1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner
![Young Men and Fire](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580937462-59929-image-3.jpg)
Young Men and Fire
Norman Maclean
On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were…
1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist
![Breaking the Maya Code](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580869071-501-image-3.jpg)
Breaking the Maya Code
Michael D. Coe
![Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
![Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581010840-4734-image-3.jpg)
Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America
Donald Katz
![The Diversity of Life](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580865429-200-image-3.jpg)