NBCC Announces Book Award Nominees

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

General Nonfiction 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)
      Poetry
  • 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)
      Criticism
  • 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
    • Michael Gorra
    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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