1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner
The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels
As discussed in The Da Vinci Code… Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus. In 1945 fifty-two papyrus texts, including gospels and other secret documents, were found concealed in an…
1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist
A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal
Robert Alter with Carol Cosman
America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century
Frances FitzGerald
Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet
Richard Gilman
