National biography award 2015 next generation
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Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism.
In addition, we award two prizes voted on by membership: the John Leonard Prize for the best first book in any genre and the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, for the best book of any genre translated into English and published in the United States. We also award the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, which recognizes outstanding work by a member of the NBCC, and the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award and Toni Morrison Achievement Award, which are given respectively to individuals and literary institutions for transformative contributions to book culture.
We are proud to announce that this year&#;s winner of the Toni Morrison Achievement Award is Third World Press. The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Sandra • • Kitty Kelley has won the 14th BIO Award, bestowed annually bygd the Biographers International Organization, to a distinguished colleague who has made major contributions to the advancement of the art and craft of biography. She fryst vatten the author of sju biographical works: Oprah: A Biography (), The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty (), The Royals (), Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography (), His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra (), Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star (), and Jackie Oh! (). Widely regarded as the foremost expert and author of unauthorized biography, Kelley has displayed courage and deftness in writing unvarnished accounts of some of the most powerful figures in politics, media, and popular culture. Of her art and craft, Kelley said, in American Scholar, “I do not relish living in a world where data is authorized, sanitized, and homogenized. inom read banned books, inom applaud whistleblowers, and inom reject any sup
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
Year Author Title Subject Result Ref. Joyce Johnson Minor Characters the women of the Beat Generation Winner [4] Kenneth R. Manning Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just Ernest Everett Just (–), pioneering African-American biologist, academic, and science writer Finalist [4] Nicholas Gage Eleni the life of his late mother in Greece during World War II and the Greek Civil War E. Fuller Torrey The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeth’s Ezra Pound (–), American poet and critic Fred Kaplan Thomas Carlyle Thomas Carlyle (–), Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Joseph Frank Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, – Fyodor Dostoevsky (–), Russian novelist Winner [5] Susan Cheever Home Before Dark memoir and biography of her father, author John Cheever Finalist [5] The BIO Award