gould . The book is a History of science and critique of the methods and motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and economic differences between human groups—primarily Race , Social clas...
1980 Ronald Steel
Ronald Steel

Ronald Steel is an award-winning United States writer, historian, and professor. He is the author of the definitive biography of Walter Lippman....
 		 Walter Lippmann and the American Century
1979 Telford Taylor
Telford Taylor

Telford Taylor was an United States 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 Keans-Howard is an United States writer, editor, and lecturer known for her award winning autobiography Facts of Life.=External Links=...
 		 Facts of Life
1977 Walter Jackson Bate
Walter Jackson Bate

Walter Jackson Bate was an USA 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 an United States Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with a A.B. in English in 1962....
 		 The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a nonfictional memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston, published by Vintage in 1975. It is semi-autobiographical, incorporating many elements of fiction....
1975 R. W. B. Lewis
R. W. B. Lewis

Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis was an USA 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

2007 Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American author....
 		 Brother, I'm Dying
2006 Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn is an author and critic. He has written for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and many others....
 		 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

Francine du Plessix Gray is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic....
 		 Them: A Memoir of Parents


Biography

2007 Tim Jeal
Tim Jeal

Tim Jeal is a United Kingdom novelist, and biographer of notable Victorian era men. His publications include biographies of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, David Livingstone and his most recent, Henry Morton Stanley ....
 		 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....
 		 James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
2005 Kai Bird
Kai Bird

Kai Bird is an United States Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist, best known for his biography of political figures.Bird was born in 1951 in Eugene, Oregon, but 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 United States 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 United States 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 United States historian and editor whose work has encompassed historically significant architecture, the Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States, 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 economist and author, best known for her biography of John Forbes Nash, A Beautiful Mind ....
 		 A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind (book)

A Beautiful Mind is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize in Economics-winning economics and mathematics John Forbes Nash by Sylvia Nasar, a New York Times economics correspondent....
1997 James Tobin Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
1996 Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt

Francis "Frank" McCourt is an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, best known as the author of Angela's Ashes. Brother of author and actor Malachy McCourt ....
 		 Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes

Angela?s Ashes is a memoir by Ireland author Frank McCourt, and tells the story of his childhood in Brooklyn and Ireland. It was published in 1996 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography....
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 a writer. He was born "Michael Gilmore," but later changed the spelling of his name.Gilmore was long interested in music, and in the early 1970s began writing articles for Rolling Stone....
 		 Shot in the Heart
1993 Edmund White
Edmund White

Edmund Valentine White III is an United States author and literary critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing....
 		 Genet
1992 Carol Brightman Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World
1991 Philip Roth
Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth is an United States novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus , cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman....
 		 Patrimony: A True Story
Patrimony: A True Story

Patrimony: A True Story is a non-fiction memoir by American writer Philip Roth. In it, he recounts the death of his father, Herman Roth, from brain cancer....
1990 Robert A. Caro Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II
The Years of Lyndon Johnson

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Three volumes have published, running to more than 2,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career....
1989 Geoffrey C. Ward A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
1988 Richard Ellmann
Richard Ellmann

Richard Ellmann was a prominent USA/British people literary critic and biographer of Ireland writers such as James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats....
 		 Oscar Wilde
1987 Donald R. Howard Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
1986 Theodore Rosengarten 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.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Yorkton, Saskatchewan....
 		 Henry James: A Life
1984 Joseph Frank
Joseph Frank

Joseph Frank was a first class cricketer who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1881 against I Zingari at Scarborough. He also played first class cricket for Gentlemen of England in 1883 and 1886, the Gentlemen in 1883, the Rest of England in 1883 and AJ Webbe's XI 1887....
 		 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....
 		 Minor Characters


Poetry

2007
2007 in poetry

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 		Mary Jo Bang Elegy
2006
2006 in poetry

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 		Troy Jollimore Tom Thomson in Purgatory
2005
2005 in poetry

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 		Jack Gilbert
Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert is an United States Poetry.Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States's 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
2004 in poetry

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 		Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich is an United States 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" ....
 		 The School Among the Ruins
2003
2003 in poetry

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 		Susan Stewart Columbarium
2002
2002 in poetry

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 		B.H. Fairchild Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
2001
2001 in poetry

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 		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....
 		 Saving Lives
2000
2000 in poetry

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 		Judy Jordan Carolina Ghost Woods
1999
1999 in poetry

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 		Ruth Stone
Ruth Stone

Ruth Stone is an American poet. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry. She is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the 2002 National Book Award , the 2002 Wallace Stevens Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Eric Mathieu King Award from The Academy of American Poets, a Whiting Award two Guggenheim Fellows...
 		 Ordinary Words
1998
1998 in poetry

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 		Marie Ponsot
Marie Ponsot

Marie Ponsot, n?e Birmingham is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.Born in New York City, the daughter of a wine importer and schoolteacher, she was reared in the city with her brother....
 		 The Bird Catcher
1997
1997 in poetry

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 		Charles Wright
Charles Wright (poet)

Charles Wright is an United States poet....
 		 Black Zodiac
1996
1996 in poetry

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 		Robert Hass
Robert Hass

Robert L. Hass is a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials....
 		 Sun Under Wood
1995
1995 in poetry

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 		William Matthews
William Matthews (poet)

William Matthews was an United States poet and essayist....
 		 Time and Money
1994
1994 in poetry

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 		Mark Rudman Rider
1993
1993 in poetry

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 		Mark Doty
Mark Doty

Mark Doty is a National Book Award winning, United States of America poet and memoirist. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, then received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont....
 		 My Alexandria
1992
1992 in poetry

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 		Hayden Carruth
Hayden Carruth

Hayden Carruth was an United States poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.He also taught for 5 months in Hawaii....
 		 Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
1991
1991 in poetry

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 		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....
 		 Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
1990
1990 in poetry

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 		Amy Gerstler
Amy Gerstler

Amy Gerstler is an United States poet. Her books of poetry include Ghost Girl ; Medicine - finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Society; Crown of Weeds ; Nerve Storm ; Bitter Angel - winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award and The True Bride ....
 		 Bitter Angel
1989
1989 in poetry

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 		Rodney Jones
Rodney Jones

Rodney Jones is an United States 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....
 		 Transparent Gestures
1988
1988 in poetry

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 		Donald Hall
Donald Hall

Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2004....
 		 That One Day
1987
1989 in poetry

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 		C.K. Williams Flesh and Blood
1986
1986 in poetry

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 		Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch an United States poet and academic who wrote a best seller about reading poetry. He is the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City ...
 		 Wild Gratitude
1985
1985 in poetry

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 		Louise Glück
Louise Glück

Louise Elisabeth Gl?ck is an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1999, and again in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
 		 The Triumph of Achilles
1984
1984 in poetry

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 		Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds is an United States poet and author of eight volumes of poetry....
 		 The Dead and the Living
1983
1983 in poetry

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 		James Merrill
James Merrill

James Ingram Merrill was a Pulitzer Prize winning United States poet. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled The Changing Light at Sandover, which dominated his later career....
 		 The Changing Light at Sandover
The Changing Light at Sandover

The Changing Light at Sandover is a 560-page Epic poetry poem by James Merrill . Sometimes described as a postmodern apocalypse epic, the poem was published in three separate installments between 1976 and 1980, and in its entirety in 1982....
1982
1982 in poetry

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 		Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt

Katha Pollitt is an American feminist poet, essayist and critic....
 		 Antarctic Traveler
1981
1981 in poetry

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 		A.R. Ammons A Coast of Trees
1980
1980 in poetry

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 		Frederick Seidel
Frederick Seidel

Frederick Seidel is an United States poet....
 		 Sunrise
1979
1979 in poetry

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 		Philip Levine
Philip Levine (poet)

Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry-winning United States poet. He taught for many years at California State University, Fresno. More recently he is the Distinguished Poet in Residence for the Creative Writing Program at New York University....
 		 Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere
1978
1978 in poetry

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 		L. E. Sissman Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman
1977
1977 in poetry

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 		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 in 1946....
 		 Day by Day
1976
1976 in poetry

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 		Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and writer. She was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, and a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956....
 		 Geography III
1975
1975 in poetry

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 		John Ashberry Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror


Criticism

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 United States poet, critic and scholar. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts to W. Donald Logan, Jr. and Nancy Damon Logan....
 		 The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin
2004 Patrick Neate
Patrick Neate

Patrick Neate is a United Kingdom novelist, journalist and playwright....
 		 Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet
2003 Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is a writer/essayist from 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 United States novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor....
 		 Tests of Time
2001 Martin Amis
Martin Amis

Martin Louis Amis is an England novelist, essayist, professor, and short story writer, and the son of the novelist and poet Kingsley Amis. His works include such novels as Money , London Fields and The Information ....
 		 The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
2000 Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick , is the daughter of William Ozick and Celia Regelson.She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she completed an M.A....
 		 Quarrel & Quandary
1999 Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentina writer born in Buenos Aires. He was brought up bilingual in Spanish and English. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, then traveled around Spain....
 		 Selected Non-Fictions
1998 Gary Giddins
Gary Giddins

Gary Giddins critic, author, 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 is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist. 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 United States novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor....
 		 Finding a Form
1995 Robert Darnton
Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton is an United States cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth-century France....
 		 The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
1994 Gerald Early
Gerald Early

Gerald Early is an essayist and Culture of the United States critic. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he is currently the Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English language, 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 an author, journalist, and historian specializing in politics, ideology, and Roman Catholicism. Between 1961 and 2008 inclusive, he has written nearly 40 books....
 		 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 United States anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey....
 		 Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
1987 Edwin Denby
Edwin Denby (poet)

Edwin Orr Denby was one of the most important and influential United States 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, essayist, and Nobel Prize in Literature. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1991....
 		 Less Than One: Selected Essays
1985 William H. Gass
William H. Gass

William Howard Gass is an United States novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor....
 		 Habitations of the Word: Essays
1984 Robert Hass
Robert Hass

Robert L. Hass is a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Time and Materials....
 		 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. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ....
 		 Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
1982 Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal is an United States novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer and politician. Early in his career he wrote the ground-breaking The City and the Pillar , which 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 from Kansas City, Missouri. 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 United States critic of poetry....
 		 Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
1979 Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels

Elaine Pagels, n?e 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 an American 20th century art history. Schapiro was born in ?iauliai, Lithuania....
 		 Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2)
1977 Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag was an United States author, filmmaker, philosopher, literary theorist, and activism....
 		 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....
1976 Bruno Bettelheim
Bruno Bettelheim

Bruno Bettelheim , a Jewish native of Austria, became known as a child psychology and writer after immigrating as a refugee to the United States in 1939....
 		 The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance and Importance of Fairy Tales
1975 Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell

Paul Fussell is a cultural and literary historian, and professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of books on eighteenth-century English literature, the world wars, and social class, among others....
 		 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.
  • 2008: PEN American Center
    PEN American Center

    PEN 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....
  • 2007: Emilie Buchwald, co-founder of the Milkweed Editions
    Milkweed Editions

    Milkweed Editions is an Independent publisher, 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....
     publishing house
  • 2006: John Leonard
    John Leonard (American critic)

    John Leonard was an United States literary criticism, Television criticism, film criticism, and cultural critic....
  • 2005: Bill Henderson, founder of Pushcart Press
    Pushcart Press

    Pushcart 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....
  • 2004: Louis D. Rubin, Jr., founder of Algonquin Press and the author and editor of more than 50 books
  • 2003: Studs Terkel
    Studs Terkel

    Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985, and is best remembered for his oral history of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago....
  • 2002: Richard Howard
    Richard Howard

    Richard Howard is a distinguished United States poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he now teaches....
  • 2001: Jason Epstein
    Jason Epstein

    Jason W. Epstein is an United States 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....
  • 2000: Barney Rosset
    Barney Rosset

    Barney Rosset , is the former owner of the publishing house Grove Press, and publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Evergreen Review....
  • 1999: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an United States poet, Painting, Liberalism, and the co-founder of City Lights Bookstore. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind , a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1...
     and Pauline Kael
    Pauline Kael

    Pauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career she was published by City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic....
  • 1998:
  • 1997: Leslie Fiedler
    Leslie Fiedler

    Leslie Aaron Fiedler was an USA 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....
  • 1996: Albert Murray
  • 1995: Alfred Kazin
    Alfred Kazin

    Alfred Kazin was an United States writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America....
     and Elizabeth Hardwick
  • 1994: William Maxwell
    William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.

    William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. was an United States novelist and Editing....
  • 1993:
  • 1992:
  • 1991:
  • 1990: Donald Keene
    Donald Keene

    Donald Lawrence Keene is a Japanology, scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese literature and Japanese culture. Keene is currently University Professor emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught for over fifty years....
  • 1989: James Laughlin
    James Laughlin

    James Laughlin was an United States poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishers.He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry Hughart and Marjory Rea Laughlin....
  • 1988:
  • 1987: Robert Giroux
    Robert Giroux

    Robert Giroux was an American book editor and publisher. While an editor with Harcourt_Trade_Publishers, he was hired away to work for Roger W....
  • 1986:
  • 1985:
  • 1984: The Library of America
    Library of America

    The Library of America is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature....
  • 1983:
  • 1982: Leslie A. Marchand
  • 1981:


Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

  • 2007: Sam Anderson (of New York
    New York (magazine)

    New York is a weekly magazine 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 offers less national news and more gossipy, tabloid-like stories, but has also published noteworthy articles on city and state politics and cultur...
     magazine).
  • 2006: Steven G. Kellman
  • 2005: Wyatt Mason
    Wyatt Mason

    Wyatt Mason is an United States critic, translator and essayist. Mason was raised in Manhattan. He attended The Fieldston School in New York and the University of Pennsylvania and studied literature at Columbia University....
    , A contributor to     Harper's
    Harper's Magazine

    Harper's Magazine is a monthly, general-interest magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. It is the second-oldest, continuously-published monthly magazine in the U.S.; current circulation is more than 220,000 issues....
    , The New Yorker
    The New Yorker

    The New Yorker is an United States magazine that publishes reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published 47 times per year, with five of these issues covering two-week spans....
    , The New Republic
    The New Republic

    The New Republic is an United States magazine of politics and the arts. It is published semimonthly and has a circulation of approximately 60,000....
  • 2004: David Orr, a contributor to The New York Times Book Review
    The New York Times Book Review

    The 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....
     and Poetry Magazine
  • 2003: Scott McLemee
  • 2002: Maureen N. McLane
  • 2001: Michael Gorra
  • 2000: Daniel Mendelsohn
    Daniel Mendelsohn

    Daniel Mendelsohn is an author and critic. He has written for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and many others....
  • 1999: Benjamin Schwarz
  • 1998: Albert Mobilio
  • 1997: Thomas Mallon
    Thomas Mallon

    Thomas 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....
  • 1996: Dennis Drabelle
  • 1995: Laurie Stone
  • 1994: JoAnn C. Gutin
  • 1993: Brigitte Frase
  • 1992: Elizabeth Ward
  • 1991: George Scialabba
    George Scialabba

    George 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....


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