NBCC Award Winners
The National Book Critics Circle announced their 2014 winning titles on Thursday.
The only title that has not already been recognized on various best lists or by other awards programs is The Essential Ellen Willis, by Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz (University of Minnesota Press). It won the Criticism category.
That other winners are:
Fiction — Marilynne Robinson, Lila, (Macmillan/FSG); a National Book Award finalist, this also appeared on the most number of best books lists in fiction (see our downloadable spreadsheet, 2014 Adult Fiction)
Nonfiction — David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (RH/Knopf); appeared on several best books list, (see our downloadable spreadsheet, 2014 Adult Nonfiction)
Poetry — Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press); a finalist in poetry for the National Book Awards
Autobiography— Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Macmillan/Bloomsbury); a National Boo Awards finalist, it was on the most number of nonfiction best books lists (see our downloadable spreadsheet, 2014 Adult Nonfiction)
Biography — John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (Norton); a National Book Awards finalist in nonfiction (see our downloadable spreadsheet, 2014 Adult Nonfiction)
Toni Morrison won the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. The National Book Award winner for fiction, Redeployment by Phil Klay (Penguin Press) won the John Leonard Prize, which “recognizes an outstanding first book in any genre.”
See the NBCC press release for summaries and further information.