2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner
![Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580846902-58904-image-3.jpg)
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr
On 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show’s thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, ‘l…
2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Shortlist
![“Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580854700-59547-image-3.jpg)
“Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions
Ian S. MacNiven
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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
S.C. Gwynne
![The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581030259-6334-image-3.jpg)
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
Miriam Pawel
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