On Thursday night, the National Book Critics Circle presented their 2017 book awards to: Fiction Improvement, by Joan Silber (Counterpoint) General Nonfiction The Evangelicals, by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster) Autobiography Nine Continents, by Xiaolu Guo (Grove) Biography Prairie Fires, by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books) Criticism You Play The Girl, by Carina Chocano (Mariner) Poetry Whereas, by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf)
