Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous Christopher Bonanos Amazon 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder Caroline Fraser Amazon 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life Ruth Franklin Amazon 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley Charlotte Gordon Amazon 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh John Lahr Amazon 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Jonathan Swift: His Life And His World Leo Damrosch Amazon 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert A. Caro Amazon 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography George F. Kennan: An American Life John Lewis Gaddis Amazon 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography How To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Sarah Bakewell Amazon 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Cheever: A Life Blake Bailey Amazon 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul Patrick French Amazon 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer Tim Jeal Amazon 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon Julie Phillips Amazon 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin Amazon 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography de Kooning: An American Master Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan Amazon 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Khrushchev: The Man and His Era William Taubman Amazon