2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner
![Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580957486-1793-image-3.jpg)
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer
Tim Jeal
Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist – a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley’s life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of h…
2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Shortlist
![Edith Wharton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580865005-165-image-3.jpg)
Edith Wharton
Hermione Lee
![Ralph Ellison](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580967558-2624-image-3.jpg)
Ralph Ellison
Arnold Rampersad
![The Life Of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581045092-7294-image-3.jpg)
The Life Of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
John Richardson
![Thomas Hardy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580953367-1453-image-3.jpg)