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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerPatrimony: A True StoryPhilip RothPatrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that ...Amazon1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistAnne Sexton: A BiographyDiane MiddlebrookAmazonMaus IIArt SpiegelmanAmazonThe Journals of John CheeverJohn CheeverAmazonThe Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius RamanujanRobert KanigelAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerHolocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of MemoryLawrence L. LangerAnnotation This important and original book is the first sustained analysis of the unique ways in which oral testimony of survivors contributes to our understanding of the Holocaust. Langer argues that it is necessary to deromanticize the survival experien...Amazon1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistFemale Perversions: The Temptations of Emma BovaryLouise J. KaplanAmazonInventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works & Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth CenturyNorman F. CantorAmazonOdd JobsJohn UpdikeAmazonVulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other MediaJ. HobermanAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerA Thousand AcresJane SmileyThis powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that ...Amazon1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistMatingNorman RushAmazonThe Gold Bug VariationsRichard PowersAmazonTypical AmericanGish JenAmazonWartime LiesLouis BegleyAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerBacklash: The Undeclared War Against American WomenSusan FaludiWhat has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes 'is not their equality' - which they don't yet have - but the rising pressure to halt, even worse, women's quest for that equality....Amazon1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistLonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the UniverseDennis OverbyeAmazonPraying for SheetrockMelissa Fay GreeneAmazonSavage Inequalities: Children in America’s SchoolsJonathan KozolAmazonWhich Side Are You on? Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its BackThomas GeogheganAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerHeaven and Earth: A CosmologyAlbert GoldbarthFocusing with equal energy at the imposing sky and at our own home planet, Albert Goldbarth moves from hosannah-choiring angels to a single peach pit glistening on the tongue of Madame Renoir, from the sweep of the earth's ecocycles to the particles of qua...Amazon1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistAn Atlas of the Difficult WorldAdrienne RichAmazonJaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected PoemsDiane AckermanAmazonThe Ether Dome and Other Poems: New & Selected (1979-1991)Allen GrossmanAmazonWhat Work IsPhilip LevineAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Nebula, Nebula - Novel

1991 Nebula – Novel Winner and Nominees

1991 Nebula - Novel WinnerTehanu: The Last Book of EarthseaUrsula K. Le GuinWhen Sparrowhawk, the Archmage of Earthsea, returns from the dark land stripped of his magic powers, he finds refuge with the aging widow Tenar and a crippled girl child who carries an unknown destiny....Amazon1991 Nebula - Novel ShortlistMary ReillyValerie MartinAmazonOnly Begotten DaughterJames MorrowAmazonRedshift RendezvousJohn E. StithAmazonThe Fall of HyperionDan SimmonsAmazonWhite JennaJane YolenAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Novel

1991 Philip K. Dick – Novel Winner and Nominees

1991 Philip K. Dick - Novel WinnerPoints of DeparturePat MurphyWinner of the Philip K. Dick Award: Nineteen stories of power and humanity from a science fiction master with otherworldly talent In a small house in the desert, a chimp named Rachel watches Tarzan on TV. Although her body is an ape’s, her mind is somethin...Amazon1991 Philip K. Dick - Novel ShortlistClarke County, SpaceAllen SteeleAmazonThe Oxygen BaronsGregory FeeleyAmazonThe Schizogenic ManRaymond HarrisAmazonWinterlongElizabeth HandAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1991 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1991 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerJackson Pollock: An American SagaSteven Naifeh and Gregory White SmithBased on interviews with more than 850 people, this biography profiles the troubled life of the enigmatic avant-garde artist whose controversial work changed the definition of modern art...Amazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1991 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1991 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerRabbit at RestJohn UpdikeWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal, and the National Book Critics Circle Award In John Updike’s fourth and final novel about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the hero has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart....Amazon1991 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistMean SpiritLinda HoganAmazonThe Things They CarriedTim O'BrienAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1991 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1991 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerThe AntsBert Hölldobler and Edward O. WilsonDiscusses the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of ants This book talks about the ants and their habitats and where they came from and arrived....Amazon1991 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistLooking for a ShipJohn McPheeAmazonRiver of Traps: A Village LifeWilliam duBuys and Alex HarrisAmazon