National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerJonathan Swift: His Life And His WorldLeo DamroschFrom a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language...Amazon2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistBach: Music In The Castle Of HeavenJohn Eliot GardinerAmazonBirth Certificate: The Story Of Danilo KisMark ThompsonAmazonHolding On Upside Down: The Life And Work Of Marianne MooreLinda LeavellAmazonLawrence In Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly And The Making Of The Modern Middle EastScott AndersonAmazon

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerTennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the FleshJohn LahrOn 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...Amazon2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography Shortlist“Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New DirectionsIan S. MacNivenAmazonRebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall JacksonS.C. GwynneAmazonThe Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A BiographyMiriam PawelAmazonWilliam Wells Brown: An African American LifeEzra GreenspanAmazon

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerRomantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary ShelleyCharlotte Gordon"Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never ...Amazon2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistCuster’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New AmericaT.J. StilesAmazonDietrich and Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two LivesKarin Wieland translated by Shelley FrischAmazonFortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes BoothTerry AlfordAmazonStalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous...

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerShirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted LifeRuth FranklinInstantly heralded for its "masterful" and "thrilling" portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House. In this "remarkable...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistBlack Elk: The Life of an American VisionaryJoe JacksonAmazonGuilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De QuinceyFrances WilsonAmazonKrazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and WhiteMichael TisserandAmazonMoscow Nights: The Van Cliburn StoryNigel CliffAmazon

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerPrairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls WilderCaroline FraserRevealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ......Amazon2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistGorbachev: His Life and TimesWilliam TaubmanAmazonHoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary TimesKenneth WhyteAmazonThe Invention of Angela Carter: A BiographyEdmund GordonAmazonThe Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle CreekHoward MarkelAmazon

2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerFlash: The Making of Weegee the FamousChristopher BonanosThe first comprehensive biography of Weegee—photographer, “psychic,” ultimate New Yorker—from Christopher Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid. Arthur Fellig’s ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he rena...Amazon2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistInseperable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American HistoryYunte HuangAmazonNinety-Nine Glimpses of Princess MargaretCraig BrownAmazonThe Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World he CreatedJane LeavyAmazonThe Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern CenturyMark LamsterAmazon