The National Book Critics Circle Award
2011 NBCC Award Winners
Fiction
Edith Pearlman
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
(Lookout Books)
General Nonfiction
Maya Jasanoff
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
(Knopf)
Biography
John Lewis Gaddis
George F. Kennan: An American Life
(Penguin Press)
Poetry
Laura Kasischke
Space, in Chains
(Copper Canyon Press)
Autobiography
Mira Bartók
The Memory Palace: A Memoir
(Free Press)
Criticism
Geoff Dyer
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews
(Graywolf Press)
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
Kathryn Schulz
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Robert B. Silvers
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