National Book Critics Circle Award for General NonfictionCheck all the winners of National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction. |
Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
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2012 | Andrew Solomon | Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity | |
2009 | Richard Holmes | The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science | |
2008 | Dexter Filkins | The Forever War | |
2007 | Harriet A. Washington | Medical Apartheid | |
2006 | Simon Schama | Rough Crossings | |
2005 | Svetlana Alexievich | Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster | |
2004 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | The Reformation: A History | |
2003 | Paul Hendrickson | Sons of Mississippi | |
2002 | Samantha Power | A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide | |
2001 | Nicholson Baker | Double Fold | |
2000 | Ted Conover | Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing | |
1999 | Jonathan Weiner | Time, Love, Memory | |
1998 | Philip Gourevitch | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda | |
1997 | Anne Fadiman | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down | |
1996 | Jonathan Raban | Bad Land: An American Romance | |
1995 | Jonathan Harr | A Civil Action | |
1994 | Lynn H. Nicholas | The Rape of Europa | |
1993 | Alan Lomax | land where the blues began | |
1992 | Norman Maclean | Young Men and Fire | |
1991 | Susan Faludi | Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women | |
1990 | Shelby Steele | The content of our character | |
1989 | Michael Dorris | Broken Cord | |
1988 | Taylor Branch | Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 | |
1987 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | |
1986 | John W. Dower | War Without Mercy | |
1985 | J. Anthony Lukas | Common Ground | |
1984 | Freeman Dyson | Weapons and hope | |
1983 | Seymour Hersh | The Price of Power | |
1982 | Robert Caro | The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power | |
1982 | Stephen Jay Gould | The Mismeasure of Man | |
1980 | Ronald Steel | Walter Lippmann and the American Century | |
1979 | Telford Taylor | Munich: The Price of Peace | |
1978 | Maureen Howard | Facts of life | |
1977 | Walter Jackson Bate | Samuel Johnson | |
1976 | Maxine Hong Kingston | The Woman Warrior | |
1975 | R. W. B. Lewis | Edith Wharton: A Biography |