Awards & Winners

2005 National Book Critics Circle Award

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

E. L. Doctorow

Honored for : The March

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Nominee Nominated Work
E. L. Doctorow The March
Mary Gaitskill Veronica
Andrea Levy Small Island
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go
William T. Vollmann Europe Central
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography

Francine du Plessix Gray

Honored for : Them: A Memoir of Parents

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Nominee Nominated Work
Francine du Plessix Gray Them: A Memoir of Parents
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Judith Moore Fat Girl: A True Story
Orhan Pamuk Istanbul: Memories and a City
Vikram Seth Two Lives
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Honored for : American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Nominee Nominated Work
Kai Bird American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Carolyn Burke Lee Miller
Jonathan Coe Like a Fiery Elephant
Doris Kearns Goodwin Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Ron Powers Mark Twain
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Svetlana Alexievich

Honored for : Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

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Nominee Nominated Work
Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Ellen Meloy Eating Stone
Caroline Moorehead Human Cargo
Anthony Shadid Night Draws Near
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Jack Gilbert

Honored for : Refusing Heaven

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jack Gilbert Refusing Heaven
Simon Armitage The Shout
Blas Manuel de Luna Bent to the Earth
Richard Siken Crush
Ron Slate The Incentive of the Maggot
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

William Logan

Honored for : The Undiscovered Country

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Nominee Nominated Work
William Logan The Undiscovered Country
Hal Crowther Gather at the River: Notes From the Post-millennial South
Arthur Danto Unnatural Wonders
John Updike Still Looking
Eliot Weinberger What Happened Here
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

Wyatt Mason

(A contributor to Harper's, The New Yorker, The New Republic)

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