1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

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Joyce Johnson

Joyce Johnson was part of the extraordinary circle that included Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi and Hettie Jones, Gregory Corso, Robert Frank, Willem de Kooning and Frank Kline and was witness to the art and lives of these artists who formed the Beats, a movement t…

Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just

Kenneth R. Manning

Eleni

Nicholas Gage

The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeth’s

E. Fuller Torrey

Thomas Carlyle

Fred Kaplan