2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
Fiction: | The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai (Grove/Atlantic) |
General Nonfiction: | Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, Simon Schama (Ecco) |
Biography: | James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips (St.Martin's Press) |
Autobiography: | The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, Daniel Mendelsohn (HarperCollins) |
Poetry: | Tom Thomson in Purgatory, Troy Jollimore (Margie/Intuit House) |
Criticism: | Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, Lawrence Weschler (McSweeney's) |
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: | John Leonard, a contributor to Harpers, The New York Review of Books, and The Nation |
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: | Steven G. Kellman, a contributor to The Texas Observer and the San Antonio Current |
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