Awards & Winners

2004 National Book Critics Circle Award

Check winners and nominations of 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award. Check awards winners of 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

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

Marilynne Robinson

Honored for : Gilead

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Nominee Nominated Work
Marilynne Robinson Gilead
Edwidge Danticat The Dew Breaker
Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty
David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
Philip Roth The Plot Against America
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography

Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan

Honored for : De Kooning: An American Master
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Honored for : The Reformation: A History

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Nominee Nominated Work
Diarmaid MacCulloch The Reformation: A History
Kevin Boyle Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Edward Conlon Blue Blood
David K. Shipler The Working Poor
Timothy Tyson Blood Done Sign My Name
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Adrienne Rich

Honored for : The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004

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Nominee Nominated Work
Adrienne Rich The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004
Brigit Pegeen Kelly The Orchard
D. A. Powell Cocktails
James Richardson [null]
Gary Snyder Danger on Peaks
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography

Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan

Honored for : De Kooning: An American Master
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Patrick Neate

Honored for : Where You're at

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Patrick Neate Where You're at
Richard Howard [null]
Graham Robb Strangers
Craig Seligman Sontag & Kael
James Wood The Irresponsible Self
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

David Orr

(A contributor to The New York Times Book Review and Poetry Magazine)

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