1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
Henry Wiencek
A quintessential American story of slavery’s lasting power traces the black and white sides of a slaveholding family’s history, showing the inspiring rise of the family’s black descendents and the fall of the formerly wealthy whites. Reprint. 20,000 first …
1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Shortlist
Coleridge: Vol. II: Darker Reflections
Richard Holmes
Morgan: American Financier
Jean Strouse
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Judith Thurman
