National book critics circle award winners announced the. National book awards 2018 national book foundation. Fiction, general nonfiction, biographyautobiography, poetry, and criticism. The national book critics circle was founded in april 1974 at the. Biography and autobiography, anne fadiman won in general nonfiction. National book critics circle finalists are announced the. The national book critics circle announced its 2019 award winners, and the winners of three additional prizes. His honors include a whiting writers award, a national endowment for the arts fellowship, a united states artists. His second novel, the book of night women, is about a slave womens revolt on a jamaican plantation in the early 19th century. Home portrays the world as a messy place, with the messiest of all places on earth being the human heart.
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