The National Book Critics Circle Award

2009 NBCC Award Winners

Fiction

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Mantel, Hilary
Wolf Hall
(Holt)


General Nonfiction

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Holmes, Richard
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
(Pantheon)


Autobiography

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Athill, Diana
Somewhere Towards the End
(W.W. Norton)


Biography

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Bailey, Blake
Cheever: A Life
(Knopf)


Criticism

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Biss, Eula
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays
(Graywolf)


Poetry

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Armantrout, Rae
Versed
(Wesleyan University Press)


Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

Joan Acocella


Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

Joyce Carol Oates


Awards Information

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