Friday, March 29

National Book Critics Circle Award

1977 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerSamuel JohnsonW. Jackson BateA biographical study of the eighteenth-century lexicographer and critic combines narrative with psychological insights....Amazon1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistComing Into the CountryJohn McPheeAmazonDispatchesMichael HerrAmazonThe Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human IntelligenceCarl SaganAmazonThe Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914David McCulloughAmazon
1977 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerDay by DayRobert LowellThe last book published before the poet's death, Day by Day was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award prize for poetry in 1977 and cements Lowell's reputation as one of the great poetic voices of the century....Amazon1977 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistHouseboat DaysJohn AshberyAmazonLucky LifeGerald SternAmazonOut-of-the-Body TravelStanley PlumlyAmazonThe Fuhrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in ProgressW.D. SnodgrassAmazon
1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerModern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries, Selected PapersMeyer SchapiroTraces the evolution from cultured artists who added literary and historical elements to their paintings to the painters who relied on sensibility alone, with a discussion of the social meaning of abstract art...Amazon1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAnd I Worked at the Writer’s Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978Malcolm CowleyAmazonOrientalismEdward W. SaidAmazonThe Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and ReviewsEudora WeltyAmazonThe World Within the Word: EssaysWilliam H. GassAmazon
1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Stories of John CheeverJohn CheeverNATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Award When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic...Amazon1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistFinal PaymentsMary GordonAmazonThe CoupJohn UpdikeAmazonThe World According to GarpJohn IrvingAmazonWrinklesCharles SimmonsAmazon
1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerFacts of LifeMaureen HowardIn this extraordinary autobiography -- now a classic of the genre -- one of the literary community's most distinguished voices brings all of her novelistic powers to the facts of her own life. This newly released edition features a new Introduction by Maur...AmazonInventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of IndependenceGarry WillisFrom one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the docu...Amazon1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14t...
1978 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry Winnered., Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. SissmanPeter Davison...Amazon1978 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistNew & Selected Things Taking PlaceMay SwensonAmazonSpectral Emanations: New and Selected PoemsJohn HollanderAmazonThe Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977Adrienne RichAmazonThe Late HourMark StrandAmazon
1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Gnostic GospelsElaine PagelsAs discussed in The Da Vinci Code... Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus. In 1945 fifty-two papyrus texts, including gospels and other secret documents, were found concealed in an...Amazon1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistA Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of StendhalRobert Alter with Carol CosmanAmazonAmerica Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth CenturyFrances FitzGeraldAmazonDecadence: The Strange Life of an EpithetRichard GilmanAmazonThe Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary ImaginationSandra M. Gilbert & Susan GubarAmazon
1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Year of the FrenchThomas FlanaganIn 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebell...Amazon1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistKing of the Jews: A Novel of the HolocaustLeslie EpsteinAmazonSleepless NightsElizabeth HardwickAmazonSophie’s ChoiceWilliam StyronAmazonThe Executioner’s Song: A True Life NovelNorman MailerAmazonThe Ghost WriterPhilip RothAmazon
1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerMunich: The Price of PeaceTelford Taylor...Amazon1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAfrican Calliope: A Journey to the SudanEdward HoaglandAmazonGodel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BrainDouglas HofstadterAmazonThe Right StuffTom WolfeAmazonThe White AlbumJoan DidionAmazon
1979 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerAshes and 7 Years from SomewherePhilip Levine...Amazon1979 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistBlue Wine and Other PoemsJohn HollanderAmazonGoshawk, AntelopeDavid SmithAmazonNotes From the CastleHoward MossAmazonThe Venetian VespersAnthony HechtAmazon