The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of nearly
700 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about
common concerns. Every year the NBCC presents awards for the finest books and reviews published in English.
For more information see: The National Book Critics Circle
| Year |
Category |
Title |
Author |
| 2007 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
Junot Díaz |
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Fiction Finalists |
Sacred Games |
Vikram Chandra |
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In the Country of Men |
Hisham Matar |
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The Gravedigger's Daughter |
Joyce Carol Oates |
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The Shadow Catcher |
Marianne Wiggins |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present |
Harriet Washington |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
American Transcendentalism |
Philip Gura |
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848 |
Daniel Walker Howe |
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA |
Tim Weiner |
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The World Without Us |
Alan Weisman |
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Biography Winner |
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer |
Tim Jeal |
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Biography Finalists |
Edith Wharton |
Hermione Lee |
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Ralph Ellison |
Arnold Rampersad |
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A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 |
John Richardson |
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Thomas Hardy |
Claire Tomalin |
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Autobiography/Memoir Winner |
Brother, I'm Dying |
Edwidge Danticat |
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Autobiography/Memoir Finalists |
Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone |
Joshua Clark |
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The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973-1982 |
Joyce Carol Oates |
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Writing in an Age of Silence |
Sara Paretsky |
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Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia |
Anna Politkovskaya |
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Poetry Winner |
Elegy |
Mary Jo Bang |
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Poetry Finalists |
Modern Life |
Matthea Harvey |
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Sleeping and Waking |
Michael O'Brien |
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The Ballad of Jamie Allan |
Tom Pickard |
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New Poems |
Tadeusz Rózewicz |
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Criticism Winner |
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century |
Alex Ross |
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Criticism Finalists |
Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints |
Joan Acocella |
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Once Upon a Quniceanera |
Julia Alvarez |
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The Terror Dream |
Susan Faludi |
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Coltrane: The Story of a Sound |
Ben Ratliff |
| 2006 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The Inheritance of Loss |
Kiran Desai |
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Fiction Finalists |
Half of a Yellow Sun |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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What is the What |
Dave Eggers |
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The Lay of the Land |
Richard Ford |
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The Road |
Cormac McCarthy |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution |
Simon Schama |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq |
Patrick Cockburn |
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade |
Anne Fessler |
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals |
Michael Pollan |
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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East |
Sandy Tolan |
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Biography Winner |
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon |
Julie Phillips |
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Biography Finalists |
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher |
Debby Applegate |
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 |
Taylor Branch |
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Flaubert: A Biography |
Frederick Brown |
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A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler |
Jason Roberts |
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Autobiography/Memoir Winner |
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million |
Daniel Mendelsohn |
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Autobiography/Memoir Finalists |
The Afterlife |
Donald Antrim |
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Fun Home |
Alison Bechdel |
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Stuart: A Life Backwards |
Alexander Masters |
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Strange Piece of Paradise |
Teri Jentz |
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Poetry Winner |
Tom Thomson in Purgatory |
Troy Jollimore |
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Poetry Finalists |
My Brother is Getting Arrested Again |
Daisy Fried |
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Poems |
Miltos Sachtouris |
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Ooga-Booga |
Frederick Seidel |
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Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems |
W.D. Snodgrass |
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Criticism Winner |
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences |
Lawrence Weschler |
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Criticism Finalists |
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within |
Bruce Bawer |
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Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays |
Frederick Crews |
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Breaking the Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon |
Daniel Dennett |
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On Looking: Essays |
Lia Purpura |
| 2005 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The March |
E.L. Doctorow |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
Veronica |
Mary Gaitskill |
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Small Island |
Andrea Levy |
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Never Let Me Go |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
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Europe Central |
William T. Vollmann |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of Nuclear Disaster |
Svetlana Alexievich |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East |
Robert Fisk |
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Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild |
Ellen Meloy |
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Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees |
Caroline Moorehead |
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War |
Anthony Shadid |
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Biography Winner |
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer |
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin |
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Biography Finalists |
Lee Miller: A Life |
Carolyn Burke |
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Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson |
Jonathan Coe |
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Mark Twain: A Life |
Ron Powers |
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Autobiography/Memoir Winner |
Them: A Memoir of Parents |
Francine du Plessix Gray |
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Autobiography/Memoir Finalists |
The Year of Magical Thinking |
Joan Didion |
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Fat Girl: A True Story |
Judith Moore |
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Istanbul: Memories and the City |
Orhan Pamuk |
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Two Lives |
Vikram Seth |
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Poetry Winner |
Refusing Heaven |
Jack Gilbert |
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Poetry Finalists |
The Shout |
Simon Armitage |
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Bent to the Earth |
Blas Manuel de Luna |
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Crush |
Richard Siken |
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The Incentive of the Maggot |
Ron Slate |
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Criticism Winner |
The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin |
William Logan |
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Criticism Finalists |
Gather at the River: Notes From the Post-millennial South |
Hal Crowther |
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Unnatural Wonders |
Arthur Danto |
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Still Looking: Essays on American Art |
John Updike |
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What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles |
Eliot Weinberger |
| 2004 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Gilead |
Marilynne Robinson |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
The Dew Breaker |
Edwidge Danticat |
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The Line of Beauty |
Alan Hollinghurst |
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Cloud Atlas |
David Mitchell |
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The Plot Against America |
Philip Roth |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
The Reformation: A History |
Diarmaid MacCulloch |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age |
Kevin Boyle |
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Blue Blood |
Edward Conlon |
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America |
David Shipler |
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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story |
Timothy Tyson |
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Biography Winner |
De Kooning: An American Master |
Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan |
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Biography Finalists |
Alexander Hamilton |
Ron Chernow |
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|
Chronicles: Vol. 1 |
Bob Dylan |
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare |
Stephen Greenblatt |
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Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart |
John Guy |
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Poetry Winner |
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 |
Adrienne Rich |
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Poetry Finalists |
The Orchard |
Brigit Pegeen Kelly |
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Cocktails |
D.A. Powell |
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Interglacial |
James Richardson |
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Danger on Peaks |
Gary Snyder |
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Criticism Winner |
Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet |
Patrick Neate |
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Criticism Finalists |
Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003 |
Richard Howard |
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Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century |
Graham Robb |
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Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me |
Craig Seligman |
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The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel |
James Wood |
| 2003 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The Known World |
Edward P. Jones |
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Fiction Finalists |
Brick Lane |
Monica Ali |
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The Time of Our Singing |
Richard Powers |
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Old School |
Tobias Wolff |
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A Distant Shore |
Caryl Phillips |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy |
Paul Hendrickson |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty |
Caroline Alexander |
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Gulag |
Anne Applebaum |
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx |
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc |
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Rising Up and Rising Down |
William T. Vollmann |
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Biography Winner |
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
William Taubman |
| |
Biography Finalists |
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage |
Paul Elie |
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A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates |
Blake Bailey |
| |
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Jonathan Edwards: A Life |
George Marsden |
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Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake |
Carol Loeb Shloss |
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Poetry Winner |
Columbarium |
Susan Stewart |
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Poetry Finalists |
Blue Hour |
Carolyn Forche |
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What Narcissism Means to Me |
Tony Hoagland |
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She Says |
Venus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker |
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Granted |
Mary Szybist |
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Criticism Winner |
River of Shadows |
Rebecca Solnit |
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Criticism Finalists |
Gritos |
Dagoberto Gilb |
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Songbook |
Nick Hornby |
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Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling |
Ross King |
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Regarding the Pain of Others |
Susan Sontag |
| 2002 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Atonement |
Ian McEwan |
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Fiction Finalists |
Middlesex |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
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Nowhere Man |
Aleksandar Hemon |
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Roscoe |
William Kennedy |
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The Darts of Cupid: And Other Stories |
Edith Templeton |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide |
Samantha Power |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning |
Chris Hedges |
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center |
William Langewiesche |
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America |
Richard Rodriguez |
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Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life |
Gaby Wood |
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Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place |
Janet Browne |
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Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
Robert A. Caro |
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The Last American Man |
Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Benjamin Franklin |
Edmund S. Morgan |
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Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music |
Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg |
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Poetry Winner |
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest |
B.H. Fairchild |
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Poetry Finalists |
Leaving Saturn |
Major Jackson |
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Sleeping with the Dictionary |
Harryette Mullen |
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The Unswept Room |
Sharon Olds |
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Without End: New and Selected Poems |
Adam Zagajewski |
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Criticism Winner |
Tests of Time |
William H. Gass |
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Criticism Finalists |
Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color |
Philip Ball |
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Old Man Goya |
Julia Blackburn |
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Reviewery |
Christopher Ricks |
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Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist |
Charles Rosen |
| 2001 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Austerlitz |
W.G. Sebald |
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Fiction Finalists |
The Corrections |
Jonathan Franzen |
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories |
Alice Monroe |
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Bel Canto |
Ann Patchett |
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John Henry Days |
Colson Whitehead |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper |
Nicholson Baker |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care |
Nina Bernstein |
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Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland |
Jan T. Gross |
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend |
Laura Hillenbrand |
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The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair |
Sam Roberts |
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Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson |
Adam Sisman |
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Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Borrowed Finery: A Memoir |
Paula Fox |
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina |
David Hajdu |
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Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on this Planet |
Katherine Clark |
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The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal |
Barry Werth |
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Poetry Winner |
Saving Lives |
Albert Goldbarth |
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Poetry Finalists |
The Seven Ages |
Louise Gluck |
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Animal Soul |
Bob Hicok |
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Given Sugar, Given Salt |
Jane Hirshfield |
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A Treatise on Poetry |
Czeslaw Milosz |
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Criticism Winner |
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 |
Martin Amis |
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Criticism Finalists |
Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books |
H.J. Jackson |
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De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong |
W.D. Snodgrass |
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As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art |
Rebecca Solnit |
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Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals |
Joy Williams |
| 2000 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Being Dead |
Jim Crace |
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Fiction Finalists |
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You |
Amy Bloom |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay |
Michael Chabon |
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Assorted Fire Events: Stories |
David Means |
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White Teeth |
Zadie Smith |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing |
Ted Conover |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
Crucible of War |
Fred Anderson |
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Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War |
Frances Fitzgerald |
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health |
Laurie Garrett |
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The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach |
Alice Kaplan |
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Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan |
Herbert P. Bix |
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Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics |
Robin Marantz Henig |
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I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 |
Victor Kemplerer |
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The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst |
David Nasaw |
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Marcel Proust: A Life |
Jean-Yves Tadie |
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Poetry Winner |
Carolina Ghost Woods |
Judy Jordan |
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Poetry Finalists |
The Ledge |
Michael Collier |
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Men in the Off Hours |
Anne Carson |
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Talking Dirty to the Gods |
Yusef Komunyakaa |
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Ultima Thule |
Davis McCombs |
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Criticism Winner |
Quarrel & Quandary |
Cynthia Ozick |
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Criticism Finalists |
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to Present |
Jacques Barzun |
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Passionate Minds |
Claudia Roth Pierpont |
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Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New |
Charles Rosen |
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A Poetry of Two Minds |
Sherod Santos |
| 1999 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Motherless Brooklyn |
Jonathan Lethem |
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Fiction Finalists |
Midnight Champagne |
A. Manette Ansay |
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The Night Inspector |
Frederick Busch |
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Disgrace |
J.M. Coetzee |
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The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories |
David Gates |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior |
Jonathan Weiner |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History |
Jane Brox |
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II |
John W. Dower |
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I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory |
Patricia Hampl |
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The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena |
Jean-Paul Kauffmann |
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Biography/Autobiography Winner |
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White |
Henry Wiencek |
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Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Coleridge: Vol. II: Darker Reflections |
Richard Holmes |
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Morgan: American Financier |
Jean Strouse |
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Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette |
Judith Thurman |
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The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times |
Susan E. Tifft & Alex S. Jones |
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Poetry Winner |
Ordinary Words |
Ruth Stone |
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Poetry Finalists |
Diva |
Rafael Campo |
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HIV, Mon Amour |
Tory Dent |
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On the Bus with Rosa Parks |
Rita Dove |
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Dailies & Rushes |
Susan Kingsolving |
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Criticism Winner |
Selected Non-Fictions |
Jorge Louis Borges |
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Criticism Finalists |
Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order |
Stuart Klawans |
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Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry |
William Logan |
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Lives of the Poets |
Michael Schmidt |
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Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season |
David Shields |
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
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| 1998 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The Love of a Good Woman |
Alice Munro |
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Fiction Finalists |
The Hours |
Michael Cunningham |
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Preston Falls |
David Gates |
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Birds of America |
Lorrie Moore |
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No Lease on Life |
Lynne Tillman |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda |
Philip Gourevtich |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
King Leopold's Ghost |
Adam Hochschild |
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America |
Ira Berlin |
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity |
Roy Porter |
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary |
Simon Winchester |
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Biography/Autobiography Winner |
A Beautiful Mind |
Sylvia Nasar |
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Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. |
Ron Chernow |
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Rocket Boys: A Memoir |
Homer H. Hickman Jr. |
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King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero |
David Remnick |
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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story |
Amanda Vaill |
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Poetry Winner |
The Bird Catcher |
Marie Ponsot |
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Poetry Finalists |
Self-Evidence |
Pamela White Hadas |
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Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler |
Thylias Moss |
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The Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse |
Ann Carson |
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Thieves of Paradise |
Yusef Komunyakaa |
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Criticism Winner |
Visions of Jazz: The First Century |
Gary Giddins |
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Criticism Finalists |
Out of Sheer Rage |
Geoff Dyer |
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Hip Hop America |
Nelson George |
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human |
Harold Bloom |
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The Sounds of Poetry |
Robert Pinsky |
| 1997 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The Blue Flower |
Penelope Fitzgerald |
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Fiction Finalists |
Underworld |
Don DeLillo |
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Cold Mountain |
Charles Frazier |
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Dreams of My Russian Summers |
Andrei Makine |
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American Pastoral |
Philip Roth |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
Anne Fadiman |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
Into Thin Air |
Jon Krakauer |
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The Bible as It Was |
James Kugel |
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American Scripture |
Pauline Maier |
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How the Mind Works |
Stephen Pinker |
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Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Ernie Pyle's War |
James Tobin |
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Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
American Sphinx |
Joseph Ellis |
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Virginia Woolf |
Hermione Lee |
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Walking in the Shade |
Doris Lessing |
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Poetry Winner |
Black Zodiac |
Charles Wright |
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Poetry Finalists |
Desire |
Frank Bidart |
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Loose Sugar |
Brenda Hillman |
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Questions for Ecclesiastes |
Mark Jarman |
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Does Your House Have Lions? |
Sonya Sanchez |
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Criticism Winner |
Making Waves |
Mario Vargas Llosa |
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Criticism Finalists |
The Pleasures of the Imagination |
John Brewer |
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The End of the Novel of Love |
Vivian Gornick |
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God and the American Writer |
Alfred Kazin |
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The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets |
Helen Vendler |
| 1996 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Women in Their Beds |
Gina Berriault |
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Fiction Finalists |
About Schmidt |
Louis Begley |
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Dancing After Hours |
Andre Dubus |
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The Autobiography of My Mother |
Jamaica Kincaid |
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From Bondage |
Henry Roth |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
Bad Land |
Jonathan Raban |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
The Great Books |
David Denby |
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Hitler's Willing Executioners |
Daniel Goldhagen |
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Ashes to Ashes |
Richard Kluger |
| |
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The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years |
Bernard Lewis |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Angela's Ashes |
Frank McCourt |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography |
Peter Conn |
| |
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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn |
David Hajdu |
| |
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The Last Happy Occasion |
Alan Shapiro |
| |
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Charles Ives: A Life With Music |
Jan Swafford |
| |
Poetry Winner |
Sun Under Wood |
Robert Hass |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
Loosestrife |
Stephen Dunn |
| |
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Imagine the Angels of Bread |
Martin Espada |
| |
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Music Minus One |
Jane Shore |
| |
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The Vigil |
C.K. Williams |
| |
Criticism Winner |
Finding a Form |
William Gass |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life |
Gene H. Bell-Villada |
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The True Story of the Novel |
Margaret Anne Doody |
| |
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The Love Affair as a Work of Art |
Dan Hofstadter |
| |
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Fame and Folly |
Cynthia Oazick |
| 1995 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Mrs. Ted Bliss |
Stanley Elkin |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
Independence Day |
Richard Ford |
| |
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Galatea 2.2 |
Richard Powers |
| |
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Moo |
Jane Smiley |
| |
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The Tent of Orange Mist |
Paul West |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
A Civil Action |
Jonathan Harr |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books |
Nicholas Basbanes |
| |
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In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle |
Madeleine Blais |
| |
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All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence |
Fox Butterfield |
| |
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder |
Lawrence Weschler |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson |
Robert Polito |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence |
John Hockenberry |
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The Liars' Club |
Mary Karr |
| |
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Walt Whitman's America |
David S. Reynolds |
| |
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire |
Robert Richardson Jr. |
| |
Poetry Winner |
Time & Money |
William Matthews |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
The Only World |
Lynda Hull |
| |
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A Scattering of Salts |
James Merrill |
| |
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Cortege |
Carl Phillips |
| |
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Kyrie |
Ellen Bryant Voigt |
| |
Criticism Winner |
The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France |
Robert Darnton |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994 |
Stanley Crouch |
| |
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The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets and Poetasters |
Thomas M. Disch |
| |
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Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew |
John Felstiner |
| |
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After the Fact |
Clifford Geertz |
| |
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Elizabeth Hardwick |
|
| 1994 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The Stone Diaries |
Carol Shields |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
The Prince of West End Avenue |
Alan Isler |
| |
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And All Our Wounds Forgiven |
Julius Lester |
| |
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A Frolic of His Own |
William Gaddis |
| |
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In the Time of the Butterflies |
Julia Alvarez |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
The Rape of Europa |
Lynn Nicholas |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
Strange Justice |
Jane Mayer & Jill Abramson |
| |
|
My Own Country |
Abraham Verghese |
| |
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How We Die |
Sherwin Nuland |
| |
|
The Unredeemed Captive |
John Demos |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Shot in the Heart |
Mikal Gilmore |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Toulouse-Lautrec |
Julia Frey |
| |
|
D.H. Lawrence |
Brenda Maddox |
| |
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Naturalist |
Edward O. Wilson |
| |
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Winchell |
Neal Gabler |
| |
Poetry Winner |
Rider |
Mark Rudman |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
What We Carry |
Dorianne Laux |
| |
|
Winter Numbers |
Marilyn Hacker |
| |
|
The Simple Truth |
Philip Levine |
| |
|
Sunday Skaters |
Mary Jo Salter |
| |
Criticism Winner |
The Culture of Bruising |
Gerald Early |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
Poetry of Mourning |
Jahan Ramazani |
| |
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The Western Canon |
Harold Bloom |
| |
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Reasonable Creatures |
Katha Pollitt |
| |
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Sex and Suits |
Anne Hollander |
| 1993 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
A Lesson Before Dying |
Ernest J. Gaines |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
The Shipping News |
E. Annie Proulx |
| |
|
Feather Crowns |
Bobbi Ann Mason |
| |
|
Vindication |
Frances Sherwood |
| |
|
The Jade Cabinet |
Rikki Ducornet |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
The Land Where the Blues Began |
Alan Lomax |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age |
Rosemary Mahoney |
| |
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The Last Panda |
George B. Schaller |
| |
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Genie: An Abused Child's Flight From Silence |
Russ Rymer |
| |
|
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire |
David Remnick |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Genet |
Edmund White |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
A Different Person |
James Merrill |
| |
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The Passion of Michel Foucault |
James Miller |
| |
|
French Lessons |
Alice Kaplan |
| |
|
DuBois: Biography of a Race |
David Levering Lewis |
| |
Criticism Winner |
Opera in America: A Cultural History |
John Dizikes |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
The Queen's Throat |
Wayne Koestenbaum |
| |
|
The Phantom Empire |
Geoffrey O'Brien |
| |
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Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright |
Mark Rose |
| |
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United States: Essays 1952-1992 |
Gore Vidal |
| 1992 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
All the Pretty Horses |
Cormac McCarthy |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead |
Randall Kenan |
| |
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Black Water |
Joyce Carol Oates |
| |
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Clockers |
Richard Price |
| |
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Outerbridge Reach |
Robert Stone |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
Young Men and Fire |
Norman Maclean |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
Breaking the Maya Code |
Michael D. Coe |
| |
|
Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America |
Donald Katz |
| |
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Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyay Life in Brazil |
Nancy Scheper-Hughes |
| |
|
The Diversity of Life |
Edward O. Wilson |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World |
Carol Brightman |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958 |
Jack Beatty |
| |
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Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott |
Paul Hendrickson |
| |
|
Kissinger |
Walter Isaacson |
| |
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The Diversity of Life |
Edward O. Wilson |
| |
Poetry Winner |
Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991 |
Hayden Carruth |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
Gilgamesh |
David Ferry |
| |
|
Looking for Luck |
Maxine Kumin |
| |
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The Father |
Sharon Olds |
| |
|
A Dream of Mine |
K.C. Williams |
| |
Criticism Winner |
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America |
Garry Wills |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy |
Frederick Crews |
| |
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Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture |
Dana Gioia |
| |
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A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War |
Susan Griffin |
| |
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Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West |
Wallace Stegner |
| 1991 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
A Thousand Acres |
Jane Smiley |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
Wartime Lies |
Louis Begley |
| |
|
Typical American |
Gish Jen |
| |
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The Gold Bug Variations |
Richard Powers |
| |
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Mating |
Norman Rush |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women |
Susan Faludi |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
Which Side Are You on? Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back |
Thomas Geoghegan |
| |
|
Praying for Sheetrock |
Melissa Fay Greene |
| |
|
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools |
Jonathan Kozol |
| |
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Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe |
Dennis Overbye |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Patrimony: A True Story |
Philip Roth |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
The Journals of John Cheever |
John Cheever |
| |
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan |
Robert Kanigel |
| |
|
Anne Sexton: A Biography |
Diane Middlebrook |
| |
|
Maus II |
Art Spiegelman |
| |
Poetry Winner |
Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology |
Albert Goldbarth |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected Poems |
Diane Ackerman |
| |
|
The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New & Selected (1979-1991) |
Allen Grossman |
| |
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What Work Is |
Philip Levine |
| |
|
An Atlas of the Difficult World |
Adrienne Rich |
| |
Criticism Winner |
Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory |
Lawrence L. Langer |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works & Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century |
Norman F. Cantor |
| |
|
Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media |
J. Hoberman |
| |
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Female Perversions: The Temptations of Madame Bovary |
Louise J. Kaplan |
| |
|
Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism |
John Updike |
| 1990 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Rabbit at Rest |
John Updike |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
Middle Passage |
Charles Johnson |
| |
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Family Pictures |
Sue Miller |
| |
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The Things They Carried |
Tim O'Brien |
| |
|
Collected Stories |
Wallace Stegner |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America |
Shelby Steele |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles |
Mike Davis |
| |
|
Samba |
Alma Guillermoprieto |
| |
|
Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the 20th Century |
O.B. Hardison |
| |
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The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath |
Kevin Phillips |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent |
Robert Caro |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Strong Drink, Strong Language |
John Espey |
| |
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The Five of Hearts: an Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918 |
Patricia O'Toole |
| |
|
A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood |
Richard Rhodes |
| |
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Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes |
T.H. Watkins |
| |
Poetry Winner |
Bitter Angel |
Amy Gerstler |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
In the Western Night |
Frank Bidart |
| |
|
New Poems, 1980-88 |
John Haines |
| |
|
The Transparent Man |
Anthony Hecht |
| |
|
The Book of Gods and Devils |
Charles Simic |
| |
Criticism Winner |
Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present |
Arthur Danto |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 |
Stanley Crouch |
| |
|
Selected Writings, 1950-1990 |
Irving Howe |
| |
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Sexual personae : art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson |
Camille Paglia |
| |
|
Essays in Disguise |
Wilfrid Sheed |
| 1989 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Billy Bathgate |
E.L. Doctorow |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
The Joy Luck Club |
Amy Tan |
| |
|
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
Oscar Hijeulos |
| |
|
Ordinary Love & Good Will |
Jane Smiley |
| |
|
Spartina |
John Casey |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
The Broken Cord |
Michael Dorris |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
Among Schoolchildren |
Tracy Kidder |
| |
|
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class |
Barbara Ehrenreich |
| |
|
A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922 |
David Fromkin |
| |
|
The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier |
Amy Wilentz |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt |
Geoffrey C. Ward |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil War |
Bil Gilbert |
| |
|
Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations |
Otto Friedrich |
| |
|
Richard Milhouse Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician |
Roger Moris |
| |
|
This Boy's Life: A Memoir |
Tobias Wolff |
| |
Poetry Winner |
Transparent Gestures |
Rodney Jones |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
Earthquake Weather |
August Kleinzahler |
| |
|
Human Wishes |
Robert Hass |
| |
|
Pyramid of Bone |
Thylias Moss |
| |
|
Water Walker |
Nancy Willard |
| |
Criticism Winner |
Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History |
John Clive |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
America's Rome |
William L. Vance |
| |
|
A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost |
David Bromwich |
| |
|
Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation |
Charles Solomon |
| |
|
Metaphor and Memory: Essays |
Cynthia Ozick |
| 1988 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The Middleman and Other Stories |
Bharati Mukherjee |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
Libra |
Don DeLillo |
| |
|
Paris Trout |
Pete Dexter |
| |
|
Wheat That Springeth Green |
J.F. Powers |
| |
|
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories |
Raymond Carver |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 |
Taylor Branch |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era |
James M. McPherson |
| |
|
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
Neil Sheehan |
| |
|
Europeans |
Jane Kramer |
| |
|
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 |
Eric Foner |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Oscar Wilde |
Richard Ellman |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir |
Paul Monette |
| |
|
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, 1909-1922 |
Valerie Eliot. ed. |
| |
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The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981 |
Paul Jay. ed. |
| |
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Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information |
Robert Wright |
| |
Poetry Winner |
The One Day |
Donald Hall |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
New and Collected Poems |
Richard Wilbur |
| |
|
Harp Lake |
John Hollander |
| |
|
One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays |
Kenneth Koch |
| |
|
Selected Poems, 1938-1988 |
Thomas McGrath |
| |
Criticism Winner |
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author |
Clifford Geertz |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
The Death of Rhythm and Blues |
Nelson George |
| |
|
Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation |
Richard A. Posner |
| |
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Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language |
John Hollander |
| |
|
Poetry and the World |
Robert Pinsky |
| 1987 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The Counterlife |
Philip Roth |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
The Age of Grief |
Jane Smiley |
| |
|
Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
| |
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The Bonfire of the Vanities |
Tom Wolfe |
| |
|
Crossing to Safety |
Wallace Stegner |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
Richard Rhodes |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic |
Randy Shilts |
| |
|
Democracy Is in the Streets, |
James Miller |
| |
|
The Genius of the People |
Charles Mee |
| |
|
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle |
Stephen Jay Gould |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Chaucer: His Life, His Work, His World |
Donald Howard |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
An American Childhood |
Annie Dillard |
| |
|
Don't Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman |
Prudence Crowther, ed. |
| |
|
Private Domain |
Paul Taylor |
| |
|
Timebends: A Life |
Arthur Miller |
| |
Poetry Winner |
Flesh and Blood |
C.K. Williams |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
April Galleons |
John Ashbery |
| |
|
Happy Hour |
Alan Shapiro |
| |
|
In Other Words |
May Swenson |
| |
|
The Sunset Maker |
Donald Justice |
| |
Criticism Winner |
Dance Writings |
Edwin Denby |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
Collected Prose |
Robert Lowell |
| |
|
Every Force Evolves a Form |
Guy Davenport |
| |
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Sight Lines |
Arlene Croce |
| |
|
Understanding Toscanini |
Josephn Horowitz |
| 1986 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
A Summons to Memphis |
Peter Taylor |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
The Beet Queen |
Louise Erdrich |
| |
|
Kate Vaiden |
Reynolds Price |
| |
|
The Moon Pinnace |
Thomas Williams |
| |
|
Roger's Version |
John Updike |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
Arctic Dreams |
Barry Lopez |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution |
Bernard Bailyn |
| |
|
Bird of Life, Bird of Death: A Naturalist's Journey Through a Land of Political Turmoil |
Jonathan Evan Maslow |
| |
|
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War |
John W. Dower |
| |
|
Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water |
Marc Reisner |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941 |
Arnold Rampersad |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Velazquez: Painter and Courtier |
Jonathan Brown |
| |
|
Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter |
Theodore Rosengarten |
| |
|
Maus: A Survivor's Tale |
Art Spiegelman |
| |
|
Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 |
Joseph Frank |
| |
Poetry Winner |
Wild Gratitude |
Edward Hirsch |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
All of Us Here and Other Poems |
Irving Feldman |
| |
|
Cats of the Temple |
Brad Leithauser |
| |
|
Sapphics Against Anger |
Timothy Steele |
| |
|
The Key to the City |
Anne Winters |
| |
Criticism Winner |
Less Than One: Selected Essays |
Joseph Brodsky |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950: Vols. 5 & 6 |
Rene Wellek |
| |
|
Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics and Boundaries of Bourgeois Life |
Jerrold Siegel |
| |
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The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History |
Leo Braudy |
| |
|
The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art |
Arthur Danto |
| 1985 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The Accidental Tourist |
Anne Tyler |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
White Noise |
Don DeLillo |
| |
|
The Old Forest and Other Stories |
Peter Taylor |
| |
|
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance |
Richard Powers |
| |
|
Lonesome Dove |
Larry McMurtry |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families |
J. Anthony Lukas |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
House |
Tracy Kidder |
| |
|
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World |
Elaine Scarry |
| |
|
Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans |
Alan Riding |
| |
|
The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens |
Eva Keuls |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Henry James: A Life |
Leon Edel |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Louise Bogan |
Elizabeth Frank |
| |
|
Giacometti: A Biography |
James Lord |
| |
|
Brigham Young: American Moses |
Leonard Arrington |
| |
|
Visible Light: Four Creative Biographies |
Michael Lesy |
| |
Poetry Winner |
The Triumph of Achilles |
Louise Gluck |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
What the Light was Like |
Amy Clampitt |
| |
|
The Lamplit Answer |
Gjertude Schnackenberg |
| |
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The Past |
Galway Kinnell |
| |
|
Late Settings |
James Merrill |
| |
Criticism Winner |
Habitations of the Word |
William Gass |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss |
Paul Robinson |
| |
|
Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: 19th Century French Literary Artistis and Comic Pantomine |
Robert Storey |
| |
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Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the AmericanNovel |
Phillip Fisher |
| |
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Occasional Prose: Essays |
Mary McCarthy |
| 1984 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Love Medicine |
Louise Erdrich |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
Family Dancing |
David Leavitt |
| |
|
Foreign Affairs |
Alison Lurie |
| |
|
Machine Dreams |
Jayne Anne Phillips |
| |
|
Stones for Ibarra |
Harriet Doerr |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
Weapons and Hope |
Freeman Dyson |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
The Abandonment of the Jews |
David Wyman |
| |
|
Brothers and Keepers |
John Edgar Wideman |
| |
|
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History |
Robert Darnton |
| |
|
Son of the Morning Star |
Evan Connell |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-59 |
Joseph Frank |
| |
Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Home Before Dark |
Susan Cheever |
| |
|
Josephine Herbst |
Elinor Langer |
| |
|
One Writer's Beginnings |
Eudora Welty |
| |
|
Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet |
Paul Zweig |
| |
Poetry Winner |
The Dead and the Living |
Sharon Olds |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
Ground Work: Before the War |
Robert Duncan |
| |
|
The Other Side of the River |
Charles Wright |
| |
|
Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic |
Dick Allen |
| |
|
A Wave |
John Ashbery |
| |
Criticism Winner |
Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry |
Robert Hass |
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Criticism Finalists |
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era |
Donald Keene |
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Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic |
David Bromwich |
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The Innocent Eye |
Roger Shattuck |
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The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion |
Leo Steinberg |
| 1983 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Ironweed |
William Kennedy |
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Fiction Finalists |
The Anatomy Lesson |
Philip Roth |
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Cathedral: Stories |
Raymond Carver |
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During the Reign of the Queen of Persia |
Joan Chase |
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Magnetic Field |
Ron Loewinsohn |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House |
Seymour M. Hersh |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
Children of War |
Roger Rosenblatt |
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Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman |
William W. Warner |
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Present History |
Theodore Draper |
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Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World |
David S. Landes |
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Biography/Autobiography Winner |
Minor Characters |
Joyce Johnson |
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Biography/Autobiography Finalists |
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just |
Kenneth R. Manning |
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Eleni |
Nicholas Gage |
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The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeth's |
E. Fuller Torrey |
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Thomas Carlyle |
Fred Kaplan |
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Poetry Winner |
The Changing Light at Sandover |
James Merrill |
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Poetry Finalists |
Erosion |
Jorie Graham |
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The Kingfisher |
Amy Clampitt |
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Picture Bride |
Cathy Song |
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Tar |
C.K. Williams |
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Criticism Winner |
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism |
John Updike |
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Criticism Finalists |
All American Music |
John Rockwell |
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Art and Ardor: Essays |
Cynthia Ozick |
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The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century |
Svetlana Alpers |
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The Odes of John Keats |
Helen Vendler |
| 1982 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
George Mills |
Stanley Elkin |
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Fiction Finalists |
Levitation: Five Fictions |
Cynthia Ozick |
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant |
Anne Tyler |
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The Color Purple |
Alice Walker |
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Shiloh and Other Stories |
Bobbie Ann Mason |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
Robert A. Caro |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age |
George F. Keenan |
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The Fate of the Earth |
Jonathan Schell |
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Stolen Lightning |
Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe |
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Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood |
Kate Simon |
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Poetry Winner |
Antarctic Traveller |
Katha Pollitt |
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Poetry Finalists |
Monolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982 |
Jack Gilbert |
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Hundreds of Fireflies |
Brad Leithauser |
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Visiting Rites |
Phyllis Janowitz |
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Finding the Islands |
W.S. Merwin |
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Criticism Winner |
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-82 |
Gore Vidal |
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Criticism Finalists |
Going to the Dance |
Arlene Croce |
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All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity |
Marshall Berman |
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Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism |
Harold Bloom |
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Woman and the Demon: the Life of a Victorian Myth |
Nina Auerbach |
| 1981 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Rabbit Is Rich |
John Updike |
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Fiction Finalists |
A Flag for Sunrise |
Robert Stone |
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Riddley Walker |
Russell Hoban |
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Sixty Stories |
Donald Barthelme |
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The Men's Club |
Leonard Michaels |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
Mismeasure of Man |
Stephen Jay Gould |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
National Defense |
James Fallows |
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No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 |
T.J. Jackson Lears |
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The Sage of Monticello: Jefferson and His Time, Volume Six |
Dumas Malone |
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Forms of Talk |
Erving Goffman |
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Poetry Winner |
A Coast of Trees |
A.R. Ammons |
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Poetry Finalists |
The Revisionist |
Douglas Crase |
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Brotherly Love |
Daniel Hoffman |
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What Manner of Beast |
Donald Finkel |
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For the Sleepwalkers |
Edward Hirsch |
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Criticism Winner |
A Virgil Thomson Reader |
Virgil Thomson |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays |
Guy Davenport |
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Science: Good, Bad and Bogus |
Martin Gardner |
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Early Auden |
Edward Mendelson |
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Boccaccio |
Thomas G. Bergin |
| 1980 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The Transit of Venus |
Shirley Hazzard |
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Fiction Finalists |
Loon Lake |
E.L. Doctorow |
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Morgan's Passing |
Anne Tyler |
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The Second Coming |
Walker Percy |
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So Long, See You Tomorrow |
William Maxwell |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
Walter Lippmann and the American Century |
Ronald Steel |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
Alice James: A Biography |
Jean Strouse |
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China Men |
Maxine Hong Kingston |
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the 14th Century |
John Boswell |
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Walt Whitman: A Life |
Justin D. Kaplan |
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Poetry Winner |
Sunrise |
Frederick Seidel |
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Poetry Finalists |
A Part of Speech |
Joseph Brodsky |
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Being Here: Poetry, 1977-1980 |
Robert Penn Warren |
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The Morning of the Poem |
James Schuyler |
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Scripts for the Pageant |
James Merrill |
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Criticism Winner |
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets |
Helen Vendler |
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Criticism Finalists |
Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars |
Paul Fussell |
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Henry Adams |
R.P. Blackmur, ed. by Veronica A. Makowsky |
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Lectures on Literature |
Vladimir Nabokov, ed. by Fredson Bowers |
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Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875 |
Barbara Novak |
| 1979 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The Year of the French |
Thomas Flanagan |
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Fiction Finalists |
The Ghost Writer |
Philip Roth |
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Sophie's Choice |
William Styron |
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The Executioner's Song: A True Life Novel |
Norman Mailer |
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Sleepless Nights |
Elizabeth Hardwick |
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King of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust |
Leslie Epstein |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
Munich: The Price of Peace |
Telford Taylor |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
The Right Stuff |
Tom Wolfe |
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White Album |
Joan Didion |
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African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan |
Edward Hoagland |
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid |
Douglas Hofstadter |
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Poetry Winner |
Ashes and 7 Years from Somewhere |
Philip Levine |
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Poetry Finalists |
The Venetian Vespers |
Anthony Hecht |
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Blue Wine and Other Poems |
John Hollander |
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Goshawk, Antelope |
David Smith |
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Notes from the Castle |
Howard Moss |
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Criticism Winner |
The Gnostic Gospels |
Elaine Pagels |
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Criticism Finalists |
America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century |
Frances FitzGerald |
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Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet |
Richard Gilman |
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination |
Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar |
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A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal |
Robert Alter with Carol Cosman |
| 1978 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
The Stories of John Cheever |
John Cheever |
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Fiction Finalists |
The Coup |
John Updike |
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Final Payments |
Mary Gordon |
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The World According to Garp |
John Irving |
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Wrinkles |
Charles Simmons |
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General Nonfiction Winners |
Facts of Life |
Maureen Howard |
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Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence |
Garry Willis |
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General Nonfiction Finalists |
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century |
Barbara W. Tuchman |
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In Search of History: A Personal Adventure |
Theodore H. White |
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Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt |
Barrington Moore |
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Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life |
Sissela Bok |
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Max Perkins: Editor of Genius |
A. Scott Berg |
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New York Jew |
Alfred Kazin |
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Seeing Through Clothes |
Anne Hollander |
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The Snow Leopard |
Peter Matthiessen |
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Poetry Winner |
Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. Sissman |
Peter Davison, ed. |
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Poetry Finalists |
The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977 |
Adrienne Rich |
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The Late Hour |
Mark Strand |
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New & Selected Things Taking Place |
May Swenson |
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Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems |
John Hollander |
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Criticism Winner |
Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries, Selected Papers |
Meyer Schapior |
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Criticism Finalists |
And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978 |
Malcolm Cowley |
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The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews |
Eudora Welty |
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Orientalism |
Edward W. Said |
| |
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The World Within the Word: Essays |
William H. Gass |
| 1977 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Song of Solomon |
Toni Morrison |
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Fiction Finalists |
Falconer |
John Cheever |
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A Book of Common Prayer |
Joan Didion |
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The Professor of Desire |
Philip Roth |
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Union Dues |
John Sayles |
| |
General Nonfiction Winner |
Samuel Johnson |
W. Jackson Bate |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
Dispatches |
Michael Herr |
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 |
David McCullough |
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Coming into the Country |
John McPhee |
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence |
Carl Sagan |
| |
Poetry Winner |
Day By Day |
Robert Lowell |
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Poetry Finalists |
Houseboat Days |
John Ashbery |
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Out-of-the-Body Travel |
Stanley Plumly |
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The Fuhrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress |
W.D. Snodgrass |
| |
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Lucky Life |
Gerald Stern |
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Criticism Winner |
On Photography |
Susan Sontag |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
Afterimages |
Arlene Croce |
| |
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Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties |
Morris Dickstein |
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Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing |
Richard Poirier |
| |
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Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays, 1973-1976 |
Gore Vidal |
| 1976 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
October Light |
John Gardner |
| |
Fiction Finalists |
Speedboat |
Renata Adler |
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Details of a Sunset and Other Stories |
Vladimir Nabokov |
| |
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Bloodshed and Three Novellas |
Cynthia Ozick |
| |
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The Easter Parade |
Richard Yates |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts |
Maxine Hong Kingston |
| |
General Nonfiction Finalists |
The Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations |
George Dangerfield |
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Roots |
Alex Haley |
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World of Our Fathers |
Irving Howe with Kenneth Libo |
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Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality |
Richard Kluger |
| |
Poetry Winner |
Geography III |
Elizabeth Bishop |
| |
Poetry Finalists |
The Names of the Lost |
Philip Levine |
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The Gates |
Muriel Rukeyser |
| |
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Searching for the Ox |
Louis Simpson |
| |
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The Mind-Reader |
Richard Wilbur |
| |
Criticism Winner |
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales |
Bruno Bettelheim |
| |
Criticism Finalists |
Kicked a Building Lately? |
Ada Louise Huxtable |
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Representations: Essays on Literature and Society |
Steven Marcus |
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Arnold Schoenberg |
Charles Rosen |
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Letters of E.B. White |
E.B. White, ed. by Dorothy Lobrano Guth |
| 1975 Awards |
Fiction Winner |
Ragtime |
E.L. Doctorow |
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General Nonfiction Winner |
Edith Wharton: A Biography |
R.W.B. Lewis |
| |
Poetry Winner |
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
John Ashbery |
| |
Criticism Winner |
The Great War and Modern Memory |
Paul Fussell |
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