National Book Critics Circle Award1985

Given by National Book Critics Circle

Other Names: John Leonard Award, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
25 Works 31,602 Books 592 Reviews 4.0
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating show more with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Winner 5

WorkCategoryYear
Henry James: A Life by Leon EdelBiography/Autobiography1985
Habitations of the Word: Essays by William H. GassCriticism1985
The Accidental Tourist by Anne TylerFiction1985
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony LukasGeneral Nonfiction1985
The Triumph of Achilles by Louise GlückPoetry1985

Finalist 25

WorkCategoryYear
Henry James: A Life by Leon EdelBiography/Autobiography1985
Brigham Young: American Moses by Leonard J. ArringtonBiography/Autobiography1985
Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth FrankBiography/Autobiography1985
Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael LesyBiography/Autobiography1985
Giacometti: A Biography by James LordBiography/Autobiography1985
Habitations of the Word: Essays by William H. GassCriticism1985
Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel by Philip FisherCriticism1985
Occasional Prose: Essays by Mary McCarthyCriticism1985
Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss by Paul A. RobinsonCriticism1985
Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomime by Robert F. StoreyCriticism1985
The Accidental Tourist by Anne TylerFiction1985
White Noise by Don DeLilloFiction1985
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFiction1985
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard PowersFiction1985
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court : Stories by Peter TaylorFiction1985
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony LukasGeneral Nonfiction1985
The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens by Eva C. KeulsGeneral Nonfiction1985
House by Tracy KidderGeneral Nonfiction1985
Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans by Alan RidingGeneral Nonfiction1985
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine ScarryGeneral Nonfiction1985
The Triumph of Achilles by Louise GlückPoetry1985
What the Light Was Like by Amy ClampittPoetry1985
The Past by Galway KinnellPoetry1985
Late Settings by James MerrillPoetry1985
The Lamplit Answer by Gjertrud SchnackenbergPoetry1985

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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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(English, Member-written)
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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(English, Member-written)

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