Awards & Winners

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award

Check winners and nominations of 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award. Check awards winners of 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Alice Munro

Honored for : The Love of a Good Woman: Stories

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Nominee Nominated Work
Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman: Stories
Michael Cunningham The Hours
David Gates Preston Falls
Lorrie Moore Birds of America
Lynne Tillman No Lease on Life
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Philip Gourevitch

Honored for : We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

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Nominee Nominated Work
Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Adam Hochschild King Leopold's Ghost
Ira Berlin Many Thousands Gone
Roy Porter The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
Simon Winchester The Surgeon of Crowthorne
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Marie Ponsot

Honored for : The Bird Catcher

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Nominee Nominated Work
Marie Ponsot The Bird Catcher
Pamela White Hadas Self-Evidence
Thylias Moss Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler
Anne Carson Autobiography of Red
Yusef Komunyakaa Thieves of Paradise
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography

Sylvia Nasar

Honored for : A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

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Nominee Nominated Work
Sylvia Nasar A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
Ron Chernow Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Homer Hickam Rocket Boys
David Remnick King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
Amanda Vaill Everybody Was So Young
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Gary Giddins

Honored for : Visions of Jazz

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gary Giddins Visions of Jazz
Geoff Dyer Out of Sheer Rage
Nelson George Hip Hop America
Harold Bloom Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Robert Pinsky The Sounds of Poetry
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

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