Blake Bailey - GalleyCat http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry Copyright 2013 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:15:00 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners nbcclogo23.jpgTonight the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) handed out their annual literary awards at a ceremony in New York City. GalleyCat was there, live-tweeting the ceremony along with a crack team of literary Twitter writers.

The fiction award went to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall (Holt).

The nonfiction award went to Richard Holmes for The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon).

The autobiography award went to Diana Athill for Somewhere Towards the End (Norton).

The biography award went to Blake Bailey for Cheever: A Life (Knopf).

The criticism award went to Eula Biss for Notes From No Man’s Land: American Essays (Graywolf Press).

The poetry award went to Rae Armantrout for Versed (Wesleyan).

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]]> Jason Boog http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/national-book-critics-circle-award-winners_b11272#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/national-book-critics-circle-award-winners_b11272 http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/national-book-critics-circle-award-winners_b11272 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:23:23 +0000