Tuesday, December 3

National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place Janet Browne

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place

Janet Browne

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson Adam Sisman

Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson

Adam Sisman

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Herbert P. Bix

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Herbert P. Bix

1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White Henry Wiencek

The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White

Henry Wiencek

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

A Beautiful Mind Sylvia Nasar

A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Ernie Pyle’s War James Tobin

Ernie Pyle’s War

James Tobin

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt

Angela’s Ashes

Frank McCourt

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson Robert Polito

Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson

Robert Polito

1994 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Shot in the Heart Mikal Gilmore

Shot in the Heart

Mikal Gilmore

1993 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Genet Edmund White

Genet

Edmund White

1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World Carol Brightman

Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World

Carol Brightman

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Patrimony: A True Story Philip Roth

Patrimony: A True Story

Philip Roth

1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Robert Caro

1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt Geoffrey C. Ward

A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt

Geoffrey C. Ward

1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann

Oscar Wilde

Richard Ellmann

1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Chaucer: His Life, His Work, His World Donald Howard

Chaucer: His Life, His Work, His World

Donald Howard

1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941 Arnold Rampersad

The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941

Arnold Rampersad

1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Henry James: A Life Leon Edel

Henry James: A Life

Leon Edel

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-59 Joseph Frank

Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-59

Joseph Frank

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography

Minor Characters Joyce Johnson

Minor Characters

Joyce Johnson