1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

On Photography

Susan Sontag

Winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, “On Photography” first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as ” a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs…

Afterimages

Arlene Croce

Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties

Morris Dickstein

Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays, 1973-1976

Gore Vidal

Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing

Richard Poirier