National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalistBiography/Autobiography

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Andere Namen: John Leonard Award (Engels), National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Engels)
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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
Stadia:
Alle, Winner (276), Finalist (1,264)
Categorieën:
Alle, Biography/Autobiography (99)
Jaren:
Alle, 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)

Finalist 99

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

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

19th century(228) 20th century(607) alcoholism(188) America(161) American(333) American history(717) American literature(337) art(180) autobiography(1,752) bio(208) biography(9,244) Biography & Autobiography(248) biography-memoir(365) biology(372) childhood(272) comics(366) coming of age(241) evolution(226) family(334) fiction(902) graphic novel(1,003) graphic novels(209) history(2,658) Holocaust(917) Ireland(1,388) Irish(384) Japan(161) letters(197) literary biography(246) literature(612) math(582) memoir(4,776) music(267) non-fiction(5,261) novel(179) own(354) poetry(218) politics(298) poverty(472) presidents(208) Pulitzer Prize(242) read(802) science(726) to-read(3,548) unread(389) US history(164) usa(434) writers(197) writing(277) wwii(872)

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