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National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle is a not-for-profit organization of book editors and critics with some 600 members nationwide. The organization was founded in 1974 to encourage and raise the quality of book criticism in all media and to create a way for critics to communicate with one another about their professional concerns. The NBCC has a Website at www.bookcritics.org.

2006 Winners

Fiction

Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (Atlantic Monthly Press)

Non-Fiction

Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (Ecco)

Biography

Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr:. The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (St. Martin's Press)

Autobiography

Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (HarperCollins)

Poetry

Troy Jollimore, Tom Thomson in Purgatory (Margie/Intuit House)

Criticism

Lawrence Weschler, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (McSweeney's)

2005 Winners

Fiction

E.L. Doctorow, The March (Random House)

Non-Fiction

Svetlana Alexievich, Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Dalkey Archive Press)

Biography

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf)

Autobiography

Francine du Plessix Gray, Them: A Memoir of Parents (Penguin Press)

Poetry

Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems (Knopf)

2004 Winners

Fiction

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Non-Fiction

Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation: A History (Viking)

Biography/Autobiography

Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, De Kooning: An American Master (Knopf)

Poetry

Adrienne Rich, The School Among the Ruins (Norton)

Criticism

Patrick Neate, Where You’re At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet (Riverhead)

2003 Winners

Fiction

Edward P. Jones, The Known World (Amistad/HarperCollins)

Non-Fiction

Paul Hendrickson, Sons of Mississippi (Knopf)

Biography/Autobiography

William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Norton)

Poetry

Susan Stewart, Columbarium (University of Chicago Press)

Criticism

Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (Viking)

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