1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner
![Ironweed](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580855907-59647-image-3.jpg)
Ironweed
William Kennedy
The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Francis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after …
1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Shortlist
![Cathedral](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580867545-375-image-3.jpg)
Cathedral
Raymond Carver
![During the Reign of the Queen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581025087-5907-image-3.jpg)
During the Reign of the Queen
Joan Chase
![Magnetic Field (s)](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580982315-3806-image-3.jpg)
Magnetic Field (s)
Ron Loewinsohn
![The Anatomy Lesson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580875389-1023-image-3.jpg)