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Overlooked NBA Authors Do Well At NBCC Awards

March 12, 2015
By Michael Cader

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)

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