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National Book Critics Circle Awards
The National Book Critics Circle Awards Nominees and Winners for the year 2002, the winners are announced in March of the year following publication. Past Winners
The National Book Critics Circle consists of more than 700 book reviewers. The NBCC was founded in 1974. Since 1981, the NBCC's centerpiece has been annual awards for the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography - autobiography, poetry, and criticism. In addition, each year the NBCC awards the Ivan Sandrof Award for Contribution to American Arts and Letters and salutes one member of the Circle with the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
Members of the NBCC select the awards winners. Regular voting membership ($40 a year) is open to professional book review editors and book reviewers. How to join
Winner 2002 Winfried Georg Sebald for Austerlitz | Hardcover | Paperback | e-book Microsoft | e-book Adobe
Jonathan
Franzen The Corrections |
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Audio CD |
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National Book Award
Alice Munro for Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Audio CD 1998 Giller Prize, 1995 Lannan Award winner
Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Audio CD | Large Print | eBook Microsoft Reader | Winner of the PEN/Faulkner 2002 The Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2002
Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days | Hardcover
Non-Fiction
Winner 2002 Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper | Hardcover | Paperback
Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care | Hardcover | Paperback
Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland | Hardcover
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand | Hardcover | Hardcover large print | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Audiobooks
Sam Roberts, The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair | Hardcover
Biography/Autobiography
Winner 2002 Nicholson Baker for Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper | Hardcover | Paperback
Barry Werth for The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal | Hardcover | Paperback, winner 2002 GLBT Award
Paula Fox for Borrowed Finery: A Memoir | Hardcover 1974 Newbery Medal for The Slave Dancer | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Lesson Plans on CD | Study Guides
David Hajdu for Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina | Hardcover | Paperback
Katherine Clark for Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet | Hardcover | Paperback
Poetry Award
Winner 2002 Albert Goldbarth for Saving Lives: Poems | Hardcover | Paperback
Louise Gluck for The Seven Ages | Hardcover | Paperback
Bob Hicok for Animal Soul | Hardcover
Jane Hirshfield for Given Sugar, Given Salt | Hardcover | Paperback
Czeslaw Milosz for A Treatise on Poetry | Hardcover
Criticism Award
Winner 2002 Martin Amis for The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 | Hardcover | Paperback
H.J. Jackson for Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books | Hardcover
W. D. Snodgrass for De/Compositions:101 Good Poems Gone Wrong | Paperback
Rebecca Solnit for As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art | Hardcover
Joy Williams for Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals | Hardcover
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