Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Charles Darwin: The Power of Place Janet Browne Amazon 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson Adam Sisman Amazon 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan Herbert P. Bix Amazon 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White Henry Wiencek Amazon 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography A Beautiful Mind Sylvia Nasar Amazon 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Ernie Pyle’s War James Tobin Amazon 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt Amazon 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson Robert Polito Amazon 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Shot in the Heart Mikal Gilmore Amazon 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Genet Edmund White Amazon 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World Carol Brightman Amazon 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Patrimony: A True Story Philip Roth Amazon 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert Caro Amazon 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt Geoffrey C. Ward Amazon 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann Amazon 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Chaucer: His Life, His Work, His World Donald Howard Amazon 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941 Arnold Rampersad Amazon 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Henry James: A Life Leon Edel Amazon 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-59 Joseph Frank Amazon 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Minor Characters Joyce Johnson Amazon