Awards & Winners

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award

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

Gina Berriault

Honored for : Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gina Berriault Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
Louis Begley About Schmidt
Andre Dubus Dancing After Hours
Jamaica Kincaid The Autobiography of my Mother
Henry Roth From Bondage
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Jonathan Raban

Honored for : Bad Land: An American Romance

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jonathan Raban Bad Land: An American Romance
David Denby Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
Daniel Goldhagen Hitler's Willing Executioners
Richard Kluger Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Bernard Lewis The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Robert Hass

Honored for : Sun Under Wood

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Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Hass Sun Under Wood
Stephen Dunn Loosestrife
Martín Espada Imagine the Angels of Bread
Jane Shore Music minus one
C. K. Williams Vigil
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography

Frank McCourt

Honored for : Angela's Ashes

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Nominee Nominated Work
Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes
Peter Conn Pear S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
David Hajdu Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
Alan Shapiro The Last Happy Occasion
Jan Swafford Charles Ives: A Life With Music
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

William H. Gass

Honored for : Finding a Form

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Nominee Nominated Work
William H. Gass Finding a Form
Gene H. Bell-Villada Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life
Margaret Doody The True Story of the Novel
Dan Hofstadter The Love Affair as a Work of Art
Cynthia Ozick Fame & Folly
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

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