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- National Book Critics Circle Announces 2017 Award Winners
  
  Posted at 3:48 pm by Michael Janairo, on March 16, 2018
  Poetry
  
  Layli Long Soldier, Whereas (Graywolf)
  
  Criticism
  
  Carina Chocano, You Play The Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages (Mariner)
  
  Autobiography
  
  Xiaolu Guo, Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China (Grove)
  
  Biography
  
  Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Metropolitan Books)
  
  Nonfiction
  
  Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Simon & Schuster)
  
  Fiction
  
  Joan Silber, Improvement (Counterpoint)
  
  The John Leonard Prize
  
  Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf)
  
  The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
  
  Charles Finch
  
  The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
  
  John McPhee
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- National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for 2017 Awards
  
  Posted at 11:29 am by Michael Janairo, on January 22, 2018
  The National Book Critics Circle has announced today winners of three prestigious prizes and nominees in nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, criticism and fiction. The awards will be announced on March 15.
  - Carmen Maria Machado’s debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf), is being honored with the John Leonard Prize, which recognizes an outstanding first book in any genre. It is named in honor of founding NBCC member John Leonard.
  - Charles Finch is being awarded the 2017 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
  - The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award will go to John McPhee.
  Here is the complete list of NBCC Award finalists:
  
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- NBCC finalists
  
  Posted at 9:14 am by Michael Janairo, on January 22, 2007
  Here’s the list of finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, to be announced in March:
  
  Nonfiction:
  Patrick Cockburn, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq (Verso)
  Anne Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade (Penguin Press)
  Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Penguin Press)
  Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (Ecco)
  Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East (Bloomsbury)
  
  Fiction
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (Knopf)
  Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (Grove/Atlantic)
  Dave Eggers, What is the What (McSweeney’s)
  Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land (Knopf)
  Cormac McCarthy, The Road (Knopf)
  
  Memoir/Autobiography
  Donald Antrim, The Afterlife (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  Alison Bechdel, Fun Home (Houghton Mifflin)
  Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards (Delacorte)
  Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (HarperCollins)
  Teri Jentz, Strange Piece of Paradise (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  
  Poetry
  Daisy Fried, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again. (University of Pittsburgh Press)
  Troy Jollimore, Tom Thomson in Purgatory. (Margie/Intuit House)
  Miltos Sachtouris, Poems (1945-1971) (Archipelego Books)
  Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  W.D. Snodrass, Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions)
  
  Criticism
  Bruce Bawer: While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the WestFrom Within (Doubleday)
  Frederick Crews, Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays (Shoemaker & Hoard)
  Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon(Viking)
  Lia Purpura, On Looking: Essays (Sarabande Books)
  Lawrence Wechsler, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences(McSweeney’s)
  
  Biography
  Debby Applegate: The Most Famous Man in Amerca: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Doubleday)
  Taylor Branch, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 (Simon& Schuster)
  Frederick Brown, Flaubert: A Biography (Little, Brown)
  Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (St.Martin’s Press)
  Jason Roberts, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler (HarperCollins)
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National Book Critics Circle Announces 2017 Award Winners

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