National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalistBiography

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Andere Namen: John Leonard Award (Engels), National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Engels)
101 Werken 63,662 boeken 1,594 Besprekingen 4.2
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 toon meer 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 toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (276), Finalist (1,264)
Categorieën:
Alle, Biografie (101)
Jaren:
Alle, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (3), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (4), 2011 (6), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (3), 2003 (4), 1990 (1)
Aangekondigd:
maart 21: Winnaar2023 Recent
januari 25: Finalist2023 Recent

Finalist 101

WerkJaar
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage door Jonny Steinberg2023
King: A Life door Jonathan Eig2023
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts door Gregg Hecimovich2023
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History door Yunte Huang2023
Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter (Jewish Lives) door Rachel Shteir2023
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century door Beverly Gage2022
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family door Kerri K. Greenidge2022
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century door Jennifer Homans2022
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life door Clare Mac Cumhaill2022
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times door Professor Aaron Sachs2022
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler door Rebecca Donner2021
Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser door Susan Bernofsky2021
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America door Keisha N. Blain2021
Mike Nichols: A Life door Mark Harris2021
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York door Alexander Nemerov2021
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World door Amy Stanley2020
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes door Zachary D. Carter2020
Rode komeet: het korte leven en de vlammende kunst van Sylvia Plath door Heather Clark2020
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth door Josh Levin2019
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century door Charles King2019
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron" door Lucasta Miller2019
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century door George Packer2019
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II door Sonia Purnell2019
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous door Christopher Bonanos2018
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret door Craig Brown2018
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History door Yunte Huang2018
The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century door Mark Lamster2018
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created door Jane Leavy2018
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder door Caroline Fraser2017
The Invention of Angela Carter : A Biography door Edmund Gordon2017
The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek door Howard Markel2017
Gorbachev: His Life and Times door William Taubman2017
Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times door Kenneth Whyte2017
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life door Ruth Franklin2016
Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War door Nigel Cliff2016
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary door Joe Jackson2016
Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White door Michael Tisserand2016
Guilty thing: a life of Thomas De Quincey door Frances Wilson2016
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley door Charlotte Gordon2015
Fortune's Fool (Author Unknown) door Terry Alford2015
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America door T. J. Stiles2015
de dochter van Stalin door Rosemary Sullivan2015
Dietrich & Riefenstahl twee vrouwenlevens in Hollywood en Berlijn door Karin Wieland2015
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh door John Lahr2014
William Wells Brown: An African American Life door Ezra Greenspan2014
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson door S. C. Gwynne2014
"Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions door Ian S. MacNiven2014
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography door Miriam Pawel2014
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World door Leo Damrosch2013
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East door Scott Anderson2013
Bach muziek als een wenk van de hemel door John Eliot Gardiner2013
Holding On Upside Down: The Life And Work of Marianne Moore door Linda Leavell2013
Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis door Mark Thompson2013
The Passage of Power door Robert A. Caro2012
All We Know: Three Lives door Lisa Cohen2012
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece door Michael Gorra2012
Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus door Lisa Jarnot2012
George F. Kennan: An American Life door John Lewis Gaddis2011
Liefde en kapitaal Karl en Jenny Marx en de geboorte van een revolutie door Mary Gabriel2011
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 door Paul Hendrickson2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention door Manning Marable2011
The Black Count: Napoleon's Rival and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas door Tom Reiss2011
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China door Ezra F. Vogel2011
Hoe te leven Een leven van Montaigne In één vraag en twintig pogingen tot een antwoord door Sarah Bakewell2010
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography door Selina Hastings2010
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History door Yunte Huang2010
The Killing of Crazy Horse door Thomas Powers2010
De nazi-jager het leven van Simon Wiesenthal 1908-2005 door Tom Segev2010
Cheever: A Life door Blake Bailey2009
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor door Brad Gooch2009
Clarice Lispector : De biografie door Benjamin Moser2009
Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone door Stanislao G. Pugliese2009
Passing Strange door Martha A. Sandweiss2009
V.S. Naipaul een biografie door Patrick French2008
De Bin Ladens een Arabische familie in het hart van de wereld door Steve Coll2008
Ida: A Sword Among Lions door Paula J. Giddings2008
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family door Annette Gordon-Reed2008
White Heat door Brenda Wineapple2008
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer door Tim Jeal2007
Edith Wharton door Hermione Lee2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography door Arnold Rampersad2007
A Life of Picasso, Volume 3: 1917-1932 door John Richardson2007
Thomas Hardy door Claire Tomalin2007
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon door Julie Phillips2006
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher door Debby Applegate2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 door Taylor Branch2006
Flaubert: A Biography door Frederick Brown2006
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler door Jason Roberts2006
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer door Kai Bird2005
Lee Miller: A Life door Carolyn Burke2005
B.S. Johnson een schrijversleven 1933-1973 door Jonathan Coe2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln door Doris Kearns Goodwin2005
Mark Twain: A Life door Ron Powers2005
Alexander Hamilton door Ron Chernow2004
Kronieken door Bob Dylan2004
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart door John Guy2004
A Tragic Honesty door Blake Bailey2003
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage door Paul Elie2003
Jonathan Edwards: A Life door George M. Marsden2003
Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake door Carol Loeb Shloss2003
Means of Ascent door Robert A. Caro1990

Beschrijvingen

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, Door lid geschreven)
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, Door lid geschreven)

Trefwoorden

18th century(183) 19th century(327) 20th century(356) Abraham Lincoln(405) Alexander Hamilton(220) America(167) American(269) American Civil War(225) American history(1,548) American literature(161) American Presidents(243) American Revolution(231) audiobook(227) autobiography(381) biographies(165) biography(8,832) Biography & Autobiography(192) biography-memoir(254) Bob Dylan(180) civil rights(169) Civil War(705) ebook(295) Founding Fathers(181) France(271) hardcover(138) history(4,722) Kindle(460) Lincoln(493) literary biography(244) literature(263) Lyndon Johnson(164) memoir(330) Middle East(209) music(769) non-fiction(4,184) own(161) philosophy(334) politics(903) presidents(428) read(345) science(170) slavery(179) to-read(4,614) U.S. History(160) unread(245) US history(398) usa(573) war(163) wwi(148) wwii(373)

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