1982 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

George Mills

Stanley Elkin

Elkin’s National Book Critics Circle Award–winning classic: A compelling novel of one man’s journey to break free from a thousand-year-old family curse Since the time of the First Crusade, every generation of the Mills family has been consigned by fate to …

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Anne Tyler

Levitation: Five Fictions

Cynthia Ozick

Shiloh and Other Stories

Bobbie Ann Mason

The Color Purple

Alice Walker