Wednesday, May 15

National Book Critics Circle Award

1982 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1982 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1982 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. CaroThe greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The Times Robert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account o...Amazon1982 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBronx Primitive: Portraits in a ChildhoodKate SimonAmazonStolen LightningDaniel Lawrence O’KeefeAmazonThe Fate of the EarthJonathan SchellAmazonThe Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age,George F. KennanAmazon
1982 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1982 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1982 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerAntarctic TravelerKatha PollittPoems explore a diversity of subjects including ballet, Japanese paintings, and a satirical view of vegetables...Amazon1982 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistFinding the IslandsW.S. MerwinAmazonHundreds of FirefliesBrad LeithauserAmazonMonolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982Jack GilbertAmazonVisiting RitesPhyllis JanowitzAmazon
1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerMinor CharactersJoyce JohnsonJoyce Johnson was part of the extraordinary circle that included Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi and Hettie Jones, Gregory Corso, Robert Frank, Willem de Kooning and Frank Kline and was witness to the art and lives of these artists who formed the Beats, a movement t...Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistBlack Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett JustKenneth R. ManningAmazonEleniNicholas GageAmazonThe Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeth’sE. Fuller TorreyAmazonThomas CarlyleFred KaplanAmazon
1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerHugging the Shore: Essays and CriticismJohn UpdikeWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth ...Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAll American MusicJohn RockwellAmazonArt and Ardor: EssaysCynthia OzickAmazonThe Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth CenturySvetlana AlpersAmazonThe Odes of John KeatsHelen VendlerAmazon
1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerIronweedWilliam KennedyThe beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Francis Phelan, ex-big-leaguer, part-time gravedigger, full-time bum with the gift of gab, is back in town. He left Albany twenty-two years earlier after ...Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistCathedralRaymond CarverAmazonDuring the Reign of the QueenJoan ChaseAmazonMagnetic Field (s)Ron LoewinsohnAmazonThe Anatomy LessonPhilip RothAmazon
1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White HouseSeymour M. HershPrice of Power examines Henry Kissinger’s influence on the development of the foreign policy of the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon....Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistChildren of WarRoger RosenblattAmazonDistant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic FishermanWilliam W. WarnerAmazonPresent History: On Nuclear War, Detente and Other ControversiesTheodore DraperAmazonRevolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern WorldDavid S. LandesAmazon
1983 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerThe Changing Light at SandoverJames MerrillA series of mystical poems explores the author's experiences communicating through a Ouija board with a spirit named Ephraim who guides the poet through a series of conversations with W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, Plato, and others....Amazon1983 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistErosionJorie GrahamAmazonPicture BrideCathy SongAmazonTarC.K. WilliamsAmazonThe KingfisherAmy ClampittAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerDostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-59Joseph Frank...Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistHome Before DarkSusan CheeverAmazonJosephine HerbstElinor LangerAmazonOne Writer’s BeginningsEudora WeltyAmazonWalt Whitman: The Making of a PoetPaul ZweigAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerTwentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on PoetryRobert Hass...Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistDawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern EraDonald KeeneAmazonHazlitt: The Mind of a CriticDavid BromwichAmazonThe Innocent EyeRoger ShattuckAmazonThe Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern OblivionLeo SteinbergAmazon
1984 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerLove MedicineLouise ErdrichThe first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a fictional landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become iconic – Love Medicine is the story of three generations of Ojibwe families. Set against the tumultuous politics of the rese...Amazon1984 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistFamily DancingDavid LeavittAmazonForeign AffairsAlison LurieAmazonMachine DreamsJayne Anne PhillipsAmazonStones for IbarraHarriet DoerrAmazon