Awards & Winners

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award

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

Kiran Desai

Honored for : The Inheritance of Loss

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Nominee Nominated Work
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun
Dave Eggers What Is the What
Richard Ford The Lay of the Land
Cormac McCarthy The Road
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography

Daniel Mendelsohn

Honored for : The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

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Nominee Nominated Work
Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Donald Antrim The Afterlife
Alison Bechdel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards
Terri Jentz Strange Piece of Paradise
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

Julie Phillips

Honored for : James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

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Nominee Nominated Work
Julie Phillips James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
Debby Applegate The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Taylor Branch At Canaan's Edge
Frederick Brown Flaubert: A Biography
Jason Roberts A Sense of the World
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Simon Schama

Honored for : Rough Crossings

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Nominee Nominated Work
Simon Schama Rough Crossings
Patrick Cockburn The Occupation
Anne Fessler The Girls Who Went Away
Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Sandy Tolan The Lemon Tree
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Troy Jollimore

Honored for : Tom Thomson in Purgatory

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Nominee Nominated Work
Troy Jollimore Tom Thomson in Purgatory
Daisy Fried My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
Miltos Sachtouris Poems (1945-1971)
Frederick Seidel Ooga-Booga
W.D. Snodgrass Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Lawrence Weschler

Honored for : Everything That Rises

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Nominee Nominated Work
Lawrence Weschler Everything That Rises
Bruce Bawer While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
Frederick C. Crews Follies of the Wise
Daniel Dennett Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Lia Purpura On Looking: Essays
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

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