Posted on February 27, 2002
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) has announced the
nominees for its
annual book awards. The awards ceremony will be on Monday,
March 11, 2002, at Tishman Auditorium, New York University
Law School, 40 Washington Square South at 6:00 p.m. The event
is free and open to the public. A reception follows directly
at the law school's Greenberg Lounge, across from the auditorium,
and costs $40.
The Nominees
Fiction
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship,
Marriage: Stories (Knopf)
- Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (HarperCollins)
- W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz (Random House)
- Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days (Doubleday)
General Nonfiction
- Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on
Paper (Random House)
- Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle
to Change Foster Care (Pantheon)
- Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish
Community in Jedwabne, Poland (Princeton University)
- Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Random
House)
- Sam Roberts, The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy
David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg,
to the Electric Chair (Random House)
Biography/Autobiogrpahy
Paula Fox, Borrowed Finery: A Memoir (Holt)
David Hajdu, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of
Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fari�a and Richard Fari�a
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Adam Sisman, Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of
the Life of Dr. Johnson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Katherine Clark, Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life
on This Planet (Crown)
Barry Werth, The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary
Life Shattered by Scandal (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
Louise Gl�ck, The Seven Ages (Ecco/HarperCollins)
Albert Goldbarth, Saving Lives (Ohio State University)
Bob Hicok, Animal Soul (Invisible Cities)
Jane Hirshfield, Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins)
Czeslaw Milosz, A Treatise on Poetry (Ecco/HarperCollins)
Martin Amis, The War Against Clich�: Essays and Reviews,
1971-2000 (Talk Miramax)
H.J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (Yale
University)
W.D. Snodgrass, De/Compositions:101 Good Poems Gone
Wrong (Graywolf)
Rebecca Solnit, As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape,
Gender, and Art (University of Georgia)
Joy Williams, Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity
and Other Animals (Lyons)
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Jason Epstein
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, consists of
nearly 700 active book reviewers, interested in communicating
with one another about common concerns.
In recent years, the NBCC has made efforts to become a truly
national organization by offering forums in locations outside
of New York.
The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for
the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction,
biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism.
Each year the organization salutes the most accomplished
reviewer, from within the membership, with the Nona Balakian
Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
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