2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

Cheever: A Life

Blake Bailey

John Cheever was one of the foremost chroniclers of post-war America, a peerless writer who on his death in 1982 left some of the best short stories of the twentieth century, a number of highly acclaimed novels, and a private journal that runs to an astoni…

Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone

Stanislao G. Pugliese

Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor

Brad Gooch

Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

Martha A. Sandweiss

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

Benjamin Moser