National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalistBiography/Autobiography

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Altri nomi: John Leonard Award (Inglese), National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Inglese)
99 opere 90,010 libri 1,334 recensioni 4.1
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 mostra altro 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.

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Finalists mostra meno
Fasi:
Tutto, Winner (276), Finalist (1,264)
Categorie:
Tutto, Biography/Autobiography (99)
Anni:
Tutto, 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (5), 1999 (5), 1998 (5), 1997 (4), 1996 (5), 1995 (5), 1994 (5), 1993 (4), 1992 (6), 1991 (4), 1990 (4), 1989 (5), 1988 (5), 1987 (5), 1986 (4), 1985 (5), 1984 (5), 1983 (5), 1976 (1)
Annunciati:
Marzo 21: Vincitore2023 Recenti
Gennaio 25: Finalista2023 Recenti

Finalist 99

OperaAnno
de Kooning: An American Master di Mark Stevens2004
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era di William Taubman2003
Charles Darwin: A Biography: Volume 2: The Power of Place di Janet Browne2002
Master of the Senate di Robert A. Caro2002
The Last American Man di Elizabeth Gilbert2002
Benjamin Franklin di Edmund S. Morgan2002
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music di Mark Zwonitzer2002
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson di Adam Sisman2001
Il vestito della festa di Paula Fox2001
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina di David Hajdu2001
Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet di Eugene Walter2001
The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal di Barry Werth2001
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan di Herbert P. Bix2000
The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics di Robin Marantz Henig2000
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941 di Victor Klemperer2000
The Chief: the Life of William Randolph Hearst di David Nasaw2000
Vita di Marcel Proust di Jean-Yves Tadié2000
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White di Henry Wiencek1999
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 di Richard Holmes1999
Morgan: American Financier di Jean Strouse1999
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette di Judith Thurman1999
The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times di Susan E. Tifft1999
Il genio dei numeri. Storia di John Nash, matematico e folle di Sylvia Nasar1998
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. di Ron Chernow1998
Cielo d'ottobre: una favola per tutte le eta di Jr. Homer H. Hickam1998
Il re del mondo di David Remnick1998
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story di Amanda Vaill1998
Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II di James Tobin1997
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson di Joseph J. Ellis1997
Virginia Woolf di Hermione Lee1997
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949–1962 di Doris Lessing1997
Le ceneri di Angela di Frank McCourt1996
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography di Peter Conn1996
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn di David Hajdu1996
The Last Happy Occasion di Alan Shapiro1996
Charles Ives: A Life with Music di Jan Swafford1996
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson di Robert Polito1995
Moving Violations di John Hockenberry1995
Emerson: The Mind on Fire di Robert D. Richardson Jr.1995
Il club dei bugiardi di Mary Karr1995
Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography di David S. Reynolds1995
Shot in the Heart di Mikal Gilmore1994
Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life (Phoenix Giants) di Julia Frey1994
Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity di Neal Gabler1994
D.H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage di Brenda Maddox1994
Naturalist di Edward O. Wilson1994
French Lessons: A Memoir di Alice Kaplan1993
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race di David Levering Lewis1993
A Different Person: A Memoir di James Ingram Merrill1993
The Passion of Michel Foucault di Jim Miller1993
Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy And Her World di Carol Brightman1992
The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958 di Jack Beatty1992
Looking For The Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott di Paul Hendrickson1992
Kissinger: A Biography di Walter Isaacson1992
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan di Robert Kanigel1992
La diversità della vita di Edward O. Wilson1992
Patrimonio. Una historia verdadera di Philip Roth1991
Una specie di solitudine di John Cheever1991
Anne Sexton: una vita di Diane Middlebrook1991
Maus 2: E qui cominciarono i miei guai di Art Spiegelman1991
Strong Drink, Strong Language di John Espey1990
The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918 di Patricia O'Toole1990
A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood di Richard Rhodes1990
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 di T. H. Watkins1990
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt di Geoffrey C. Ward1989
Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations di Otto Friedrich1989
God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil War di Bil Gilbert1989
Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician di Roger Morris1989
Un vero bugiardo: vita di un ragazzo nell'America degli anni '50 di Tobias Wolff1989
Oscar Wilde di Richard Ellmann1988
The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981 di Kenneth Burke1988
The Letters of T. S. Eliot; Volume 1: 1898-1922 di T. S. Eliot1988
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir di Paul Monette1988
Three scientists and their gods di Robert Wright1988
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World di Donald R. Howard1987
An American Childhood di Annie Dillard1987
Timebends - Svolte di Arthur Miller1987
Don't Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S. J. Perelman di S. J. Perelman1987
Private Domain: An Autobiography di Paul Taylor1987
The Life of Langston Hughes. Volume 1, 1902–1941, I, Too, Sing America di Arnold Rampersad1986
Tombee: Portrait of a cotton planter di Theodore Rosengarten1986
Velazquez: Painter and Courtier di Jonathan Brown1986
Dostoevsky: the stir of liberation 1860-1865 di Joseph Frank1986
Henry James: A Life di Leon Edel1985
Brigham Young: American Moses di Leonard J. Arrington1985
Louise Bogan: A Portrait di Elizabeth Frank1985
Wisconsin Death Trip di Michael Lesy1985
Giacometti: A Biography di James Lord1985
Dostoevsky: the years of ordeal 1850-1859 di Joseph Frank1984
Home Before Dark di Susan Cheever1984
Josephine Herbst di Elinor Langer1984
One Writer's Beginnings di Eudora Welty1984
Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet di Paul Zweig1984
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir di Joyce Johnson1983
Eleni di Nicholas Gage1983
Thomas Carlyle: A Biography di Fred Kaplan1983
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just di Kenneth R. Manning1983
The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths di E. Fuller Torrey1983
Letters of E. B. White di E. B. White1976

Descrizioni

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, Scritto da un membro)
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, Scritto da un membro)

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