National Book Critics Circle Names 2003 Winners

Posted on March 7, 2004

The National Book Critics circle has announced its awards for the best books published in 2003. Edward P Jones' first novel in ten years, The Known World (Amistad), won the fiction prize. Paul Hendrickson won in nonfiction with Sons of Mississippi (Knopf) and William Taubman won in the biography/autobiography category for Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. Author Susan Stewart won in the poetry category and Rebecca Solnit won the NBCC award for criticism. Author Studs Terkel was given the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement award.

Source: BBC, Past NBCC Award Winners

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