National Book Critics Circle Award

National Book Critics Circle Award
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Awarded for	"the finest books and reviews published in English"
Presented by	National Book Critics Circle
Date	March, annual
Country	United States
First awarded	1975
Official website	http://bookcritics.org

The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English.

The main awards fall into six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir/Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism. Awards are not given to titles that have been previously published in English, such as re-issues and paperback editions. They also do not "consider cookbooks, self help books (including inspirational literature), reference books, picture books or children's books." Titles are, however, eligible to be awarded if they are "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories above." The NBCC membership elects a 24 person all volunteer Board of Directors to nominate and judge books for the awards and guide all day-to-day activities.

List of finalists

2010

The 2010 winners were announced March 10, 2011. (winners in bold)

Fiction

• Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (Knopf)
• Jonathan Franzen, Freedom (Farrar, Straus And Giroux)
• David Grossman, To The End Of The Land (Knopf)
• Hans Keilson, Comedy In A Minor Key (Farrar, Straus And Giroux)
• Paul Murray, Skippy Dies (Faber & Faber)

Nonfiction

• Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Spiegel & Grau)

• S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American (Scribner)
• Jennifer Homans, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet (Random
)
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner
)
• Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Random)

Criticism

• Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Terry Castle, The Professor and Other Writings (Harper
)
• Clare Cavanagh, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West (Yale University Press)

• Susie Linfield, The Cruel Radiance (University of Chicago Press)
• Ander Monson, Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir (Graywolf)

Biography

• Sarah Bakewell, How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne (Other Press)
• Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham: A Biography (Random House)
• Yunte Huang, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story Of The Honorable Detective And His Rendezvous With American History (Norton)
• Thomas Powers, The Killing Of Crazy Horse (Knopf)
• Tom Segev, Simon Wiesenthal: The Lives And Legends (Doubleday)

Autobiography

• Kai Bird, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 (Scribner)
• David Dow, The Autobiography of an Execution (Twelve)
• Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir (Twelve)
• Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Hiroshima in the Morning (Feminst Press)
• Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco)
• Darin Strauss, Half a Life (McSweeney’s)



Poetry

• Anne Carson, Nox (New Directions)
• Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City (Princeton University Press) 

• Terrance Hayes, Lighthead (Penguin Poets)
• Kay Ryan, The Best of It (Grove)
• C.D. Wright, One With Others (Copper Canyon)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Sarah L. Courteau
• William Deresiewicz
• Ruth Franklin
• Kathryn Harrison
• Parul Sehgal

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• Dalky Archive Press

2009

The 2009 winners were announced March 11, 2010 (winners in bold)

Fiction

• Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
• Marlon James, The Book of Night Women (Riverhead)
• Michelle Huneven, Blame (Sarah Crichton Books/FSG)
• Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (Holt)
• Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Knopf)

General nonfiction

• Wendy Doniger, The Hindus: An Alternative History (Penguin Press)
• Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books)
• Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon)
• Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remain (Random House)
• William T. Vollmann, Imperial (Viking)

Criticism

• Eula Biss, Notes From No Man's Land: American Essays (Graywolf Press)
• Stephen Burt, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (Graywolf Press)
• Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (Norton)
• David Hajdu, Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture (Da Capo Press)
• Greg Milner, Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (Faber)

Biography

• Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life (Knopf)
• Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (Little, Brown)
• Benjamin Moser, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Oxford University Press)
• Stanislao G. Pugliese, Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Martha A. Sandweiss, Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (Penguin Press)

Autobiography

• Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End (Norton)
• Debra Gwartney, Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Mary Karr, Lit (Harper)
• Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America (Simon & Schuster)
• Edmund White, City Boy ( Bloomsbury)

Poetry

• Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan)
• Louise Glück, A Village Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• D. A. Powell, Chronic (Graywolf Press)
• Eleanor Ross Taylor, Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008 (Louisiana State University Press)
• Rachel Zucker, Museum of Accidents (Wave Books)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Joan Acocella
• Michael Antman
• William Deresiewicz
• Donna Seaman
• Wendy Smith

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• Joyce Carol Oates

2008

The 2008 winners were announced March 12, 2009 (winners in bold).

Fiction

• Roberto Bolaño, 2666. (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, (Riverhead)
• Marilynne Robinson, Home, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, (Random House)
• M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, (West Virginia University Press)

General nonfiction

• Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering, (Knopf)
• Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, (Knopf)
• George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776. (Oxford University Press)
• Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, (Atlantic)
• Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, (Doubleday)

Autobiography

• Rick Bass, Why I Came West, (Houghton Mifflin)
• Helene Cooper, The House on Sugar Beach, (Simon and Schuster)
• Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter, (W.W. Norton)
• Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves of Heaven, (Harmony Books)
• Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, (Algonquin)

Biography

• Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, (Penguin Press)
• Patrick French, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, (Knopf)
• Paul J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, (Amistad)
• Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, (Norton)
• Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (Knopf)

Poetry

• Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light, (University of Arizona Press)
• Devin Johnston, Sources, (Turtle Point Press)
• August Kleinzahler, Sleeping it Off in Rapid City, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• Pierre Martory (trans. John Ashbery), The Landscapist, (Sheep Meadow Press)
• Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar, (Copper Canyon Press)

Criticism

• Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, (Metropolitan Books)
• Vivian Gornick, The Men in My Life. (Boston Review/MIT)
• Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One Of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, (Doubleday)
• Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter, (University of Chicago Press)
• Reginald Shepard, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, (University of Michigan Press)

The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Michael Antman
• Ron Charles
• Kathryn Harrison
• Laila Lalami
• Todd Shy

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• PEN American Center

2007

The 2007 award winners (bold) were announced on March 6, 2008.

Fiction

• Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games (HarperCollins)
• Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead)
• Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men (Dial Press)
• Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter (Ecco)
• Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher (Simon and Schuster)

General nonfiction

• Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism (Hill & Wang)
• Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848 (Oxford University Press)
• Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday)
• Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (Doubleday)
• Alan Weisman, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne BKs/St. Martin’s)

Autobiography

• Joshua Clark, Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone (Free Press)
• Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying (Knopf)
• Joyce Carol Oates, The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 (Ecco)
• Sara Paretsky, Writing in an Age of Silence (Verso)
• Anna Politkovskaya, Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia (Random House)

Biography

• Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (Yale University Press)
• Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton (Knopf)
• Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison (Knopf)
• John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932 (Knopf)
• Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy (Penguin Press)

Poetry

• Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf)
• Matthea Harvey, Modern Life (Graywolf)
• Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking (Flood)
• Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood)
• Tadeusz Różewicz, New Poems (Archipelago)

Criticism

• Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (Pantheon)
• Julia Alvarez, Once Upon a Quniceanera (Viking)
• Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream (Metropolitan/Holt)
• Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Brooke Allen
• Sam Anderson, book critic for New York magazine
• Ron Charles
• Walter Kirn
• Adam Kirsch

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• Emilie Buchwald, writer, editor, and founding publisher of Milkweed Editions, in Minneapolis.

List of Winners

Fiction

2010	Jennifer Egan	A Visit from the Goon Squad
2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall
2008	Roberto Bolaño	2666
2007	Junot Diaz	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss
2005	E.L. Doctorow	The March
2004	Marilynne Robinson	Gilead
2003	Edward P. Jones	The Known World
2002	Ian McEwan	Atonement
2001	W.G. Sebald	Austerlitz
2000	Jim Crace	Being Dead
1999	Jonathan Lethem	Motherless Brooklyn
1998	Alice Munro	The Love of a Good Woman
1997	Penelope Fitzgerald	The Blue Flower
1996	Gina Berriault	Women in Their Beds
1995	Stanley Elkin	Mrs. Ted Bliss
1994	Carol Shields	The Stone Diaries
1993	Ernest J. Gaines	A Lesson Before Dying
1992	Cormac McCarthy	All the Pretty Horses
1991	Jane Smiley	A Thousand Acres
1990	John Updike	Rabbit at Rest
1989	E.L. Doctorow	Billy Bathgate
1988	Bharati Mukherjee	The Middleman and Other Stories
1987	Philip Roth	The Counterlife
1986	Reynolds Price	Kate Vaiden
1985	Anne Tyler	The Accidental Tourist
1984	Louise Erdrich	Love Medicine
1983	William Kennedy	Ironweed
1982	Stanley Elkin	George Mills
1981	John Updike	Rabbit Is Rich
1980	Shirley Hazzard	The Transit of Venus
1979	Thomas Flanagan	The Year of the French
1978	John Cheever	The Stories of John Cheever
1977	Toni Morrison	Song of Solomon
1976	John Gardner	October Light
1975	E.L. Doctorow	Ragtime

General nonfiction

2010	Isabel Wilkerson	The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
2009	Richard Holmes	The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
2008	Dexter Filkins	The Forever War
2007	Harriet A. Washington	Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present
2006	Simon Schama	Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
2005	Svetlana Alexievich	Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
2004	Diarmaid MacCulloch	The Reformation: A History
2003	Paul Hendrickson	Sons of Mississippi
2002	Samantha Power	A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
2001	Nicholson Baker	Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
2000	Ted Conover	Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
1999	Jonathan Weiner	Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
1998	Philip Gourevitch	We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
1997	Anne Fadiman	The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
1996	Jonathan Raban	Bad Land: An American Romance
1995	Jonathan Harr	A Civil Action
1994	Lynn H. Nicholas	The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
1993	Alan Lomax	The Land Where the Blues Began
1992	Norman Maclean	Young Men and Fire
1991	Susan Faludi	Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
1990	Shelby Steele	The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
1989	Michael Dorris	The Broken Cord
1988	Taylor Branch	Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63
1987	Richard Rhodes	The Making of the Atomic Bomb
1986	John W. Dower	War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
1985	J. Anthony Lukas	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
1984	Freeman Dyson	Weapons and Hope
1983	Seymour M. Hersh	The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
1982	Robert Caro	The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
1981	Stephen Jay Gould	The Mismeasure of Man
1980	Ronald Steel	Walter Lippmann and the American Century
1979	Telford Taylor	Munich: The Price of Peace
1978	Maureen Howard	Facts of Life
1977	Walter Jackson Bate	Samuel Johnson
1976	Maxine Hong Kingston	The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
1975	R. W. B. Lewis	Edith Wharton: A Biography

Memoir/Autobiography

2010	Darin Strauss	Half a Life
2009	Diana Athill	Somewhere Towards the End
2008	Ariel Sabar	My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
2007	Edwidge Danticat	Brother, I'm Dying
2006	Daniel Mendelsohn	The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
2005	Francine du Plessix Gray	Them: A Memoir of Parents

Biography

2010	Sarah Bakewell	How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne
2009	Blake Bailey	Cheever: A Life
2008	Patrick French	The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
2007	Tim Jeal	Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
2006	Julie Phillips	James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
2005	Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin	American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Biography/Autobiography (discontinued)

2004	Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan	De Kooning: An American Master
2003	William Taubman	Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
2002	Janet Browne	Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II
2001	Adam Sisman	Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson
2000	Herbert P. Bix	Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
1999	Henry Wiencek	The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
1998	Sylvia Nasar	A Beautiful Mind
1997	James Tobin	Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
1996	Frank McCourt	Angela's Ashes
1995	Robert Polito	Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
1994	Mikal Gilmore	Shot in the Heart
1993	Edmund White	Genet
1992	Carol Brightman	Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World
1991	Philip Roth	Patrimony: A True Story
1990	Robert A. Caro	Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II
1989	Geoffrey C. Ward	A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
1988	Richard Ellmann	Oscar Wilde
1987	Donald R. Howard	Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
1986	Theodore Rosengarten	Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
1985	Leon Edel	Henry James: A Life
1984	Joseph Frank	Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859
1983	Joyce Johnson	Minor Characters

Poetry

2010	C.D. Wright	One With Others
2009	Rae Armantrout	Versed
2008	Juan Felipe Herrera	Half the World in Light
2008	August Kleinzahler	Sleeping it Off in Rapid City
2007	Mary Jo Bang	Elegy
2006	Troy Jollimore	Tom Thomson in Purgatory
2005	Jack Gilbert	Refusing Heaven
2004	Adrienne Rich	The School Among the Ruins
2003	Susan Stewart	Columbarium
2002	B.H. Fairchild	Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
2001	Albert Goldbarth	Saving Lives
2000	Judy Jordan	Carolina Ghost Woods
1999	Ruth Stone	Ordinary Words
1998	Marie Ponsot	The Bird Catcher
1997	Charles Wright	Black Zodiac
1996	Robert Hass	Sun Under Wood
1995	William Matthews	Time and Money
1994	Mark Rudman	Rider
1993	Mark Doty	My Alexandria
1992	Hayden Carruth	Collected Shorter Poems 1946–1991
1991	Albert Goldbarth	Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
1990	Amy Gerstler	Bitter Angel
1989	Rodney Jones	Transparent Gestures
1988	Donald Hall	That One Day
1987	C.K. Williams	Flesh and Blood
1986	Edward Hirsch	Wild Gratitude
1985	Louise Glück	The Triumph of Achilles
1984	Sharon Olds	The Dead and the Living
1983	James Merrill	The Changing Light at Sandover
1982	Katha Pollitt	Antarctic Traveler
1981	A.R. Ammons	A Coast of Trees
1980	Frederick Seidel	Sunrise
1979	Philip Levine	Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere
1978	L.E. Sissman	Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman
1977	Robert Lowell	Day by Day
1976	Elizabeth Bishop	Geography III
1975	John Ashbery	Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror

Criticism

2010	Clare Cavanagh	Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West
2009	Eula Biss	Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays
2008	Seth Lerer	Children’s Literature: A Readers’ History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
2007	Alex Ross	The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
2006	Lawrence Weschler	Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
2005	William Logan	The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin
2004	Patrick Neate	Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet
2003	Rebecca Solnit	River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
2002	William H. Gass	Tests of Time
2001	Martin Amis	The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000
2000	Cynthia Ozick	Quarrel & Quandary
1999	Jorge Luis Borges	Selected Non-Fictions
1998	Gary Giddins	Visions of Jazz: The First Century
1997	Mario Vargas Llosa	Making Waves
1996	William H. Gass	Finding a Form
1995	Robert Darnton	The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
1994	Gerald Early	The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
1993	John Dizikes	Opera in America: A Cultural History
1992	Garry Wills	Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
1991	Lawrence L. Langer	Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
1990	Arthur C. Danto	Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present
1989	John Clive	Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
1988	Clifford Geertz	Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
1987	Edwin Denby	Dance Writings
1986	Joseph Brodsky	Less Than One: Selected Essays
1985	William H. Gass	Habitations of the Word: Essays
1984	Robert Hass	Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
1983	John Updike	Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
1982	Gore Vidal	The Second American Revolution and Other Essays
1981	Virgil Thomson	A Virgil Thomson Reader
1980	Helen Vendler	Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
1979	Elaine Pagels	The Gnostic Gospels
1978	Meyer Schapiro	Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2)
1977	Susan Sontag	On Photography
1976	Bruno Bettelheim	The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance and Importance of Fairy Tales
1975	Paul Fussell	The Great War and Modern Memory

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

This award has also been presented as the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing and the Ivan Sandrof Award, Contribution to American Arts & Letters.

• 2010: Dalky Archive Press
• 2009: Joyce Carol Oates
• 2008: PEN American Center
• 2007: Emilie Buchwald, co-founder of the Milkweed Editions publishing house
• 2006: John Leonard
• 2005: Bill Henderson, founder of Pushcart Press
• 2004: Louis D. Rubin, Jr., founder of Algonquin Press and the author and editor of more than 50 books
• 2003: Studs Terkel
• 2002: Richard Howard
• 2001: Jason Epstein
• 2000: Barney Rosset
• 1999: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Pauline Kael
• 1998:
• 1997: Leslie Fiedler
• 1996: Albert Murray
• 1995: Alfred Kazin and Elizabeth Hardwick
• 1994: William Maxwell
• 1993:
• 1992:
• 1991:
• 1990: Donald Keene
• 1989: James Laughlin
• 1988:
• 1987: Robert Giroux
• 1986:
• 1985:
• 1984: The Library of America
• 1983:
• 1982: Leslie A. Marchand
• 1981:

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

This citation is awarded annually. It honors Nona Balakian, who was a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle. For 43 years, Balakian was an editor on the staff of the New York Times Book Review. Five finalists are announced each year, one of whom is selected as the winner of the citation. The award has been called "the most prestigious award for book criticism in the country".

• 2010: Parul Sehgal of Publishers Weekly
• 2009: Joan Acocella of The New Yorker
• 2008: Ron Charles of The Washington Post
• 2007: Sam Anderson of New York magazine
• 2006: Steven G. Kellman
• 2005: Wyatt Mason, a contributor to Harper's, The New Yorker, The New Republic
• 2004: David Orr, a contributor to The New York Times Book Review and Poetry Magazine
• 2003: Scott McLemee
• 2002: Maureen N. McLane
• 2001: Michael Gorra
• 2000: Daniel Mendelsohn
• 1999: Benjamin Schwarz
• 1998: Albert Mobilio
• 1997: Thomas Mallon
• 1996: Dennis Drabelle
• 1995: Laurie Stone
• 1994: JoAnn C. Gutin
• 1993: Brigitte Frase
• 1992: Elizabeth Ward
• 1991: George Scialabba

See also

• List of poetry awards

External links

• "Complete list of NBCC winners and finalists". National Book Critics Circle. http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/. Retrieved August 30, 2010.