2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner
![James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581049208-7627-image-3.jpg)
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
Julie Phillips
James Tiptree, Jr. burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hard-edged, provocative short stories. Hailed as a brilliant masculine writer with a deep sympathy for his female characters, he penned such classics as Houston, Houston,…
2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Shortlist
![A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580849134-59089-image-3.jpg)
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler
Jason Roberts
![At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580873804-892-image-3.jpg)
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968
Taylor Branch
![Flaubert: A Biography](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581019441-5441-image-3.jpg)
Flaubert: A Biography
Frederick Brown
![The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580852925-59403-image-3.jpg)