National Book Critics Circle Award1998

Given by National Book Critics Circle

Other Names: John Leonard Award, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
24 Works 57,785 Books 1,081 Reviews ½ 4.0
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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March 21: Winner2023 Recent
January 25: Finalist2023 Recent

Winner 5

Finalist 24

WorkCategoryYear
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia NasarBiography/Autobiography1998
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron ChernowBiography/Autobiography1998
Rocket Boys by Jr. Homer H. HickamBiography/Autobiography1998
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David RemnickBiography/Autobiography1998
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story by Amanda VaillBiography/Autobiography1998
Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary GiddinsCriticism1998
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold BloomCriticism1998
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence by Geoff DyerCriticism1998
Hip Hop America by Nelson GeorgeCriticism1998
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert PinskyCriticism1998
The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice MunroFiction1998
The Hours by Michael CunninghamFiction1998
Preston Falls: A Novel by David GatesFiction1998
Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie MooreFiction1998
No Lease on Life: A Novel by Lynne TillmanFiction1998
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip GourevitchGeneral Nonfiction1998
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira BerlinGeneral Nonfiction1998
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam HochschildGeneral Nonfiction1998
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by Roy PorterGeneral Nonfiction1998
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon WinchesterGeneral Nonfiction1998
The Bird Catcher by Marie PonsotPoetry1998
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne CarsonPoetry1998
Thieves of Paradise by Yusef KomunyakaaPoetry1998
Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler: Poems by Thylias MossPoetry1998

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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.

Website

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

(English, Member-written)

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