The National Book Critics Circle awards were presented Thursday night, and four authors who were nominated for (but did not win) National Book Awards won NBCC honors:
Fiction
Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Autobiography
Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
Biography
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (Norton)
Poetry
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf)
The two additional awards went to:
Criticism
Ellen Willis, The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz (University of Minnesota Press)
Nonfiction
David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (Knopf)