1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner
![Finding a Form](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581020034-5490-image-3.jpg)
Finding a Form
William Gass
“Gass’s commitment to ideas, concentrated energy and originality shine through on every page. . . . Ezra Pound as a failed modernist; the lives of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein . . . the avant garde . . . the demands of autobiography; the Pulitzer Prize Commi…
1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist
![Art for Art’s Sake and Literary Life](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580874179-923-image-3.jpg)
Art for Art’s Sake and Literary Life
Gene H. Bell-Villada
![Fame and Folly](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580864122-92-image-3.jpg)
Fame and Folly
Cynthia Ozick
![The Love Affair as a Work of Art](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580983368-3893-image-3.jpg)
The Love Affair as a Work of Art
Dan Hofstadter
![The True Story of the Novel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580945543-60597-image-3.jpg)