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National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, consists of nearly 700 active book reviewers, interested in communicating with one another about common concerns. In recent years, the NBCC has made efforts to become a truly national organization by offering forums in locations outside of New York. The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism.

A critics' choice award, chosen by over 700 professional book critics and review editors.

2000 Winners

Fiction
Winner
Jim Crace, Being Dead (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)


Finalists

Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (Random)

Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Random)

David Means, Assorted Fire Events: Stories (Context Books)

Zadie Smith, White Teeth (Random)


Nonfiction

Winner

Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Random House)


Finalists

Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach

Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War

Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health


Biography/Autobiography
Winner

Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (HarperCollins)


Finalists

Robin Marantz Henig, The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel (Houghton Mifflin)

Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 (Random)

David Nasaw, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst (Houghton Mifflin)

Jean-Yves Tadié, Marcel Proust: A Life (Viking)


Poetry
Winner

Judy Jordan, Carolina Ghost Woods (Louisiana State University Press)


Finalists

Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours (Knopf)

Michael Collier, The Ledge (Houghton Mifflin)

Yusef Komunyakaa, Talking Dirty to the Gods (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)

Davis McCombs, Ultima Thule (Yale University Press)


Literary Criticism
Winner

Cynthia Ozick, Quarrel & Quandary (Knopf)


Finalists

Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to Present (HarperCollins)

Claudia Roth Pierpont, Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World (Knopf)

Charles Rosen, Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New (Harvard University Press)

Sherod Santos, A Poetry of Two Minds (University of Georgia Press)

1999 Winners

Fiction
Winner
Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn

Finalists
A. Manette Ansay, Midnight Champagne

Frederick Busch, The Night Inspcetor

J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

David Gates, The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories


Nonfiction
Winner
Jonathan Weiner, Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior

Finalists
Jane Brox, Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History

John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory

Jean-Paul Kauffmann, The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena


Biography/Autobiography
Winner
Henry Wiencek, The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White

Finalists
Richard Holmes, Coleridge, Volume II: Darker Reflections

Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier

Judith Thurman, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones, The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times


Poetry
Winner
Ruth Stone, Ordinary Words

Finalists
Rafael Campo, Diva

Tory Dent, HIV, Mon Amour

Rita Dove, On the Bus with Rosa Parks

Susan Kinsolving, Dailies and Rushes


Literary Criticism
Winner
Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions

Finalists
Stuart Klawans, Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order

William Logan, Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry

Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets

David Shields, Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season

1998 Winners

Fiction
Winner
Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman

Finalists
Michael Cunningham, The Hours

David Gates, Preston Falls

Lorrie Moore, Birds of America

Lynne Tillman, No Lease on Life


Nonfiction
Winner
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

Finalists
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: the First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost

Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Mankind From Antiquity to the Present

Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary


Biography/Autobiography
Winner
Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994

Finalists
Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockerfeller, Sr.

Homer H. Hickam Jr., Rocket Boys: A Memoir

David Remnick, King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

Amanda Vaill, Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, A Lost Generation Love Story


Poetry
Winner
Marie Ponsot, The Bird Catcher

Finalists
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

Pamela White Hadas, Self-Evidence: A Selection of Verse, 1977-1997

Yusef Komunyakaa, Thieves of Paradise

Thylias Moss, Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler


Literary Criticism
Winner
Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz

Finalists
Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

Nelson George, Hip Hop America

Robert Pinsky, The Sounds of Poetry

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