1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior

Jonathan Weiner

How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer’s Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer, and his asssociates are in the process of finding an…

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John W. Dower

Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History

Jane Brox

I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory

Patricia Hampl

The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon’s Exile on Saint Helena

Jean-Paul Kauffmann