National Book Critics Circle AwardBiography

Given by National Book Critics Circle

Andre Navne: John Leonard Award (Engelsk), National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Engelsk)
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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with vis mere one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Finalists vis mindre
Stages:
Alle, Winner (266), Finalist (959), No Stage (3)
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Years:
Alle, 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (3), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (4), 2011 (6), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (3), 2003 (4), 1990 (1)

Winner 19

VærkÅr
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century af Beverly Gage2022
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler af Rebecca Donner2021
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World af Amy Stanley2020
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth af Josh Levin2019
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous af Christopher Bonanos2018
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder af Caroline Fraser2017
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life af Ruth Franklin2016
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley af Charlotte Gordon2015
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh af John Lahr2014
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World af Leo Damrosch2013
The Passage of Power af Robert A. Caro2012
George F. Kennan: An American Life af John Lewis Gaddis2011
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer af Sarah Bakewell2010
Cheever: A Life af Blake Bailey2009
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul af Patrick French2008
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer af Tim Jeal2007
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon af Julie Phillips2006
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer af Kai Bird2005
Means of Ascent af Robert A. Caro1990

Finalist 77

VærkÅr
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family af Kerri K. Greenidge2022
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century af Jennifer Homans2022
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life af Clare Mac Cumhaill2022
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times af Professor Aaron Sachs2022
Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser af Susan Bernofsky2021
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America af Keisha N. Blain2021
Mike Nichols: A Life af Mark Harris2021
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York af Alexander Nemerov2021
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes af Zachary D. Carter2020
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath af Heather Clark2020
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century af Charles King2019
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron" af Lucasta Miller2019
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century af George Packer2019
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II af Sonia Purnell2019
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret af Craig Brown2018
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History af Yunte Huang2018
The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century af Mark Lamster2018
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created af Jane Leavy2018
The Invention of Angela Carter : A Biography af Edmund Gordon2017
The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek af Howard Markel2017
Gorbachev: His Life and Times af William Taubman2017
Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times af Kenneth Whyte2017
Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War af Nigel Cliff2016
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary af Joe Jackson2016
Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White af Michael Tisserand2016
Guilty thing: a life of Thomas De Quincey af Frances Wilson2016
Fortune's Fool (Author Unknown) af Terry Alford2015
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America af T. J. Stiles2015
Stalins datter : Svetlana Allilujevas utrolige og turbulente liv af Rosemary Sullivan2015
Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives af Karin Wieland2015
William Wells Brown: An African American Life af Ezra Greenspan2014
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson af S. C. Gwynne2014
"Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions af Ian S. MacNiven2014
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography af Miriam Pawel2014
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East af Scott Anderson2013
Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven af John Eliot Gardiner2013
Holding On Upside Down: The Life And Work of Marianne Moore af Linda Leavell2013
Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis af Mark Thompson2013
All We Know: Three Lives af Lisa Cohen2012
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece af Michael Gorra2012
Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus af Lisa Jarnot2012
Love and Capital af Mary Gabriel2011
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 af Paul Hendrickson2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention af Manning Marable2011
The Black Count: Napoleon's Rival and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas af Tom Reiss2011
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China af Ezra F. Vogel2011
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography af Selina Hastings2010
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History af Yunte Huang2010
The Killing of Crazy Horse af Thomas Powers2010
Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends af Tom Segev2010
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor af Brad Gooch2009
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector af Benjamin Moser2009
Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone af Stanislao G. Pugliese2009
Passing Strange af Martha A. Sandweiss2009
Familien bin Laden : en arabisk familie i det amerikanske århundrede af Steve Coll2008
Ida: A Sword Among Lions af Paula J. Giddings2008
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family af Annette Gordon-Reed2008
White Heat af Brenda Wineapple2008
Edith Wharton af Hermione Lee2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography af Arnold Rampersad2007
A Life of Picasso, Volume 3: 1917-1932 af John Richardson2007
Thomas Hardy af Claire Tomalin2007
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher af Debby Applegate2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 af Taylor Branch2006
Flaubert: A Biography af Frederick Brown2006
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler af Jason Roberts2006
Lee Miller: A Life af Carolyn Burke2005
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson af Jonathan Coe2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln af Doris Kearns Goodwin2005
Mark Twain: A Life af Ron Powers2005
Alexander Hamilton af Ron Chernow2004
Krøniker af Bob Dylan2004
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart af John Guy2004
A Tragic Honesty af Blake Bailey2003
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage af Paul Elie2003
Jonathan Edwards: A Life af George M. Marsden2003
Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake af Carol Loeb Shloss2003

Beskrivelser

The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Website

Finalists
(English, Member-written)
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Website

Winners
(English, Member-written)

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