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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography

1999 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1999 Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography WinnerLindberghA. Scott BergLindbergh was the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic non-stop from New York to Paris, in 1927. This awe-inspiring fight made him the most celebrated men of his day-a romantic symbol of the new aviation age. However, tragedy struck in 1932, where his ba...Amazon
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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

1999 Pulitzer Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1999 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction WinnerThe HoursMichael CunninghamIn The Hours, Michael Cunningham—widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation—draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of l...Amazon1999 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction ShortlistCloudsplitterRussell BanksAmazonThe Poisonwood BibleBarbara KingsolverAmazon
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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction

1999 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1999 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction WinnerAnnals of the Former WorldJohn McPheeAs clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction. Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction....Amazon1999 Pulitzer Prize - General Nonfiction ShortlistCrime and Punishment in AmericaElliott CurrieAmazonThe Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They DoJudith Rich HarrisAmazon
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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - History

1999 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1999 Pulitzer Prize - History WinnerGotham: A History of New York City to 1898Edwin G. Burrows and Mike WallaceTo European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, ...Amazon1999 Pulitzer Prize - History ShortlistIn a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and SurvivalPaula Mitchell MarksAmazonThis New Ocean: The Story of the First Space AgeWilliam E. BurrowsAmazon
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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel

1999 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel Winner and Nominees

1999 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel WinnerStory of Your LifeTed ChiangWith his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. From a soaring Babylonian tower...Amazon1999 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel ShortlistA Princess of HeliumR. Garcia y RobertsonAmazonAdvantage, BellarminePaul LevinsonAmazonAnimae CelestesGregory FeeleyAmazonCongenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation by K.N. Sirsi and Sandra BotkinRaphael CarterAmazonCrane FlyEliot FintushelAmazonCraphoundCory DoctorowAmazonDance at the EdgeL. Timmel DuchampAmazonEcheaKristine Kathryn RuschAmazonHow Meersh the Bedeviler Lost His ToesGregory FrostAmazonLove of the ...
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerHirohito and the Making of Modern JapanHerbert P. BixWinner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never befor...Amazon2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistI Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945Victor KemplererAmazonMarcel Proust: A LifeJean-Yves TadieAmazonThe Chief: The Life of William Randolph HearstDavid NasawAmazonThe Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of GeneticsRobin Marantz HenigAmazon
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerQuarrel & QuandaryCynthia OzickIn this collection of essays, Cynthia Ozick, everywhere acclaimed as a critic, novelist, and storyteller, examines some of the world's most illustrious writers and their work, tackles compelling contemporary literary and moral issues, and looks into the we...Amazon2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistA Poetry of Two MindsSherod SantosAmazonCritical Entertainments: Music Old and NewCharles RosenAmazonFrom Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to PresentJacques BarzunAmazonPassionate MindsClaudia Roth PierpontAmazon
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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerBeing DeadJim CraceWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD. A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has sent Celice and Joseph back to their singing stretch of coas...Amazon2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistA Blind Man Can See How Much I Love YouAmy BloomAmazonAssorted Fire Events: StoriesDavid MeansAmazonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayMichael ChabonAmazonWhite TeethZadie SmithAmazon
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