National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced
January 31, 2011
The National Book Critics Circle Awards are supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Awards promote the finest books in 6 categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir/Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism. Books may be by any author from any country; the only requirement is that they be published in the U.S. within the previous calendar year. The Awards will be announced on March 10th, 2011.
This year’s nominees for Fiction are:
A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
To The End Of The Land by David Grossman
Comedy In A Minor Key by Hans Keilson
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
Nominees for Nonfiction are:
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in America by S.C. Gwynne
Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Nominees for Biography are:
How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell
The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham: A Biography by Selina Hastings
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story Of The Honorable Detective And His Rendezvous With American History by Yunte Huang
The Killing Of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers
Simon Wiesenthal: The Lives And Legends by Tom Segev
Nominees for Autobiography are:
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 by Kai Bird
The Autobiography of an Execution by David Dow
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Half a Life by Darin Strauss
