Announcement of winners: 10 March 2011
At a packed event attended by press, publishers, authors, and critics, held at WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space in New York, the National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its 2010 book awards, presented by past NBCC award winners and finalists. Among the finalists for fiction is Israeli David Grossman’s To the End of the Land (Knopf) about contemporary Israel where a woman whose son is in the army refuses to wait at home for bad news and instead hikes in the Galilee. The subjects of this year’s biography finalists range widely from Charlie Chan to Crazy Horse to Simon Wiesenthal. For a complete list of finalists, see below.
Fiction
- David Grossman. To The End Of The Land. Knopf.
- Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad, Knopf
- Jonathan Franzen. Freedom. Farrar, Straus And Giroux.
- Hans Keilson. Comedy In A Minor Key. Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Paul Murray. Skippy Dies. Faber & Faber.
Biography
- Yunte Huang. Charlie Chan: The Untold Story Of The Honorable Detective And His Rendezvous With American History. Norton.
- Sarah Bakewell. How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne. Other Press
- Selina Hastings. The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham: A Biography. Random House.
- Thomas Powers. The Killing Of Crazy Horse. Knopf.
- Tom Segev. Simon Wiesenthal: The Lives And Legends. Doubleday
Autobiography
- Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Hiroshima in the Morning, Feminst Press
- Kai Bird, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978, Scribner
- David Dow, The Autobiography of an Execution, Twelve
- Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir, Twelve
- Patti Smith, Just Kids, Ecco
- Darin Strauss, Half a Life, McSweeney’s
Nonfiction
- Siddhartha Mukherjee. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Scribner
- Barbara Demick. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. Spiegel & Grau
- S.C. Gwynne. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in America, Scribner
- Jennifer Homans. Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet. Random
- Isabel Wilkerson. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. Random
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