National Book Critics Circle Award

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The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English.

The main awards fall into six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir/Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism. Awards are not given to titles that have been previously published in English, such as re-issues and paperback editions. They also do not "consider cookbooks, self help books (including inspirational literature), reference books, picture books or children's books."^[1] 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."

1 2007 finalists and winners
2 Fiction
3 General nonfiction
4 Memoir/Autobiography
5 Biography
6 Biography/Autobiography (discontinued)
7 Poetry
8 Criticism
9 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
10 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
11 References
12 External links

2007 finalists and winners

The 2007 award winners (bold) were announced on March 6, 2008.^[2]^[3]

Fiction

Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games (HarperCollins)
Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead)
Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men (Dial Press)
Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter (Ecco)
Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher (Simon and Schuster)

General nonfiction

Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism (Hill & Wang)
Daniel Walker Howe, 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 (Doubleday)
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (Doubleday)
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne BKs/St. Martin’s)

Autobiography

Joshua Clark, Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone (Free Press)
Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying (Knopf)
Joyce Carol Oates, The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 (Ecco)
Sara Paretsky, Writing in an Age of Silence (Verso)
Anna Politkovskaya, Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia (Random House)

Biography

Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (Yale University Press)
Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton (Knopf)
Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison (Knopf)
John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Knopf)
Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy (Penguin Press)

Poetry

Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf)
Matthea Harvey, Modern Life (Graywolf)
Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking (Flood)
Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood)
Tadeusz Różewicz, New Poems (Archipelago)

Criticism

Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (Pantheon)
Julia Alvarez, Once Upon a Quniceanera (Viking)
Susan Faludi, 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 magazine
Ron Charles
Walter Kirn
Adam Kirsch

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

Emilie Buchwald, writer, editor, and founding publisher of Milkweed Editions in Minneapolis

Fiction

2007	Junot Diaz	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss
2005	E.L. Doctorow	The March
2004	Marilynne Robinson	Gilead
2003	Edward P. Jones	The Known World
2002	Ian McEwan	Atonement
2001	W.G. Sebald	Austerlitz
2000	Jim Crace	Being Dead
1999	Jonathan Lethem	Motherless Brooklyn
1998	Alice Munro	The Love of a Good Woman
1997	Penelope Fitzgerald	The Blue Flower
1996	Gina Berriault	Women in Their Beds
1995	Stanley Elkin	Mrs. Ted Bliss
1994	Carol Shields	The Stone Diaries
1993	Ernest J. Gaines	A Lesson Before Dying
1992	Cormac McCarthy	All the Pretty Horses
1991	Jane Smiley	A Thousand Acres
1990	John Updike	Rabbit at Rest
1989	E.L. Doctorow	Billy Bathgate
1988	Bharati Mukherjee	The Middleman and Other Stories
1987	Philip Roth	The Counterlife
1986	Reynolds Price	Kate Vaiden
1985	Anne Tyler	The Accidental Tourist
1984	Louise Erdrich	Love Medicine
1983	William Kennedy	Ironweed
1982	Stanley Elkin	George Mills
1981	John Updike	Rabbit Is Rich
1980	Shirley Hazzard	The Transit Of Venus
1979	Thomas Flanagan	The Year of the French
1978	John Cheever	The Stories of John Cheever
1977	Toni Morrison	Song Of Solomon
1976	John Gardner	October Light
1975	E.L. Doctorow	Ragtime

General nonfiction

2007	Harriet A. Washington	Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present
2006	Simon Schama	Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
2005	Svetlana Alexievich	Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
2004	Diarmaid MacCulloch	The Reformation: A History
2003	Paul Hendrickson	Sons of Mississippi
2002	Samantha Power	A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
2001	Nicholson Baker	Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
2000	Ted Conover	Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
1999	Jonathan Weiner	Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
1998	Philip Gourevitch	We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
1997	Anne Fadiman	The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
1996	Jonathan Raban	Bad Land: An American Romance
1995	Jonathan Harr	A Civil Action
1994	Lynn H. Nicholas	The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
1993	Alan Lomax	The Land Where the Blues Began
1992	Norman Maclean	Young Men and Fire
1991	Susan Faludi	Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
1990	Shelby Steele	The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
1989	Michael Dorris	The Broken Cord
1988	Taylor Branch	Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63,
1987	Richard Rhodes	The Making of the Atomic Bomb
1986	John W. Dower	War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
1985	J. Anthony Lukas	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
1984	Freeman Dyson	Weapons and Hope
1983	Seymour M. Hersh	The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
1982	Robert Caro	The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
1981	Stephen Jay Gould	The Mismeasure of Man
1980	Ronald Steel	Walter Lippmann and the American Century
1979	Telford Taylor	Munich: The Price of Peace
1978	Maureen Howard	Facts of Life
1977	Walter Jackson Bate	Samuel Johnson
1976	Maxine Hong Kingston	The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
1975	R. W. B. Lewis	Edith Wharton: A Biography

Memoir/Autobiography

2007	Edwidge Danticat	Brother, I'm Dying
2006	Daniel Mendelsohn	The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
2005	Francine du Plessix Gray	Them: A Memoir of Parents

Biography

2007	Tim Jeal	Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
2006	Julie Phillips	James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
2005	Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin	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	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	Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
1999	Henry Wiencek	The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
1998	Sylvia Nasar	A Beautiful Mind
1997	James Tobin	Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
1996	Frank McCourt	Angela's Ashes
1995	Robert Polito	Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
1994	Mikal Gilmore	Shot in the Heart
1993	Edmund White	Genet
1992	Carol Brightman	Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World
1991	Philip Roth	Patrimony: A True Story
1990	Robert A. Caro	Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II
1989	Geoffrey C. Ward	A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
1988	Richard Ellman	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	Henry James: A Life
1984	Joseph Frank	Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
1983	Joyce Johnson	Minor Characters

Poetry

2007	Mary Jo Bang	Elegy
2006	Troy Jollimore	Tom Thomson in Purgatory
2005	Jack Gilbert	Refusing Heaven
2004	Adrienne Rich	The School Among the Ruins
2003	Susan Stewart	Columbarium
2002	B.H. Fairchild	Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
2001	Albert Goldbarth	Saving Lives
2000	Judy Jordan	Carolina Ghost Woods
1999	Ruth Stone	Ordinary Words
1998	Marie Ponsot	The Bird Catcher
1997	Charles Wright	Black Zodiac
1996	Robert Hass	Sun Under Wood
1995	William Matthews	Time and Money
1994	Mark Rudman	Rider
1993	Mark Doty	My Alexandria
1992	Hayden Carruth	Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
1991	Albert Goldbarth	Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
1990	Amy Gerstler	Bitter Angel
1989	Rodney Jones	Transparent Gestures
1988	Donald Hall	That One Day
1987	C.K. Williams	Flesh and Blood
1986	Edward Hirsch	Wild Gratitude
1985	Louise Glück	The Triumph of Achilles
1984	Sharon Olds	The Dead and the Living
1983	James Merrill	The Changing Light at Sandover
1982	Katha Pollitt	Antarctic Traveler
1981	A.R. Ammons	A Coast of Trees
1980	Frederick Seidel	Sunrise
1979	Philip Levine	Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere
1978	L. E. Sissman	Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman
1977	Robert Lowell	Day by Day
1976	Elizabeth Bishop	Geography III
1975	John Ashberry	Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror

Criticism

2007	Alex Ross	The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
2006	Lawrence Weschler	Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
2005	William Logan	The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin
2004	Patrick Neate	Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet
2003	Rebecca Solnit	River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
2002	William H. Gass	Tests of Time
2001	Martin Amis	The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
2000	Cynthia Ozick	Quarrel & Quandary
1999	Jorge Luis Borges	Selected Non-Fictions
1998	Gary Giddins	Visions of Jazz: The First Century
1997	Mario Vargas Llosa	Making Waves
1996	William H. Gass	Finding a Form
1995	Robert Darnton	The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
1994	Gerald Early	The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
1993	John Dizikes	Opera in America: A Cultural History
1992	Garry Wills	Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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	Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
1987	Edwin Denby	Dance Writings
1986	Joseph Brodsky	Less Than One: Selected Essays
1985	William H. Gass	Habitations of the Word: Essays
1984	Robert Hass	Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
1983	John Updike	Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
1982	Gore Vidal	The Second American Revolution and Other Essays
1981	Virgil Thomson	A Virgil Thomson Reader
1980	Helen Vendler	Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
1979	Elaine Pagels	The Gnostic Gospels
1978	Meyer Schapiro	Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2)
1977	Susan Sontag	On Photography
1976	Bruno Bettelheim	The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance and Importance of Fairy Tales
1975	Paul Fussell	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.

2007: Emilie Buchwald, co-founder of the Milkweed Editions publishing house
2006: John Leonard
2005: Bill Henderson, founder of Pushcart Press
2004: Louis D. Rubin, Jr., founder of Algonquin Press and the author and editor of more than 50 books
2003: Studs Terkel
2002: Richard Howard
2001: Jason Epstein
2000: Barney Rosset
1999: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Pauline Kael
1998:
1997: Leslie Fiedler
1996: Albert Murray
1995: Alfred Kazin and Elizabeth Hardwick
1994: William Maxwell
1993:
1992:
1991:
1990: Donald Keene
1989: James Laughlin
1988:
1987: Robert Giroux
1986:
1985:
1984: The Library of America
1983:
1982: Leslie A. Marchand
1981:

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

2007: Sam Anderson (of New York magazine).
2006: Steven G. Kellman
2005: Wyatt Mason, A contributor to Harper's, The New Yorker, The New Republic
2004: David Orr, a contributor to The New York Times Book Review and Poetry Magazine
2003: Scott McLemee
2002: Maureen N. McLane
2001: Michael Gorra
2000: Daniel Mendelsohn
1999: Benjamin Schwarz
1998: Albert Mobilio
1997: Thomas Mallon
1996: Dennis Drabelle
1995: Laurie Stone
1994: JoAnn C. Gutin
1993: Brigitte Frase
1992: Elizabeth Ward
1991: George Scialabba

References

^ Frequently Asked Questions. National Book Critics Circle (undated). Retrieved on 2008-03-07.
^ The National Book Critics Circle Award. National Book Critics Circle (undated). Retrieved on 2008-03-07.
^ The 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists. Critical Mass: The Blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors (2008-01-12). Retrieved on 2008-03-07.