National Book Critics Circle Award1984

Given by National Book Critics Circle

Other Names: John Leonard Award, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
25 Works 14,834 Books 215 Reviews ½ 3.9
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating show more with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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January 25: Finalist2023 Recent

Winner 5

WorkCategoryYear
Dostoevsky: the years of ordeal 1850-1859 by Joseph FrankBiography/Autobiography1984
20th Century Pleasures by Robert HassCriticism1984
Love Medicine by Louise ErdrichFiction1984
Weapons and Hope by Freeman DysonGeneral Nonfiction1984
The Dead and the Living by Sharon OldsPoetry1984

Finalist 25

WorkCategoryYear
Dostoevsky: the years of ordeal 1850-1859 by Joseph FrankBiography/Autobiography1984
Home Before Dark by Susan CheeverBiography/Autobiography1984
Josephine Herbst by Elinor LangerBiography/Autobiography1984
One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora WeltyBiography/Autobiography1984
Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet by Paul ZweigBiography/Autobiography1984
20th Century Pleasures by Robert HassCriticism1984
Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic by David BromwichCriticism1984
The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature and the Arts by Roger ShattuckCriticism1984
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion by Leo SteinbergCriticism1984
Criticism1984
Love Medicine by Louise ErdrichFiction1984
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet DoerrFiction1984
Family Dancing by David LeavittFiction1984
Foreign Affairs by Alison LurieFiction1984
Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne PhillipsFiction1984
Weapons and Hope by Freeman DysonGeneral Nonfiction1984
Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. ConnellGeneral Nonfiction1984
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert DarntonGeneral Nonfiction1984
Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar WidemanGeneral Nonfiction1984
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by David S. WymanGeneral Nonfiction1984
The Dead and the Living by Sharon OldsPoetry1984
Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic by Dick AllenPoetry1984
A Wave by John AshberyPoetry1984
Ground Work: Before the War by Robert DuncanPoetry1984
Other Side of River by Charles WrightPoetry1984

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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Finalists
(English, Member-written)
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Website

Winners
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