Awards & Winners

1995 National Book Critics Circle Award

Check winners and nominations of 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award. Check awards winners of 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Stanley Elkin

Honored for : Mrs. Ted Bliss

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Nominee Nominated Work
Stanley Elkin Mrs. Ted Bliss
Richard Ford Independence Day
Richard Powers Galatea 2.2
Jane Smiley Moo
Paul West The tent of orange mist
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Jonathan Harr

Honored for : A Civil Action

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jonathan Harr A Civil Action
Nicholas A Basbanes A Gentle Madness
Madeleine Blais In these girls, hope is a muscle
Fox Butterfield All God's Children
Lawrence Weschler Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

William Matthews

Honored for : Time & Money

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Nominee Nominated Work
William Matthews Time & Money
Lynda Hull The only world
James Merrill A Scattering of Salts
Carl Phillips Cortege
Ellen Bryant Voigt Kyrie
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography

Robert Polito

Honored for : Savage Art

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Polito Savage Art
John Hockenberry Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
Mary Karr The Liars' Club
David S. Reynolds Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
Robert D. Richardson Emerson
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Robert Darnton

Honored for : The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Darnton The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
Stanley Crouch The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race
Thomas M. Disch The Castle of Indolence: Poetry and its Pretenders
John Felstiner Paul Celan
Clifford Geertz After the Fact
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

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